Futarchy governance scaling constraint is trader sophistication not launch volume because governance markets are only as good as the people trading them

MetaDAO's ICO platform demonstrates product-market fit on the demand side with 15x oversubscription ratios across eight launches ($25.6M raised against $390M committed). Umbra alone saw $154M committed for a $3M raise. The permissionless layer (futard.io) proved it can absorb speculative demand separately, with Futardio cult raising $11.4M in one day. The mechanism creates structural lock-in through conditional market governance that deepens with each launch. However, the real scaling constraint is trader sophistication: governance markets currently depend on a small group of sophisticated traders for price discovery. If launch volume grows faster than trader sophistication, governance decisions get priced by noise rather than informed analysis. This creates a binding constraint where the quality of governance degrades before the platform hits capacity limits on the supply or demand side.