MetaDAO, half pre-committed in $100K SAT app recruitment

MetaDAO launched a consumer-app funding program and has pre-committed $50,000 of the $100,000 target raise for its first participant, 1609SAT, a Solana-based SAT test-prep app offering practice questions, error analysis, and an AI study coach. The DAO said the program is smaller in scale than typical raises and allocates a lower token share to funders, while founder teams can sell tokens earlier if they meet performance milestones, subject to sales caps. The remaining $50,000 is to come from a public subscription round on the offering page. The move matters as a test of MetaDAO’s milestone-linked, reduced-dilution model for early-stage consumer crypto apps. What to watch next is whether the public round fills the remaining half and whether 1609SAT meets the performance thresholds that trigger early token sales.