We appreciate your time, our full proposal is attached, packed with actionable solutions, related details and real impact for Cardano’s governance.

Live Beta: https://syncgovhub.com/ (To be open-sourced)

Learn to Earn Hub – Constitutional Committee (CC) Track: Develop governance training for CC members, including onboarding, procedural walkthroughs, simulations, etc. ($6,500)

Learn to Earn Hub – Stake Pool Operator (SPO) Track: Provide structured learning for SPOs covering governance roles, technical setup, simulation-based training, etc. ($7,000)

Learn to Earn Hub – Delegated Representative (DRep) Track: Create onboarding and advanced training for DReps, including rationale writing, vote coordination, emergency response simulations, etc. ($9,000)

Learn to Earn Hub – ADA Holder (General Voter) Track: Build an accessible, multilingual learning journey for ADA holders, including delegation guidance, governance concept education, etc. ($7,000)

Incentivized Governance Tasks – Community Reward Layer: Deploy a dynamic bounty system that enables governance actors to launch ADA-funded challenges: crowdsourcing high-quality rationales, feedback, sentiment, and strategic input from verified, engaged participants. ($32,000)

Governance Hub Tooling – Unified API & SDK (GHxAPI): Develop a modular API and SDK to expose structured governance data for developers, enabling tooling and ecosystem interoperability. ($31,500)

Governance Intelligence & Reporting System: Extend analytics tools to deliver real-time governance intelligence and an annual governance report with stakeholder insights and metrics. ($23,500)

Mobile & iOS App – SyncGovHub Companion App: Build a mobile application for iOS and Android offering real-time governance access, notifications, and offline features. ($31,000)

Platform-Wide Maintenance and Support – SyncGovHub Core Tooling (2025–2026): Ensure uptime, multilingual UI maintenance, performance tuning, and structured open-sourcing of all modules. ($25,000)

GRAND TOTAL: $172,500 / 345,000 ADA (1 ADA = 0.5 USD)*

Full proposal: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wQDiWFGJr8Ndv0yZQGyD1_CwjUlYDAc0/view?usp=sharing

Cardano has officially entered the Voltaire era. With the Constitution enacted and over a dozen governance proposals already live, decentralized decision-making is no longer aspirational it’s active. While ADA holders, DReps, SPOs, and Constitutional Committee (CC) members now hold real power, the tools, knowledge, and infrastructure to exercise that power meaningfully are dangerously inadequate.

From a psychological perspective, human beings are wired to avoid complex systems they don’t understand. Without guided education and accessible tools, most participants default to inaction a well-documented effect known as choice paralysis. This is already evident in low voter turnout, inconsistent rationale quality via DReps and SPOs, and disengaged delegators. People don’t opt out because they don’t care; they opt out because they’re overwhelmed, under-supported, and uncertain of the impact of their actions.

Right now, Cardano’s governance suffers from five critical systemic breakdowns:

• Cognitive Overload from Fragmentation: Governance tools are scattered and disconnected. Research in cognitive psychology shows that when information is fragmented, it leads to decision fatigue diminishing our ability to process options and increasing errors or passivity.
• Lack of Structured Onboarding & Feedback: Participants aren’t just uninformed they’re unprepared. Without clear learning paths tailored to each role, stakeholders lack both the self-efficacy and confidence to act. According to Bandura’s theory of self-efficacy, this directly reduces engagement and resilience in complex systems like decentralized governance.
• No Real-Time Insight or Reflection: Without timely analytics, sentiment data, or behavioral signals, governance becomes a black box. This violates a basic psychological need for agency and transparency, people are unlikely to trust or invest in systems they can't see working in real time. Participants lack visibility into how decisions evolve, how rationales align across roles, or where sentiment and engagement are rising or falling. Without these feedback loops, governance becomes opaque disconnected from the community it serves. What’s urgently needed is a transparent data layer that can surface trends in participation, rationale quality, voting alignment, and stakeholder influence empowering participants, developers, researchers, and oversight bodies to act with clarity, confidence, and accountability.
• Poor Incentive Alignment: People are highly responsive to intrinsic and extrinsic motivators yet governance today offers little of either. There’s no meaningful reward for effort, no visibility for quality participation, and no signal that governance engagement leads to community recognition or personal growth.
• Access is unequal. Many ADA holders in mobile-first or multilingual communities are effectively excluded due to technical, language, or interface limitations. This directly undermines the promise of a global, inclusive governance ecosystem.

Without addressing these issues, we risk building a governance framework where participation is technically possible but practically inaccessible, discouraging, and ineffective for most stakeholders.

To fulfill the true promise of Cardano’s governance model, we need a system that is unified, inclusive, educational, and empowering - one that transforms governance from a procedural obligation into a community-driven, intelligent, and rewarding experience.

Our proposal delivers a fully integrated, intelligent, and incentivized governance platform that transforms participation across the Cardano ecosystem. It brings together live tools, structured education, transparent analytics, and reward-based engagement to benefit every stakeholder:

• ADA holders get multilingual onboarding and structured Learn-to-Earn tracks to understand governance, delegation, and participation. They earn Karma for completing modules, giving feedback, and participating in polls, which unlocks recognition and deeper engagement.
• DReps and SPOs receive dedicated education on vote key setup, registration, rationale writing, and proposal coordination. They can use built-in sentiment polling to gather early input from delegators and access dashboards showing their voting history, rationale quality, participation consistency, and delegation trends. As they engage, they earn Karma, which increases their visibility in the Explorer and unlocks access to advanced tools and challenge creation.
• Constitutional Committee members are trained through procedural simulations and onboarding modules. Dashboards track readiness and activity, ensuring consistency, accountability, and informed decision-making in high-stakes roles.
• Governance Challenges (One of our proposed feature) provide a custom incentive system where Karma-qualified participants can earn ADA by completing governance-related tasks. Any verified governance actor or ecosystem entity can launch challenges to crowdsource feedback, rationale, or insights.
• Developers and researchers gain access to open, structured governance data through APIs and SDKs. This enables new tooling, dashboards, and ecosystem integrations, while supporting research and innovation around voting behavior and proposal impact.
• We're proposing to build on an existing foundation of live tools - Chat, Polling, BudgetAI and Analytics. The GovHub is mobile-ready, multi-lingual, open-source and built to scale with Cardano's global governance ecosystem.

For a complete list of deliverables and detailed milestones, please refer to the full proposal attached. Below is a summary of the core outcomes the community can expect:

• Role-Based Learn-to-Earn Tracks for ADA Holders, DReps, SPOs, and Constitutional Committee members, including interactive training modules, onboarding, simulations, and multilingual support.
• Governance Challenge Layer, enabling governance actors and ecosystem entities to launch custom, ADA-funded tasks that reward high-quality community engagement.
• GHxAPI and SDK, delivering a unified, open-access infrastructure for developers and researchers to build on Cardano governance data.
• Governance Intelligence System, expanding analytics tools to provide actionable insights, stakeholder behavior metrics, and a formal annual governance report.
• Mobile & iOS App, offering real-time, on-the-go access to SyncGovHub features including voting insights, BudgetAI, governance alerts, and challenge participation.
• Platform-Wide Maintenance & Open Sourcing, ensuring all features are maintained, performance-optimized, and released under community-friendly licenses to support ecosystem sustainability.

Each deliverable will be considered complete when it meets functional, usability, and integration standards as outlined in the milestone framework, with features made available to the public via the live SyncGovHub platform.

• Project Kickoff & Infrastructure Bootstrapping – $6,000 USD (Milestone 1)

  (Covers CI/CD setup, architecture, Karma modeling, and UX wireframes for later milestones)

• Learn-to-Earn Hub – CC Track – $6,500 USD (Milestone 2)

• Learn-to-Earn Hub – DRep Track – $9,000 USD (Milestone 2)

• Learn-to-Earn Hub – SPO Track – $7,000 USD (Milestone 3)

• Learn-to-Earn Hub – ADA Holder Track – $7,000 USD (Milestone 3)

• Governance Hub Tooling – GHxAPI (API & SDK) – $31,500 USD (Milestone 4)

• Incentivized Governance Tasks – Reward Layer – $32,000 USD (Milestone 5)

• Governance Intelligence & Reporting System – $23,500 USD (Milestone 6)

• Platform-Wide Maintenance & Open Sourcing – $19,000 USD (Milestone 7)

• Mobile Companion App (iOS & Android) – $25,000 USD (Milestone 7)

The delivery of this proposal will be led by a cross-functional team composed of experienced developers, governance strategists, AI engineers, and designers. Many core modules are already live, allowing us to build upon an existing foundation with high development velocity and reduced ramp-up time. Please see the attached proposal for detailed breakdowns of team composition, timeline, and milestone structure.

Estimated Team Size:

• 10–12 core contributors across multiple roles:
  • Product Managers
  • Frontend & Backend Developers
  • UX/UI Designers
  • QA Engineers
  • Governance Analysts
  • AI & Data Engineers
  • DevOps and Platform Engineers

Estimated Duration:

• The full scope will be delivered over a 12-month period, following a milestone-based execution model.
• Milestones are structured to enable modular, parallel development, with key phases including:
  • Education Track Deployment (Months 1–4)
  • API & SDK Delivery (Months 5–6)
  • Governance Challenge System (Months 7–8)
  • Analytics & Reporting Expansion (Months 9–10)
  • Mobile App Launch & Open Sourcing (Months 11–12)

The SyncGovHub project will be delivered by SyncAI's seasoned, cross-functional team with deep expertise in Cardano governance, blockchain development, and AI-driven systems. Our in-house team includes developers, governance analysts, AI engineers, and data scientists.

Our team has been involved with governance for over a year now. In September 2024 we hosted a Constitutional Workshop in Singapore which allowed us to gain a deeper and more holistic understanding of Cardano's governance model. We also built and released one of the first Autonomous On-Chain DRep Agents in December 2024 which the Community has been using to learn and interact with governance in a novel way.

We have a strong and proven track record of delivery within the Cardano ecosystem, with our core product "SyncGovHub", already live and actively used. This includes fully functional modules such as Analytics, BudgetAI, AI Explorer, Chat, and Polling, all developed and deployed through a fully bootstrapped effort. Our ability to ship production-grade tools independently demonstrates not only technical capability but also deep alignment with the ecosystem’s governance needs. Also as part of a previous marketing campaign, we launched an XP-based engagement platform that attracted over 900 active users and generated more than 20,000 interactions in under three weeks—demonstrating both our execution capability and the effectiveness of our engagement strategy.

Our team includes long-time contributors to Cardano, with technical and strategic experience across projects developed in collaboration with respected ecosystem teams such as IAMX, Docufi3d, Begin, and NMKR Studios. This strong network, along with our deep familiarity with the Cardano stack, positions us to deliver highly aligned, technically sound solutions.

To supplement our core team, we may engage additional ecosystem contributors for specialized needs such as mobile development, localization, or cryptographic tooling. All collaborators will be selected based on proven experience with Cardano protocols, governance infrastructure, and open-source development.

After development and deployment, all SyncGovHub features will be maintained under a structured long-term support framework. This includes ongoing updates, bug fixes, performance optimization, multilingual UI support, and adaptation to evolving governance standards.

The team will lead initial maintenance, and also will be open-sourcing the platform and collaborate with ecosystem contributors. Knowledge sharing, documentation, and coordination with Intersect will ensure sustainability and smooth community-led continuity over time.

The response to our launch tweet has been strong. We've already launched many core features in a fully bootstrapped manner, and this proposal aims to expand on that foundation by building additional features into our existing application.

https://x.com/SyncAI_Network/status/1910441626662543471

The SyncGovHub codebase integrates a set of carefully selected tools and services to power its functionality, performance, and user experience.

• MeshJS

  Used to streamline frontend development and transaction handling.

• Ogmios

  Ogmios provides efficient, real-time access to Cardano node data through lightweight communication. It allows SyncGovHub to process and surface on-chain events like proposals, votes, and delegation activity, ensuring governance data is always timely and contextually available.

• Blockfrost

  Blockfrost complements data access with a robust set of RESTful APIs for querying blockchain state.

• OpenAI APIs

  OpenAI’s language models are used to power intelligent features such as rationale analysis, sentiment tracking, and BudgetAI, providing users with clearer context and actionable insights across governance decisions.