With the creation, passing and ratification of the Cardano Constitution the community is now tasked with voting for proposals submitted by the others that drive the direction and improvements of the Cardano blockchain. To help make voting easier the governance delegated-representative (DRep) role has been created. This is role requires delegation from community members. Essentially delegates, in order to access their own staking rewards, must set their staked wallet to No Confidence, Abstain, Own Account (self-delegated) or delegate their wallet to a DRep. By delegating to a DRep the delegate has given the DRep voting power at a rate of 1 ADA = 1 vote. The ability to delegate whenever to whomever is considered a key characteristic of liquid democracy. Democracies can fail when constituents (i.e. ADA holders) are misinformed, or uninformed, and become, or are currently, closed off from broader delegation opportunities. This can have numerous impacts such as disenfranchisement, reduced participation and, at the extreme, centralization of power to the elites and privileged. Providing a bridge from delegate to DRep, from uninformed to informed, from unengaged to engaged, from voiceless to heard; these are all the areas this proposal intends to touch and solve by providing an opportunity to every ADA-holder to make an informed decision as to whom they wish to delegate to and for what causes. The processes of self-reporting intends to make transparent a DRep’s associations, actions, generalized drivers and other metrics allowing a drill-down filtering that aligns delgate to the DRep and vice-versa. DReps are in control of their data, minus any potential endorsements, and delegates are free to filter as desired. The end result is a delegate that is in control and can take necessary steps to be responsibly represented or may take on the role of DRep themselves.

In addition to these features, this proposal seeks to provide benefits to DReps' through collective support of one another. These benefits include payments for DRep's who are part of the collective and demonstrate hard work and commitment to their role as a DRep, legal support for DRep's in various countries, and a place for open source research into governance. The proposal also seeks to create a way to collectivize DReps so that we may fight back against security threats.

For more information on exactly how this proposal seeks to accomplish these things, please check the following links: https://github.com/cardano-foundation/CIPs/pull/1007 https://github.com/DRep-Collective https://docs.google.com/document/d/14lvftm5l3YGTdQRscImo1eEccHi1m-kPubsT1TANDiM/edit?usp=sharing https://dev-drep.vercel.app/ (Note CIP-148 on the website is now CIP-1007) https://www.youtube.com/@TheDRepCollective https://linktr.ee/drepforum

This proposal seeks to collectivize DReps so that they may work together to gain legal representation in their respective countries, financial support from the treasury, and a place for collective research and ideation around governance.

This project also intends to bridge the DRep-delegate gap by providing a method of self-reporting for DReps and search-filter functions for delegates who may be looking for a representative that aligns with their values, principles and-or ethos. DReps will be self-reporting, providing the metadata that will create a governance-type map, allowing for broader exposure to, and communications with, delegates across the Cardano ecosystem. In addition to mapping DRep's, this project seeks to map the entirety of the ecosystem.

This project will allow community members from across the ecosystem and world to coordinate, align, and come together to share their thoughts, and voices, for the betterment of the Cardano ecosystem. It will provide benefits to DReps, delegates and any who wish to be informed by allowing for broad discourse. This project will also solve the issue of DRep compensation and the issue of legal representation for DReps.

1. We will publish the CIP
2. We will connect the website to mainnet and offically publish it. -This includes 3 sub milestones of creating the ecosystem map, creating the NFT, and creating the voting platform.
3. We will onboard users into the collective.
4. The collective will grow with more community participation.

• • 10 memeber team. (2 Marketing, 1 Github, 2 Developers, 2 Social Media, 1 consultant)
• 1. Publish CIP (2 Months/July 2025) - 80,000 ADA for each developer. (2x Developers) (160,000 Total)
  2. Publish website (1 Month/August 2025) - 80,000 ADA for each developer. (2x Developers) (160,000 Total) Github Maintenance - 20,000 ADA
  3. Onboard Users - Social Media Marketing (September/October/November 2025) - 20,000 ADA
  4. Grow with community participation (December 2025 onward) - 340,000 ADA for the Treasury (Legal Aid/DRep Incentives/Payments to DReps).
  5. 100k ADA Handle Partnership
  6. 200k Tempo.vote 3 year lease and maintenance of voting platform

IN USD: 1. 80,000 USD 2. 80,000 USD + 10,000 USD 3. 10,000 USD 4. 170,000 USD 5. 50,000 USD 6. 100,000 USD Total: 500,000 USD

• 10 memeber team. (2 Marketing, 1 Github, 2 Developers, 2 Social Media, 1 consultant)
  1. Publish CIP (2 Months/July 2025) - 80,000 ADA for each developer. (2x Developers) (160,000 Total)
  2. Publish website (1 Month/August 2025) - 80,000 ADA for each developer to finish Ecosystem Mapping & NFT creation. (2x Developers) (160,000 Total) Github Maintenance - 20,000 ADA
  3. Onboard Users - Social Media Marketing (September/October/November 2025) - 20,000 ADA
  4. Integrate Tempo.Vote - (December 2025 onward) - 200,000 ADA
  5. Grow with community participation (December 2025 onward) - 340,000 ADA for the Treasury (Legal Aid/DRep Incentives/Payments to DReps).
  6. Potential ADA Handle Partnership 100,000 ADA- Integrate Endorsements for NFT's

• Disco Solaris
• Malama Project
• News and Media Publishing
• Collective 20+ years of government work
• Consultations by IOG Employees

It will be maintained using continual treasury withdrawls from our internal treasury. We would like to sustain this project using an MVP over the next three years. If we can not find product market fit, we will perish. Ideally, we would like to make enough money to sustain ourselves through the sale of data and information connected to our ecosystem mapping. We want membership to be as cheap as possible but if our members want to, we can explore creating annual union dues with the minting of a new and improved annual governance NFT. If more needs to be done to maintain the project, we will submit a treasury withdrawl. This project should be self-sustiaing once funded for at least three years. If the community finds it valuable, it may be worth funding this project after the three year mark at a loss to the treasury.

Thread discussion on X: https://x.com/jonahkoch/status/1902758834986225750

CIP discussion on Github for the metadata: https://github.com/cardano-foundation/CIPs/pull/1007

• CIP-1007 Ratification