Budget Discussions
Discussion of budget proposals related to the Cardano blockchain ecosystem for inclusion in a Cardano Budget facilitated by Intersect.
BloxBean Java Tools Maintenance and Enhancement
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Long-Term Support: Ensure BloxBean tools remain compatible with future Cardano upgrades for a seamless developer experience.
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Enhanced Developer Efficiency: Improve tools and documentation, making it easier for developers to build on Cardano using Java and other JVM languages.
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Ecosystem Growth: Support the continued adoption and integration of BloxBean tools by Java developers, benefiting the overall Cardano ecosystem.
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Open-Source: Maintain these tools as open-source projects, encouraging collaboration and contributions from the global developer community.
High-yield RWA Asset for Cardano : Tokenized Real Estate
Benefits of HausCoin Implementation and Its Impact on the Community
HausCoin introduces a blockchain-based real estate liquidity solution, benefiting multiple stakeholders, including homeowners, investors, financial institutions, and the Cardano community.
1. Homeowners (Home-Rich, Cash-Poor Individuals)
- Liquidity Without Debt: Access home equity without selling or taking on loans.
- Financial Flexibility: Use unlocked funds for investments, emergencies, or retirement.
- Lower Barriers to Entry: Unlike traditional home equity loans, no income verification or high credit score is required.
2. Investors (Retail & Institutional)
- New Asset Class: Gain exposure to real estate equity without managing physical properties.
- Higher Yields: Historically, real estate outperforms inflation and offers stable returns. Our model has returned as high as 24.5% IRR over the last 5 years.
- Blockchain Transparency: Asset-backed investments with verifiable, secure transactions.
3. Financial Institutions & Capital Markets
- Increased Market Efficiency: Tokenizing home equity transforms a traditionally illiquid market by streamlining transactions and unlocking liquidity. Smart contract-driven settlements reduce capital requirements by 30x, enabling faster and more efficient asset trading.
- Diversification Opportunities: Banks, funds, and lenders can access real estate assets in a structured, decentralized manner.
- Securitization on Blockchain: Digital assets streamline settlement, significantly lowering costs and accelerating transactions. Blockchain-enabled securitization can cut costs by over 90%, enhancing efficiency and market accessibility.
4. Cardano Community – Demonstrated ROI & Value Creation
HausCoin on Cardano Drives Network Utilization
- Every transaction involving HausCoin generates activity on the Cardano blockchain, increasing network adoption
SyncGovHub: An intelligent Transparent, and Action-Oriented Platform for Cardano Governance
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.
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Application Level Message Protocol
Supporting our Proposal
-- Surveys by Gartner have evidence retention rates being highest on applications where chat features 1-1 and group are embedded. These applications create community and retain 20% more than DeFi. -- Cardano currently offers email like communication which could be greatly enhanced by * Application Level Message Protocol [ALMP]* would the facility to unlock a new type of app (often referred to as SuperApp) -- With a robust mechanism for applications in the Cardano Ecosystem to embed social features, bidirectional communication, topic broadcast this solution enables a new level of interactive conversation on Cardano -- Using the existing Wallet and permissionless model, also bring new utility (beyond DeFi and early stage Governance), users connecting via Wallet also brings value to the wallet community by providing access to community messaging, increase reconnect between projects and wallets holders. -- Having possibilty to converge social, governance, lifestyle and finance thru a new Applicaiton Level Message Protocol [ALMP] is a great uplift to Cardano -- we are optimising for messaging on social apps, application transactions status, governance broadcast type messages whilst enforcing anti-spam mechanisms reduces friction with moving parts of Cardano Blockchain
Acceleration of Growth
This protocol seeks to accelerate the build of inter-application messaging including -- DApps can have a 1-1 -- DApps can consider non-SPAM based Group chats -- Social messaging trust reinforced wallet based security -- Introduce utility and revenue earning mesh and potential utility yield for subscription based apps based on ability to join high value subscription services -- Augment recent Governance by providing channels for Community Announcements -- Messaging with security bake-in for Micro-Purchases including Gaming /NFT minting -- Targeted positive developer experience in a messaging protocol with a smooth integration route for React, TypeScript and mobile builders
Availability and Target
-- On-ramp for large scale concurrent user based by end of 2025 Q1-2026 -- Ability to integrate with Chat SDK to facilitate smooth onboarding using wallet based connection -- Priority integration into Cardano Governance process to enable ‘governance updates for the masses’ including ability for - DReps to broadcast curated messages within agree message-etiquette around voting, preferences and leanings -- Ecosystem message broadcast without violating the anti-spam measurements, incorporating slashing approach where SPAM detected -- Integration of the messaging feature upgrades into Daedalus with provision of chat-sdks to other software wallets
New Sources of Value
- Use SPOs as reliable decentralized relays and store/forward nodes.
- Prevent spam through lightweight proof, rate limiting, and token bonding.
- Provide privacy through encrypted, ephemeral identities and routing obfuscation.
- Be modular enough to expand into notification services, governance signals, or collaborative DApps.
Genesis + DHT-based protocol would
- Allow full-node/software/hardware wallets (via proxy) to communicate securely and anonymously and to receive updated on app-state, governance-actions, community-updates
Cardano Governance Workstreams
Cardano Constitution ratification was a major milestone, it surfaced multiple unresolved governance questions, now known as Future Workstreams. These workstreams represent essential areas of ongoing development (e.g. constitutional interpretation, dispute resolution, participatory governance design.
This proposal will enable the continuation and expansion of community-led governance work that began with the Constitution's Definitions document.
- Support cross-jurisdictional dialogue and implementation.
- Leveraging diverse cultural and geographic backgrounds to demonstrate how Cardano's tools, network, and ways of working can be effectively shared globally.
- This work does not cover the work of community hubs or other initiatives. Instead, this is an additional opportunity for Community Hubs to get involved with constitutional matters.
- Create a system of non-hierarchical stewardship of the workstreams (not power consolidation).
- Creating a pathway for the wider Cardano community to participate in solving governance challenges
- Leveraging AI technological advancements to push for fair ways of working.
- Establish a multisig system by which work can be reliably incentivized across the diverse Cardano community.
- Develop reproducible models for inclusive and transparent governance work in a decentralized ecosystem.
- Bridging from the Delegate cohort to the broader Cardano community, ensuring constitutional knowledge doesn't remain siloed
- Establishing clear methodologies for community-driven initiative-taking that allows for self-organizing while enabling high levels of collaboration and inclusivity
- Building structures that can evolve and adapt as the community learns and faces new challenges
The return on investment for the Cardano community includes resolving constitutional debt, creating more inclusive governance frameworks, and establishing processes that can be reused for future community initiatives.
Broadcast-Blockchain Infrastructure Platform
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Rising Social Demand for Trustworthy Information Distribution [Benefits of problem solving] This project solves the problem by integrating the broad reach of IPDC broadcasting with the immutability and verifiability of Cardano blockchain, enabling a reliable and tamper-proof information delivery infrastructure for all.
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Integration of Next-Generation Broadcasting and Web3.0 Readiness [Benefits of problem solving] This project addresses these gaps by merging broadcast and blockchain technologies, enabling verifiable, traceable, and user-centric information flows aligned with the Web3.0 paradigm.
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Need for a Sustainable Public Information Infrastructure [Benefits of problem solving] This project provides a low-cost, resilient, and inclusive information platform by leveraging the robustness of broadcast technology and the decentralized nature of blockchain, offering a sustainable public infrastructure for all communities.
A free Native Asset CDN for Cardano Developers
$2.5m cost avoidance opportunity & ~39,000 dev. hours savings for products seeking to integrate native asset display – removing barriers to entry, faster new product launches, improved end-user exp. & increased innovation prospects.
Tangible Benefits
- Eliminate up-front infrastructure costs (~$100,000 per product) for native asset display
- Accelerate product development by 9+ months by removing the need to build and maintain complex, scalable infrastructure
- Immediate cost avoidance opportunity of ~$1.5m and ~23,400 developer hours across 15+ existing NFTCDN customers
- Future potential cost avoidance opportunity of ~$1m and ~15,600 developer hours during proposal funding cycle by onboarding at least 10 additional products
Intangible Benefits
- Removes Adoption Barriers - Eliminates financial (OPEX/CAPEX) & technical (dev. complexity) barriers to entry
- Accelerates Time-to-Market - Enables fast and easy integration of native asset features/capabilities
- Frees Up Product Teams - Reduces backend overhead, letting teams focus on core feature dev, growth & adoption
- Boosts Developer Adoption - Makes accessible for early-stage, under/unfunded and community (free-product) builders
- Enables Broader Innovation - Enables exploration of new native asset use cases (RWA, identity, media, education)
- Future-Proof Native Asset Delivery - Adapts to evolving standards; all users benefit from shared upgrades and fixes
- Eliminates Redundancy - Shared infrastructure avoids every project building redundant, costly systems
- Improves End-User Experience - A high-speed, enterprise-grade, globally distributed CDN for multimedia content substantially improves loading speeds
- Drives Ecosystem Growth – Native asset adoption across more apps creates compounding utility and user adoption
- Aligns with Cardano's Goals & Roadmap – Directly supports Cardano's 2025 roadmaps goals around simplifying developer experience, increasing real-world utility and improving end-user experience
Alignment with [2025 Proposed Cardano Goals]
- "Get More Usage" Category
- Goal: Attract DApps and users - product market fit
- Goal: Easier to build on and to use Cardano
- Goal: Cardano competitive option
- Goal: Clear funding mechanisms
Alignment with [2025 Proposed Cardano Roadmap]
- "Developer/User Experience" Category
A Catalyst Alternative: Extended Quadratic Funding—Zero Operational Costs
If implemented, our Extended Quadratic Funding mechanism will deliver substantial benefits across the Cardano community, from developers to ADA holders to end users. Each benefit addresses a specific need while supporting Cardano's core principles of decentralization, sustainability, and community governance.
1. Truly Democratic Decision-Making
Benefit: Funding decisions will reflect community wisdom rather than wallet size.
For the community:
- New developers and smaller teams gain equal opportunity to receive funding based on merit
- Projects addressing niche but important community needs receive support even without wealthy backers
- Diversity of funded solutions increases, driving innovation across multiple domains
- A minimum threshold of 3000 unique (KYC-verified) votes to trigger the distribution of matching funds ensures that the system is supported by a diverse pool of voters and not concentrated in the hands of a few
2. Amplified Treasury Impact
Benefit: Every ADA from the treasury leverages additional external funding.
For the community:
- More projects receive adequate funding without depleting treasury reserves
- External donors bring fresh perspectives and additional vetting to project selection
- Tax-deductible status for U.S. donors creates a unique competitive advantage for Cardano's funding ecosystem
3. Evidence-Based Impact Assessment
Benefit: Standardized metrics create the first comprehensive dataset on funded innovation outcomes.
For the community:
- Clear visibility into how funds translate to ecosystem growth
- Ability to identify and replicate successful funding patterns
- Data-driven optimization of future funding allocations
Every funded project will report standardized metrics including transactions generated, wallets created, and active users acquired—creating an unprecedented transparency dashboard accessible to all community members.
4. Sustainable Value Recycling
Benefit: Successful projects contribute back to the ecosystem, creating a virtuous funding cycle.
For the community:
- Treasury becomes regenerative rather than depleting over time
- ADA holders benefit from ecosystem growth that contributes to treasury value
- Long-term funding sustainability ensures continued innovation
Through our voluntary contribution system, our target of 5% annual ROI over 10 years means that every 100 ADA invested should yield 105 ADA in value every year through either direct returns or ecosystem growth metrics.
5. Accelerated Development Velocity
Benefit: Streamlined milestone management dramatically reduces payment delays and project abandonment.
For the community:
- Faster time-to-market for crucial ecosystem components
- Reduced resource waste from abandoned projects
- More reliable delivery of promised functionality
6. Sybil-Resistant, Privacy-Preserving Integrity
Benefit: A robust system that resists manipulation while maintaining user privacy.
For the community:
- Confidence that voting outcomes reflect genuine community preferences
- Protection against coordinated attacks or vote-buying schemes
- Preservation of personal privacy through zero-knowledge proof verification
- Our multi-layered defense can detect and prevent collusion attempts.
7. Governance Innovation Laboratory
Benefit: Real-world testing of advanced voting mechanisms with immediate practical application.
For the community:
- Evidence-based insights for potential future governance improvements
- Practical experience with quadratic voting that could inform broader Cardano governance
- Testing ground for governance innovations that could be applied to Voltaire and beyond
This implementation will generate data and insights that provide concrete evidence about how well quadratic funding works, helping to shape future Cardano governance decisions.
8. Protect Voter Anonymity While Maintaining Vote Integrity
Using Hyperledger Identus, we ensure complete voter privacy while storing votes in a database and recording vote tallies as a Merkle Tree root on the Cardano blockchain. This system enables anonymous voting while guaranteeing the integrity of election results through blockchain verification.
Return on Investment for the Cardano Community
This proposal doesn't just benefit specific segments—it strengthens the entire ecosystem by:
- Enhancing decentralization: Distributing decision-making power more equitably
- Accelerating adoption: Funding more diverse applications that attract various user groups
- Improving sustainability: Creating mechanisms for value to flow back into the ecosystem
- Building legitimacy: Demonstrating Cardano's commitment to fair and transparent governance
By addressing the current limitations of Project Catalyst without replacing it, we provide the community with complementary options that collectively strengthen Cardano's position as the most thoughtfully designed blockchain ecosystem for sustainable innovation.
Cardano Constitutional Committee Formation and Governance Training with the SanchoNet Education Network
This proposal will directly strengthen Cardano's on-chain governance by delivering hands-on education, maintaining essential infrastructure, and cultivating a pipeline of empowered governance actors.
Read more at the "Formatted Proposal Document" link at the bottom of this page.
Cardano Privacy Layer
This proposal will position Cardano as a leader in blockchain privacy, enhancing its competitiveness against other networks. It will have three major benefits:
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Strengthen Cardano as a robust privacy platform. This proposal will enable the deployment of privacy-focused protocols—such as mixers, voting dApps, and private wallets—that can operate securely and anonymously on the network. It will also standardize privacy infrastructure across diverse use cases, improving interoperability, developer and user experience. The solution consists of the development of two key pieces: A General privacy protocol and relay infrastructure.
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Increase the Cardano ecosystem growth. This proposal will drive growth across the Cardano ecosystem by attracting new users and increasing on-chain activity, leading to greater overall network utilization. It will also encourage developer engagement and support the launch of privacy-focused projects, expanding Cardano’s use cases and strengthening its position in the blockchain space.
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It will inject liquidity into the Cardano ecosystem. By expanding Cardano’s footprint in the privacy sector, this proposal will unlock new streams of capital and attract privacy-focused users and investors. Increased transaction volume will also lead to greater fee generation, directly benefiting the Cardano treasury.
Extended UPLC Converter
UPLC Converter will significantly support developers and boost the capabilities of the Cardano blockchain, making it more competitive, versatile, and attractive to both developers and users seeking advanced, efficient, and secure blockchain solutions.
By enabling the integration of zero knowledge circuits into smart contracts, the UPLC Converter facilitates the development of applications that can provide stronger privacy guarantees. This is particularly beneficial for applications requiring data sensitivity, such as in finance or personal data management, where users can interact with smart contracts without revealing underlying private information.
zkFold ZK Rollup
zkFold will develop and implement ZK rollups on Cardano to scale it efficiently, promoting broader adoption and supporting an ecosystem of decentralized applications and services. Overall, our proposal will have the following positive impact on the Cardano ecosystem:
- Improved Scalability: ZK rollups enable Cardano to process significantly more transactions per second (TPS) by bundling and verifying transactions off-chain. This reduces congestion, benefiting users by ensuring faster and more efficient dApp interactions.
- Lower Transaction Costs: By reducing the number of transactions directly processed on-chain, ZK rollups lower the transaction fees, making Cardano more accessible and affordable, especially for smaller transactions or micro-payments.
- Enhanced User Experience: Lower fees create a smoother experience for users interacting with dApps, decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms, and NFT marketplaces.
- Increased Adoption: ZK rollups can make the Cardano ecosystem more attractive for developers and users, promoting the growth of dApps, DeFi, and other blockchain applications by offering higher performance and scalability.
- Maintained Security: ZK rollups allow for scalability improvements without compromising the security and decentralization of the Cardano base layer, as Cardano still plays the role of the settlement layer for the rollup transactions.
Rewards Calculation Service (RCS) for Cardano
Who benefits and how?
Developers: Gain access to a real-time and historical rewards calculation API with optimized indexing and faster queries—no reliance on the bulky db-sync approach.
Stake Pool Operators (SPOs): Easily track staking rewards at each epoch without using db-sync or third party API’s. Delegators: Able to access transparent, reliable reward data for their stake pool delegations, promoting trust and engagement.
Cardano Ecosystem: Gains greater decentralization and diversity of infrastructure solutions, reducing dependency on a single tool.
By providing a lightweight reward calculation service, this proposal lowers infrastructure costs, simplifies reward querying, and accelerates data availability. Overall, it aims to enhance developer productivity, reduce operational complexity, and strengthen transparency in Cardano’s staking mechanism.
Moreover, there is a significant opportunity for scaling this service to evolve into a comprehensive indexer in the future. Such an indexer could track not only block contents but also the internal ledger state of a Cardano node at each point in time, thereby providing a richer dataset for dApps, analytics, and advanced tools built on Cardano.
Cardano x Killer Whales show and media partnership
For the first time, builders on Cardano have the chance to have their projects, dreams, and life’s work featured on global television and directly interact with the best KOLs, advisors, funding, and networks in the Web3 space. Builders can compete for a chance to participate and be selected to receive a global spotlight on the show and Web3 media services. From PR to direct interactions with our Killer Whales and network of partners. Also, the mainstream coverage is unmatched and could propel adoption, investor interest, and retail users.
With our broadcasting partners APPLE TV and Amazon Prime, we reach over 600 million people in 65+ countries. The show will have its own dedicated episode about the Cardano ecosystem and will feature prominent ‘whales’ on the whale seats, along with the existing Whales. In this episode, we will bring forward 3 chosen projects that will try to persuade the Whales to support their venture, with an ADA grant, or support from the Killer Whale Mentors.
It allows for a show, with an unmatched global reach, but it would also allow for the community, developers, and founders to market their product in a new way. For the community, get a say and vote in whom should be on the show, representing the Cardano ecosystem. Lastly, we would integrate the Killer Whales aspect into Cardano’s hackathons and events throughout the year, bringing the Whales to Cardano’s events and media coverage year-round.
A Global Product Vision Initiative;Cardano 2025-2030. An African Perspective
Proposal Benefit
If implemented, this initiative will provide evidence-based, region-specific input to guide Cardano’s 2025–2030 Vision, grounded in local contexts where adoption is growing but uneven.
- For Ecosystem Planners: Actionable data, policy insights, and user feedback to improve roadmap accuracy and global relevance.
- For Developers: Increased awareness among Web2 and Web3 developers in Africa to support a shift from users to contributors.
- For Projects & Enterprises: Identification of sector-specific use cases (DeFi, AgriTech, digital ID, remittances) to inform adoption pathways.
- For African Communities: In-person engagement to build trust, inclusion, and local ownership of Cardano’s future.
Return on Investment
A low-cost, high-impact initiative that connects global strategy with local insight, enabling stronger adoption, increased developer activity, and long-term ecosystem growth. Key outputs like the Synthesis Report and Showcase will serve as reusable assets for the entire Cardano community.
Andamio — Powering Contributor Readiness Across Cardano Projects
Andamio accelerates the Cardano ecosystem's growth by providing live, ecosystem-wide infrastructure that enables projects to identify, verify, and activate talent at scale.
Already live and operational, Andamio will:
- Speed up hiring and contribution readiness for key ecosystem teams.
- Provide Cardano-wide contributor verification, aligned with ecosystem governance goals.
- Reduce friction between learning and contribution.
- Generate real-time ecosystem insights on contributor readiness and project health.
With Andamio, the Cardano ecosystem benefits from:
- Faster scaling of core technical projects.
- Higher throughput of verified contributors.
- Stronger decentralization through transparent talent pipelines.
- Data-driven visibility of contributor growth across the ecosystem.
Cardano Institutional and Community Hub & Intersect Membership Hub in KSA
By leveraging Adaverse's expertise and the supportive environment fostered by Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030, establishing a Cardano institutional and community hub can significantly contribute to the Kingdom's burgeoning Web3 landscape.Then, hereunder we identify challenges for the Cardano community expansion to catch the wave of Saudi Arabia becoming the Web3 hub in the Middle East.
- Early-Mover Advantage in an Untapped but Booming Market
- Benefit: While Ethereum, Solana, and BNB Chain are present, no blockchain has yet established clear dominance in the Saudi Web3 landscape. Cardano can position itself as the go-to infrastructure for compliant, sustainable innovation aligned with Vision 2030.
- Access to Government-Backed Innovation Programs
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Benefit: The Saudi government is investing over $40 billion through the Public Investment Fund (PIF) and $14.9B in AI & digital technologies, much of which flows into smart city, fintech, and digital ID projects — perfect use cases for Cardano.
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Value to Cardano: Strategic partnerships could lead to flagship use cases (e.g. in NEOM, Red Sea Project, or SDAIA), showcasing Cardano’s strengths in identity, traceability, and sustainability.
- Localized Developer Growth → Strengthened Ecosystem
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Benefit: By building a regional hub, running hackathons, and providing Arabic-language dev training in Plutus and Marlowe, Cardano can grow its developer base where few competitors are investing in education.
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Value to Cardano: A new generation of Cardano-native builders with government support and access to Gulf VC funding can enrich the global dApp ecosystem — especially in sectors like regtech, Islamic finance, supply chain, and healthtech.
- Boost in On-Chain Activity and TVL (Total Value Locked)
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Benefit: Saudi startups are building in fintech, tokenization, and loyalty — all areas where Cardano’s cost-efficient and secure infrastructure shines.
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Value to Cardano: Each dApp deployed in KSA brings increased transaction volume, locked assets, and network activity, making Cardano more attractive to global investors and DeFi users.
- Regional Network Effects
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Benefit: A Saudi hub can act as a launchpad for expansion into Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, and Oman — countries with similar innovation agendas and cultural ties.
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Value to Cardano: One successful hub in Riyadh can trigger a network effect across the Gulf, boosting usage, partnerships, and ecosystem participation.
PyCardano
PyCardano is a Python library designed to facilitate interaction with the Cardano blockchain by enabling users to create and sign transactions without relying on third-party serialization tools. This independence makes PyCardano lightweight and easy to set up across various environments.
Developing PyCardano addresses the challenges mentioned above by providing a native Python library tailored for the Cardano blockchain. This initiative aims to lower the entry barrier for Python developers, fostering a more inclusive and diverse developer community. By eliminating the need for third-party serialization tools, PyCardano simplifies the development workflow, enhancing both efficiency and reliability. This project not only broadens the accessibility of Cardano to a wider range of developers but also encourages innovation and the creation of new applications within the ecosystem.
ADAspending.com - An open data source for tracking treasury spending on the Cardano blockchain
This project brings great value to multiple segments of the Cardano ecosystem by increasing transparency, accountability, and trust in the treasury system, a fundamental element of decentralized governance. Among the benefits, we highlight by segments:
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Benefits for Community Members and Voters: Get a clear and easy-to-use view of where treasury funds are being directed and going, how much is being spent, and who is receiving the funding, helping them make more informed decisions when voting or delegating their voting power to a DRep in Cardano’s decentralized governance.
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Benefits for Project Proponents: Access historical funding data, identify trends, and compare their proposals to previous successful (and unsuccessful) initiatives.
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Benefits for DReps: Use the platform to track funding performance and outcomes, improving decision-making and voting strategies.
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Benefits for Researchers, Auditors and Finance Members: Monitor and track the delivery of funded proposals and compare them to what was promised, facilitating better accountability and reporting.
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Benefits for SPOs and Developers: Leverage structured, publicly available data for analytics, governance research, dashboards, and community tools.
ROI to the Cardano Community
- Enhanced Treasury Transparency: Promotes trust in the on-chain governance process by offering a single, open-source interface to track every ADA spent.
- Increased Community Engagement: Lowers the entry barrier for new community members to understand treasury flows.
- Better Funding Decisions: Helps avoid waste, identify high-performing proposals, and support more impactful initiatives, optimizing treasury ROI.
- Support for Governance Evolution: As Cardano matures toward full on-chain governance, ADAspending.com will become a vital tool for monitoring public resource allocation in a decentralized way.
Platform's KPIs:
- Number of registered users: 3,000
- Session duration: 4min
- Total amount tracked on the platform: minimum $250.000.000
- Number of hits to the website: minimum 50,000
- Number of tracked transactions: minimum 7,500
- Number of vendors/suppliers: minimum 350
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