Empower Cardano developers, security auditors and QA engineers with an automated static analysis tool tailored to Cardano smart contracts, enabling automated issues and vulnerability detection during development. It will help developers, auditors, and projects proactively secure their code, reduce manual review costs, and elevate overall contract quality. We will leverage our proven experience building Scout Audit, a successful open-source static analysis tool for Polkadot’s Substrate and Ink as well as Stellar’s Soroban. Our team includes security auditors, researchers, and developers with extensive experience in Web3. By improving smart contract security and reliability, this tool will directly benefit the Cardano developer community, security professionals, and end-users, supporting Cardano's mission of building secure, scalable, and decentralized infrastructure. We will leverage our proven experience building Scout Audit (https://github.com/CoinFabrik/scout-audit), a successful open-source static analysis tool for Polkadot’s Substrate and Ink as well as Stellar’s Soroban. Our team includes experienced security auditors, blockchain researchers, and developers who specialize in building static analyzers for smart contract platforms.

By improving smart contract security and reliability, this tool will directly benefit the Cardano developer community, security professionals, and end-users, supporting Cardano's mission of building secure, scalable, and decentralized infrastructure.

Shadow solves this by introducing a copy trading protocol where users can automatically mirror the trades of successful wallets in real time. All trades are non-custodial and opt-in, with a small commission fee shared between the protocol and the trader being copied.

By aligning the incentives of expert traders, passive investors, and protocol developers, Shadow establishes a new form of Cardano-native trading—social, scalable, and profitable for all participants.

Key benefits to the Cardano community include:

Onboarding new users with simple copy-based trading experiences.

Driving volume and liquidity to native DEXs and tokens.

Creating revenue opportunities for traders and content creators.

Boosting long-term engagement through social network effects.

If successful, Shadow will become the social trading layer of Cardano, encouraging exploration, increasing TVL, and bringing trading into the hands of everyone. The result is a more active, inclusive, and profitable DeFi ecosystem for the Cardano community.

DigiFT: The Heart of Cardano's Institutional RWA Strategy

DigiFT uniquely sits at the heart of the Cardano community Institutional RWA strategy.

Benefits:

• DigiFT is a licensed Smart Contract enabled RWA platform.
• Increased TVL, offered natively on Cardano, and improved transaction volumes.
• DigiFT delivers mainstream institutional finance to Cardano, including:
  • UBS uMINT (Money Market Fund Token) with US$ 9.0 BN AUM
  • Invesco iSNR (US Senior Bank Loan Fund Token) with US$ 6.0 BN AUM
  • Full regulatory approval by Singapore MAS and Hong Kong SFC

Competitive Advantage:

Working with DigiFT, Cardano will:

• Leapfrog competitor chains (e.g., SOL, AVAX) with established DeFi ecosystems
• Establish itself as the premier blockchain for institutional RWA integration

Technical Implementation:

DigiFT will deploy its regulatory authorized on-chain RWA smart contract exchange on Cardano, including:

• Mint/Burn smart contracts
• Subscribe/Redeem smart contracts
• Attracting transaction volumes and providing RWA use cases

Stablecoin Integration:

• DigiFT will list the Cardano Stablecoin on our Smart Contract Exchange
• Provides instant use case paired against high-grade institutional assets
• Regulatory approved Real Time Liquidity (RTL) Pools for "instant" on-chain redemption:
  • Offered 24/7
  • Will attract institutional users of UBS and Invesco products
  • Supports NET MINT GROWTH of the native Cardano Stablecoin (USDA)

Ecosystem Impact:

This integration will:

• Renew interest through accelerated RWA on-chain growth
• Drive mainstream finance adoption
• Revitalize and incentivize Cardano developers, projects and users
• Provide important regulated, stable, safe and secure income assets
• Establish Cardano L1 chain as institutional-grade infrastructure

Regulatory Compliance:

DigiFT is accepted by:

• Various regulatory bodies
• Financial institutions
• Technology providers

Creating a compliant ecosystem featuring:

• Security
• Permissioned access
• Interoperability
• Smart contract capabilities for regulated RWAs

Bridging Traditional and Decentralized Finance:

DigiFT's "Day 1" regulatory infrastructure:

• Bridges TradFi and DeFi
• Provides Cardano access to global institutional RWAs (e.g., UBS/Invesco)
• Serves as a unique RWA rally point for unified liquidity
• Offers material upside AUM growth potential for Cardano

Integrating Maestro’s infrastructure to enable Cardano as the smart contract layer for Bitcoin would generate substantial benefits across several layers of the Cardano developer ecosystem:

1. Cardano DeFi Developers: Developers of DeFi applications (such as lending protocols like Fluidtokens) will gain immediate access to Bitcoin’s immense liquidity pool, significantly expanding their potential user base andTVL. Maestro’s integration enables developers to tap directly into Bitcoin’s economic activity, dramatically increasing capital efficiency and profitability. Demonstrated value includes:

• Significant growth in TVL, user engagement, and protocol revenues.
• Easier user onboarding from Bitcoin-native communities.

2. Wallet Developers (Tokeo, Begin, Lace, etc.):
   Wallet applications will benefit from vastly expanded user functionality. By supporting direct Bitcoin-to-Cardano interactions, wallets can offer their users advanced features like Bitcoin-backed lending, staking, governance, and seamless cross-chain payments. Demonstrated value includes:

• Increased wallet adoption and user retention.
• Expanded revenue streams through cross-chain transaction fees and premium DeFi services.

3. Layer 2 Solutions and Protocols (Midgard, Sundial, zkFold, BitcoinOS, Midnight):
   Cardano’s Layer 2 ecosystems will benefit by directly integrating with Bitcoin’s user base. L2 solutions gain additional utility and liquidity, allowing their technologies (privacy layers, zero-knowledge rollups, sidechains) to achieve broader adoption and market validation. Demonstrated value includes:

• Accelerated adoption and developer traction for L2 solutions.
• Enabling innovative financial products and privacy-oriented services previously unavailable to Bitcoin holders.

4. Cardano Ecosystem Overall: The direct Bitcoin integration positions Cardano uniquely in the broader blockchain landscape. It would transform Cardano into the default execution and innovation layer for Bitcoin DeFi, attracting both institutional and retail adoption. Demonstrated value includes:

• Enhanced market positioning as the leading decentralized finance ecosystem linked to Bitcoin.
• Substantial increase in ecosystem visibility, credibility, and investment inflows.

5. Open source: Maestro's core indexer multi-chain software stack will be open-sourced to the community.

Ultimately, the proposed integration presents Cardano with an opportunity to become the primary hub for Bitcoin’s smart contract innovation and DeFi, unlocking extensive economic value, developer growth, and cross-chain collaboration.

This initiative will drive significant value for the Cardano ecosystem and community by focusing on:

1. Building a Web3 + AI ecosystem for Cardano, to support and scale the next generation of projects and builders on Cardano.

• Accelerate ~10 Cardano projects, ensuring they are AI and commercially-ready, through a 4-week, high-paced program with access to resources, mentorship, and networks for growth.
• Incubate 4-5 new high-potential projects built on Cardano, leveraging Antler's proven venture-building engine in selected locations and large pool of exceptional builders.

2. Enable potential introductions for enterprise PoC and future funding to facilitate faster scaling and market adoption.
3. Generating new intersect members from the startup and Antler communities, enriching the Cardano ecosystem with valuable expertise and connections.
4. Creating marketing/PR opportunities to boost Cardano’s visibility and credibility
5. Developing an AI/Web3 scaling playbook for Cardano companies that can be reused and continuously educate Cardano founders.

The primary advantages of the TSC approach are:

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1. Consistency. All work items will be evaluated according to the same criteria.

2. Transparency. All funded work will engage with and report consistently to the community.

3. Avoidance of technical gaps. Vendors can be sought for all necessary work items.

4. Proper Prioritisation. Work items can be prioritised in line with community needs, rather than vendor wishes.

5. Avoidance of duplication. Duplicate work items can be eliminated.

6. Complementarity. Where work items can benefit from each other, this can be identified.

7. Conflict resolution. Where work items conflict in scope, this can be resolved.

8. Coordination of Effort. Coordinated integration and rollout plans are necessary, e.g. for hard forks.

9. Flexibility of Delivery. Discovery tasks can be carried out where necessary, new work can be undertaken as it is needed, and unsuccessful work can be terminate

Benefits include:

• The Cardano treasury receiving significant revenue
• The Hydra open source community would receive a production-ready predeveloped open-source payment system (including stable coin-backed points systems)
  • Including web2 REST API for payments, and point of sale QR code payments
• Global Cardano community will receive all tooling necessary to launch their own local currencies, with toggleable settings for different regulatory environments and local currency goals.
• Japanese Cardano community would receive municipal government adoption and endorsement. Japanese Cardano user community would expand on the order of millions (Symons right now is ~3M users)
• Colombian Cardano community will receive outreach to potentially receive municipal government adoption and endorsement.
• Via points investment similar to PayPay's crypto investments, the number of Cardano token holders (not limited only to ADA) would grow significantly.
• Expired points reclamation, after one year of inactivity, would benefit Japanese local governments, non-profits, small businesses, infrastructure, and workers. Points expiration is standard in the Japanese points market because it frees up points which can often become inaccessible, encourages prompt point usage, and creates highly active returning customers. However, most points companies remove all of these points from circulation. Our proposed platform recirculates them back into local communities, creating a self-sustaining local circular economy. We will work jointly with local governments to determine the usage of expired points in the deployed system, to ensure unique local needs are prioritized.
• Increased business revenue in rural Japan would directly benefit rural Japanese governments, businesses, and workers.

This proposal enables Intersect to continue providing essential infrastructure, coordination, and governance support for Cardano during a pivotal 12-month period from June 2025 to June 2026.

Intersect exists to serve as a neutral, nonprofit coordination layer that bridges decentralized governance and decentralized infrastructure. Our mission is not to direct the network, but to enable it. By stewarding core systems, supporting community-led processes, and facilitating safe, transparent delivery.

Specifically, this proposal will fund Intersect to:

1. Steward core infrastructure

• Maintain and govern the open-source Cardano node repositories, including the Haskell codebases
• Coordinate and release upgrades proposed by ecosystem contributors, ensuring safe deployment, roadmap alignment, and stakeholder readiness
• Provide stability and continuity across key engineering practices and upgrade cycles

2. Execute the Administrator role

• Continue fulfilling the responsibilities of the “Administrator” role defined in the Constitution. Intersect is currently listed as an Administrator on over 100 budget proposals currently
• Provide contract and oversight support, including proposal vetting, operational execution, smart contract development, and compliance monitoring
• Act as a reliable counterparty for Treasury-funded initiatives, offering arbitration routes while supporting increased transparency and decentralization

3. Support participation and coordination

• Deliver stipends to elected committee members — beginning formal recognition of their time and expertise and
• Facilitate an election process to confirm a new Constitutional Committee
• Provide professional operational and coordination support to 8 committees and 30+ working groups
• Provide through our members, onboarding, tools, and resources for DReps, SPOs, and the Constitutional Committee

4. Facilitate roadmap and budget processes

• Via the Product Committee, facilitating product roadmap development and long-term ecosystem vision
• Rebuilding a budget process for 2026 and coordinating the delivery and on-chain submission of a 2026 budget
• Conceptualize and being to operationalize a scalable RFP process for committee-aligned budget proposals (example the Open Source Committee proposal)

5. Expand Ecosystem Capacity

• Support the emergence of new MBOs, associations, and working groups
• Recognize and reinforce the need for multiple Administrators in the future to support a plural and scalable governance model

Intersect’s nonprofit status provides the right structure for these activities and we commit that any unused funds will be returned to the Treasury, and the requested ₳15.75m is a capped allocation, not a guaranteed disbursement. Funds will be released quarterly, pegged to live ADA/USD exchange rates, and tracked through transparent public reporting.

This proposal reflects the direction Intersect is now committed to: clearer scope, radical accountability, and coordination that serves — not controls — Cardano’s governance and development.

Historic & Unique—Indigenous DAO tools to onboard 100s of groups stewarding billions of economic & ecological value.

This proposal directly supports the development of essential collective-first infrastructure. It delivers a fully data-sovereign, local-first identity system—standards-aligned to meet the unique needs of Indigenous peoples, cooperatives, and civic groups, and their deeply relational, communitarian values and operating systems. It is designed so that it will always be owned by the people, rent-free—ensuring true autonomy over identity, governance, and infrastructure.

By lowering barriers to entry with the Mātou Protocol (a collective identity pattern), and the accompanying community and developer kits (CDK & SDK), Mātou Collective can welcome hundreds of tribal nations—thousands of humans—to the ecosystem. These tools are designed to support both custom technical development that fits community needs, and community development that helps leaders weave people and technology together.

For the Cardano community, this proposal offers both strategic and tangible benefits:

• DAO Tooling: Matou Protocol (the core collective identity pattern), MatouSDK (software development kit), MatouCDK (community development kit) are designed to drastically lower barriers to technical development (supporting custom tech that fits communities) and community development (supporting leaders weaving people and tech together)
• Adoption: This project aims to on-board Indigenous nations — populations with active economies already coordinating billions in value (see examples and sources of indigenous economic activity, specific examples Ngāi Tahu, Cherokee Nation, Barngarla).
• Innovation: Cardano will be the first major blockchain to offer a pathway to decentralized, culturally rooted, real-world data sovereignty for Indigenous peoples.
• Research Impact: This project will generate unique field data and unique design insights on how decentralized systems can serve complex governance, identity, and economic needs.
• Transactions: Increased transaction volume through real-world governance applications, credential verification services, cross-group economic activities, and token investments and exchanges—all mediated through Cardano's infrastructure. These tokenized interactions drive sustainable growth while providing tangible utility for indigenous communities.

We are building tools for an existing, rich, reciprocal, multi-stakeholder ecosystem with clear requirements and validated needs—an ecosystem we are part of and uniquely positioned to serve.

We will define parameters, monitor DRep behavior across key parameters to collect data and model incentives. Using this data, we'll create a mathematical formula that fairly rewards valuable contributions.This work will be transparently documented, -communicated, openly tested, and iteratively improved. The model will be guided by community feedback and evidence based work from experts.

Transparency:

• The community gains clear visibility into how incentives are structured and awarded. Engagement:
• Increased motivation for active, consistent, and high-quality participation from DReps. Fairness:
• A data-driven approach ensures rewards are proportional to measurable contributions, enhancing trust. Community influence over the process ensures a fair distribution model.

Scalability:

• A model adaptable for future governance needs and changes in community dynamics.The process can be replicated to create similar models for other governance bodies.

Intersect’s mission is to steward the long-term development, resilience, and adoption of the Cardano ecosystem through community-driven governance and strategic infrastructure investments. This proposal directly advances that mission by addressing a foundational gap in the ecosystem’s data infrastructure: the lack of reliable, financial-grade data from the Cardano blockchain.

Why This Matters to Intersect Enabling Regulatory Readiness: As more real-world use cases emerge, particularly in finance, climate tech, and public goods funding, the ability to comply with jurisdictional tax and reporting requirements becomes critical. By supporting this proposal, Intersect ensures that Cardano can meet the standards expected by institutional users, governments, and enterprises.

Strengthening the Ecosystem’s Foundations: The Intersect community is investing in tooling that will stand the test of time. High-integrity financial data is a prerequisite for DAOs, grant-funded initiatives, and long-term project sustainability. This proposal lays the groundwork for robust, auditable accounting across all layers of the ecosystem.

Fostering Inclusive Participation: Many small- to medium-sized projects on Cardano lack the internal resources to build custom accounting infrastructure. This initiative democratizes access to reliable ledger tools, enabling more diverse participants to grow responsibly and compliantly.

Aligning with Intersect’s Goals for Open Source and Modularity: This project is fully open source and modular, contributing to Cardano's public infrastructure and giving future developers the ability to build new services, dashboards, and reporting tools on top of a shared accounting layer.

Why This Matters to the Cardano Chain Bridges a Core Limitation of the UTXO Model: While the UTXO model is superior in many ways, it was not designed for easy financial traceability. This proposal introduces the interpretive layer needed to make Cardano data as usable as EVM data — without changing the protocol.

Increases Network Stickiness and Developer Retention: When financial tooling is difficult or unreliable, projects migrate to other chains. By solving this friction point, Cardano becomes a more attractive long-term home for founders and developers.

Supports Real-World Utility and Mission-Driven Projects: Cardano is increasingly the chain of choice for impact-focused, real-world projects. These organizations must report transparently to funders, governments, and communities — and need reliable data to do so.

This proposal is not just about fixing accounting; it’s about enabling trust, transparency, and professionalism across the entire Cardano ecosystem — which is at the heart of what Intersect and Cardano aim to achieve.

If implemented, this proposal will directly benefit Cardano dApp developers, the broader ecosystem of users, and ADA holders by creating a reliable funding structure focused on sustained adoption, utility, and on-chain economic activity.

Demonstrated value to the Cardano Community includes:

• Increased On-Chain Activity: Providing financial support to launched projects with real users and measurable transactions will grow Cardano's usage metrics, a key indicator of network health and success.
• Higher TVL and Ecosystem Stickiness: By supporting projects that retain user assets on-chain, the DAO boosts Cardano’s DeFi footprint and TVL.
• More Reliable Infrastructure & Products: Developers gain access to capital that enables consistent product development, user support, and innovation.
• Greater Visibility and Adoption: Supporting high-impact applications increases Cardano's competitiveness in the broader Web3 landscape, attracting new users and developers.
• Transparent ROI Tracking: Funded projects must report KPIs like transaction counts, active users, and commit activity, enabling the community to clearly measure the impact and return on funding decisions.
• Balance Ecosystem Funding Structure: This purpose-built funding mechanism complements Project Catalyst by creating a clear delineation between the different development stages of projects, and where they should seek funding within the ecosystem. This enables Project Catalyst to be a more effective innovation engine as larger projects will not rely on Project Catalyst for funding.

Implementation will significantly benefit the Cardano ecosystem by maturing the CIP-143 standard into a production-ready feature:

For Developers & dApp Builders: Enables the creation of innovative dApps leveraging sophisticated programmable assets like soul-bound tokens (SBTs), regulated stablecoins, advanced royalty mechanisms, and enhanced DeFi primitives. Lowers barriers to entry with user-friendly tools (SDKs, minting interface) and clear documentation. For the Ecosystem: Enhances Cardano's competitiveness as a leading platform for advanced asset types. Fosters interoperability and composability through a unified standard (CIP-143). Attracts new projects and developers seeking these capabilities. For End Users: Indirectly benefits users through access to new applications and functionalities enabled by programmable assets (e.g., secure stablecoins, better identity solutions, richer NFT experiences). Overall Network: Increases network utility and drives on-chain activity through the creation and use of valuable, functional assets. Return on Investment (ROI): The ROI lies in enabling significant new economic activity on Cardano, increasing demand for ADA (fees, dApp usage), attracting high-value projects, fostering ecosystem vibrancy, and solidifying Cardano's technical capabilities as outlined in its roadmap.

Critical use-cases of programmable assets include:

• Dynamic Yield Tokens: Assets programmed to continuously reallocate themselves across multiple yield sources based on real-time returns, risk.
• Auto-compounding Tokens: Assets that automatically reinvest profits and rewards, compounding yields without user intervention.
• Fully Autonomous Vested Tokens: Assets released gradually based on predefined schedules or performance metrics, no manual claiming or user-intervention required.
• Event-Triggered Assets: Tokens whose transfers, lockups, or burns are automatically triggered by on-chain events.
• Dynamic Risk-Managed Assets: Tokens that automatically hedge their value against market volatility by integrating derivatives or decentralized insurance protocols.
• Risk-Adjusted Stablecoins: Stablecoins that dynamically adjust collateralization ratios and asset composition based on market volatility or collateral risks.
• Advanced DeFi Protocols: Complex cutting-edge DeFi protocols such as Ethena require customizable asset lifecycle management which can only be achieved via programmable assets.

Funding the upgrade and continued operation of the CLYDE bare-metal stake pool would directly strengthen Cardano’s decentralization, resilience, and long-term sustainability. The key benefits include:

Enhanced Network Decentralization: By maintaining a non-cloud-based, independently operated node, this proposal protects against central points of failure and promotes a more geographically and infrastructurally diverse network topology.

Increased Network Resilience: Bare-metal pools with redundant cable and fiber internet connections, like CLYDE, add robustness against outages, censorship, and dependency on third-party cloud providers.

Support for Cardano’s Core Values: Cardano’s vision is built on decentralization. Funding CLYDE aligns directly with these values, ensuring independent operators can remain viable contributors to the network without relying solely on block rewards that heavily favor larger pools.

Long-Term Value to the Ecosystem: Investing in bare-metal infrastructure now avoids higher risks and potential costs in the future associated with cloud reliance, such as service disruptions, regulatory pressure, or monopolistic behaviors.

The return on investment is a more secure, decentralized, and censorship-resistant Cardano blockchain, which benefits all community members—from developers and projects to ADA holders and future users. It helps ensure that Cardano remains true to its foundational principles, safeguarding its competitive edge in an increasingly centralized blockchain landscape.

Imagine a Cardano where governance evolves continuously, driven by data and community insights. We will forge that future by moving beyond Minimum Viable Governance (MVG) to craft a dynamic, adaptable system with a clear, cost-effective process to pinpoint the real challenges faced by those who participate in governance. By putting this process into action, we will deliver transparent, insightful findings and expert analysis. Where needed, these insights will be translated into concrete proposals (CIPs or CPSs) reflecting community consensus. This initiative will kickstart ongoing governance optimization, empowering the community to actively monitor and address critical risks, ensuring Cardano remains a leader in decentralized decision-making.

Funding this proposal equips Cardano with the industrial‑grade rails that turn 2025 roadmap innovations into production revenue and global impact—delivering measurable economic, security and social returns for every segment of the community.

This proposal helps solve a practical but pressing challenge: how do we make it easier for organizations, especially those outside the typical crypto-native circles, to build on Cardano without getting bogged down by infrastructure complexities?

By implementing this proposal, we’re offering the Cardano ecosystem something it needs right now: a dependable infrastructure layer that allows institutions to easily adopt and focus on building on Cardano, rather than spending cycles on node uptime, staking logic, or security concerns. That unlocks value in a very tangible way. It speeds up the timeline for new projects to go live. It opens the door for fintechs and enterprises to deploy real-world use cases without needing to reinvent the wheel.

Developers in less connected countries: Blockdaemon can host nodes and validators globally

Wallet integration - Institutional grade MPC wallet: ADA Staking directly from the wallet

Institutions and enterprises: Blockdaemon is globally recognized as the leader for institutional blockchain infrastructure, staking, institutional wallets and DeFi enabling institutional and enterprise adoption

Network effects: Every enterprise we onboard pulls its customers, liquidity and developers into Cardano, multiplying ADA utility.

In short, this proposal doesn’t just improve infrastructure for custodians and institutions, it creates leverage for everyone building RWA on Cardano.

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.

The importance of ensuring reliability even in peacetime
[Benefits of problem solving]
This project will achieve these goals by combining broadcasting technology and blockchain technology. As the world's first integrated broadcasting and Web3 infrastructure, we maximize the public credibility of the CARDANO blockchain by using broadcast block information as a reference signal.

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.

DIA’s trustless data feeds are already powering multiple blockchain ecosystems.

Bringing DIA to Cardano would:

• Enable DeFi dApps to access reliable price data and other off-chain information.
• Facilitate the creation of complex smart contracts that depend on external data.
• Attract new developers and projects by expanding the ecosystem's tooling.
• Provide Cardano with infrastructure parity with other major chains already using DIA.

What Problems DIA Solves and the Benefits:

Data Transparency: Unlike other oracles, DIA’s architecture is unique in that it sources data on a first-party level, directly from over 80 centralized and decentralized exchanges, rather than relying on premium data providers. This sourcing methodology enables end-to-end, 100% transparency about the origin of data at the individual exchange level, resolving the issue of data opacity and providing Cardano smart contract developers and users with complete transparency about their data sources.

Learn more about DIA’s data sourcing here: https://docs.diadata.org/reference/architecture/data-sourcing

Data Customization: DIA's granular data scraping enables the creation of tailor-made data feeds to meet the specific needs of each dApp on the Cardano blockchain. This solves the problem of one-size-fits-all data feeds, allowing developers to customize the parameters of their oracle, including data sources, data cleansing filters, pricing, computational methodologies, update mechanisms, and more.

This customizability has proven essential in fostering innovation, as DIA oracles can uniquely cater to different dApp needs, thereby supporting a wider array of dApps and use cases.

Support for More Assets than Traditional Oracles: DIA's ability to construct price feeds for crypto assets traded on any of DIA’s supported DEXs and CEXs, so long as they meet DIA's liquidity, volume, and source criteria, addresses the problem of limited data availability for less commonly traded assets.

This benefits Cardano users by expanding the range of supported assets on the network.

Cross-Chain Asset Support: Many ecosystem-native assets face limitations in cross-chain functionality due to inadequate oracle support, hindering their utility beyond their original ecosystem.

DIA overcomes this challenge by placing an emphasis on sourcing asset price data from decentralized exchanges, thereby expanding support for a broader range of ecosystem-native assets that are not covered by centralized exchanges.

Product & Ecosystem Value: Generally speaking, the presence of multiple oracles is critical for bolstering security and maintaining the long-term sustainability of an ecosystem. By incorporating multiple oracles, developers can access diverse data sources and leverage various tooling options, enhancing their decision-making capabilities and reducing the risk of data manipulation or inaccuracies across the entire Cardano smart contract ecosystem. This redundancy not only fortifies the ecosystem against potential threats but also fosters an environment of trust and transparency, ensuring the consistent and dependable operation of the network over time. In addition to this general outlook on the benefits of having multiple oracle providers in the Cardano smart contract ecosystem, the below highlights the specific ways DIA Oracles stand apart, and will provide value to the ecosystem:

Customizable oracle feeds tailored to each dApps needs: Setting itself apart, DIA offers bespoke oracles crafted to meet the precise requirements of each individual dApp. This adaptability enables the optimization of oracle deployment, tailoring data sources, price methodologies, and updating frequencies, among other aspects, to better support the varied functionalities of dApps.

For example: In a perpetual trading protocol, the need for high-frequency updates (e.g., every 10 seconds) is critical and often applied for prominent blue-chip assets. However, in a lending-borrowing protocol, where a broader range of assets may be supported, a lower update frequency is often preferable. This is particularly important for assets with lower trading volumes and liquidity, where a high-frequency update can pose risks, allowing for potential price manipulation within short timeframes. To mitigate this risk, the DIA oracles can be optimized by extending the trade collection window and adjusting the update frequency. For instance, increasing the update frequency to every 2 minutes enables the inclusion of more trades into each reported price, creating a robust price feed that aligns with the specific requirements of the lending protocol.

In this example, DIA's ability to adjust the update frequencies and trade collection window ensures greater resilience and accuracy in data provision, particularly when dealing with lower volume assets or varying market conditions. This exemplifies how different oracle parameters can be optimized for different use cases and assets. For more information on how DIA’s customizable oracle feeds support innovation and diverse use cases across ecosystems, please visit DIA’s Arbitrum Network Case Study: https://www.diadata.org/case-studies/arbitrum-network/

First-Party Data Sourcing: Additionally, different from other oracles in the Cardano ecosystem, DIA’s architecture consists of first-party data sourcing, directly from over 80+ high confidence DEX and CEXs. This will add value to the Cardano ecosystem in multiple ways, by first adding an additional source of price in the ecosystem. Different from other oracles, DIA oracles offer 100% transparency regarding each and every individual source that is considered in generating a price feed, and developers can select and customize these sources. This proves to be significant, especially for cross-chain focused dApps.

For example: In a cross-chain lending-borrowing protocol or collateralized debt position (CDP) protocol, collateral may exist on other chains, and thus, DIA’s source selection capabilities uniquely enable developers and users to value assets and collateral as they exist on their respective chains.

Cardano-Native DEX scraping: The ultimate goal for the DIA integration is to maximize Cardano smart contract functionality and innovation by fully integrating all of the relevant components of DIA’s product suite onto Cardano. Perhaps the most significant component of this integration will be the inclusion of Cardano-native DEXs into the sources that DIA supports. This capability, unique to DIA due to its novel first-party data sourcing architecture, will ultimately add significant value to the entire Cardano ecosystem. As the only oracle provider in the ecosystem that can support Cardano-native assets, which only trade on those DEXs, DIA will play a crucial role. What’s more, DIA will not only support these assets within the Cardano ecosystem but will also provide price feeds for these assets across the 55 (and counting) other chains with which DIA is actively integrated.

Additional Unique Benefits of the DIA Integration: Broadest Oracle Data Library in Web3 - DIA supports price feeds for over 2,500 cryptocurrency tokens and more than 10,000 RWA price feeds, offering a breadth of assets unmatched. This extensive assets coverage will significantly broaden the scope and utility of applications on the Cardano Network.

Largest Liquid Staked Asset Library - Due to DIA’s novel first-party sourcing architecture and partnerships with numerous prominent liquid staking protocols, DIA supports the broadest range of liquid staked tokens (LSTs), a category that has quickly become the largest segment of DeFi, as measured by total value locked (TVL).

Random Number Generation - In collaboration with DRAND, DIA offers an on-chain oracle for a universally accessible source of publicly-verifiable, unbiasable, and unpredictable randomness. Following an initial multi-party computation to establish a distributed key, Drand nodes operated by independent parties periodically broadcast information that gets aggregated into a final random beacon whose validity can be easily verified by users. DIA is a proud member of Drand's League of Entropy (https://www.cloudflare.com/leagueofentropy/), a consortium of organizations that are working together to produce a truly random beacon. Ultimately DIA seeks to deploy its Random Number Generation oracle on Cardano.

Implementing the “Blockchain Adoption Map for Brazilian Agribusiness” requires an investment of ₳ 330,750 (≈ US$ 198,000), yet it delivers benefits that ripple across the entire network. First, the study becomes a public repository of market intelligence. Any new team aiming to build an agribusiness application no longer needs to spend months on basic research: adoption data, regulatory requirements, and lessons from at least twenty-five proven pilots will be available in one place. If ten initiatives draw on this material over the next two years, the community will save more than ₳ 1,000,000 in technical hours—three times the project’s original cost. Second, the diagnosis provides hard evidence for funding decisions. Intersect committees, stake-pool delegates, and Catalyst voters will see exactly which gaps merit investment and which proposals are redundant for Brazil’s agribusiness sector. Third, the material gives marketing teams an unprecedented segmentation compass. Joint campaigns with the press stop being generic and start speaking the language of each supply chain and each region. That precision lowers user-acquisition costs by roughly 25 percent and is expected to generate hundreds of new agribusiness wallets in the first year alone—turning visibility into real network usage. Finally, even modest adoption—just 0.05 percent of the US$ 160 billion that Brazil exports annually—would move about US$ 100 million in assets onto the ecosystem, boosting transaction volume, strengthening staking, and enlarging the Treasury that funds future innovation cycles. In short, every ADA invested in this research returns multiples: it saves development resources, safeguards community funds, accelerates user onboarding, and opens an economic corridor with billion-dollar potential. The result is a more efficient, better-informed Cardano ecosystem, ready to turn agribusiness opportunities into concrete blockchain adoption.

1. An Open-Source Finance Exchange model that enables ADA holder entities to connect with businesses holding traditional currency to exchange ADA and traditional currencies via decentralised protocols and apps. See Overview Diagram in the references section. (Problem Statements 1 & 2)

2. Incentivize traditional businesses to on-board industry peers after they prove verifiable metrics like increases in ADA holders/Transaction Volume creates a low risk and sustainable way for the Cardano Treasury to fund adoption. MAV100 and selfdriven will work in collaboration with Waterra USA, Inc. to test the program by on-boarding members of the groundwater industry with the intent to educate them on use cases within the Cardano Ecosystem, so they can collaborate to build useful industry tools in the future. Waterra USA has a client/vendor list of over 1800 businesses including: 60+ Universities, 30+ United States Geological Survey Offices, hundreds of private contractors, distributors (ex: Pine Environmental), and manufacturers (ex: Allied Motion). With decades-old personal relationships, the ability to reach out and educate these businesses on the possibilities within the Cardano Ecosystem will have a higher success rate than traditional crypto education platforms. For more information, please reference Supporting Link video : Finance Exchange Episode #2. Rewards from the initial pool will be earned by accomplishing 1 of 2 things: Increasing transaction volume and ADA purchased for use as a store of value. (Problem Statement 3)

-- For a conversation overview see the Deep Dive Podcast link in the "Further information" section of this proposal.