Multiply DAO proliferation Worldwide with AGI Agents built on Cardano by proven AI, DAOs, RWA and DeFi partners. Let's showcase the Impact of new use-cases for governance, fundraising and collective ownership!

The implementation of the Planetary Public Good DAO & AGI Agents proposal will deliver multifaceted benefits across the entire Cardano ecosystem, providing substantial and demonstrable value. This initiative moves beyond incremental improvements to deliver foundational infrastructure and showcase Cardano's unique capabilities in intelligent decentralized governance, ultimately yielding significant strategic, technological, and economic ROI for the community.

1. Foundational Public Good Infrastructure (Framework, Agent, Interface):

1.1. Benefit: The primary output is the Planetary Public Good DAO Framework, encompassing the methodology, the AGI Agent for DAOs (Second Public Good), and the AGI Avatar Phygital Interface (Third Public Good). This integrated framework represents the ultimate and first Planetary Public Good delivered by this consortium – a reusable, adaptable infrastructure for building next-generation DAOs. It's designed to be the global benchmark for effective, AI-enhanced decentralized organizations, heralding a New Era. Tangible tools and robust products arising from this framework are primary goals.

1.2. Target Community: This directly benefits DAO creators, project teams, developers, startups, and existing organizations seeking to leverage DAOs on Cardano or migrate from other ecosystems. It provides them with a powerful, standardized, yet customizable toolkit. Indirectly, the entire Cardano ecosystem benefits from having a best-in-class framework that enhances the quality and success rate of DAOs built on the platform.

1.3. Value/ROI: The framework significantly lowers the barrier to entry for creating sophisticated, effective DAOs, thus accelerating innovation and adoption on Cardano. It fosters standardization and best practices, improving the overall health and resilience of the DAO ecosystem. Attracting high-quality projects seeking superior DAO infrastructure enhances Cardano's network effect and reputation. ROI is measured by the number of DAOs utilizing the framework, the success metrics of those DAOs (e.g., participation, treasury growth), developer adoption rates, and comparative analysis against DAO tools on other chains.

2. Enhanced DAO Operation & Governance via AGI gent:

2.1. Benefit: The AGI Agent for DAOs component moves beyond simple automation. It provides context-aware intelligence tailored to each DAO's specific goals and operational data (sourced transparently via opt-in mechanisms, potentially using DOB Protocol's infrastructure). This translates to streamlined onboarding, intelligent summarization of complex governance discussions, data-driven insights for decision-making, proactive task management suggestions, and overall increased operational efficiency.

2.2. Target Community: Directly benefits DAO members (easier participation, better understanding), DAO operators/leaders (reduced workload, better tools), and crucially, Cardano's own governance participants (DReps, Committee members via the Cardano Confederation pilot and/or other communities active on governance, such as Intersect Working Groups) who can test AGI tools to manage information flow and improve decision quality. End-users of services provided by these DAOs benefit from improved efficiency and responsiveness.

2.3. Value/ROI: Leads to higher DAO member engagement and retention, faster and more informed decision-making, reduced operational costs and burnout for DAO teams, and potentially more effective resource allocation. Piloting within the Cardano Confederation and other similar communities offers direct ROI by potentially improving the efficiency and scalability of Cardano's core governance processes. ROI can be measured via DAO activity metrics (proposal throughput, voting times, task completion rates), member satisfaction surveys, qualitative feedback from the Confederation pilot, and observed reductions in governance friction.

3. Revolutionary User Experience & Onboarding (AGI Avatar Phygital Interface):

3.1. Benefit: The AGI Avatar Phygital Interface delivers a unique, highly engaging, and accessible way for humans to interact with DAOs and the underlying AGI Agent. Moving beyond text-based chats, it offers a visual, potentially voice-driven, culturally-attuned experience deployable ubiquitously – on mobile devices, large event displays (LEDs/holograms), and potentially in public phygital installations. It serves as a powerful onboarding tool, guiding newcomers through Cardano and DAO concepts. Critically, it incorporates a sustainable model for network promotion and advertising, ensuring its long-term viability as a public good. Its integration with DePIN allows contextual AGI responsiveness, adapting to its environment.

3.2. Target Community: Benefits newcomers to Cardano and DAOs (lowering entry barriers), non-technical users, existing DAO members (more engaging interaction), event attendees (memorable experiences), the general public (increased visibility of Cardano), artists/creators (ethical licensing model via Cooperativa Local), and Cardano marketing/community teams (powerful engagement and education platform).

3.3. Value/ROI: Expected to dramatically increase onboarding success rates and user retention within the Cardano ecosystem. Generates significant viral marketing potential through shareable interactions and visually stunning event displays, boosting Cardano's brand awareness and appeal. The sustainable model provides ongoing funding for ecosystem promotion. The R&D into its potential function as a Cardano node offers ROI in network decentralization. ROI measured by user adoption metrics, social media engagement analytics (reach, shares, sentiment), conversion rates from interaction to participation, event feedback, and eventually, revenue generated by the interface network itself.

4. Validated High-Impact Use Cases & Ecosystem Growth:

4.1. Benefit: The consortium structure ensures the framework is not developed in isolation but validated through deep implementation within diverse, high-impact founding partners: IME DAO (revolutionizing cultural event production with its decentralized festival), ChileDAO (creating a model for national Web3 coordination on Cardano), and Cardano Confederation and other active groups on governance (enhancing Cardano improvement iterations). The launch of the Open Program in Q2 2026 provides a scalable mechanism for onboarding unlimited new DAOs globally.

4.2. Target Community: Benefits the entire Cardano ecosystem by providing concrete, compelling proof points of the platform's utility. Attracts potential enterprise, institutional, and governmental adopters seeking validated decentralized solutions. Directly supports specific sectors (culture, national coordination, governance) and underrepresented regions (Latam), while establishing a strategic foothold in Japan.

4.3. Value/ROI: Shifts Cardano's narrative from potential to proven capability. Generates high-quality case studies and testimonials. Strengthens specific regional ecosystems, potentially leading to increased local adoption and development activity. The Open Program directly drives network growth by onboarding new DAOs and users. ROI measured by partner success metrics (e.g., IME Link attendance/impact, ChileDAO project milestones), media coverage, new enterprise/institutional inquiries, adoption rate of the Open Program, and growth in targeted geographic regions.

5. Cutting-Edge R&D, Knowledge Contribution & Academic Alignment:

5.1. Benefit: This proposal includes a significant R&D component led by DOB Protocol, building directly upon their peer-reviewed DAM research (arXiv:2504.15676). It explores the practical application of DAMs and DePIN concepts within the context of public good DAOs on Cardano, investigating governance data layers and infrastructure interaction. Findings are explicitly planned for scientific publication and broad community dissemination, contributing valuable knowledge assets.

5.2. Target Community: Benefits Cardano's research community (IOHK, Foundation, university partners), developers, technical architects, and the broader academic world. Also benefits SPOs and infrastructure providers if the R&D on Interfaces as Nodes proves fruitful. Strengthens Cardano's strategic positioning as a platform built on rigorous research and capable of supporting next-generation autonomous systems.

5.3. Value/ROI: Enhances Cardano's global reputation for technological leadership and rigorous innovation. Attracts top-tier research talent and R&D-focused projects. Published research and open frameworks serve as invaluable public goods, potentially informing future protocol upgrades (CIPs) or inspiring new dApps. ROI measured by the quality and impact of research outputs (publications, citations), contributions to technical standards, attraction of new research collaborations, and long-term influence on Cardano's technical direction.

6. Increased & Diversified On-Chain Activity & DeFi Potential:

6.1. Benefit: The proliferation of effective, active, AI-enhanced DAOs naturally drives diverse on-chain activity on Cardano platforms like Clarity (governance votes, proposals, treasury actions). Furthermore, the integration with DOB Protocol's DePIN financing platform and the exploration of DAMs managing RWA/infrastructure introduce significant new vectors for on-chain transactions related to real-world economic activity. This robust DAO infrastructure enables more sophisticated and trustworthy DeFi applications, such as large liquidity pools (e.g., ADA/BTC) governed directly by intelligent DAOs.

6.2. Target Community: Directly benefits Stake Pool Operators (SPOs) through increased network load and transaction fees. Benefits ADA holders through potentially increased network utility and value. Benefits DeFi users and protocols by providing more robust, transparent, and intelligent governance mechanisms for financial applications and RWA integrations.

6.3. Value/ROI: Increases Cardano's fundamental network utility and transaction volume, contributing to network security and potentially higher staking rewards. Creates novel, high-value primitives for Cardano's DeFi ecosystem, attracting significant Total Value Locked (TVL), liquidity, and users seeking advanced, reliably governed financial instruments and RWA exposure. ROI measurable via core on-chain metrics (transaction counts, active addresses, TVL), DeFi protocol adoption statistics, and SPO profitability trends.

• Conclusion: The demonstrated value and ROI for the Cardano community are comprehensive and substantial. This proposal delivers not just tools, but a foundational framework for a new era of intelligent decentralized organization (the Planetary Public Good DAO Framework). It enhances Cardano's technological capabilities (AGI, DAM/DePIN R&D), dramatically improves user experience and onboarding (AGI Avatar Phygital Interface), fosters significant ecosystem growth through high-impact use cases and an Open Program, increases network activity and DeFi potential, and reinforces Cardano's position as a global leader in research-driven blockchain innovation. This strategic investment promises returns across usability, adoption, technical prowess, economic activity, and overall network value, justifying the allocation from the Cardano Treasury for the benefit of the entire community.

By integrating Chainlink oracle support into Atlas, this proposal directly enables data-driven dApp development on Cardano. Developers will gain out-of-the-box access to oracle UTXOs, datum parsing, signature verification, and reference input support. The result is a faster, more secure, and more scalable dApp development experience. Chainlink is the leading oracle provider in Web3, and this integration will unlock a new class of real-world use cases for Atlas-based apps. The ROI includes accelerating DeFi and insurance dApps, and supporting decentralized gaming, prediction markets, and other on-chain systems that require real-world input data.

This proposal ensures that Atlas remains the most capable backend tool in the Cardano ecosystem by supporting its two most impactful upgrades:

Aiken developers will gain first-class off-chain integration through Atlas, improving testability, endpoint exposure, and Plutus validator interaction without boilerplate.

Governance tools and dApps will benefit from Atlas-native support for building and submitting governance actions, making it easy to integrate on-chain decision-making flows into dApps.

This improves developer experience, aligns with ecosystem upgrades (CIP-1694 + Aiken), and reduces fragmentation between tooling stacks.

This proposal delivers:

Seamless Hydra integration in Atlas, enabling dApps to spin up, join, and transact within Hydra heads from off-chain logic.

Foundational integration with Midgard, Midnight, and ZkFold L2s for submitting payloads, querying outcomes, and synchronizing state with Cardano L1.

Shared L2 interface modules in Atlas that support plug-in logic per L2 solution.

Public documentation, emulator test cases, and example dApps demonstrating hybrid L1+L2 architecture.

The result is a next-generation backend for the Cardano ecosystem, enabling builders to leverage fast, private, or ZK-compressed execution environments — without leaving the Atlas framework.

This proposal delivers a first-of-its-kind integration between Masumi and Atlas, allowing developers to:

Authenticate and verify decentralized AI agents using Masumi’s identity registry from Atlas PAB.

Log agent actions and outputs on-chain via Masumi directly from Plutus dApps.

Facilitate agent-to-agent payments using Atlas-managed transactions that plug into Masumi’s settlement layer.

Query Masumi’s decision logs and agent metadata from within Atlas backends.

This bridges decentralized AI protocols with Cardano’s smart contract stack — enabling next-gen autonomous dApps with native identity, auditability, and economic interaction for AI agents.

This proposal upgrades Atlas PAB into a Bitcoin-aware smart contract backend, enabling developers to: Track native BTC transactions via full nodes or lightweight indexers. Define BTC-based triggers for activating Cardano Plutus endpoints. Verify BTC proofs (SPV, BitVM, Babylon) from off-chain or light clients. Write BTC-aware business logic in Atlas without custodial bridges. Synchronize Cardano and Bitcoin UTXO states to support secure BTC-backed workflows. This approach lets developers: Build BTC-backed stablecoins or vaults. Design Cardano NFT auctions triggered by BTC payments. Launch DeFi protocols collateralized by native BTC. Enable trustless cross-chain coordination between Bitcoin and Cardano. By enhancing Atlas to support Bitcoin natively, this proposal creates new opportunities for BTC holders and Cardano developers to collaborate securely.

This integrated proposal, with a 12 month runtime includes on-chain solutions that will allow the Cardano ecosystem to grow their reach, attract new builders, drive on-chain adoption and add Web3 native technology to the ecosystem.

Besides this tech-oriented solutions, we will partner in creating a series of community and builder focussed market activations. From Media and KOL integrations into hackathons, to 3 Cardano projects participating in a dedicated episode of Killer Whales, broadcasted on APPLE TV and Amazon prime, reaching over 600 million people in 65+ countries.

This differentiation power will allow builders on Cardano to work towards a unique incubation and promotional model. They 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.

The show will have its own dedicated episode about the Cardano ecosystem and will feature prominent (Cardano-friendly) ‘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 the community, developers, and founders to market their product in a new way. For the community, get a say and vote on-chain about which Cardano builder 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.

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.

Unique Verified Identity On The Blockchain: Digital Dancer ID* offers a transformative solution to the structural inefficiencies facing the global dance community. By providing each dancer and dance professional with a unique, verifiable identity anchored on the Cardano blockchain, the platform creates a tamper-proof, portable record of achievements, affiliations, and roles across multiple federations.

OAuth Provider: This identity can be used not only for recordkeeping but also for logging into external dance-related services through a secure OAuth mechanism— streamlining the experience for users and partners alike.

₳ (ADA) Payments: By integrating Cardano’s native ADA payments as an option, the platform also introduces blockchain utility to the dance world, enabling secure transactions for event registrations, verification services, and premium features.

Cardano Ecosystem Expansion into the Dance World Niche and Liquidity Attraction: These touchpoints introduce the Cardano ecosystem to thousands of dancers and numerous federations and dance organizations worldwide, driving real-world adoption of decentralized identity in a dynamic and culturally rich niche — one that has, until now, remained unexposed to blockchain technology.

This initiative will generate the core insights needed to guide Cardano’s roadmap and 2030 vision. We will deliver personas, use case maps, community sentiment analysis, and region-specific adoption data — all open and reusable.

Benefits by group:

• For ecosystem planners: Roadmap-aligned insights and validated priorities.
• For developers: Pain point mapping and SDK/tooling recommendations.
• For projects & partners: Clear signals on where growth is possible.
• For the community: Recognition of needs, frustrations, and motivations — turning participation into co-ownership.

The result: a smarter, more inclusive Cardano — built on real data.

This proposal introduces a new model of vision creation for Cardano — one rooted in imagination, storytelling, and community-authored futures. It complements the ideas of the "https://gov.tools/budget_discussion/484". It delivers not just a vision, but a way of creating vision that’s participatory, emotional, and strategically generative. With our approach, we want to engage everyone in creating the vision, creating the world we want to be living in. Next, we include the bright minds that can build the tools to make this vision a reality.

Key Benefits: • A co-created 2030 Vision crafted from community-led world-building workshops across themes like justice, identity, and belonging • A global archive of stories, scenes, sketches, and speculative prototypes of Cardano in everyday life • A futures showcase to uplift and interconnect community imagination across geographies • A flexible vision framework that maps story into strategy through eras, threads, and emergent objectives • A regenerative ritual of vision — updated annually, remixable by anyone, alive like the community it serves

Why this team? We are pioneers in futures literacy, speculative design, and community-based storytelling, with over 20 years of experience building shared narratives in complex systems. We’ve worked across civic tech, education, blockchain, and global governance.

This is not just facilitation — it’s strategic foresight as community artform. And Cardano is ready for it.

The primary benefit of this project is providing the Cardano community and its governance bodies with evidence-based, community-vetted recommendations for potentially enhancing the Project Catalyst award system. Instead of implementing changes based on assumptions, this research process leverages quantitative data and qualitative insights directly from the community (proposers, implementers, experts) to identify areas for improvement and assess potential solutions. Benefits accrue to:

• ADA Holders/Cardano Treasury: By grounding potential refinements in evidence, the project aims to ensure that future changes to Catalyst (a major treasury expenditure) are more likely to be effective, increasing the impact and efficiency of treasury funds.
• Project Proposers & Implementers: The research aims to identify ways to make the award system fairer, clearer, and potentially more supportive, benefiting those participating in Catalyst.
• Wider Cardano Community: A more effective and trusted Catalyst system strengthens the overall ecosystem's innovation engine and governance processes. The findings may also inform the design of other future funding mechanisms identified in the 2025 goals.

The demonstrated value lies in fostering data-driven improvements to a core ecosystem function, increasing the likelihood of funding impactful projects, enhancing accountability, and ensuring Catalyst evolves based on the collective wisdom and experience of its community.

Please see section Decentralizing Blockfrost of the proposal.

The Cardano Summit 2025 is a strategic initiative, spearheaded by the Cardano Foundation and fortified by regional ecosystem partners (EMURGO, Rare Evo, Wada, Catalyst Africa Town Hall, Ada Solar), to accelerate the global adoption of Cardano technology. Each partner will command the execution of a regionally focused Cardano Summit Event. While each maintains regional autonomy, all six entities will synergize in the events' development. The core ethos and driving benefits of the Cardano Summit are:

Simplify developer onboarding through targeted Cardano Dev Days events globally.

Drive adoption through targeted education for first-time and novice users, unlocking Cardano's potential for all.

Showcase tangible impact of real-world use cases, capturing mainstream attention and demonstrating Cardano's value. Forge powerful collaborations between developers, entrepreneurs, users, enterprises and regulators.

Strategize and solve scaling and interoperability challenges, securing future scalability.

Attract capital, talent, and media, securing vital resources for the growth of Cardano as a leading L1.

Ignite innovation & celebrate success: Rally the community, celebrate achievements, and build unstoppable momentum.

Myself

The GMC marketing proposal aims to provide a structured and transparent approach to planning, executing, and evaluating various marketing efforts. Specifically, the proposal addresses the need for:

• Strategic direction: Ensuring decentralized marketing efforts align with a unified global brand strategy.

• Clear funding recommendations: Determining the necessary funding from the Cardano Treasury for the 2025 Marketing Budget.

• Accountability and oversight: Establish mechanisms for accountability of Vendor Partners and the oversight of the marketing programs through a Marketing Program Manager (MPM).

• Justified budget estimates: Providing budget estimates for each Workstream based on detailed descriptions and industry data.

• Flexible fund allocation: Allowing flexibility in committing funds and the possibility of rolling over uncommitted funds.

• Performance evaluation: Implementing a system for evaluating the performance of Vendor Partners and the overall effectiveness of the marketing initiatives.

• Community engagement: Developing programs to support and enhance the marketing capabilities of the Cardano community and ecosystem projects.

If implemented, the proposal would provide several key benefits to various parts of the Cardano community. These benefits include:

1. Support for Product Roadmap and Go-To-Market (GTM) Success:

• Benefit: The Product Marketing Planning & GTM Workstream will align marketing with Cardano's 2025 product milestones, creating a cohesive strategy to promote key projects and updates.Demonstrated Value/ROI: The $1.5M budget (split between planning and campaigns) could yield outsized returns by boosting adoption of major milestones, measurable through user acquisition rates, transaction volumes, and market sentiment shifts.

2. Enhanced Global Brand Recognition and Reputation:

• Benefit: The development of a unified Global Brand Strategy, Creative Campaigns, and a robust Public Relations program would position Cardano as a leading Web3 project with a consistent and professional identity. This includes increased media presence in high-value outlets, thought leadership opportunities, and a stronger social media footprint.

• Demonstrated Value/ROI: Benchmarking against Web3 peers (e.g., Solana, Uniswap) suggests that a well-executed brand strategy can drive ecosystem adoption and user growth, metrics that could be tracked via KPIs like audience reach, engagement rates, and developer onboarding (as monitored by the Marketing Program Manager).

3. Improved Community Engagement and Empowerment:

• Benefit: Workstreams like the Marketing Community Grants Program, Community Management, and External Education & Long-Form Content would provide direct financial support, resources, and educational tools to community members and ecosystem projects. This fosters grassroots marketing efforts, grows an active user base.

• Demonstrated Value/ROI: The proposal cites the goal of producing "a new wave of Cardano evangelists" and increasing ecosystem adoption. ROI could be measured through metrics like community growth (e.g., Discord/Telegram members), increase in Dreps, active participation in governance, project participation rates, and network usage stats, aligning with industry benchmarks of ~10% revenue reinvested in marketing yielding proportional ecosystem growth.

4. Strategic Event Presence and Ecosystem Activation:

• Benefit: The Event Management & Marketing Workstream would unify Cardano's event strategy, covering the Cardano Summit, regional gatherings, and industry event sponsorships. This increases opportunities for community networking & education, and showcasing ecosystem advancements both within and beyond the core community.

• Focusing on:

• Enterprises: Position Cardano as leader for the enterprise infrastructure segment.

• Builders: Events provide platforms to present projects, attract funding, and collaborate, boosting innovation.

• Developers: new developers onboarding.

• Community Members: Regional and community events foster inclusion and participation, especially in diverse global markets.

• Broader Web3 Audience: Sponsorships at industry events elevate Cardano's profile among competitors and potential partners/contributors.

• Demonstrated Value/ROI: Historical data from Cardano Foundation Events (2022-2024) likely showed measurable outcomes (e.g., attendance, partnerships formed), and the proposal's scale suggests a higher ROI through increased event impact, potentially tracked via attendance numbers, media coverage, and subsequent ecosystem activity.

5. Data-Driven Marketing and Accountability:

• Benefit: The Program Administration, Reporting & ROI Workstream and Market Research, Testing & Strategic Planning Workstream ensure the marketing program is guided by facts, overseen by a Marketing Program Manager (MPM), and evaluated with clear KPIs. This maximizes accountability, minimizes waste and maximizes effectiveness.

• Demonstrated Value/ROI: The proposal references Gartner and Deloitte findings where ~10% of revenue spent on marketing, yields proportional returns in brand equity and revenue growth. For Cardano, with a ~$1B+ revenue profile, this could translate to significant ecosystem value, measurable via Return on Marketing Investment (ROMI) and program attribution metrics in the MPM's Annual Report.

6. Demonstrated Value or Return on Investment to the Cardano Community

The proposal's value lies in its potential to transform Cardano's marketing from ad hoc efforts into a strategic, community-aligned investment. Key ROI indicators include:

• Ecosystem Growth: Increased developer activity, dApp usage, and transaction volumes, as seen in Web3 peers like Ethereum and Polygon after marketing investments.

• Brand Equity: Higher awareness and trust, quantifiable via audience scoring, media placements, and social media metrics (e.g., follower growth, engagement).

• Community Activation: More active members and evangelists, tracked through participation in grants, events, and community channels.

• Financial Efficiency: The flexibility to roll over unspent funds and rigorous vendor performance evaluations (Outstanding, Average, Unacceptable) ensure Treasury resources are optimized, preserving ADA's value for future use.

This proposal benchmarks against Web3 leaders and industry standards (e.g., 10% of revenue) for a strong ROI. For Cardano, with a ~$1B+ revenue profile, a proportionate marketing spend could drive $100M+ in ecosystem value annually (assuming linear returns), though actual outcomes depend on execution and market conditions.

Liqwid as a Cardano Public Good: The open-sourcing of Liqwid v2 and v3 smart contracts will transform the protocol into a fully transparent, community-aligned public good. With the Liqwid Core Team maintaining and evolving the codebase, the protocol remains secure, adaptable, and everyone will be able to build upon it.

Developing complex, secure DeFi applications on Cardano is not trivial. The unique eUTxO accounting model introduces design challenges that require deep technical expertise and time-tested solutions. Peer-to-pool lending protocols—like Aave on Ethereum and Kamino on Solana—demand sophisticated smart contract architecture, liquidity provisioning models, and dynamic risk management. Liqwid is the only protocol on Cardano that has built and shipped this level of infrastructure.

Despite operating on a fraction of the budget of competitors like Aave or Kamino, Liqwid has achieved near-parity in functionality . This was made possible by four years of focused development, persistence, and world-class smart contract engineering.

Cardano future tailwinds such as successfully competing as a Bitcoin DeFi layer will depend on proven development teams who have built product market fit achieving DeFi products to build new applications that attract Bitcoin holders with simple to use but powerful DeFi primitives such as capital efficient pooled lending. Liqwid is one of the few Cardano DeFi protocols to have achieved this, and it has done so with a product—Bitcoin-backed loans—that BTC holders have consistently shown demand for.

Liqwid is the best positioned Cardano DeFi protocol to service this Bitcoin-backed loan demand with the development of a fully integrated Bitcoin portal once Cardano-Bitcoin bridge solutions are launched on mainnet.

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.

The main advantage is stronger governance and better results for Project Catalyst. ADA holders gain from greater transparency and accountability in how treasury funds are used. The Cardano community benefits through improved learning, which helps make smarter funding decisions and leads to more successful projects. Overall, the value lies in making sure the treasury is used more effectively to reach key goals for the ecosystem.

This assessment will offer valuable insights to the Cardano community.

1. Identifying opportunities to improve capital efficiency across the ecosystem
2. Recommending approaches for enhanced stakeholder participation
3. Proposing frameworks for measuring impact and accountability
4. Suggesting funding models that could support ecosystem growth
5. Sharing relevant best practices from other ecosystems adapted for Cardano's context

The recommendations from this assessment could influence how treasury funding is allocated, helping to align resources more effectively with strategic priorities and roadmap.