1. Tangible Climate Action GreenRewards directly supports measurable environmental outcomes through incentivized community participation in activities such as tree planting, waste collection, and recycling. This creates visible and trackable improvements in local ecosystems while fostering long-term eco-conscious behavior.
2. Empowerment of Marginalized Communities By engaging youth, women, and underserved populations as both participants and validators, the project builds local capacity and leadership. It offers economic incentives for conservation efforts, helping to address unemployment and social exclusion while promoting dignity through work-based rewards.
3. Real-World Use Case for Cardano The initiative showcases the utility of the Cardano blockchain beyond finance, using native tokens and smart contracts to verify and reward social good. It strengthens Cardano’s position as a tool for transparent, inclusive, and sustainable development at the community level.
4. Scalable and Replicable Model GreenRewards is designed as a pilot that can be adapted to various local contexts across Africa and globally. Its modular framework—combining tokenomics, mobile/USSD tech, and community validation—makes it easy to replicate, scale, or integrate with other ecosystem tools and initiatives.
5. Increased Blockchain Awareness and Adoption Participants are introduced to blockchain in a practical, hands-on way that demystifies the technology. This builds digital literacy and trust in decentralized systems, especially in regions where access to such technologies is limited, contributing to broader Web3 adoption.

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

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:

1. Enhancing decentralization: Distributing decision-making power more equitably
2. Accelerating adoption: Funding more diverse applications that attract various user groups
3. Improving sustainability: Creating mechanisms for value to flow back into the ecosystem
4. 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.

1. Enhanced Liquidity & Ecosystem Growth USDX provides a highly scalable, deep liquidity pool for Cardano’s DeFi, DEXs, and payment solutions, reducing slippage and improving capital efficiency. Enables seamless trading, lending, and borrowing—critical for attracting users and developers.
2. Regulatory Compliance & Institutional Adoption CIP-113 clawback support ensures compliance with financial regulations, making USDX viable for institutional use, asset recovery, and legally compliant transactions. Positions Cardano as a leader in regulated DeFi, appealing to enterprises, banks, and governments.
3. Stability & Trust in Cardano’s Economy A fully backed, transparent stablecoin reduces volatility risks, allowing businesses and users to transact confidently. Mitigates reliance on external stablecoins (like USDT/USDC), keeping value within Cardano’s ecosystem.
4. Future-Proofing for Real-World Use Cases Supports micropayments, remittances, payroll, and merchant settlements with fast, low-cost transactions. Enables tokenized RWAs (Real-World Assets) by providing a stable settlement layer.
5. Interoperability & Developer Advantage Native Cardano integration ensures lower fees, faster transactions, and seamless smart contract interactions compared to bridged alternatives. Encourages more dApp development by offering a reliable stable asset for DeFi, gaming, and enterprise solutions.
6. Big institutional backers of Hex Trust with potential liquidity: Animo Brands - https://www.animocabrands.com/ Hashkey Capital - https://hashkey.capital/ Morgan Creek Capital Management - https://www.morgancreekcap.com/ https://www.hextrust.com/company/about-us (investors shown here)

By deploying USDX, Cardano gains a competitive edge—bridging decentralized finance with regulatory needs while accelerating adoption across retail, institutional, and government use cases.

The project " The Ledger” promotes the perception of Blockchain as a cultural engine that connects it with art and human values. Through an emotional and visually impactful film presenting themes such as decentralization, identity and trust, the project will engage new audiences – artists, thinkers and the general public, outside the traditional crypto and tech community. This broadens access to Cardano, increases its recognition and stimulates cultural conversations related to its mission.

This initiative equips Cardano with the intelligence it needs to compete, connect, and grow - all while backed by data, not assumptions.

Who Benefits?

• The entire Cardano community, from developers to ecosystem partners, as well as institutional supporters and end-users.
• Catalyst participants and governance stakeholders who can make better decisions with clearer insights.
• The marketing and communications teams who can better deploy Cardano messaging that actually resonates, globally.

Demonstrated Value / ROI

Sharper Differentiation: Clear benchmarking against other Layer 1s to define what makes Cardano different, and why it matters.

Smarter Campaign and Higher Marketing Efficiency: Messaging and narratives will be tested and validated before launch. Insights will help allocate resources to the most impactful narratives, channels, and audiences, maximizing reach while minimizing waste.

Faster Adoption: By addressing barriers to understanding and engagement, audience insights remove friction, and can help bring in the next wave of developers, enterprises, and ecosystem partners.

Increased Community Confidence: A transparent, research-informed strategy signals to the community that Cardano is not only mission-driven but also market-smart, instilling confidence in its direction and decisions.

Stronger Perception: Real-time brand tracking and sentiment analysis ensure Cardano stays ahead of the narrative and top-of-mind globally.

Bottom Line

This work makes every dollar spent on marketing smarter, every campaign more effective, and every message more aligned with what the world needs to hear from Cardano right now.

The Wachsman proposal is designed to:

• Sharpen Cardano’s market positioning through competitor benchmarking.
• Drive ecosystem awareness and engagement by understanding what resonates with different user segments.
• Validate messaging and narrative strategies to ensure campaigns are evidence-based and adoption-focused.
• Support innovation uptake by translating complex product developments into audience-relevant communications.

In short, the proposal enhances how Cardano’s innovations are understood, adopted, and advocated, making it a strong fit for the Marketing and Innovation category.

This initiative positions Cardano for influence at the highest levels of global crypto and mainstream media, making the ecosystem more visible, credible, and compelling to innovators and institutions alike.

Who Benefits?

• Founders and builders across Cardano whose projects need visibility to grow and gain traction.
• Ecosystem partners and dApps seeking institutional attention, integration, and investment.
• Cardano leadership and policy voices looking to connect with public stakeholders to co-shape blockchain adoption roadmaps.

Demonstrated Value / ROI

Strategic Visibility: Elevates Cardano’s presence in high-value publications and platforms, positioning it as an intention-driven Layer 1 with real-world relevance - cutting through the noise in an increasingly competitive landscape.

Narrative Leadership: Proactive storytelling ensures Cardano isn’t just part of the conversation but defining it - setting the agenda during pivotal industry moments and reinforcing its voice as a driver of innovation.

Grassroots Empowerment: Empowers founders, developers, and ecosystem teams to own and tell their stories - transforming builders into influential advocates who expand Cardano’s presence from the ground up.

Institutional Credibility: Media validation builds legitimacy, paving the way for deeper meaningful engagement with enterprises, investors, and policymakers.

Global Resonance: Scales Cardano’s message beyond crypto-native circles to reach decision-makers and innovators across key markets, playing a pivotal role in setting the direction of travel for the industry on a global scale.

Bottom Line

This work ensures that Cardano’s voice isn’t just heard - it resonates with authority. It elevates the ecosystem’s relevance, amplifies its innovations, and secures Cardano’s place as a defining force shaping the future of blockchain — one that is structured, sustainable, and designed for the long run.

Launch a Cardano Accelerator Program to accelerate 5 promising startups per cohort with workshops, expert mentorship, and grants—expanding Cardano’s ecosystem with impactful projects.

Cardano VigilADA provides continuous AI transaction monitoring, detecting anomalies and fraud, enhancing Cardano's security, transparency, and trust. Additionally, it opens real-time data through an MCP server, allowing LLMs to consume and query data and derive analytical insights.

An ML‑powered transaction monitoring layer will:

• Increase security by flagging suspicious patterns within seconds of block confirmation.
• Improve transparency for compliance teams through rich analytics and alert feeds.
• Enhance user and developer confidence via public dashboards and open APIs.

Beneficiaries would be the:

• Issuer of CNTs, Cardano Web 3.0 projects helping with the growth of their token (from TGE to DEX liquidity seeding to CEX listings)
• Retail Cardano traders and investors benefiting from institution-grade liquidity when transacting on DEX and CEX

Example of success:

• Snek market making started on November 10th with SNEK/USDT price at 0.0017. Flowdesk managed to successfully provide liquidity in ultra-volatile conditions with the token surging by more than 5x and ensuring that CEX liquidity is at minimum $20k within +/- 2% and ensuring that DeFi protocols pools are arbitrage-free.

Building a zero-knowledge bridge provides several key benefits to the Cardano ecosystem. A bridge between Cardano and other blockchains would make it much easier for value to flow in from external ecosystems, increasing the liquidity available within Cardano. A zero-knowledge bridge, specifically, offers important advantages over alternative architectures such as optimistic bridges. In a ZK bridge, a single user action accompanied by a succinct proof of deposit is sufficient to release tokens on the destination blockchain. This eliminates the need for community-wide monitoring or challenge periods, significantly reducing latency and trust assumptions. Additionally, by building a ZK bridge, Cardano positions itself as a more interoperable platform, capable of engaging with the broader ecosystem of zero-knowledge technologies. This lays the groundwork for future innovations in identity, privacy-preserving applications, and cross-chain collaboration.

Who gains? -ADA-holders & DReps—access to professionally underwritten, collateral-backed yields without leaving the ecosystem. -Builders—open-sourced, audited Plutus/Aiken contracts for compliant security tokens, repayment oracles, and whitelist-only DEX modules they can fork. -Institutional partners—a demonstrably compliant pathway (Reg D/Reg S, MiCA) to move private credit onto public infrastructure. -Return on Investment -New TVL: Pilot portfolio (~USD 5 M) adds ~8 M ADA to on-chain value in Year 1, with room to scale by an order of magnitude. -Fee flow: Every coupon split and secondary trade generates deterministic eUTxO fees that accrue to stake-pool operators and delegators. -Governance showcase: Each loan, covenant breach, or workout triggers CIP-1694 votes, giving the wider ecosystem a high-visibility example of Voltaire-era governance handling regulated finance. -Code re-use: The security-token standard, oracle framework, and compliance hooks become public building blocks for future RWA, DeFi, or treasury-management projects, accelerating ecosystem development and reducing duplicated audit costs.

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. Our work will benefit the ecosystem in the following ways:

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• Expand the Pool of Constitutional Committee Members: Train a diverse group of community members to serve securely and competently in CC consortium roles, including orchestrators, head of security, and voters.

• Demystify Governance Complexity: Produce clear, accessible infographics, tutorials, and walkthroughs that explain key governance systems such as guardrail scripts, protocol parameters, and governance actions.

• Establish Dedicated Training Infrastructure: Operate and maintain SanchoNet as a decentralized, community-owned testnet tailored for governance education and experimentation.

• Ensure SanchoNet Continuity: Sustain the network through community stewardship, with redundant infrastructure, a node recovery plan, and transparent operational oversight.

• Advance Governance Security Practices: Provide practical training in key management, secure hardware environments, and operational readiness for on-chain governance responsibilities.

• Mentor the Next Generation of Governance Leaders: Build a mentorship framework to support new DReps, SPOs, and CC participants in acquiring both technical skills and institutional knowledge.

• Promote Real Decentralization Through Participation: Lower the barriers to entry for governance participation and create a resilient, well-informed community that can govern Cardano effectively and credibly.

• For Builders: Direct business development and marketing support for Cardano Builders.

• For the Ecosystem: A stronger pipeline of market-ready projects with branding, marketing, and go-to-market strategies.

A community-led marketing fund allows for startups and marketers to showcase their innovations and engage with a broader audience through various mediums. The fund allows for fund/project distribution through a decentralized workforce, harnessing the power of community collaboration and utilizing the diverse skillsets of the Cardano ecosystem.

• Create a specialized proposal system to allow ecosystem projects and community members to launch Cardano marketing campaigns

• Ensure there is available funding for a wide range of marketing budgets to promote diverse types of campaigns throughout the global ecosystem

• Administer the process efficiently and fairly

• Develop standard operating procedures and guidelines to uphold Cardano brand integrity, proper project management, and fair use of spend

• Transparent reporting of successes, lessons learned, and metrics regarding the overall community-led funding program

Rare Network will administer a Community-Led Marketing Fund of $500,000 USD providing accessibility for the Cardano ecosystem to budgets from $1,000 to $30,000 USD, available for marketing campaign launches occurring July 1st, 2025 through March 31st , 2026.

This will benefit project teams who will bring decentralized exposure to the Cardano ecosystem who may have the skills to execute, but not the proper funding to produce. Properly administered community-led marketing has been proven worthy of spend, time and time again, if the project management to follow is executed properly. With Rare Network's expertise and trust built throughout the Cardano community, we can ensure that funds are utilized fairly and that marketing campaigns are carried out in a feasible and satisfying impactful fashion.

The demonstrated value will be:

• Increased Brand Exposure Worldwide
• Scale via a Decentralized Workforce
• Showcase a wide variety of projects through diverse marketing campaign categories throughout regions globally
• Onboard more users and builders to the Cardano ecosystem
• Catch up to speed and compete with larger, equal, and smaller market cap blockchains who somehow have more spend and robust marketing strategies in place currently compared to Cardano (even some L2s spend more than Cardano who is a leading L1).

Events provide a dynamic platform for developers, entrepreneurs, founders, and enthusiasts to showcase their innovations, connect with potential investors, and engage with a broader audience. By creating a platform for businesses and solutions in the blockchain industry to showcase their values and support adoption efforts , we are harnessing the power of community collaboration and utilizing the diverse skillsets of Cardano events hosts, marketers, and start-ups worldwide to showcase the Cardano ecosystem.

• Create a specialized proposal system to allow ecosystem projects and community members to attend, host, and create meaningful opportunities through in-person and virtual events

• Ensure there is available funding for a wide range of production budgets to promote diverse types of events throughout the global ecosystem

• Administer the process efficiently and fairly

• Develop standard operating procedures and guidelines to uphold Cardano brand integrity, proper project management, and fair use of spend

• Transparent reporting of successes, lessons learned, and metrics regarding the overall community-led funding program

Rare Network will administer a Community-Led Events Fund of $500,000 USD providing accessibility for the Cardano ecosystem to budgets from $500 to $30,000 USD, available for events production occurring July 1st, 2025 through March 31st , 2026.

This will benefit project teams who will bring decentralized exposure to the Cardano ecosystem who may have the skills to execute, but not the proper funding to produce. Events in the past have been proven worthy of spend, time and time again, if executed properly. With Rare Network's expertise and trust built throughout the Cardano community, we can ensure that funds are utilized fairly and that events projects are carried out in a feasible and satisfying impactful fashion.

The demonstrated value will be:

• Increased Brand Exposure Worldwide
• Scale via a Decentralized Workforce
• Showcase a wide variety of projects through diverse event categories throughout regions globally
• Onboard more users and builders to the Cardano ecosystem
• Catch up to speed and compete with larger, equal, and smaller market cap blockchains (even some L2s spend more than Cardano who is a leading L1) who somehow have more spend and robust events strategies in place currently than Cardano.

• For Builders: Tools to drive product adoption, launch campaigns, and track marketing ROI transparently.
• For SPOs: Access to campaign tools that reward affiliates based on delegation growth.
• For Marketers & Creators: A new way to earn income through on-chain, performance-based rewards.

Key Impact:

• More delegations to SPOs
• More active users for dApps
• More token sales and real adoption for Cardano-based projects

​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.​

Benefits of HausCoin Implementation and Its Impact on the Community

HausCoin introduces a blockchain-based real estate liquidity solution, benefiting homeowners, investors, institutions, and the Cardano ecosystem.

1. Cardano Community – Ecosystem Growth, Open-Source Value & ROI

Open-Source for All
HausCoin will be fully open source—everything we build on Cardano will be available to the community.

Giving Back to the Treasury
Once profitable, we’ll donate a share of revenues to the Cardano treasury to support future development.

New Asset, New Utility
Haus’s tokenized home equity instantly adds over $20M to Cardano’s TVL at launch, with a clear path to scaling into the billions in the coming years—driving sustained network activity through the use of a native Cardano stablecoin.

Staking & Yield for ADA Holders
HausCoin can plug into ADA staking pools, offering yield and expanding DeFi use cases.

TradFi Adoption
Backed by real U.S. real estate ($43T market), HausCoin brings institutional-grade products to Cardano.

2. Homeowners (Home-Rich, Cash-Poor Individuals)

Liquidity Without Debt
Unlock home equity without selling or borrowing.

Financial Flexibility
Use funds for emergencies, investing, or retirement.

3. Investors (Retail & Institutional)

New Asset Class
Access real estate equity without managing property.

High Yields
Returns of up to 21% IRR over 5 years.

Blockchain Transparency
Secure, traceable, asset-backed investments.

4. Financial Institutions & Capital Markets

Market Efficiency
Tokenization cuts capital needs by 30x.

Diversification
Decentralized access to structured real estate assets.

Securitization on Blockchain
Reduces costs by 90% and speeds up settlement.

Conclusion

HausCoin unlocks real estate equity for all while boosting Cardano’s on-chain utility, adoption, and long-term value—bridging TradFi and DeFi through open, inclusive innovation.

The implementation of the Crypto Arbitration & Mediation Center and the LegalTech platform within the Cardano ecosystem will:

• Provide Cardano users with efficient, affordable, and transparent dispute resolution services, significantly increasing trust in smart contract utilization.

• Bridge traditional legal services with blockchain technologies through a specialized token system granting users discounted access to diverse legal services from partnered reputable law firms and providers.

• Empower Cardano’s community by selecting jurors based on credentials, experiences, and knowledge through an annual, democratically-driven selection process, enhancing fairness and credibility.

• Develop an advanced LegalTech platform designed to automate and streamline various legal services, substantially reducing costs and increasing efficiency in legal processes such as litigation, company creation, regulatory compliance, and legal consulting.

• Expand Cardano’s attractiveness globally by offering tangible benefits for blockchain users and the traditional legal sector alike, ensuring sustainable ecosystem growth and increased global blockchain adoption.

• Empower Cardano’s community by selecting jurors based on credentials, experiences, and knowledge through an annual, democratically-driven selection process, enhancing fairness and credibility.

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

• 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
• On-ramp for initial set of DApps and Wallets in Q3 2025 with SDK tutorials to allow expedited adoption
• Focus on initial centralised nodes to support the backend-messaging and security
• Broader adoption with target audience similar to CIP-95 by end of Q4 2025 Q1-2026
• Ability to integrate with Chat SDK to facilitate smooth onboarding using wallet based connection
• 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