The benefit of this proposal is having a mechanism to ensure the ADA we are using to fund proposals is actually being spent the way it’s supposed to. It would create an independent 3rd party with the mission of reviewing funded proposals expenses and sharing that information with the entire Cardano Community.

When it comes to funding proposals through the Treasury, what are the biggest risks?

Teams submitting proposals they never intend to build.

Teams only partially delivering what they promised.

Teams spending funds on personal expenses.

Teams never producing anything of value from the treasuries investment.

This all boils down to the same risk, misappropriation of funds. So how do we mitigate the risk? We follow the money. We can eliminate a huge amount of intended fraud in our treasury process through periodic expense monitoring and testing. Teams who never intended to build something will not want to spend money on business expenses. Teams spending money on personal expenses would be exposed. And teams who are regularly spending money appropriately and in line with their budget would be recognized.

You might be wondering, what about tracking progress as well. We should as a community be implementing separate comprehensive progress tracking by 3rd parties as well, but tracking spending is tracking progress. You cannot bring your vision into reality without spending money. If they are spending money on business expenses, they are making progress. If teams have not made any expenses during the review period but claim to be hitting milestones, this is a red flag they are not building anything.

By supporting this proposal, and providing community pressure that funded proposals participate in this expense review, we will have implemented the first (hopefully of many) real accountability process in place to ensure that our treasury spending is not going to waste.

The Cardano ecosystem is rapidly expanding, yet it lacks a dedicated, standardized infrastructure for security education, threat identification, and coordinated vulnerability disclosure. This creates a critical gap in ecosystem resilience, as developers, auditors, and community contributors often operate without access to structured security knowledge or formal threat intelligence processes.

Without a proactive security framework, vulnerabilities—whether in smart contract logic, infrastructure configuration, or broader network design—can go unnoticed, unreported, or misunderstood. This not only increases the likelihood of security incidents but also discourages adoption by teams that lack resources for high-cost third-party audits.

Moreover, existing threat intelligence in the Cardano space is fragmented, with no public repository for recurring weaknesses, no taxonomy for vulnerability classification, and no clear pathways for contributors to formally participate in security monitoring or disclosure efforts.

This proposal seeks to address these issues by launching the Cardano Threat Intelligence (CTI) initiative—a security education and intelligence framework built on Andamio. CTI will empower the community to identify, assess, and disclose threats through open training, structured documentation, and the creation of a shared security knowledge base. It will create pathways for individuals to become certified CTI Watchdogs, ensuring that security is not only everyone’s responsibility but also everyone’s opportunity.

The Cardano Community Bounties pilot Program will create a flexible and easy way to support small community contributions. It will fill a gap in the ecosystem by offering fast and fair funding for simple tasks. This will help people act quickly, stay involved, and continue building useful content and experiences around Cardano.

1. Keeps the community active and engaged With small, fast rewards, community members will stay motivated. Instead of waiting months for Catalyst, they can receive a small bounty to run a meetup, make a video, translate a guide, or moderate a chat group. This keeps energy and activity high between funding rounds. People who might leave will stay involved.

2. Helps new users join Cardano When more tutorials, meetups, and support materials are created, new users feel welcome. They understand how to use wallets, stake ADA, vote in Catalyst, or try a DeFi app. This kind of support helps Cardano grow from the ground up. A single workshop can help many people. A short video in the right language can reach thousands.

3. Builds local communities everywhere Many small efforts happen in places far from the main Cardano development hubs. A student group in Kenya, a women’s coding class in Brazil, or a farmer group in the Philippines might want to use Cardano. With bounties, they can get rewarded for hosting events, making translations, or running learning sessions. This spreads Cardano to new regions and new use cases.

4. Supports people who are already helping Many people are already moderating Telegram channels, making content, helping beginners, or translating documents. But they are often unpaid. This proposal will recognize their work and give them a way to be rewarded fairly and quickly. This helps them continue and avoid burnout.

5. Increases fairness and inclusion The bounty system will be open to everyone. People do not need to write long proposals or speak perfect English. If they can complete a task, they can earn rewards. This creates new chances for people from all over the world to take part, especially those who are often left out of large funding rounds.

6. Helps Catalyst work better The bounties program will support small actions while Catalyst continues to support big ones. This will reduce pressure on Catalyst. People who only need 100 ADA will no longer need to apply for full proposals. This makes the ecosystem smoother and more efficient. Everyone can focus on the kind of funding that fits their work.

7. Boosts content, design, and moderation With regular bounties, the community will see more local-language videos, high-quality visuals, smart infographics, and stronger community chat spaces. These things are essential to teaching users, explaining updates, and building trust. They may not be as visible as big products, but they are just as important.

8. Prepares the way for future DAO-based funding This pilot program will test models for fair, transparent micro-funding. It will show what works and what needs improvement. The lessons learned can help Cardano design future DAO systems, where bounties and tasks are fully community-managed. This is a step toward more decentralization.

Supporting Developers and Businesses to Easily Access and Deploy Applications on Hydra

• DApp development teams will be able to adopt Hydra more quickly and scale their applications without the need for expensive and complex initial infrastructure investment. They can focus entirely on product ideas and business models tailored to their target user base.
• Enhancing the Appeal of Cardano and Hydra By offering ready-to-use infrastructure services for DApps, user experience will be significantly improved, increasing the overall attractiveness of Cardano and especially Hydra.

Creating Economic Value for the Community

• By optimizing and lowering costs for both developers (Users) and businesses deploying on Hydra, through a pay-per-use model, the solution provides a more accessible and efficient development path.
• Encouraging Participation from Idle Infrastructure Providers The system incentivizes server providers with idle or surplus capacity to join and offer services, creating new business opportunities and increasing their revenue streams.
• Building Hydra Hub as a Fully Decentralized Solution With clearly defined cost and benefit allocations (Consumers pay, Providers receive rewards), the system promotes a sustainable economic model. All financial transactions are governed through smart contracts on Cardano, ensuring transparency and community ownership in both development and operation.

Improving Security and Stability

• Developers will no longer need to worry about security and system stability. Once completed, the decentralized auditing and monitoring system of Hydra Hub will ensure the quality of provided nodes and reduce security risks typically faced when each project manages its own infrastructure.
• Additional mechanisms such as staking-based guarantees and smart contract-powered governance on Cardano will further reinforce transparency and safety.

Accelerating Innovation and Attracting Investment

• A complete and accessible Hydra service platform will attract more new projects to Cardano and accelerate the pace of innovation across the ecosystem.
• Return on investment (ROI) will increase by lowering the barrier to adopting Layer 2 technology, allowing DApps to go live faster and reach users sooner — helping to spark real excitement and momentum in the ecosystem.

Value to the Cardano Community

Our project aims to significantly impact the Cardano community by showcasing the practical applications of blockchain technology in the automotive sector. By tokenizing 40,000 vehicles, each with its own transaction for every service record update, we will:

1. Enhance Credibility: Establish Cardano as a trusted platform for secure, transparent applications in critical industries.

2. Drive Adoption: A successful pilot can lead to widespread adoption within Emil Frey’s entire vehicle management, promoting Cardano’s technology for innovative solutions across the automotive industry.

3. Attract Partnerships: Foster collaboration with automotive businesses and service providers, expanding Cardano’s ecosystem and user base.

(1) Benefits for professionals

Scalus meets developers where they are. It bridges Web2 engineers from traditional firms with progressive onboarding and built-in safety, while giving seasoned Cardano builders advanced control and optimisations.

Web 2 developers:

• Familiar dev experience & tooling using Scala
• Elegant syntax with gentle learning curve of blockchain specifics
• Built-in safety controls to reduce common mistakes and risks

Cardano builders / R&D Labs:

• Low-level optimisations (memory, cost, advanced patterns)
• Expressiveness beyond limited DSL
• Advanced features (macros, meta-programming)
• Rich Scala ecosystem for complex protocols and mission-critical solutions

(2) Benefits for businesses

Scalus, paired with Scala 3, helps businesses build on Cardano without the usual headaches. It’s a practical way to deliver value quickly and reliably.

Benefits:

• Productivity boost at scale with Scala 3
• Reduced time-to-market - from prototyping to production in less time
• Deep pool of Scala/Java/Kotlin talent available on the market
• Code quality and safety are first-class citizens
• Reduced training investments to transition Scala/Java/Kotlin teams to blockchain

Why Now:

• Blockchain and DAOs adoption is growing exponentially but lacks user-friendly solutions.

• The increasing adoption of onchain governance models highlights the urgency for efficient tools.

• Emerging regulations reinforce the need for transparency in decentralized governance.

• Projects and organizations seek reliable solutions to manage their communities and collective decisions.

Market Size:

• The decentralized governance market is projected to grow exponentially in the coming years.

• Expansion of DAO adoption across some sectors, including finance, technology and public institutions.

• Growing demand for transparency and traceability solutions in fund management and decision-making.

• Opportunity to become the global standard for onchain governance, offering a reliable and scalable solution.

Unifying Cardano’s Growth Layer Through ada.eco its Onboarding Infrastructure and Requirements Gathering Capability

When implemented, this proposal delivers a foundational shift in how Cardano approaches adoption, onboarding, visibility, and coordination — not as isolated challenges, but as interconnected elements of a resilient, people-powered growth engine.

1. A Modular, Community-Owned Interface for Coordinated Entry to Cardano

Benefit: Reduces friction, confusion, and fragmentation for new users, builders, and contributors.

ROI: Increases retention, accelerates onboarding, and lowers the cost of user acquisition across all projects.

Today, entering Cardano feels like showing up to a city with no map, no welcome center, and no clear way to find your people.

ada.eco solves this by providing a modular, community-owned interface that:

• Matches participants with relevant opportunities,
• Guides them through interactive onboarding flows, and
• Showcases real examples of people participating across the ecosystem.

This coordinated entry point serves:

• New users seeking meaning, purpose, or utility.
• Builders and founders looking for collaborators, funding, or visibility.
• DReps and community leaders who need insight into where value is being created.

It’s not a campaign. It’s infrastructure — built to scale human connection across the network.

2. A Research-Driven, Test it Before You Build It Disciplined Path to Scalable Adoption That Minimizes Risk

Benefit: Produces concrete insight and validated prototypes before scaling — ensuring Treasury funds support what works, not just what’s envisioned.

ROI: Maximizes learning per dollar spent, avoids premature build-outs, and allows other ecosystem actors to reuse findings and components.

This proposal doesn’t rush to build a single monolithic platform. It starts with a research-first methodology: mapping user journeys, identifying adoption friction, and testing lightweight prototypes that can be iterated, forked, or integrated elsewhere.

This disciplined approach:

• Surfaces real user needs before locking in architecture.
• Feeds learning into other ecosystem projects, including wallet teams, onboarding flows, and governance tooling.
• Will enable the community to make allocations from the Treasury based on identified needs not speculative builds.

The result is infrastructure that grows out of insight, not assumption — and that can evolve as the ecosystem does.

3. A Marketplace for Mission-Aligned Collaboration

Benefit: Unlocks latent value across the ecosystem by revealing who is working on what, where help is needed, and how to plug in.

ROI: Increases cross-project leverage, reduces duplicated effort, and enables better funding decisions.

Cardano already has talent, tools, and traction — but they remain siloed. ada.eco’s platform layer makes this value visible by mapping the ecosystem’s people, projects, and needs. It acts as a coordination stack — a digital interface layer that enables trust, proximity, and collaboration at scale.

This directly benefits:

• Ecosystem contributors who spend hours trying to find alignment or visibility.
• Proposal reviewers and DReps making funding decisions without a systemic view.
• Funded projects whose long-term impact depends on connection and context, not just capital.
• Influencers who need a more compelling story to tell.

4. A Real-Time Feedback Loop for Adoption Insight

Benefit: Brings community intelligence to the surface — surfacing signals from the edge as to “What works?” and feeding them back into ecosystem learning.

ROI: Community has clear answers to the question which allows for better governance, smarter funding, and more adaptive infrastructure design.

Unlike protocol-level telemetry, ada.eco captures qualitative insight from the human layer: Why do people join Cardano? What do they struggle with? What keeps them here, or pushes them away? These signals don’t exist in a dashboard yet — but they are essential for building inclusive infrastructure. It enables us to avoid the trap of internal validation loops by capturing real-world context from those not yet in the room — ensuring our systems evolve with, not apart from, the world.

This benefits:

• Governance actors looking to understand ecosystem trends beyond transaction counts.
• Onboarding teams needing real-time adoption data to adjust flows and strategies.
• Tooling and wallet developers designing UX without full knowledge of user motivation.

5. A Brand and Story Engine that Reflects Cardano’s True Value

Benefit: Builds a shared narrative infrastructure that connects projects and people through values — not just features.

ROI: Multiplies the reach of individual efforts by embedding them in a cohesive, emergent, ecosystem story.

ada.eco includes a shared visual identity system and content toolkit that gives projects a way to plug into a broader, values-aligned ecosystem narrative. This isn’t about centralising messaging — it’s about amplifying real-world signals and making them legible to broader audiences.

This directly benefits:

• Underrepresented projects and regions who often get left out of centralised marketing efforts.
• Community marketers and educators looking for tools to tell more coherent stories.
• Global audiences who need a more human, accessible entry points into Cardano’s purpose.

6. An Adoption-Focused Ecosystem Built on Existing Momentum

Benefit: Connects existing initiatives: Andamio, OneUpOneDown, Cryptofluency and Venture Centre into navigable growth layer which guides newcomers to the internal services (like Catalyst), helpers (like the TSC), repo’s and resources.

ROI: Builds on already-funded, already-working infrastructure to generate new, synergistic value.

This proposal does not ask to reinvent onboarding, reputation, or identity systems — it asks to connect those built already by long-standing members of the ecosystem with projects like:

• Andamio, activating community collaboration, democratizing credential issuance, and providing modular project management infrastructure that enables mission-aligned teams to do their best work.
• OneUpOneDown, building women-led peer support networks and ML augmented matching.
• Cryptofluency, demystifying the new opportunities for learning in a decentralized space and building content models which underpin a knowledge ecology others can adopt to create their own patterns to share what they know using the best of Cardano technology.
• Venture Centre, cultivating smart hubs of experts and ventures coordinated around interest, theme or vertical with tools to use at in-person and virtual events that bring a groups ideas into a coherant whole that can turn into the basis for a plan to journey forth.

ada.eco creates the layer that brings these efforts together, giving the ecosystem a way to see itself as a whole — and act as one and all.

ROI for the Treasury and the Community

This proposal isn’t a branding exercise. ada.eco is a leverage play. A strategic infrastructure investment with measurable returns across 6, 12, 24, and 36-month horizons.

We are asking for just 0.5% of the Treasury’s available funds to build an adoption platform that solves one of Cardano’s most urgent and persistent challenges: the gap between technical capability and human coordination.

Make no mistake — this is not a cultural “nice-to-have.”

It’s a commercial imperative.

The initial focus is sharp: women, the world’s most powerful financial decision-makers and community builders — a market largely untapped by blockchain ecosystems. But the infrastructure is generalizable. What we build for this demographic can be adapted for every user group: developers, artists, educators, activists — and the crypto-native, infrastructure focused audiences.

By funding ada.eco, the Treasury unlocks:

Short-Term ROI

• Validated onboarding models that reduce user acquisition costs across the ecosystem.
• Mapped insights into user motivations, blockers, and pathways to participation.
• Reusable components for matching, messaging, and storytelling — available to all projects.
• Clearer decision-making inputs for DReps evaluating proposals with user-facing elements.

Medium-Term ROI

• A shared interface layer that connects projects, people, and value — reducing duplication.
• More effective allocation of Treasury funds based on live data and requirements gathered, not assumptions.
• Retention and advocacy frameworks that grow long-term contributors, not short-term users.
• Onboarding infrastructure that scales with Catalyst, governance, and marketing initiatives.

Long-Term ROI

• Ecosystem-wide narrative coherence that strengthens Cardano’s position in the market and honours the diversity of community, its needs and use cases.
• Replicable adoption architecture for regional, demographic, or thematic growth strategies.
• Reduced burn on siloed marketing, onboarding, and community-building efforts.
• Stronger legitimacy and visibility with external partners, governments, and institutions.
• A history of the patterns, as they emerge, that can be observed and analysed over time to understand their roots and fruits.

ada.eco Logic Model: Social-Infrastructure for an ADA-loving Ecosystem

Inputs

Treasury funding for research and platform prototyping - Collaboration between existing projects (Andamio, OneUpOneDown, Cryptofluency, Venture Centre) - Community contributors, content creators, ecosystem mappers, especially women-led networks - Existing onboarding, identity, content, learning and coordination tools.

Activities

Conduct human-centered research to surface adoption pathways and friction points with an initial focus on women as an under-engaged but high-impact market - Configure peer, purpose and project-matching and onboarding flows with women-led communities - Build and test modular platform components: mapping, onboarding, matching, storytelling - Design visual identity and content toolkit for ecosystem use - Host ecosystem co-design sessions and early-stage events - Conduct activation focused on onboarding via recognised global event - Deliver launch event on anniversary of the world’s delegates signing the Constitution and commencement of community governance.

Outputs

ada.eco prototype live and community-tested - Ecosystem map: people, projects, and pathways - Interactive onboarding and matching flows - Shared brand assets and content tools - Narrative playbook for ecosystem storytelling - Community spaces, linked across time-zones sharing stories of ada’s use in real lives - data and analytics.

Short-Term Outcomes

Easier onboarding for new users and contributors - Better visibility for underrepresented projects - Increased cross-project collaboration - New, shared language for ecosystem identity and legitimacy - Increased participation from women onboarding into the Cardano ecosystem - Lowered onboarding costs and higher retention for values-aligned users - Replicable model for other groups.

Long-Term Outcomes

Higher user retention and contributor activation - Treasury proposals supported by clearer visibility into what’s working and what’s still neede - A unified, values-aligned interface for ecosystem coordination - Cardano seen as more human, navigable, and globally relevant – A collective of female ambassadors equipped to be stewards of the ecosystem and a place they can invite their friends – A resilient, people-powered coordination layer that adapts over time.

ada.eco doesn’t compete with other proposals — it connects them.

It is a modular layer that makes the Cardano ecosystem legible, accessible, and navigable. It brings coherence without centralisation. And it gives the Treasury a long-overdue mechanism to measure and multiply the value of its investments in people-powered infrastructure.

This is how we make Cardano work for the people it was built to serve — and ensure it can keep learning, adapting, and coordinating at scale.

ada.eco – a human interface for our human network.

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University Network
Generate a network of educational partners to collate and share a syllabus of intro and learning content This would include bringing together all of the global univesities currently working on Cardano based projects (reserch, teaching, delivery etc) Support learning and provide certification. Encourage people to become DReps or an SPO Sponsor and promote those new skills by creating opportunities with ecosystem partners Promote the success stories back through the education system for others to see that there is an opportunity Wider global exposure to student networks to learn and collaborate on Cardano educational programs

Creative Commons licensed Cardano Educational materials

• Educational content is viewed by 30% of Intersect members.
• Create material for the community to use, remix, recyle to create engaging educational resources
• Increase in knowledge and awareness of Intersect and Cardano - what we do, how we benefit the wider Cardano ecosystem.
• Global outreach. language accessibility
• Educational materials to help enterprises to onboard to Cardano and better understand the value proposition of the technology and how to use Cardano in their initiatives

Developing well-defined Intelligent Contracts L2 (ICL2) Toolkit requirements for Cardano will provide a strategic foundation for scaling, efficiency, and interoperability, benefiting multiple stakeholders within the ecosystem. Developers will gain clear specifications for building L2 solutions, accelerating innovation and adoption. DApp teams will experience reduced friction with integration, leading to faster deployment of scalable applications. Overall, the Cardano ecosystem will benefit from increased network transactions, adoption & onboarding of new developers and community members into the ecosystem, and wealth-sharing capabilities.

Cardano is the international leader in UTXO-based smart contracts. The ICL2 project will establish Cardano as the leader in leveraging Beneficial AI to create intelligent contracts that integrate developer, user, and community requirements. Cardano has a long-standing partnership with SingularityNET, which is now part of the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance. Masumi is an agent marketplace being developed within the Cardano Community in partnership with Serviceplan Group, one of the largest European companies. These are just two of many communities accelerating a trillion-dollar industry advancing inorganic intelligence. Given a beneficial AI capability, Cardano community members would be able to integrate that capability into their production of artwork NFTs, advancement of network code development, governance agents to support community decision-making, and many other applications. Providing secure access to the AI industry will provide a significant return on investment for the Cardano community by increasing adoption and network transactions, facilitating the onboarding of new developers, and expanding the scope of the type of intelligent contracts the network can host.

Ledger wallet users will have better Cardano experience. Further app updates and releases will be faster and cheaper due to Ledger testing suite compatibility.

The outcome of this proposal is a 2030 community-driven vision for Cardano, a 2026 proposed roadmap, and the first consolidated product research effort in Cardano. This will be achieved by providing clear paths for the broader Cardano community to participate in the 2030 vision creation process—both by contributing insights as key stakeholders and by enabling the collection of additional input through structured user and customer interviews, along with targeted product research initiatives.

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Key Outcomes and value this proposal will deliver:

• Broad community participation in the first community-driven Cardano vision creation process

• Documented insights from the community shared brain

• Documented insights from key groups (such as SPOs, builders, and businesses in and outside of Cardano and Blockchain)

• Participation in creating and critiquing the first draft proposal for a 2030 Cardano vision

• Creation of the first framework and consolidated data set of insights coming from product research guiding Cardano (and builders on Cardano) on what are the most prominent user needs and the key market opportunities

• Opportunities to access funding to run product research initiatives

• Identify promising focus areas for Cardano to achieve product-market-fit, which can be coordinated with the Technical Steering Committee of Intersect to ultimately identify mission-critical Cardano feature sets

Attract New Users

OpenEden’s launched Bills Rewards program is set to benefit Cardano by incentivizing participation in DeFi activities. Users earn rewards through tasks, multipliers, and referrals, driving engagement and organic growth. By bridging traditional finance with DeFi, the program appeals to both conservative and DeFi-savvy investors, helping to expand Cardano’s user base. The Bills Rewards program is specifically designed to encourage the adoption and utilization of USDO, a yield-bearing stablecoin backed by tokenized U.S. Treasury securities.

Aligns with Cardano’s Core Principles

Security: Ensuring Institutional-Grade Transparency and Compliance

OpenEden’s issuance of USDO through a Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) licensed digital asset issuer ensures adherence to stringent regulatory standards. The reserves backing USDO, primarily consisting of U.S. Treasury Bills and reverse repurchase agreements, are managed transparently, providing security and trust for Cardano users.

Scalability: Expanding DeFi with Stable Yield Products

By introducing USDO, Cardano's DeFi ecosystem gains access to a stablecoin that offers daily rebasing yields. This addition can enhance liquidity, enable new collateralization options, and support yield farming strategies, all without compromising Cardano's scalable infrastructure.

Decentralization: Promoting Trust with a Decentralized Framework

USDO's structure, including its issuance by a regulated entity and backing by real-world assets, aligns with decentralized finance principles. Integrating USDO with Cardano's smart contracts can further decentralize asset management, reducing reliance on centralized financial intermediaries.

Supporting Cardano’s Vision for Financial Inclusion

USDO's design facilitates access to yield-bearing, stable digital assets, enabling everyday users to participate in DeFi activities on Cardano. This integration supports Cardano's mission to provide accessible and secure financial services globally.

Enhancing Cardano’s Real-World Adoption

The tokenization of U.S. Treasury securities through USDO bridges traditional finance and blockchain technology. This integration can attract institutional investors and traditional financial institutions to the Cardano ecosystem, increasing real-world use cases and adoption.

Boosting Cardano’s Ecosystem with Stable Assets

Incorporating USDO into Cardano offers a secure, low-risk asset backed by high-quality reserves. This addition enhances Cardano's financial offerings, providing a stable investment option that appeals to a broad range of investors and promotes ecosystem stability.

Driving Innovation through DeFi Product Integration

Integrating USDO with Cardano's blockchain can spur innovation within its DeFi ecosystem. USDO's features, such as daily yield rebasing and backing by real-world assets, enable greater liquidity, fractional ownership, and seamless trading, contributing to the development of a robust decentralized financial system on Cardano.

Aligning with Cardano’s Sustainability Goals

USDO's operation on Cardano's eco-friendly proof-of-stake protocol aligns with sustainability objectives. This synergy creates a low-energy solution for asset management, supporting Cardano's commitment to environmentally responsible financial technologies.

Catalyzing Growth and Ecosystem Value for Cardano

The introduction of USDO is poised to drive new economic activity within the Cardano ecosystem. Offering a secure, yield-generating stablecoin diversifies Cardano's value proposition, attracting more participants and fostering growth in the decentralized economy.

Key benefits for this * enhanced support * are as follows:

Best in class Support

• With Daedalus OGs working on the development, Users will get the best support for the proposed budget "without a steep learning curve".
• Team has experience in all aspects from design, development, hardware wallet integration, cardano-wallet integration with over 300 PRs committed to Daedalus since 2017.

Key Benefits

• The ability to incorporate an augmented Governance Experience supporting
• • DRep search functionality * - presently cut and paste
• • DRep profile viewing * - incorporate ability to view DReps profile on Social Media
• • Upcoming Votes integration * - ability to preview upcoming Governance Actions
• • Engineering Readiness * - ability to deliver value on budget without 'technical ramp-up'
• • Familiar with Product * - working relationship with partners, product and vendors

Value Add

• Ability to incorporate key pipeline items and understand the possible challenges in advance
• History of resolving issues of the past and making the most of available budget
• Optimised to support the Daedalus Community with a view to longevity

Why are we doing this

• Continued value preservation and security applied under priority and threat assessment
• Daedalus Users across post Byron era receive additional features based on budget and criticality
• Innovation on Voting Feature to allow Governance Action voting via Daedalus must continue
• Ensure longevity, support and full node capability for estimated 18-30k users as measure pre Chang + Plomin Hardforks of Q3 ‘24 and Q1 ‘25
• Fairness of Participation - for selection of Delegated Representatives (DReps)
• Retention of a key group of wallet users - full node wallet folks
• Ensure updates which are related to maintenance avoiding product being obsolete
• Ensure original Cardano Wallet provides continuity for OG participants of Cardano
• Incorporate what Layer 2 has to offer once this beings appropriate and adds value

Our proposal retains Daedalus as an uptodate full-node wallet, supporting decentralization, securing value for an important user segment in the Cardano ecosystem.

TL;dr - Security, Continuity, Transparency, Safeguarding of Value

The Cardano Governance Bot will automatically update and present users with the newest information. It can use the scrapers we have already used in other projects to assimilate the information added on governance.

This means that it’ll be up-to-date every single day without fail. The LLMs we aim to use have language modules that can translate information to most other languages with a high degree of accuracy. This will improve information access across many cultures and regions.

Input Output Research (IOR) aims to deliver a pipeline of 20+ high-impact research initiatives annually, each supported by peer-reviewed papers and artefacts. From this pipeline, 6 initiatives will be selected for technical validation through a rigorous, multidisciplinary process involving community, customer, and IO’s R&D team.

Research is committed to academic excellence, with each research paper typically requiring two years due to the complexity and peer-review process. We will maintain an annual output of at least 20 peer-reviewed publications and artefacts that contribute meaningfully to both the Cardano ecosystem and the broader research community. To maximize impact, we are enhancing visibility through targeted dissemination to boost citations, foster collaboration, and solidify Cardano’s reputation in blockchain R&D.

Technology validation (previously called Innovation) streams translate research into practice, delivering six validated outputs annually—including technical reports, formal specifications, prototypes, simulations, Cardano Problem Statements (CPSs), and Cardano Improvement Proposals (CIPs). Prototypes and technical documentation will provide in-depth analysis and serve as critical foundations for product development within the Cardano ecosystem. CIPs, in particular, promote transparency and community-driven evolution, addressing key challenges and helping guide Cardano’s strategic advancement.

To date, Input Output Research has played a catalytic role in growing Cardano into a multi-billion-dollar blockchain. The multi-year, funnel-based approach outlined is designed to strengthen the foundation for Cardano’s continued growth and leadership, ensuring a steady pipeline of high-impact, globally relevant opportunities that address the most significant challenges in blockchain.

If implemented, our proposal would deliver significant benefits across multiple dimensions of the Cardano ecosystem: For the French-speaking community, this project would provide unprecedented access to Cardano resources, education, and governance mechanisms in their native language. This would empower a population of over 300 million French speakers worldwide to actively participate in and contribute to the ecosystem, expanding Cardano's global footprint substantially. For the broader Cardano community, our initiative would enhance the network's diversity and decentralization by incorporating perspectives, talent, and innovation from previously underrepresented regions. The integration of Francophone communities would strengthen Cardano's resilience and adaptive capacity through cultural and intellectual diversity. For developers and entrepreneurs, our university partnerships and educational programs would create a pipeline of skilled talent familiar with Cardano technology. The hackathons and workshops planned throughout the year would stimulate innovation and spawn new projects built on Cardano, enriching the ecosystem's capabilities and use cases. The return on investment for the Cardano community would be measurable and substantial:

Geographic expansion into 5+ French-speaking countries, opening new markets and use cases At least 2 registered member companies in each community represented Minimum of 100 participants in a single town hall meeting by project end Establishment of formal partnerships with universities across multiple countries Creation of sustainable local communities that continue building on Cardano long after the initial funding period Development of region-specific solutions addressing local challenges using Cardano technology

By bridging the language and knowledge gaps, our proposal would transform passive observers into active contributors, directly supporting Cardano's mission of creating a more inclusive and decentralized financial and technological infrastructure worldwide.

Andamio accelerates the Cardano ecosystem's growth by providing live, ecosystem-wide infrastructure that enables projects to identify, verify, and activate talent at scale.

Already live and operational, Andamio will:

• Speed up hiring and contribution readiness for key ecosystem teams.
• Provide Cardano-wide contributor verification, aligned with ecosystem governance goals.
• Reduce friction between learning and contribution.
• Generate real-time ecosystem insights on contributor readiness and project health.

With Andamio, the Cardano ecosystem benefits from:

• Faster scaling of core technical projects.
• Higher throughput of verified contributors.
• Stronger decentralization through transparent talent pipelines.
• Data-driven visibility of contributor growth across the ecosystem.

• Long-Term Support: Ensure BloxBean tools remain compatible with future Cardano upgrades for a seamless developer experience.

• Enhanced Developer Efficiency: Improve tools and documentation, making it easier for developers to build on Cardano using Java and other JVM languages.

• Ecosystem Growth: Support the continued adoption and integration of BloxBean tools by Java developers, benefiting the overall Cardano ecosystem.

• Open-Source: Maintain these tools as open-source projects, encouraging collaboration and contributions from the global developer community.