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Cardano Foundation
The Cardano Foundation aims to encourage wider participation in the Cardano ecosystem and ensure that Cardano remains a long-lasting, robust blockchain fit for building innovation. We look to eight core elements as criteria to keep it a secure, inclusive, and sustainable network: accessibility; decentralization; security and resilience; scalability; viable economic models; educational resources; the infrastructure’s core development; and governance itself.
Objectives
The Cardano Foundation aims to encourage wider participation in the Cardano ecosystem and ensure that Cardano remains a long-lasting, robust blockchain fit for building innovation. We look to eight core elements as criteria to keep it a secure, inclusive, and sustainable network: accessibility; decentralization; security and resilience; scalability; viable economic models; educational resources; the infrastructure’s core development; and governance itself.
Motivations
The Foundation believes in collaboration, in working hand-in-hand with the community while also promoting innovation. And we strive to do so while upholding integrity, transparency, inclusivity, and maintaining sustainable practices. We vote both to empower the ecosystem and drive adoption by facilitating the onboarding of various organizations to Cardano.
Qualifications
Founded in 2016, the Cardano Foundation is an independent, Swiss-based not-for-profit advancing Cardano as a public infrastructure across a wide range of industries. Our efforts have resulted in collaborations with UN organizations, commercial sectors, and universities, among others. We also contribute to the creation and maintenance of several open-source tools, and have developed the Cardano Academy for easy access to high-quality blockchain education. Starting in 2018, we support a global network of multilingual volunteers via the Cardano Ambassador Program to amplify community engagement. In 2025, the Foundation published the first ever Cardano Ecosystem Guide. Since 2023, in line with our commitment to transparency, we share a yearly Financial Insights Report. And in 2025 we made our underlying regulatory data available on Reeve, a financial reporting solution built on Cardano. The Foundation’s Reports and Governance pages provide further details.
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CARDANO BLOCKCHAIN ECOSYSTEM CONSTITUTION v2.4
# Three-line summary: 1. Cardano Constitution v2.4 removes non-binding expectations, the Budget Info Action mechanism, and mandatory CC conduct rules, streamlining governance. 2. It adds clear definitions, enforces immutability of proposal documents, and applies treasury audit/accountability safeguards to all withdrawals. 3. This version also incorporates feedback from EMURGO. # Three helpful links 1. CARDANO BLOCKCHAIN ECOSYSTEM CONSTITUTION v2.4 https://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafkreih62pydt57supou6dn5lqbf5klr7xu4xi2rrs7tl3thaufiqmvo24 2. List of changes from v1.0 to v2.4.pdf https://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybeihsv7crutk4xrwut5p5fdvgeum45hioazn2dldnqk2ljiv7sp3oda 3. List of changes from v2.3 to v2.4.pdf https://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybeibu2v7l6z3k5jhhdtzv74fcrlaedxwdwtxu2ogwudykyfjjfreppu
2026-27 Net Change Limit
The Cardano Constitution requires the establishment of a Net Change Limit, which defines the maximum amount of lovelace that can be withdrawn from the treasury during an outlined period of time. This governance action serves as an opportunity for all governance stakeholders to formally express their positions regarding the proposed Net Change Limit, ensuring transparency, accountability, and alignment across the ecosystem. The 2026-27 Net Change Limit will begin at the start of Epoch 613 and continue for 100 epochs, finishing at the conclusion of Epoch 713. The Net Change Limit will be 350,000,000,000,000 lovelace (350M ada). Unless superseded by a new NCL, this is the maximum amount that can be withdrawn from the treasury during this specific period and shall not be exceeded. The Net Change Limit will be used when reviewing both budget actions and treasury withdrawal actions to ensure constitutionality as required by Article IV of the Cardano Constitution and the Treasury Withdrawal Guardrails outlined in Appendix I.
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Building Together to Drive Cardano Forward.