Governance Actions
Anyone that has ADA in a wallet can propose a Governace Action. To submit a Governance Action, the submitter pays a refundable deposit of 100,000 Ada. The deposit will be returned automatically back to the submitter's wallet upon completion of the Voting period.
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
Cardano 2030: Vision, Mission, Strategy Framework and KPIs
Starting at the end of 2024 and continuing throughout 2025, the Cardano Product Committee of Intersect facilitated the **first community-led process to propose a 2030 Cardano Vision and Strategy**. During the first part of 2025 this process also received delegated authority and funding by Cardano DReps during the 2025 budget cycle. The extensive process the Product Committee followed, which **involved 700+ people**, focused on collecting as much input as possible from the broader community with attention to representative groups via different channels such as surveys, focus groups and remote and in-person workshops, and then reconnecting with those same groups to review a draft proposal based on the input provided. This process can be reused in the future to keep both Vision and Strategy updated ([high level process mapped](https://productcommittee.docs.intersectmbo.org/committee-outcomes/2030-long-term-cardano-vision)): 1. [Input collection - Workshops](https://productcommittee.docs.intersectmbo.org/committee-outcomes/2030-long-term-cardano-vision/insights-collected/insights-collection-workshops) 2. [Focus group SPOs](https://productcommittee.docs.intersectmbo.org/committee-outcomes/2030-long-term-cardano-vision/insights-collected/focus-groups) 3. [Surveys](https://productcommittee.docs.intersectmbo.org/committee-outcomes/2030-long-term-cardano-vision/insights-collected/surveys) 4. Conversations with founding entities leaders from IOG, Cardano Foundation, EMURGO 5. [Business calls](https://product.cardano.intersectmbo.org/business-interviews/) 6. [Drafted proposal](https://product.cardano.intersectmbo.org/vision/) 7. [Reviewed proposal Workshops](https://productcommittee.docs.intersectmbo.org/committee-outcomes/2030-long-term-cardano-vision/draft-review-workshops) * [Proposal link and history on github](https://github.com/IntersectMBO/product-website/commits/master) 8. [Approved budget withdrawal on 17th August](https://gov.tools/outcomes/governance_actions/8ad3d454f3496a35cb0d07b0fd32f687f66338b7d60e787fc0a22939e5d8833e#35)
Add Constitutional Committee Member - Christina
This governance action proposes to add an additional Constitutional Committee member through a community-initiated Update Committee action. The proposal is submitted independently by community participants, in accordance with Cardano’s permissionless governance framework, and explicitly references the previously submitted Update Committee action whose purpose was to add Cardano Curia to the Constitutional Committee By increasing the number of Constitutional Committee members above the `minCommitteeSize` parameter (currently set to 7), this action strengthens governance continuity and reduces the risk of ratification delays should a committee member resign or retire during the current mandate.
Withdraw ₳70,000,000 for Cardano Critical Integrations Budget
This treasury withdrawal is submitted pursuant to the Budget Info Action “Cardano Critical Integrations Budget” (gov_action13a2dqgwxum7d6kjfprcs57cf9733ek2dkt5qnuhqd4ll5ntcwu7sqluwkxd) and can only be ratified if that Budget Info Action is approved by DReps and the Constitutional Committee. This governance action requests to withdraw ₳70,000,000 from the Cardano Treasury to establish a strategic integration fund supporting the onboarding of critical infrastructure, including tier-one stablecoins, institutional digital asset custody and wallet infrastructures, on-chain analytics platforms, cross-chain bridges, and pricing oracles to the Cardano ecosystem. These integrations are foundational for tier-one stablecoin deployment, large scale DeFi growth, and acceleration of RWA and DePin activity, strengthening Cardano’s long term fee generation and treasury sustainability. This project is being driven through close collaboration between Input | Output Global, the Cardano Foundation, and EMURGO, together with Midnight Foundation and Intersect, all of whom are actively engaged in negotiations with integration partners. Representatives from all five organizations form the Steering Committee, which is responsible for all executive decisions over how these funds will be committed and spent. Multiple partners are already at an executable stage, but with sensitive commercial negotiations underway, vendor identities and line item costs remain confidential. Vendor identities can only be disclosed once integrations are completed. Funds will be administered by Intersect under a performance and milestone-based structure over a period of up to 24 months. Drawdowns occur only after signed integration partnership agreements are submitted and verified. The Oversight Committee, a group of five independent entities within Intersect's budget administration framework, will review each drawdown or disbursal to confirm alignment between scope, amounts, and recipients. Deployment is expected to begin shortly after enactment of this withdrawal.
2025 Net Change Limit Extension
The Cardano Community adopted the 2025 Net Change Limit (NCL) on 24 April 2025, which defined the maximum amount of lovelace that could be withdrawn from the Cardano Treasury from the start of Epoch 532 until the conclusion of Epoch 604. Because the Cardano Constitution does not allow withdrawals from the Treasury that would violate the established NCL, this "2025 Net Change Limit Extension" serves the purpose of extending the previously established Net Change Limit for an additional eight (8) Epochs so that management of the Cardano Treasury will not be disrupted.
Cardano Critical Integrations Budget
This Cardano Critical Integrations Budget Governance Action requests ₳70,000,000 from the Cardano Treasury to establish a strategic integration fund supporting the onboarding of critical infrastructure, including tier-one stablecoins, institutional digital asset custody and wallet infrastructures, on-chain analytics platforms, cross-chain bridges, and pricing oracles to the Cardano ecosystem. This infrastructure establishes the foundational layer required to onboard tier-one stablecoins, with the potential to unlock exponential growth in DeFi transaction volume across the ecosystem. It will also help accelerate ecosystem efforts in other key areas such as Real World Assets (RWA) and DePin. This acceleration is expected to play a key role in supporting Cardano’s path to profitability as a layer one in terms of fee generation, ensuring long-term financial sustainability. This project is being driven through close collaboration between Input | Output Global, the Cardano Foundation, and EMURGO, together with Midnight Foundation and Intersect, all of whom are actively engaged in negotiations with integration partners. Representatives from all five organizations form the Steering Committee, which is responsible for making key strategic decisions. The founding entities and Intersect also recognize the Midnight Foundation’s contributions to date. Infrastructure providers and/or protocol collaborations are in a mature stage, and several partners have already provided detailed pricing and delivery timelines. However, for reasons of strategic and commercial confidentiality, together with partner companies’ compliance requirements, the specific infrastructures involved can only be disclosed outside of the Steering Committee after the integration is completed. The project will follow a milestone-based funding structure, with budget drawdowns executed from Intersect’s custody and administration only upon submission of signed agreements and the agreed scope of work. The Oversight Committee at Intersect will review drawdown requests to confirm that the amounts and designated recipients align with the executed contracts. Since work is already underway in some of these areas, this proposal envisions an early early budget deployment, and we anticipate this budget being utilized immediately and up to 24-month deployment, depending on withdrawal success, contracting periods, and timely receipt.
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