Cvria Cardani
Integritas ante omnia
A Cardano governance consortium, holding integrity above all. Each vote bears a published rationale. Each claim bears its source. The record endures.
The Curia
Our Members
The Mandate
What we stand for
The mission of the Cardano Curia Constitutional Committee is to maintain a stable, predictable, and community-aligned governance framework during a period of accelerated ecosystem growth. This consortium exists to safeguard Cardano's Constitution by providing balanced, principled, and community-focused oversight throughout the interim period. Our role is to ensure that governance actions remain faithful to Cardano's core values of decentralization, transparency, and inclusivity, while protecting the chain from short-term risks and bad-faith proposals and supporting practical, builder-driven governance maturity.
We focus on maintaining rigorous, neutral, and timely review of constitutional actions, including Treasury Withdrawals and NCLs, so that builders, users, and partners can advance confidently. By supporting reliable governance operations, we help enable ecosystem growth and reinforce the foundations needed for Cardano's long-term success.
The Record
Committee Votes
Cardano Curia Rationale
Summary: Cardano Curia finds the “Scalus 2026: Maintenance, Dijkstra Readiness, Interoperability & Application Runtime” Treasury Withdrawal governance action constitutional by a unanimous internal vote of five to zero.
Rationale: ## What is being proposed
This Treasury Withdrawal requests 2,464,844 ADA for a nine-month Scalus work programme running from July 2026 through March 2027. The proposal funds maintenance and Dijkstra hard-fork readiness, JVM and JavaScript/TypeScript interoperability, and a scoped first application-runtime release. Lantr Engineering is the delivery vendor.
Constitutional determination
Cardano Curia finds the action constitutional.
The proposal is submitted in a legible and sufficiently detailed form. It states the purpose of the withdrawal, the delivery period, the costs, the milestone structure, the acceptance evidence, the reporting duties, and the circumstances in which unused funds are returned. Its scope is bounded across three quarterly milestones, and the proposal expressly excludes the larger standalone L1-node, full L2-integration, and broad formal-verification work contained in an earlier version.
The costs are tied to identified engineering, product, documentation, developer-enablement, audit, and assurance activities. The proposal discloses Lantr Engineering’s prior Cardano Treasury withdrawal and provides references to the earlier funding and delivery record.
Periodic independent technical assurance is assigned to No.Witness Labs, with funds expressly allocated for that work. The proposal also provides for an external financial audit of treasury management and fund use, quarterly technical and delivery reporting, and a public transaction journal linking disbursements and other escrow actions to on-chain evidence.
Treasury administration is performed through audited SundaeSwap escrow contracts with an independent oversight board. Milestone disbursement requires vendor and board approval; board members can pause milestones; unused funds can be swept early; and funds remaining after expiration return automatically to the Cardano Treasury. The escrow enforces auto-abstain DRep delegation and prohibits SPO delegation while funds remain under administration.
The majority therefore finds that the proposal meets the applicable governance-action and Treasury Withdrawal standards concerning purpose, delivery period, costs, prior-funding disclosure, independent assurance, administration, auditability, oversight, delegation controls, and refund mechanisms. Its open-source developer-infrastructure purpose is also consistent with the constitutional tenets supporting application development, safe preservation of ecosystem infrastructure, and proportionate use of Cardano resources.
Precedent Discussion: This determination supports the precedent that continued Treasury funding for established open-source infrastructure can be constitutional where the new request is materially bounded, responds to prior governance concerns, defines dated milestones and measurable evidence, discloses prior funding, and places funds behind independent oversight, audit and automatic refund controls.
Counterargument Discussion: The principal concerns are delivery rather than constitutional defects. The application runtime is described as a foundational first release rather than a complete production runtime, and final Dijkstra readiness depends partly on the protocol schedule. Continued maintenance also creates some vendor-continuity risk. These limitations are expressly disclosed, the scope is bounded, and milestone review permits funds to be paused or withheld. Cardano Curia therefore does not find that these risks establish a conflict with the Constitution. This determination is not a guarantee of delivery, adoption, or future technical performance.
Conclusion: Cardano Curia finds the Scalus 2026 Treasury Withdrawal governance action constitutional. The decision is based on its defined nine-month scope, detailed costs and milestones, prior-funding disclosure, independent technical and financial assurance, public reporting, audited escrow, oversight-board controls, required delegation policy, and enforceable return of unused funds.
Governance Action Details
Scalus is an established, open-source Cardano development platform, built by Lantr Engineering over three years of continuous delivery.
It is the integrated, JVM-native toolset for complex protocols and mission-critical applications, such as Gummiworm L2, Bifrost bridge, SugarRush DEX, Vela stablecoin, DID / DIDComm decentralised identity, that build on it.
Its components are already reused inside Cardano's most widely used developer tooling: MeshJS, Evolution SDK, Lucid Evolution, Cardano Client Lib, and YaciDevKit. Many teams depend on Scalus without ever integrating it directly.
This proposal funds a focused, 9-month continuation across three lines of work:
- protect the existing infrastructure and prepare it for the upcoming Dijkstra hard fork (maintenance and readiness)
- deepen its reuse across the JVM and JavaScript ecosystems (interoperability)
- expand Scalus beyond protocol development toward operating applications (first scoped application runtime).
It is a deliberately reduced resubmission. DReps recognised the previous Scalus proposal's vision, technical quality, and delivery record, but found its scope and budget too large. This version answers that directly: the ask is cut to ₳2,464,844 over 9 months, at a conservative $0.16/ADA reference rate and no contingency.
Delivery is milestone-based, administered through audited SundaeSwap treasury contracts with an independent oversight board and third-party assurance.
The goal is bounded and concrete: protect prior public investment, keep Scalus and everything built on it working through the next protocol cycle, make it more reusable across the ecosystem, and extend it from building applications to running them. It's a proportionate continuation of proven work.
At a glance
- Ask: ₳2,464,844 (~$394,375 at $0.16/ADA) · 9 months · no contingency
- Scope: maintenance · Dijkstra hard fork readiness · interoperability (JVM + JS/TS) · a scoped application runtime
- Excludes: standalone L1 node · full L2 integration · broad formal verification
- Vs. previous proposal: reduced from ₳8.5M / 12 months; L1 node and third-party dependencies removed
- Team: Lantr Engineering, three years building Scalus, every prior milestone delivered on time
- Governance: SundaeSwap escrow · independent oversight board · third-party assurance
Cardano Curia Rationale
Summary: Cardano Curia finds the “Dano Finance: DeFi Kernel” Treasury Withdrawal governance action constitutional by a majority vote of four to one.
Rationale: ## What is being proposed
This Treasury Withdrawal governance action requests 3,333,000 ADA: 3,300,000 ADA for delivery and 33,000 ADA for budget administration. The funded work comprises a public DeFi Kernel registry and submission process, a Spot Leverage Order Book, an American Options protocol, and a Composable DeFi Transaction Builder SDK. Minswap Labs is identified as budget administrator.
Majority determination
By a four-member majority, Cardano Curia finds the action constitutional.
The majority considers the proposal sufficiently specific and auditable for a Treasury Withdrawal. It identifies the purpose of the withdrawal, the total amount, the delivery budget and administration fee, four defined work packages, milestone deliverables, measurable KPIs, reporting obligations, security-review gates, and circumstances in which funds will not be disbursed or will be returned.
The work packages are tied to concrete outputs. These include a public registry, compatibility documentation, testnet and mainnet deployments, published script hashes and schemas, security-review or audit reports, an SDK release, integration examples, usage reporting, and final work-package reports. The proposal also provides public on-chain KPIs for trading volume, option notional volume, registry publication, and external integration activity.
The majority further notes that Minswap Labs is designated to support fund administration, milestone review, and accountability. Critical unresolved security issues block affected mainnet milestones, and funds that are unearned, unnecessary, cancelled, blocked, or associated with undeliverable milestones are to remain unspent or be returned under the administrator’s process. Dano Finance also commits to return five percent of specified protocol fees for twelve months after mainnet launch.
On a holistic reading, the majority finds these provisions sufficient to meet the Constitution’s requirements concerning purpose, costs, delivery structure, administration, oversight, audit or security assurance, public reporting, and refund circumstances. The majority finds no demonstrated conflict with the Cardano Blockchain tenets or applicable Treasury Withdrawal guardrails.
Precedent Discussion: This determination supports the precedent that a Treasury Withdrawal for open ecosystem infrastructure and production protocols may be constitutional when the proposal defines the funded outputs, milestones, administrator, security gates, public KPIs, reporting obligations, and non-disbursement or refund conditions. Constitutionality does not constitute a guarantee of commercial success or technical performance; it reflects the majority’s conclusion that the governance action is sufficiently specified and controlled for constitutional purposes.
Counterargument Discussion: One Cardano Curia member voted unconstitutional. The dissent applies a stricter textual reading of the Treasury Withdrawal standards and identifies four concerns: (1) the proposal does not expressly disclose whether the recipient received Treasury ada during the preceding 24 months; (2) the proposal describes smart-contract security reviews or audits but does not separately identify a funded program of periodic independent use-of-funds audits; (3) the proposal does not expressly state the separate-account, no-SPO-delegation, and predefined-abstain controls that apply if the administrator holds ada before disbursement; and (4) milestone timing is linked to delivery events and post-launch KPI windows rather than fixed calendar dates.
The majority does not dismiss these concerns. It concludes, however, that the action contains sufficient substantive controls to be constitutional and that the custody-specific account requirements apply according to the actual administration arrangement. The majority treats the identified omissions as implementation and documentation matters that do not, on the record reviewed, establish that the governance action itself would operate contrary to the Constitution. The dissent would treat the absence of each express statement as a failure of a mandatory submission requirement.
Conclusion: Cardano Curia finds the “Dano Finance: DeFi Kernel” Treasury Withdrawal governance action constitutional by an internal vote of four constitutional and one unconstitutional. The majority relies on the proposal’s defined purpose and budget, work packages, milestone deliverables, administrator, security-review gates, public reporting and KPIs, and non-disbursement and refund conditions. The minority dissent is recorded in full because it raises material questions about express disclosure, independent financial auditing, administrator custody controls, and fixed delivery dates.
Governance Action Details
This proposal requests 3,333,000 ADA (3,300,000 ADA for delivery and 33,000 ADA for the 1% budget administration fee) for Dano Finance to accelerate the DeFi Kernel as an open standard for shared liquidity, on-chain financial intents, and global order-book coordination on Cardano.
Cardano DeFi is still fragmented. DEXs, lending protocols, options protocols, marketplaces, and future synthetic asset systems often operate as separate liquidity silos. The DeFi Kernel addresses this by defining a common standard where compatible smart contracts are permissionless, composable, and discoverable: users can write or fill orders without a privileged batcher, contracts publish clear datum/redeemer schemas, and orders can be found through on-chain mechanisms such as CIP-89 beacon tokens, deterministic addresses, or other tagging methods.
Dano Finance will support DeFi Kernel adoption by improving the public [defikernel.org](https://defikernel.org/) platform and registry so any Cardano builder can submit a compatible smart contract and make its information visible to the ecosystem. The platform will document script hashes, datum/redeemer schemas, integration steps, supported off-chain libraries, audit/security status, TVL references, and other metadata that wallets, bots, indexers, and protocols need to integrate reliably.
Alongside the DeFi Kernel registry work, Dano Finance will deliver two practical DeFi Kernel-compatible primitives, Spot Leverage Order Book and American Options Market-Making Pools, plus a Composable DeFi Transaction Builder SDK that helps wallets, bots, indexers, and other dApps discover, compose, and settle DeFi Kernel-compatible orders.
The value to Cardano is a more connected DeFi stack: a stronger DeFi Kernel platform, clearer smart contract metadata, easier integrations, deeper liquidity, better composability, new risk-management markets, and a foundation for future financial applications.
Minswap Labs will serve as the budget administrator for this proposal, providing an established Cardano ecosystem administrator to support fund administration, milestone review, and accountability.
Cardano Curia Rationale
Summary: Cardano Curia finds the “Bifrost: Unlocking Bitcoin DeFi on Cardano — Road to Mainnet (Phase 1 of 2)” Treasury Withdrawal governance action constitutional by a unanimous internal vote of five to zero.
Rationale: ## What is being proposed
This Treasury Withdrawal requests 12,332,031 ADA for Bifrost Phase 1, delivered by FluidTokens and Lantr Engineering from July 2026 through March 2027. The proposal funds bridge hardening, external security audits, formal verification, penetration testing, ecosystem and SPO readiness, legal and stewardship work, and a controlled private-mainnet deployment in federated and SPO-threshold custody modes. Public launch and ongoing operations are expressly excluded and reserved for a later Phase 2 proposal.
Constitutional determination
Cardano Curia finds the action constitutional.
The proposal identifies a clear purpose, a nine-month delivery period, three dated milestones, detailed workstreams, acceptance evidence, an itemised budget, reporting obligations, and refund circumstances. The requested amount includes a separately identified ten-percent refundable contingency, and any unused contingency is committed for return to the Cardano Treasury.
The security work is extensive and directly connected to milestone acceptance. It includes smart-contract and cryptographic review, formal verification of critical paths, watchtower and off-chain audits, penetration testing, a bug-bounty programme, remediation requirements, and publication of audit and verification evidence. No.Witness Labs is assigned periodic third-party assurance, and an external financial auditor is funded to review Phase 1 treasury management and use of funds.
The proposal discloses relevant prior support, including Lantr Engineering’s prior Cardano Treasury withdrawal and Catalyst funding for the Bifrost testnet programme. It distinguishes the previously funded testnet work from the present mainnet-hardening and assurance scope.
Grant administration is separated from the bridge’s future stewardship. FluidTokens, Lantr Engineering and an independent oversight board control milestone-based disbursement through audited SundaeSwap escrow contracts. Board members can pause milestones; disbursements require multiple independent approvals; unused funds may be swept early; and funds remaining after expiration return automatically to the Cardano Treasury. The escrow enforces auto-abstain DRep delegation and no SPO delegation for Treasury funds while they remain under administration.
The proposal therefore satisfies the applicable governance-action and Treasury Withdrawal standards concerning specificity, delivery period, costs, prior-funding disclosure, independent audits, oversight metrics, administration, auditability, delegation controls and refunds. Its cross-chain infrastructure purpose is consistent with the constitutional tenets supporting application development, interoperability, safe preservation of value and information, and responsible use of resources. The phased approach also avoids presenting the private-mainnet deployment as a completed public service before the required security evidence exists.
Precedent Discussion: This determination supports the precedent that high-risk cross-chain infrastructure can be constitutionally funded when the proposal clearly separates development phases, defines the limits of the funded outcome, uses independent technical and financial assurance, gates disbursement against public evidence, and prevents unspent Treasury funds from being used for staking or governance influence.
Counterargument Discussion: Bifrost carries substantial technical and operational risk because it coordinates Bitcoin custody, threshold signing, watchtowers and cross-chain asset issuance. Phase 1 also ends with controlled private-mainnet access rather than a public launch, and the permanent stewardship entity and economic model are themselves Phase 1 deliverables. These facts may affect a voter’s assessment of value, feasibility or delivery risk, but they are clearly disclosed and are paired with audits, formal verification, controlled exposure, milestone gates, public evidence and independent oversight. Cardano Curia therefore finds no constitutional conflict. This determination does not certify the bridge as technically secure, guarantee a Phase 2 approval, or endorse any unfinalised economic parameter.
Conclusion: Cardano Curia finds the Bifrost Phase 1 Treasury Withdrawal governance action constitutional. The decision is based on its defined phased scope, dated milestones, detailed budget, refundable contingency, prior-funding disclosures, extensive independent assurance, financial audit, public evidence requirements, multi-party escrow administration, delegation controls, and enforceable return of unused funds.
Governance Action Details
Bitcoin is the largest pool of capital in crypto, yet most BTC still sits outside DeFi because moving it off the Bitcoin base layer still requires security trade-offs many holders are not willing to accept. Cardano is structurally well suited for Bitcoin DeFi, but it lacks the secure BTC rail needed to compete for that liquidity.
Bifrost is designed to provide that rail: a permissionless Bitcoin-Cardano bridge secured by Cardano’s existing SPO ecosystem that brings BTC onto Cardano as a native Cardano asset that applications can integrate into trading, lending, collateral, and other financial use cases. The bridge is on testnet today under Catalyst Fund 14.
This proposal funds Phase 1 of 2: the work required to take Bifrost from a working testnet to launch readiness. It covers hardening, security audits, formal verification, ecosystem and partner readiness, and the stewardship and economic foundations required for launch. Public rollout and 24 months of operations are intentionally separated into a Phase 2 proposal in Q1 2027, once the bridge has been proven on-chain.
FluidTokens and Lantr Engineering request ₳12,332,031 (approx, $1,973,125 at 0.16 USD/ADA, including a 10% refundable contingency) from the Cardano Treasury for a 9-month delivery period from July 2026 to March 2027.
By the end of Phase 1, Bifrost will be an audited bridge running on Cardano mainnet in both custody modes (federated and SPO threshold) under controlled access, together with the stewardship structure, hardened economic model, and SPO/dApp partner pipeline required for public launch.
For Cardano, that means a proven secure rail into Bitcoin liquidity, ready to be opened to the public in Phase 2, and a credible position from which to compete for one of the largest pools of capital in crypto.
Cardano Curia Rationale
Summary: Cardano Curia records a majority finding that the Strike Finance Liquidity Deployment Treasury Withdrawal is constitutional, with four constitutional votes and one unconstitutional vote.
Rationale: ## What is being proposed
This governance action requests a Treasury Withdrawal of 9,000,000 ada for a twelve-month liquidity deployment associated with Strike Finance V2. The proposal contemplates conversion of ada into USDM, deployment into perpetual-futures liquidity, periodic reporting, and return of realized yield and remaining assets according to the published schedule.
Majority constitutional view
Four Cardano Curia members found the action constitutional. The majority considered that the proposal identifies a defined purpose, delivery period, administrators, segregated custody arrangements, reporting commitments, return mechanics, and independent assurance arrangements. The majority also credited Tingvard-related audit and assurance work as a meaningful safeguard supporting auditability and public oversight.
The majority determined that the action is capable of operating consistently with the Constitution's Treasury Withdrawal standards, provided the published administration, audit, reporting, custody, abstain-delegation, and return-to-treasury commitments remain binding and verifiable throughout execution.
Minority unconstitutional view
One Cardano Curia member found the action unconstitutional. The minority view was that the proposal does not state with sufficient clarity an explicit ada allocation within the withdrawal for periodic independent audits and oversight metrics, as required by the Treasury Withdrawal standards. The minority also considered the capital-preservation, conversion, custody, and mandatory wind-down controls insufficiently precise for a risk-bearing treasury deployment.
Determination
By a vote of four to one, Cardano Curia finds the action constitutional. This determination addresses constitutional compliance and does not guarantee delivery performance, asset preservation, stablecoin solvency, protocol security, or financial return.
Precedent Discussion: The majority decision supports the precedent that a Treasury Withdrawal used for a temporary, risk-bearing liquidity deployment may be constitutional where its purpose, duration, custody, administration, assurance, reporting, and return mechanisms are sufficiently documented. The minority cautions that voluntary or externally funded assurance should not be treated as a substitute for an explicit audit allocation where the Constitution requires such an allocation.
Counterargument Discussion: The principal counterarguments are that Treasury ada is exposed to conversion risk, USDM risk, smart-contract risk, market-making losses, administrator discretion, and uncertain enforcement of return obligations. A further constitutional objection concerns whether Tingvard's audit work constitutes the required allocation of ada for periodic independent audits and oversight metrics. The majority considered the assurance framework sufficient when read together with the proposal's other safeguards; the minority did not.
Conclusion: Cardano Curia finds governance action 8721696358acdd43e34e5ed9ef1b3e2a1d2af9c1aa1972e017b9b9271b7ddc70#0 constitutional by an internal vote of four constitutional and one unconstitutional, with no abstentions and no members recorded as not voting.
Governance Action Details
# Strike Finance V2 Treasury Deployment Proposal
This governance action requests a 12-month productive treasury deployment of 9,000,000 ADA into Strike Finance V2 liquidity infrastructure.
This is not grant funding. Treasury-owned capital would be deployed to deepen Cardano-native perpetual futures liquidity, increase on-chain trading activity, and generate yield for the Cardano Treasury.
Strike has processed over 1,130,000,000 USD in cumulative volume, facilitated 968,000+ trades across 3,071 unique traders, generated over 3,250,000 USD in profit for liquidity providers, produced over 1,160,000 USD in total protocol revenue, and represented over 50% of Cardano trading activity during the past six months.
| Allocation | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---:|---|
| V2 USDM liquidity | 9,000,000 ADA sold for USDM | Support scalable execution depth and stablecoin markets |
The deployed ADA will be sold for USDM, Cardano's fiat-backed stablecoin, to provide stablecoin-denominated liquidity. For modeling, this proposal assumes ADA = 0.15 USD, making 9,000,000 ADA approximately 1,350,000 USDM of stablecoin liquidity. The actual USDM notional will depend on the conversion price at deployment and will be transparently reported.
Under conservative modeled assumptions, the deployment is expected to generate approximately 900,000 ADA-equivalent in annual yield. Assuming no ADA price change, this would increase the treasury-owned position from 9,000,000 ADA to approximately 9,900,000 ADA-equivalent over 12 months. These are modeled estimates, not guaranteed returns.
A council composed of Rami from Snek, Phil from Surf, and James from Moneta will serve as the administrator for this proposal. Operational custody of deployed liquidity will be handled through this independent multisig council. Strike Finance will not have unilateral custody or control of treasury assets.
Realized yield from the first six months will be returned to the Cardano Treasury at month 6. At month 12, 100% of treasury-owned deployed assets, including remaining principal and realized yield, will be returned to the Cardano Treasury. Any further treasury participation would require a new governance proposal.
Cardano Curia Rationale
Summary: Cardano Curia finds the Treasury Withdrawal for UTxO RPC by TxPipe: Maintaining Cardano's Integration Standard constitutional.
Rationale: ## What is being proposed
This Treasury Withdrawal funds continued maintenance of UTxO RPC and its multi-language integration tooling. The requested amount is 540,750 ada.
Constitutional assessment
Cardano Curia reviewed this action as a Treasury Withdrawal under the Constitution's governance-action standards and treasury-withdrawal requirements. The relevant requirements include a clear purpose and delivery period, disclosure of costs and refund circumstances, prior-funding disclosure, compliance with the applicable Net Change Limit, funded independent audit and oversight, designated administrators, and segregated auditable accounts delegated to the predefined abstain option while held before disbursement.
The standard is used across several Cardano node and integration workstreams. Continued maintenance supports interoperability and reduces duplicated integration effort.
The action is also consistent with the constitutional tenets concerning fair treatment, reasonable use of blockchain resources, recognition of ecosystem contributions, preservation of value, and long-term sustainability, provided that the published administration, reporting, audit, milestone, and return-to-treasury commitments remain binding throughout execution.
Determination
Cardano Curia finds the action constitutional. This is a determination of constitutional compliance, not a guarantee of delivery performance or financial return.
Precedent Discussion: This decision supports the precedent that Treasury Withdrawals for ecosystem infrastructure, governance operations, adoption, or market development may be constitutional where their purpose, administration, auditability, oversight, delivery controls, and return mechanisms are sufficiently specified.
Counterargument Discussion: Material counterarguments concern delivery risk, concentration of administrative authority, cost control, conflicts of interest, and whether oversight commitments will be implemented exactly as published. These concerns do not establish a constitutional conflict where segregated custody, milestone controls, public reporting, independent assurance, and return-to-treasury mechanisms are binding and auditable.
Conclusion: Cardano Curia finds governance action b3d452bff7769d7f557ec6b8974760ee6c5e496c276652b654032966621e0ccf#10 constitutional and records five internal votes for constitutional, with no votes for unconstitutional or abstain.
Governance Action Details
This Treasury Withdrawal funds UTxO RPC by TxPipe: Maintaining Cardano’s Integration Standard, Year 2.
This Treasury Withdrawal is submitted by Intersect on behalf of the vendor. The content for the following sections; Abstract, Motivation and Rationale have been sourced from the approved proposal submitted by the Vendor as part of the Intersect budget process.
Cardano Curia Rationale
Summary: Cardano Curia finds the Treasury Withdrawal for Bringing Real-World Payments to Cardano with Wirex constitutional.
Rationale: ## What is being proposed
This Treasury Withdrawal funds work intended to expand real-world Cardano payment access through Wirex. The requested amount is 3,961,538 ada.
Constitutional assessment
Cardano Curia reviewed this action as a Treasury Withdrawal under the Constitution's governance-action standards and treasury-withdrawal requirements. The relevant requirements include a clear purpose and delivery period, disclosure of costs and refund circumstances, prior-funding disclosure, compliance with the applicable Net Change Limit, funded independent audit and oversight, designated administrators, and segregated auditable accounts delegated to the predefined abstain option while held before disbursement.
The proposal has a defined payments-adoption purpose and is administered through the Intersect treasury-management framework, which separates reserve custody from project disbursement and provides community-verifiable controls.
The action is also consistent with the constitutional tenets concerning fair treatment, reasonable use of blockchain resources, recognition of ecosystem contributions, preservation of value, and long-term sustainability, provided that the published administration, reporting, audit, milestone, and return-to-treasury commitments remain binding throughout execution.
Determination
Cardano Curia finds the action constitutional. This is a determination of constitutional compliance, not a guarantee of delivery performance or financial return.
Precedent Discussion: This decision supports the precedent that Treasury Withdrawals for ecosystem infrastructure, governance operations, adoption, or market development may be constitutional where their purpose, administration, auditability, oversight, delivery controls, and return mechanisms are sufficiently specified.
Counterargument Discussion: Material counterarguments concern delivery risk, concentration of administrative authority, cost control, conflicts of interest, and whether oversight commitments will be implemented exactly as published. These concerns do not establish a constitutional conflict where segregated custody, milestone controls, public reporting, independent assurance, and return-to-treasury mechanisms are binding and auditable.
Conclusion: Cardano Curia finds governance action b3d452bff7769d7f557ec6b8974760ee6c5e496c276652b654032966621e0ccf#0 constitutional and records five internal votes for constitutional, with no votes for unconstitutional or abstain.
Governance Action Details
This Treasury Withdrawal funds Bringing Real-World Payments to Cardano with Wirex.
This Treasury Withdrawal is submitted by Intersect on behalf of the vendor. The content for the following sections; Abstract, Motivation and Rationale have been sourced from the approved proposal submitted by the Vendor as part of the Intersect budget process.
Cardano Curia Rationale
Summary: Cardano Curia finds the Treasury Withdrawal for Dolos by TxPipe: Maintaining Cardano's Lightweight Data Node constitutional.
Rationale: ## What is being proposed
This Treasury Withdrawal funds a further year of maintenance for Dolos, TxPipe's lightweight Cardano data node. The requested amount is 540,750 ada.
Constitutional assessment
Cardano Curia reviewed this action as a Treasury Withdrawal under the Constitution's governance-action standards and treasury-withdrawal requirements. The relevant requirements include a clear purpose and delivery period, disclosure of costs and refund circumstances, prior-funding disclosure, compliance with the applicable Net Change Limit, funded independent audit and oversight, designated administrators, and segregated auditable accounts delegated to the predefined abstain option while held before disbursement.
Maintaining an open-source data-node implementation supports resilient infrastructure and developer access. The proposal identifies a bounded maintenance period and uses milestone-controlled Intersect administration.
The action is also consistent with the constitutional tenets concerning fair treatment, reasonable use of blockchain resources, recognition of ecosystem contributions, preservation of value, and long-term sustainability, provided that the published administration, reporting, audit, milestone, and return-to-treasury commitments remain binding throughout execution.
Determination
Cardano Curia finds the action constitutional. This is a determination of constitutional compliance, not a guarantee of delivery performance or financial return.
Precedent Discussion: This decision supports the precedent that Treasury Withdrawals for ecosystem infrastructure, governance operations, adoption, or market development may be constitutional where their purpose, administration, auditability, oversight, delivery controls, and return mechanisms are sufficiently specified.
Counterargument Discussion: Material counterarguments concern delivery risk, concentration of administrative authority, cost control, conflicts of interest, and whether oversight commitments will be implemented exactly as published. These concerns do not establish a constitutional conflict where segregated custody, milestone controls, public reporting, independent assurance, and return-to-treasury mechanisms are binding and auditable.
Conclusion: Cardano Curia finds governance action b3d452bff7769d7f557ec6b8974760ee6c5e496c276652b654032966621e0ccf#1 constitutional and records five internal votes for constitutional, with no votes for unconstitutional or abstain.
Governance Action Details
This Treasury Withdrawal funds Dolos by TxPipe: Maintaining Cardano's Lightweight Data Node, Year 2.
This Treasury Withdrawal is submitted by Intersect on behalf of the vendor. The content for the following sections; Abstract, Motivation and Rationale have been sourced from the approved proposal submitted by the Vendor as part of the Intersect budget process.
Cardano Curia Rationale
Summary: Cardano Curia finds the Treasury Withdrawal for Hardware Wallet Maintenance 2026 constitutional.
Rationale: ## What is being proposed
This Treasury Withdrawal funds twelve months of Cardano hardware-wallet compatibility, interoperability, support, and security-related maintenance. The requested amount is 1,310,960 ada.
Constitutional assessment
Cardano Curia reviewed this action as a Treasury Withdrawal under the Constitution's governance-action standards and treasury-withdrawal requirements. The relevant requirements include a clear purpose and delivery period, disclosure of costs and refund circumstances, prior-funding disclosure, compliance with the applicable Net Change Limit, funded independent audit and oversight, designated administrators, and segregated auditable accounts delegated to the predefined abstain option while held before disbursement.
Continuous Ledger and Trezor support protects secure user access as Cardano and vendor software evolve. The stated scope includes compatibility work, integration support, and vendor-required security or product audits.
The action is also consistent with the constitutional tenets concerning fair treatment, reasonable use of blockchain resources, recognition of ecosystem contributions, preservation of value, and long-term sustainability, provided that the published administration, reporting, audit, milestone, and return-to-treasury commitments remain binding throughout execution.
Determination
Cardano Curia finds the action constitutional. This is a determination of constitutional compliance, not a guarantee of delivery performance or financial return.
Precedent Discussion: This decision supports the precedent that Treasury Withdrawals for ecosystem infrastructure, governance operations, adoption, or market development may be constitutional where their purpose, administration, auditability, oversight, delivery controls, and return mechanisms are sufficiently specified.
Counterargument Discussion: Material counterarguments concern delivery risk, concentration of administrative authority, cost control, conflicts of interest, and whether oversight commitments will be implemented exactly as published. These concerns do not establish a constitutional conflict where segregated custody, milestone controls, public reporting, independent assurance, and return-to-treasury mechanisms are binding and auditable.
Conclusion: Cardano Curia finds governance action b3d452bff7769d7f557ec6b8974760ee6c5e496c276652b654032966621e0ccf#2 constitutional and records five internal votes for constitutional, with no votes for unconstitutional or abstain.
Governance Action Details
This Treasury Withdrawal funds Hardware Wallet Maintenance 2026.
This Treasury Withdrawal is submitted by Intersect on behalf of the vendor. The content for the following sections; Abstract, Motivation and Rationale have been sourced from the approved proposal submitted by the Vendor as part of the Intersect budget process.
Cardano Curia Rationale
Summary: Cardano Curia finds the Treasury Withdrawal for Intersect Technical Steering Committee Support constitutional.
Rationale: ## What is being proposed
This Treasury Withdrawal funds operational and coordination support for the Intersect Technical Steering Committee. The requested amount is 1,193,000 ada.
Constitutional assessment
Cardano Curia reviewed this action as a Treasury Withdrawal under the Constitution's governance-action standards and treasury-withdrawal requirements. The relevant requirements include a clear purpose and delivery period, disclosure of costs and refund circumstances, prior-funding disclosure, compliance with the applicable Net Change Limit, funded independent audit and oversight, designated administrators, and segregated auditable accounts delegated to the predefined abstain option while held before disbursement.
The purpose is connected to transparent technical coordination and maintenance of ecosystem decision processes. Administration through segregated treasury contracts and documented milestones provides a reviewable accountability path.
The action is also consistent with the constitutional tenets concerning fair treatment, reasonable use of blockchain resources, recognition of ecosystem contributions, preservation of value, and long-term sustainability, provided that the published administration, reporting, audit, milestone, and return-to-treasury commitments remain binding throughout execution.
Determination
Cardano Curia finds the action constitutional. This is a determination of constitutional compliance, not a guarantee of delivery performance or financial return.
Precedent Discussion: This decision supports the precedent that Treasury Withdrawals for ecosystem infrastructure, governance operations, adoption, or market development may be constitutional where their purpose, administration, auditability, oversight, delivery controls, and return mechanisms are sufficiently specified.
Counterargument Discussion: Material counterarguments concern delivery risk, concentration of administrative authority, cost control, conflicts of interest, and whether oversight commitments will be implemented exactly as published. These concerns do not establish a constitutional conflict where segregated custody, milestone controls, public reporting, independent assurance, and return-to-treasury mechanisms are binding and auditable.
Conclusion: Cardano Curia finds governance action b3d452bff7769d7f557ec6b8974760ee6c5e496c276652b654032966621e0ccf#3 constitutional and records five internal votes for constitutional, with no votes for unconstitutional or abstain.
Governance Action Details
This Treasury Withdrawal funds Intersect Technical Steering Committee Support.
This Treasury Withdrawal is submitted by Intersect on behalf of the vendor. The content for the following sections; Abstract, Motivation and Rationale have been sourced from the approved proposal submitted by the Vendor as part of the Intersect budget process.
Cardano Curia Rationale
Summary: Cardano Curia finds the Treasury Withdrawal for Intersect: Governance Coordination and Technical Support constitutional.
Rationale: ## What is being proposed
This Treasury Withdrawal funds Intersect governance coordination and technical support activities. The requested amount is 25,400,000 ada.
Constitutional assessment
Cardano Curia reviewed this action as a Treasury Withdrawal under the Constitution's governance-action standards and treasury-withdrawal requirements. The relevant requirements include a clear purpose and delivery period, disclosure of costs and refund circumstances, prior-funding disclosure, compliance with the applicable Net Change Limit, funded independent audit and oversight, designated administrators, and segregated auditable accounts delegated to the predefined abstain option while held before disbursement.
The proposal supports decentralized governance operations and technical coordination. Its larger scale makes milestone controls, public reporting, conflict disclosures, and independent assurance especially important; the constitutional finding relies on those published controls remaining binding.
The action is also consistent with the constitutional tenets concerning fair treatment, reasonable use of blockchain resources, recognition of ecosystem contributions, preservation of value, and long-term sustainability, provided that the published administration, reporting, audit, milestone, and return-to-treasury commitments remain binding throughout execution.
Determination
Cardano Curia finds the action constitutional. This is a determination of constitutional compliance, not a guarantee of delivery performance or financial return.
Precedent Discussion: This decision supports the precedent that Treasury Withdrawals for ecosystem infrastructure, governance operations, adoption, or market development may be constitutional where their purpose, administration, auditability, oversight, delivery controls, and return mechanisms are sufficiently specified.
Counterargument Discussion: Material counterarguments concern delivery risk, concentration of administrative authority, cost control, conflicts of interest, and whether oversight commitments will be implemented exactly as published. These concerns do not establish a constitutional conflict where segregated custody, milestone controls, public reporting, independent assurance, and return-to-treasury mechanisms are binding and auditable.
Conclusion: Cardano Curia finds governance action b3d452bff7769d7f557ec6b8974760ee6c5e496c276652b654032966621e0ccf#4 constitutional and records five internal votes for constitutional, with no votes for unconstitutional or abstain.
Governance Action Details
This Treasury Withdrawal funds Intersect: Governance coordination and technical stewardship for the Cardano ecosystem.
This Treasury Withdrawal is submitted by Intersect. The content for the following sections; Abstract, Motivation and Rationale have been sourced from the approved proposal submitted by the Vendor as part of the Intersect budget process.