Expired Cardano Governance Actions

Intersect's Parameter Committee proposes a single Parameter Update governance action bundling two independent, previously recommended protocol parameter changes: 1. **minPoolCost:** decrease `minPoolCost` from 170,000,000 Lovelace (170 ada) to 75,000,000 Lovelace (75 ada), a decrease of approximately 55.9%. 2. **Plutus memory unit limits (Part 2 of 2):** increase maxTxExecutionUnits[memory] from 16,500,000 to 17,500,000 units (+6.1%) and maxBlockExecutionUnits[memory] from 72,000,000 to 77,500,000 units (+7.6%), completing the two-step, cumulative 25% increase to both parameters begun in the linked Part 1 action. These two changes are otherwise unrelated: one lowers the stake pool fixed-fee floor, the other increases Plutus script execution headroom. The changes are bundled here for submission efficiency and to allow SPOs to give input on `minPoolCost`. No other protocol parameters or Plutus cost model settings are changed by this action.

This info action proposes naming the Protocol Version 12 hard fork “von Bergen” as a salute and recognition to Fabian von Bergen, also known as Zyroxa. Fabian has been a Cardano community member since the ITN, an always critical, honest and sound voice in Cardano's past who introduced and guided many through the Cardano ecosystem, a well known person on the Cardano Forum, also SPO of the Tempus Stake Pool and a Cardano Ambassador since the earliest days of the program.

This proposal is to establish an independent entity dedicated to managing open source sustainability funds for the Cardano ecosystem.DAOs and traditional foundations are often too vulnerable to political influence, lack execution speed, and can become centralized in ways that distort outcomes based on internal politics. These issues can undermine priorities and weaken long-term initiatives. To address these problems, I am proposing a purpose-built independent structure — an execution function, not an executive one. This program has a single, clearly defined purpose set by its charter, and the community can shut it down at any time through governance without having to wait for the funds to run out.I am requesting funding for one year. I left a stable, well-paying job to focus on doing this properly, and I believe my track record in the ecosystem speaks for itself. During this period, I will directly manage the fund while deliberately avoiding overlap with existing funding programs.The structure will remain fully accountable to governance. DReps will have the ability to replace me or sunset the entire initiative at any time through an on-chain Info Action. I commit to sponsoring any such Info Action if requested by 15 or more DReps.To ensure proper legal and financial operations, I have already engaged a law firm to establish a public charity through which the majority of funds will flow. This step cannot be completed without initial capital. Once established, the law firm will handle formal auditing in addition to the transparent financial tracking I will maintain.

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.

By this Info action, the DReps agree a new Net Change Limit of 500,000,000 ada (500,000,000,000,000 lovelace) for the Cardano Treasury, for the period beginning at the start of Epoch 613 (February 13, 2026) and ending at the close of Epoch 713 (on or about July 3, 2027). This Net Change Limit is a fixed cap on the total ada removed from the Treasury through Treasury Withdrawals during the period; it does not count Treasury inflows. This is a newly agreed Net Change Limit: it is the applicable Net Change Limit for the period and supersedes any prior Net Change Limit for the same period. Because the period begins at the start of Epoch 613, all Treasury Withdrawals already debited during the period count toward this 500,000,000 ada limit. This Info action records the DReps' agreement to this Net Change Limit when Yes votes exceed 50% of the active voting stake, the threshold TREASURY-01a sets for agreeing a Net Change Limit; it has no direct on-chain effect and does not authorize any Treasury Withdrawal.

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.

**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

Blockfrost is a reliable way for developers to interact with the chain without running their own infrastructure or node. This proposal transitions Blockfrost into a free, community-governed public good, owned by the people who build on it where the Blockfrost source code, trademarks, and domains are transferred into community stewardship under an independent, community-governed not-for-profit. It funds a 18-month transition and operations into community ownership. Total ask: **₳9,832,979** (\$1,868,266 at \$0.19/₳).

This Treasury Withdrawal funds Phase 2 of a production Cardano-native ticketing platform operated by Sellout.io and built by Anvil Development Agency. Phase 1 (on-chain event creation, CIP-68 ticket minting, transfers, and attendance verification) is already live on Cardano mainnet, funded entirely by Sellout (over $130k invested). Phase 2 delivers a secondary marketplace with on-chain royalty enforcement, per-event anti-scalping controls, wallet onboarding for Sellout's 200,000+ existing users, organizer tools, an independent third-party security audit, and a professional launch campaign, anchored by the contracted Yellowstone Club 2026 concert series. This is a direct on-chain Treasury Withdrawal governance action submitted by the proposer. Intersect serves as the budget administrator by prior agreement - holding and disbursing funds through the Sundae Labs Treasury Reserve / Project-Specific Smart Contract (TRSC/PSSC) framework with independent oversight - rather than this being a submission through the Intersect budget-process portal. The withdrawal requests 4,969,231 ada (~$1,093,231 USD at $0.22/ADA) over 8 months, disbursed against milestones. Phase 2 is delivered through a new operating entity that pays a defined revenue share back to the Cardano Treasury; the team commits to repay $1,093,231 to the Treasury through this mechanism.

The Cardano Builder DAO is an ecosystem-wide, purpose-built, smart contract-governed funding mechanism to support projects advancing Cardano’s Vision 2030 through measurable ecosystem KPIs. Its role is to allocate capital to builders who can drive growth in the metrics that matter most to Cardano’s long-term success, including monthly active users, monthly on-chain transactions, and TVL.