Curious by all of the budget talk? 🎙️
This Friday at 14:30 UTC, we’re bringing voices from across the community to talk about what the Budget Info Action means, what it enables, and why it matters.
Set your reminder 👇
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Guiding the next step in the budget process!
The constitutional budget process is advancing, and while the ₳275.3M Budget Info Action still awaits approval, we want to be ready if it passes.
₳3.8B in DRep sentiment shaped what’s in this budget, but there are varied views on
🚨 Big update to the Intersect Open Source Maturity Reports section on GitBook!
We’ve overhauled the entire experience:
✅ Clean 2024 & 2025 pages
✅ Unified landing page
✅ Clear breakdown of what the reports track
✅ Powered by Bitergia, published monthly by Intersect
📘 And
Just doing a simple maths on Phase-1 Budget Withdrawals here:
39 individual withdrawals means 39 separate voting 🗳️events - if we run one voting event for 7 days that means 273 days.
We stretch the budget for 2025 to the second quarter of 2026 🤔
As a GMC committee member, I
🛠️ Update on Open Source- State of the Union 2025 🌐
In 2024, we set out with a bold vision: make Cardano a leading example of how open source should work in Web3.
Now in 2025, that vision is materializing.
At Intersect, we’ve been heads-down standing up the core frameworks to
I've been in the new role for over a month now and, while we still have plenty to do, I think we're making good progress on all fronts - including being better listeners.
Wanted to use this opportunity to highlight some of my team (who are on X at least!). I know how hard these
👏 Option C
Delays have already begun. If we now adopt overly complex or bureaucratic processes (like Option E), we risk blocking the very projects we voted for.
What Cardano needs is a successful start—a credible cycle we can learn from and improve upon.
This budget was
🗳 I’ve voted for Option C in the Intersect Poll.
Ideally, I would have preferred Option E — it offers more transparency by allowing the community to vote on each Budget Proposal individually on-chain. Unfortunately, the 39 proposals were submitted as a single GA Info Budget, so
📍 Heading to Denver on June 26?
Catch us at CHAOSScon 2025!
Our very own Tex (Open Source Program Manager) and Georg Link (Open Source Committee Member) will be delivering a keynote on Cardano, the Paid Open Source Model, and Health Analytics in Open Source with us as the use
We’d like to reconfirm that EMURGO has completed the removal of Genesis ADA from our voting DRep profiles to put lingering questions to rest and clarify the facts.
As a co-founding entity, we continue to maintain contact and have long-standing relationships with many original
Cardano Govtool is fully open source, built and maintained by passionate community builders and individual contributors. 👥👥👥
The roadmap and backlog are public. Open for anyone to explore and shape.
Here are some ways for you to share your ideas and shape the Govtool roadmap
We are getting ready for the new cohort of Developer Advocate Program!
PS this program does depend on OS budget passing to continue, but I think we are set in relation to this :)
JUST IN:
Iagon, a decentralized storage platform built on Cardano, partners with Cloud Court and Ford Motor Company. 🔥
Together, they're working on improving how sensitive legal documents are stored and accessed at scale.
Ford will advise on legal data management.
Cardano is about to lead again — this time on the world stage of open source sustainability.
For the past 2 years, I’ve been working on something close to my heart: the Paid Open Source Model (POSM).
It’s our answer to a question too often ignored in Web3:
Who funds the
We’re excited to relaunch our town halls and community AMAs this month with a fresh format, and we’d love for you to join us on June 27, 2025, at 14:30 UTC / 15:30 BST - Register here: lu.ma/jnd1vbdx
In this town hall: Cardano budget update, GovTool updated proposal &