Cardano lacks important governance components. We need to connect experts with DReps, define a strategy for each year, and then carefully prioritize. Cardano governance has no direction. Individual DReps are just shooting in the dark based on their best judgment.

Thanks Pete, I'd love to get on upcoming episode to talk more about it if you're keen! Some quick answers to comments in the thread: 1. 70% of our budget ask is dedicated to technical coordination. This includes the prep and release of upgrades across all of Cardano's environments, core repo stewardship (Haskell), 24/7 timezone agnostic incident response, and the integrations and ongoing support of partners like Pyth and LayerZero. This work is only going to widen with Cardano's footprint expanding. That's all positive news actually, Cardano branching out in the way we've started 2026 is big steps in the right direction, but conversely means we need to be building capacity in the back. 2. The administrator role we've performed so far has changed for 2026. Last year we didn't charge a % fee and included in our main budget ask ($7,875m). This presented issues which we've covered in a blog here intersectmbo.org/news/inters…. Key point here is our budget this year is less ($6.35m) because of this change. Our budget now is heavily geared towards keeping Cardano resilient. Thanks again, and let me know if you want to go through the detail on a episode 🙏

Attention Developers ⚠️ The new plutus cost model will be rolled out to PreProd this week and then one or two epochs later proposed on mainnet as Parameter Change Governance Action. 💥If your Dapp is not loading chain parameters dynamically, your contract transactions will break! 💥 Please verify all is good on Preview before things get nasty on mainnet, or on PreProd once its live..