Surprised to see this one. Many others closing down makes sense but always had the impression that TapTools was one of the few things in our ecosystem that was actively used and relied on by just about everyone. Sorry to see them go.

I think this would achieve every single objective of the in person summit at a fraction of the cost.

I published a public spreadsheet to help #dReps and the #Cardano community check proposer track records in the 2026 Budget / Treasury Withdrawal cycle. Why does this matter⁉️ Because 50 different proposers submitted proposals through the Intersect Budget Framework. The Budget Committee @IntersectCBC created a dashboard to show the track record of the proposers that uses APIs and automation to identify previous funding history. 💰 Roughly half of the proposers were already identified by the dashboard as having some prior funding record. My additional contribution to the dashboard focused on the other side of the problem: 🔷 Cases where prior funding was not identified automatically. I manually checked 26 individual proposers, mostly proposals that appeared to have no previous funding history in the dashboard. The result: 👉🏻 10 proposers still appear to have no prior Cardano Treasury-related funding. 🔎 But in the other 16 cases, manual research identified historical links to 172 funded initiatives across different Cardano funding vehicles, including: 🔹 Project Catalyst 🔹 Intersect grants 🔹 Treasury Withdrawals 🔹 Cardano Builder DAO 🎯 That is exactly why manual reconciliation matters. The reason the dashboard does not yet identify all of these cases is that historical links may exist under different names, companies, aliases, teams, or funding systems, meaning dReps may miss important context if those connections are not reconciled manually. 📌 This does not mean those proposers did anything wrong. 📌 It does not mean the proposals should be rejected. 📌 It does not mean every associated initiative was directly led by the same person. 👍🏻 It means proposer history in Cardano is fragmented and needs careful reconciliation. This research is not: - a ranking - an endorsement - a vote recommendation - financial due diligence - a subjective proposal review It is simply a supplementary governance data layer. The goal is to make proposer history easier to verify and help dReps make better-informed decisions during a constrained Treasury allocation cycle. The first-stage dataset is now public: 🔹 Dashboard (by @radioastro): lloydduhon.github.io/cardano… 🔹 Spreadsheet (this is the main reference for consultation): docs.google.com/spreadsheets… 🔹Methodology: hackmd.io/@CEF-RDdySpK5Aabyb… 🔹 Github for nerds: github.com/Agora-Cardano/ago… The GitHub repo and spreadsheet serve as public references for the manual reconciliation work.

Hard Truth: Giving 1M ADA to the same people who have already been making Cardano content for years will do nothing. No new people are seeing these or care. Most old people hardly care. Paying people like @CryptoWendyO who have reach outside our ecosystem possibly could.

If I were a Billionaire with more money than all you brokies could ever earn in 1000 lifetimes, literally all my research or anything else I found worthwhile would be funded.

It you are a DRep trying to decide how you want to vote, this tool provides some very useful data that can help you make decisions. By reviewing what people have already been funded for, you can see how they have already delivered and glean how they may going forward.

Update on the budget committee TWGA structure: Original plan: 2 bundled treasury withdrawals — chosen because Intersect couldn't produce multiple TWGAs in one funding round. New info: Intersect has confirmed they can now produce single TWGAs for every proposal clearing 67% at the hydra voting stage. Question to the community — do we: • Switch to single TWGAs per proposal, or • Keep the bundled structure already in the info action? Looking for DRep and community input before the committee decides. #Cardano

As of May 2026, the average annual salary for a university or academic researcher in the United States is roughly $108,000 to $113,000, with most salaries ranging between $67,000 and $154,000 Source - Google

Can someone explain the drama happening here? Someone gets a hundred people to sign up for intersect and pay the dues so they can vote for their candidate in the election. Isn't that "onboarding"? Seems like the real problem is 100 people can swing an election here.

Is Cardano much faster than last year? Does it have 10x the throughput from last year? Does it have 10x the user from last year? Has it improved in any visible way from last year or the year before? Then what did that 97.5M buy us?

mostly that it seems like a disengenuous play on numbers. Catalyst ($34.7m - of which only F14 was delivered) IOR ($13.42m) proposals from last year totaled ($48.12m). Catalyst got handed to the CF and IOR hasn’t come back to treasury. So excluding these two, the IO ask is the same. Not 50% less.

Translation: Fund my proposals or I’m out of here.

If someone borrowed 10K from 1 person and disappeared, there is a chance they may return and pay it back. If they borrowed 250K from 15 different people and disappeared, this is an elaborate scam with ill intent. Please don't wait any longer. Start pursuing your options NOW.

8 people show up to a Cardano booth. CF: Someone quick, take a photo. We gotta flex this to everyone.

Does anyone else just cringe when they see people post thing like “here is the top OGs of Cardano” or “you should follow these guys” and then give you a list of people they deem worthy?

Didn’t that already happen? 🤔

If your $ADA stack can be used to vote on projects that disburse funds to you, the incentive will be to keep that stack and milk the cow. The disincentive would be to exclude that said stack from governance voting but that ship has sailed a long time ago. The system is captive.

This is MUCH better. But why stop there? What if we start some type of Foundation dedicated to advancing #Cardano? Would could gift them like 500 Million ADA from the treasury and they could use it to grow our ecosystem and onboard millions of users. What do you guys think?

Only the most hardcore Cardano fans will go to, watch, or even be aware of the Summit’s existence. We are paying 14M ADA to market it to poeople who already like ADA. This is not going to move the needle.