The governance action is here. Vote yes and watch the Cardano Builder DAO push Cardano to new heights. If you are not convinced, bring us your questions. Go vote! gov.tools/governance_actions…

In this round of governance, be sure to support @builder__dao. It provides key support in place of catalyst for proven teams, to boost TVL and Trxns across the ecosystem! Tell your dreps to NOT abandon the teams advancing the dapps that drive adoption on cardano! intersect.ekklesia.vote/ball…

Enjoyed this conversation with @NicolasC3rny during @Cardano governance hour . During governance hour, I spoke about the @builder__dao and how I believe we should evolve Cardano Governance with Delegated Responsibility through our grassroots efforts with Initiative DAOs. For you Cardano believers, who came here with the same idea as me, the world needs decentralized blockchains and the future financial and identity markets will run on these systems, hang in there. Goverance can be very messy, discouraging, and full of emotion, but Cardano is a start up in itself, we are figuring it out. All we can do is fight for what we believe in and make sure we keep our conduct as a community professional.

Happy June Bankers! In the spirit of governance season, we wanted to share a progress update for our community! Less than 3 months after receiving @builder__dao funding, BankFi has already delivered on measurable growth throughout our ecosystem. We have: - Launched Portfolio Ratings with Discord integrations & future incentive mechanisms slated for development! - Distributed 32k $NIGHT to holders with another drop planned soon! - Seen 14% MAU growth & 30% TVL growth - Launched 6 Cardano projects through @BankFiPillar, 2 of which being #BackedByBankFi Importantly, 0% of the funding was used for speculative expansion or unnecessary infrastructure. All our growth is due to our proven model, KPI-driven growth, and the support of our amazing community! There's always more being built, and the best is yet to come!

A vote for the @builder__dao is a vote for: 1. The grassroots builders on Cardano. 2. A coordination layer that serves as an unapologetically transparent democratic, informed voter base. 3. A funding mechanism that actually tracks 2030 vision KPIs for everything it funds. 4. A smart contract governed execution layer that is showing delegated executive authority can be achieved in a decentralized domain-specific fashion with dRep oversight. 5. A constantly improving coordination layer that aligns itself with the dReps and the will of the community.

🎙️ Cardano Proposals Space, Episode 3 📅 Tomorrow, Friday · 1PM UTC 🟢 CB DAO (@builder__dao) 3 open spots for a 10min pitch Format per proposal: → 10min pitch → 5min community Q&A Got a proposal under the Intersect Budget process? DM us to grab one of the open slots. Set your reminder 👇 x.com/i/spaces/1dKrPPlXrvnJX…

📌 Surfacing Innovation & Growth DAO Feedback and Misconceptions In #Cardano governance, proposals are often judged not only by what they actually say, but also by DReps’ and community members’ assumptions, prior frustrations, fears, expectations, and interpretations projected onto them. The Innovation & Growth DAO proposal was submitted to the Intersect Budget Process a few weeks ago, and over this period we received community feedback on it, including comments on X and two reviews directly on the Intersect Hydra Voting platform from DReps outside the proposal’s core working group: @yutazzz and @SIPO_Tokyo We responded to these comments both on X and on the Hydra Voting platform. You can check the proposal itself, the reviews, and many of the responses directly through the link below👇 hydra-voting.intersectmbo.or… However, instead of leaving the discussion scattered across tweets, DMs, and buried inside the Intersect Hydra voting app, which, despite good intentions, almost nobody reads consistently, let’s be honest 😅, I decided to surface and address the most recurring questions and concerns in a short public series on X over the next few days. But before getting into the responses themselves, I think some additional context matters. Misconceptions, assumptions, and incomplete interpretations have played a major role in Cardano governance discussions since the early #ProjectCatalyst days, and they continue to shape how people evaluate on-chain Governance Actions today. There is a reason Cardano’s governance testnet was named SanchoNet, it was a homage to Sancho Panza, Don Quixote’s grounded companion in Cervantes’ classic. 🏰 In Don Quixote, the famous scene is not only about a man fighting windmills. It is about perception: Don Quixote sees threatening giants where there are, in reality, windmills. Governance discussions can work in a similar way. Every proposal has two versions: 🔸 The actual written proposal, with its stated purpose, scope, and definitions; 🔸 And the version each reader reconstructs through assumptions, skepticism, prior frustrations, fears, expectations, or ideals. Sometimes the “giant” being debated is not the proposal itself, but an imagined version of what people fear it might be. ⚔️🌪️ That does not mean skepticism is wrong. Quite the opposite. Sancho Panza matters because he brings realism, common sense, and grounded judgment into a world of projections and dramatic interpretations. As a DRep, I understand the skepticism. Our ecosystem has developed some scar tissue from past problems, and stronger scrutiny is a natural response. We are not trying to avoid criticism. Solid proposals should be challenged, refined, and improved through serious feedback. Some questions and concerns reflect healthy scrutiny from an ecosystem that wants to avoid repeating past mistakes. Others seem to come from incomplete interpretations of the proposal’s purpose, design, and intended role within Cardano’s funding architecture. At the same time, the Innovation & Growth DAO proposal was developed through an internal DRep collaboration process, including multiple meetings, questionnaires, and joint drafting work with experienced Cardano ecosystem contributors such as @JaromirTesar, @Cardanians_io, @jonahkoch, @triangleforces, @Lo_Ponch, @GrendelMarco, @genwealth_app, myself and others. 🤝 I am confident that the group of DReps involved in the @adaGrowthDAO has the experience needed to design, manage, and operate this project in a way that avoids repeating problems observed in Cardano’s funding history. So in that spirit, this short series is my attempt to bring the discussion back from imagined giants to the actual windmills: what the Innovation & Growth DAO proposal really says, what it is trying to solve, and where legitimate concerns still deserve clarification. 🌾 📌 Here are the main recurring questions and concerns surrounding the proposal: 🔹 Why create a new funding mechanism or DAO if Treasury Withdrawals and the Intersect Budget Process already exist? 🔹 How will the DAO avoid overlap with Catalyst, Builder DAO, Cardano Tooling DAO, Orion Fund, and other funding vehicles? 🔹 How will DReps and “experts” be selected, matched, compensated, and held accountable? 🔹 Could this DAO become a group of people voting for themselves, and how will conflicts of interest be handled? 🔹 Who audits the DAO itself, and what happens if a funding round underperforms? 🔹 Who is eligible to participate, how to participate, and what are the requirements? 🔹 Why is the DAO requesting this budget, and are operational costs too high? Over the next few days, I’ll publish tweets addressing recurring questions, concerns and misconceptions. 🧵 If we want serious governance, we need to evaluate what is actually being proposed, not only the versions reconstructed through fear, frustration, assumptions, or incomplete context. This is not unique to our proposal. It is a natural human bias that can affect how any proposal is interpreted, and we need to keep it in check to make better collective decisions. #DRep #Governance #Intersect

Cardano Governance Hour: Initiative DAO Framework x.com/i/broadcasts/1AxRnnZgD…

Join us in 30 minutes as we debate and share what is happening at the CB DAO. x.com/i/spaces/1wxWjaNlWqWJQ

Cardano Builder DAO is one of the clearest paths for treasury funding to reach active ecosystem teams. Round 2 builds on that progress with stronger governance, public KPI tracking, and improved accountability. Cardano’s builders are still here. They should have the resources to keep building. medium.com/tap-in-with-tapto…

Cardano Governance Hours This session takes a closer look at the Cardano Builder DAO and the Initiative DAO Framework, together with Logan Panchot (@Lo_Ponch), co-founder of Clarity and an elected board member of CBDAO. 📅 Tuesday, May 26, 15:00 – 16:00 (UTC) ↪️ details

Join us on Friday to discuss the Initiative DAO framework with representatives from each DAO. x.com/i/spaces/1wGWjaQzNNVKQ

CB DAO Unpacking Yuta's Feedback x.com/i/broadcasts/1XGygmDYB…

Yuta, as the grassroots builder layer on Cardano, we appreciate your work and dedication to the ecosystem. We ask that you consider our rebuttal and reconsider your NO vote on the Cardano Builder DAO. For the broader dRep community, @yutazzz makes good points and we feel we have good counterpoints that satisfy his concerns. We also put this as a response to your comment on the Intersect site. Our rebuttal: docsend.com/view/rycs4gg4mq2…

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Space with CB DAO coming up in 45 minutes!!! x.com/i/spaces/1yxBeMrpBBzJN

The CB DAO: A journey of constant improvement x.com/i/broadcasts/1rGmqoYmk…

The Cardano Ecosystem Tooling DAO proposal is officially live. This proposal is designed to support better data, tooling, infrastructure, and ecosystem visibility across Cardano. Read the full proposal: hydra-voting.intersectmbo.or… Website: cardanotooling.com