Governance Actions

Demonstrate sample-protocol fee governance via a Plutus cost signal

Cost ModelsUpdated→Updated

Reduce minPoolCost to 75 ada and increase Plutus Memory Limits (Part 2)

3 parameters changed

Motion of No Confidence (Test Proposal)

No-confidence motion

New Cardano Constitution (Test Proposal)

New constitution with guardrails script

Update Committee – Add Member (Test Proposal)

+1 members · threshold 67%

Hard Fork to Protocol Version 11.1 ("van Rossem" Hard Fork)

Protocol11.0→11.1

Reduce governanceActionDeposit on PreProd from 100,000 ADA to 10,000 ADA

Governance Action Deposit1,000 ₳→10,000 ₳

Reduce govActionDeposit to increase testnet governance participation

Governance Action Deposit1,000 ₳→1,000 ₳

Treasury Withdrawals (f5606fe2#0)

Requesting0 ₳

Pebble & Ecosystem maintenance: TypeScript core of Cardano

Requesting4,600,000 ₳

2025 Net Change Limit

The Cardano Constitution requires the establishment of a Net Change Limit, which defines the maximum amount of lovelace that can be withdrawn from the treasury during an outlined period of time. This governance action serves as an opportunity for all governance stakeholders to formally express their positions regarding the proposed Net Change Limit, ensuring transparency, accountability, and alignment across the ecosystem. This Net Change Limit facilitates a yearly budget cycle for the Cardano community. The 2025 Net Change Limit will begin at the start of Epoch 532 and continue for 72 epochs, finishing at the conclusion of Epoch 604 in December 2025. The 2025 Net Change Limit will be 350,000,000,000,000 lovelace (350M ada). This is the maximum amount that can be withdrawn from the treasury during this specific period and shall not be exceeded. The Net Change Limit will be used when reviewing both budget actions and treasury withdrawal actions to ensure constitutionality as required by Article IV of the Cardano Constitution and the Treasury Withdrawal Guardrails outlined in Appendix I.

Scalus: Cardano’s Application Platform for Building, Launching, and Scaling

Requesting8,503,000 ₳

Hard Fork to Protocol Version 11 ("van Rossem" Hard Fork)

Protocol11.0→11.0

Update Plutus Cost Models

Cost ModelsUpdated→Updated

Revised Cardano Summit 2026 Singapore

Requesting7,800,000 ₳

Cardano Summit 2026 and TOKEN2049 Singapore

Requesting14,076,539 ₳

Pebble + Gerolamo - HLabs 2026 Budget

Requesting8,035,714 ₳

Pebble + Gerolamo - HLabs 2026 Budget

Requesting10 ₳

Approve Cardano Foundation as New Managing Entity of Project Catalyst

The Cardano Foundation (CF), supported by Input Output Group (IOG), is requesting community approval to be appointed as the new managing entity for Project Catalyst. This will allow for full and effective transition of Catalyst operations and responsibilities from IOG to CF in accordance with the statutes of the Catalyst Foundation Company (CFC). This transition will ensure continuity of operations and minimise delays on milestone reviews and eligible payouts for teams delivering against projects in Funds 10-14. This approval request and Info Action is unrelated to Intersect’s role as the constitutionally mandated budget administrator for funds 14 to 16. This request is also unrelated to the already announced return to the Cardano Treasury of the previously approved allocations for Fund 15 and 16. This Info Action will be considered approved, if greater than 50% of the active DRep voting stake votes YES upon the action's expiration.

Increase Transaction and Block Memory Units (Part 1 of 2)

2 parameters changed

Securing Generic Top-Level Domains for the Cardano Ecosystem

The Cardano Foundation is seeking community support to apply for the registration of the .ada and .cardano gTLDs with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) during the next application window in Q1 2026. This initiative will only use the Foundation’s own financial resources and aims to secure a competitive digital presence for Cardano, unlock innovations and strategically position Cardano as a digital infrastructure.

Testing a proposal

Requesting100 ₳

Update the Cardano committeeMinSize Parameter

Committee Min Size3→3

Update the Cardano committeeMinSize Parameter

+2 members · threshold 67%