Withdraw 25,400,000 ada for Intersect: Governance coordination and technical ...
This Treasury Withdrawal funds Intersect: Governance coordination and technical stewardship for the Cardano ecosystem. This Treasury Withdrawal is submitted by Intersect. The content for the following sections; Abstract, Motivation and Rationale have been sourced from the approved proposal submitted by the Vendor as part of the Intersect budget process.
Reasoning
Written after the vote was cast
What this asks for, and from whom
25,400,000 ADA funding Intersect's core operating model from June 2026 to June 2027: the member organization, governance coordination, and. The part that matters most to me. Technical stewardship of the core Haskell repositories, network upgrade coordination, incident response, and release management.
What would have to be true for this to be a good use of treasury funds
Somebody has to hold the pager. Cardano has now run multiple network upgrades coordinated by Intersect, with a third in preparation, and incident response for a mission-critical chain is not a volunteer hobby. For an ask this size, the trajectory also matters: this year's request is down from $7.875M to $6.35M while keeping the continuity functions. Shrinking asks with sharpened scope is the direction I want every recurring line item moving.
What specifically concerns me
It's the biggest single number I voted yes on this cycle, so let's be real about it: Intersect has taken plenty of fair criticism about speed and bureaucracy, some of it from me on stream. I voted yes anyway because the alternative to imperfect coordination isn't better coordination. It's nobody coordinating hard forks and security response while we argue about it. You don't fire the fire department because the paperwork is slow.
What I am asking of the proposer if this passes
It was enacted. My asks: keep publishing what the reduced budget actually buys, quarter by quarter. Keep the technical stewardship visibly separated from the committee machinery so the community can judge each on its own. And keep the trend line pointing down. The third consecutive reduced ask will say more than any report.