Amaru Treasury Withdrawal 2025
[Amaru](https://github.com/pragma-org/amaru) is an open-source project implementing a new fully interoperable block-producing node for Cardano. It aims to improve the network's overall accessibility and robustness without compromising its safety and security. This treasury withdrawal of ₳1.5M follows a previously submitted and now approved [budget proposal](https://explorer.cardano.org/tx/bd488931f792651fefa9c6fda185a2c6cec83245b51d994e33090ce36e29cc26). It is split across five script addresses each covering a scope of a work (ledger, consensus, mercenaries and marketing) and a contingency reserve.
Reasoning
Written after the vote was cast
What this asks for, and from whom
1,500,000 ADA for the Amaru Treasury Withdrawal 2025, funding the alternative Cardano node implementation.
What would have to be true for this to be a good use of treasury funds
A second full node implementation is the most concrete decentralization work available to this ecosystem. One client means one point of catastrophic failure, no matter how well distributed the stake is.
What specifically concerns me
Alternative implementations are hard and many never reach production. At 1.5 million this was a reasonable bet on an early stage effort, and I backed the same team again at epoch 631 for 10.14 million once there was progress to point at. That is the pattern I want proposers to understand: modest first ask, delivery, then scale.
What I am asking of the proposer if this passes
It was enacted. Get to conformance and get SPOs running it. Client diversity claimed is worth nothing. Client diversity running on mainnet is worth a great deal.