Tweag Core Cardano Infrastructure: Treasury Withdrawal 2026–2028
This treasury withdrawal requests **₳39,787,316** (USD $9,946,829) to fund Tweag by Modus Create's delivery of 17 work packages across 9 core infrastructure areas for the Cardano ecosystem over 2026–2028. The primary focus is the **mainnet deployment of Peras** (faster finality: ~2 min vs. ~12 min today), alongside improvements to resilience, scalability, developer tooling, and network observability. Work packages include: - **Peras v1** – production cryptography, KillSwitch, mainnet readiness - **Peras v2** – pre-agreement algorithm, cooldown recovery, performance optimizations - **History Expiry** – partial-history nodes to reduce SPO storage costs - **Hard Fork Mempool Bridger** – transaction preservation during fork incidents - **Conformance Testing** – CTC framework extended for Peras and Leios - **Adversarial Fork Testing** – Genesis property-based test improvements - **Canonical Ledger State & Mithril** – standardized state snapshots (CIP-0165) - **Plutus Script Re-Executor** – debugging tooling for DApp developers - **Mutation Testing** – test suite adequacy framework for Haskell/Cardano - **Hoarding Node** – live deployment, distributed mode, embedded consensus validation, transaction collection - **Block Cost Investigation** – empirical and analytical cost models - **Genesis Sync Accelerator & Node Emulator** – ongoing maintenance Intersect is requested to serve as proposal and contract administrator. All deliverables are open-source and publicly tracked.
Reasoning
Written after the vote was cast
What this asks for, and from whom
Tweag by Modus Create asked for 39,787,316 ADA, roughly 9.9 million USD, for 17 work packages across 9 core infrastructure areas spanning 2026 to 2028, centered on mainnet deployment of Peras for faster finality.
What would have to be true for this to be a good use of treasury funds
The work itself is legitimate and Tweag are real core engineers. Peras finality going from about 12 minutes to about 2 minutes is a meaningful improvement to a chain where throughput and settlement speed decide competitiveness.
What specifically concerns me
Scope and duration. Nearly 40 million ADA committed across a three year horizon, from a treasury operating under a Net Change Limit, in a market where ADA's value has moved dramatically. Multi-year commitments at this size lock future Dreps into decisions they had no part in making. I would rather fund a year at a time and renew on delivery.
What I am asking of the proposer if this passes
It was dropped, and Tweag returned at epoch 637 with 18,260,000 ADA. I voted yes on that one. That is the system working exactly as intended: too big gets refused, right-sized gets funded, and the team that adjusts gets rewarded.