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This proposal requests **3,333,000 ADA** (3,300,000 ADA for delivery and 33,000 ADA for the 1% budget administration fee) for Dano Finance to accelerate the **DeFi Kernel** as an open standard for shared liquidity, on-chain financial intents, and global order-book coordination on Cardano. Cardano DeFi is still fragmented. DEXs, lending protocols, options protocols, marketplaces, and future synthetic asset systems often operate as separate liquidity silos. The DeFi Kernel addresses this by defining a common standard where compatible smart contracts are permissionless, composable, and discoverable: users can write or fill orders without a privileged batcher, contracts publish clear datum/redeemer schemas, and orders can be found through on-chain mechanisms such as CIP-89 beacon tokens, deterministic addresses, or other tagging methods. Dano Finance will support DeFi Kernel adoption by improving the public [**defikernel.org**](https://defikernel.org/) platform and registry so any Cardano builder can submit a compatible smart contract and make its information visible to the ecosystem. The platform will document script hashes, datum/redeemer schemas, integration steps, supported off-chain libraries, audit/security status, TVL references, and other metadata that wallets, bots, indexers, and protocols need to integrate reliably. Alongside the DeFi Kernel registry work, Dano Finance will deliver two practical DeFi Kernel-compatible primitives, **Spot Leverage Order Book** and **American Options Market-Making Pools**, plus a **Composable DeFi Transaction Builder SDK** that helps wallets, bots, indexers, and other dApps discover, compose, and settle DeFi Kernel-compatible orders. The value to Cardano is a more connected DeFi stack: a stronger DeFi Kernel platform, clearer smart contract metadata, easier integrations, deeper liquidity, better composability, new risk-management markets, and a foundation for future financial applications. Minswap Labs will serve as the budget administrator for this proposal, providing an established Cardano ecosystem administrator to support fund administration, milestone review, and accountability.