Rodrigo P₳cini | Agora Research | dRep

You were respectful even though my NO vote before. You listened to feedback and made adjustments to the proposal. Thank you Michele, your openness and respect throughout the process have earned you points in my eyes, and I will dedicate enough time to evaluating your proposal. Several dReps I admire voted yes for your proposal before, and I will consider their feedback as well.

Both proposals have been submitted In an effort to contain treasury spending we have reduced our base ask by 125k USD *per proposal* 250k USD less in total We also reduced the contingency from 25% down to 15% We need all the community support we can get, don't wait to vote, we can't wait to start working 🫡

@MicheleHarmonic Ok, got it🫡

@RodrigoPacini I'm the best source, ask anything Beside that, there's the code GitHub.com/HarmonicLabs

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@Cerkoryn @earncoinpool @rabbitholepools @Star_Forge_Pool @BBHMM_Stake @OystrPool @KpunToN00b @adamKDean Please sir, I'm eager to see

@RodrigoPacini @earncoinpool @rabbitholepools @Star_Forge_Pool @BBHMM_Stake @OystrPool @KpunToN00b @adamKDean I'll DM you the draft, but all the info will be made public on Ekklesia when it goes live.

After over a year of weekly meetings, research, simulations, tool building, and community discussion, the Cardano Incentives Working Group will be releasing an Ekklesia ballot this coming week. This is the culmination of many thousands of hours of volunteer work. 👇

@planetmaaz Several projects are closing shop, people are leaving the ecosystem. I don't feel confident enough to invite people to the ecosystem when those who are here are fighting for survival.

Cardano Summit & Token 2049 presence is honestly a no brainer for Cardano, especially with the reworked proposals. The real question is: do we have the onboarding systems ready to absorb the interest that will be generate? If so, what? If not, how?

BREAKING: The odds of aliens being confirmed this year are soaring. And, yes, you can make money on the aliens 👇

may the 4th be with you, cardano ⚔️ blue, green, purple - the community's got options. some chose red. we know how that story ends.

With so many discussions ongoing about voter apathy, lack of voting rationale, DRep fatigue, even whether or not to compensate DReps, I think it’s important that, as an ecosystem, we bring these topics into a public debate. Not everyone will agree that DReps should be compensated. Not everyone will agree that they should always provide a clear voting rationale. Not everyone believes DReps should consult their stakers before voting. With so many opinions, where does that leave us? Should we strive to all agree on everything, or is this simply part of being in a decentralized, self-governing ecosystem, where the majority decides the outcomes? Governance, for some, may seem messy, and some may lose heart along the way. But one thing I want to make clear is that if we, as an ecosystem, can look beyond our differences (maybe even beyond potential political agendas) and each play our part, while respecting one another’s sovereignty, we will thrive. Cardano governance could then prove that what some thought was not possible can actually work, becoming, bit by bit, a standard for others to adopt and follow. Let’s show up this coming Monday. Engage with the panelists and share your thoughts, ideas, and what you believe would actually work. #Cardano

Right, let's kick off some Cardano on-chain governance voting for the budget cycle. With 69.27 million ADA voting power, I just voted NO on the governance action: Blockfrost: Maintenance and Next Generation Indexing, on behalf of my loyal delegates. Rationale I am voting NO on the Project Cayley and Blockfrost Treasury Withdrawal. I want to explicitly commend the Blockfrost team for their immense historical contributions and unwavering dedication to our blockchain. However, I must respectfully dispute the assertion that their infrastructure currently serves ninety percent of our ecosystem free tier traffic. Through my close and ongoing conversations with builders across numerous projects, the reality on the ground indicates a much more diverse infrastructure landscape. While Blockfrost is undeniably a foundational pillar, this specific metric appears significantly overstated, fundamentally weakening the justification for such a massive operational subsidy. Furthermore, it is imperative to contextualize this request within the broader scope of their historical funding and active commercial models. The community has already generously backed this team with well over one million dollars across thirty seven separate Catalyst proposals, in addition to a substantial one million three hundred thousand ADA Treasury withdrawal granted just last year for their platform community budget. As a consistent paid user of their premium tier for quite some time, I know firsthand that they possess a successful commercial revenue stream. A private enterprise collecting premium subscription fees should naturally transition toward self sustainability, rather than relying on massive Treasury subsidies to permanently float their operating expenses. Additionally, I am fundamentally opposed to the practice of bundling disparate funding requests into a single proposal. Bundling inherently creates ambiguity in governance voting, forcing representatives to either accept unjustifiable expenditures or reject otherwise valuable initiatives. While I acknowledge the theoretical merit in decentralized slice indexing to prepare for Leios, funding this architecture today is premature. I would strongly prefer to see this research presented as a standalone proposal when Leios is actually mainnet ready. Only at that juncture can we accurately measure the empirical increase in usage and data requirements necessary to justify this scale of investment. With ADA having fallen out of the top ten and struggling in price action against competing blockchains, our capital must be ruthlessly directed toward immediate value accrual. I strongly encourage the team to unbundle this request and return when Leios is live with a purely research focused initiative and reduced ask. As a final note, I would like to clearly establish my expectations regarding community conduct. I strongly reinforce the absolute requirement for utmost professionalism across our ecosystem whenever any active proposal has been submitted for governance review. Transaction adastat.net/transactions/7… My DRep profile (I created this governance site) governance.cardano-visualisation.com/drep/drep1ygsg…

@planetmaaz @hoskytoken

@hoskytoken sure thing HOSK(IO)

I am Cardano First interpret as you like

🚨Last chance to include your input on #Cardano governance! Starting in 15 minutes

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In the upcoming Beyond MVG workshop, we will attempt to refine the Cardano Constitutional Committee Recommendations and finish the workshop series with a retrospective. beyond-mvg.vercel.app/workshops

@thotman__ @JaromirTesar Yes 🎯

@JaromirTesar @RodrigoPacini If you owned a restaurant and nobody was coming in to eat, would you spend all your money upgrading the kitchen so meals could be cooked faster? Or would you first ask why nobody wants to eat there?

How much ADA from NCL should be invested in infrastructure and operations (Intersect) this year?

@jrv97_velazquez @InputEndorsers Are u kidding? The payment should be proportional.

@RodrigoPacini @InputEndorsers At least once a month for sure

Intersect membership fee should be raise to 50-100 usd. It is too easy to game the system with 10 usd. You have voting power even dreps have to pay 500 ADA currently, Just found out about someone asking why the kyc for the 20 people he brought in was delayed. You invest 800 USD. You get 80 votes, you secure a voting seat in the committee. You get 6000 ADA as a member, 9000 ADA as a co chair and 12000 ADA as a chair. You sit in 2 committees because you are allowed to. You 4x-8x you investment. Thats literally incentivizing corruption. It may damage intersect image temporarily to accept that reality but long term it will improve its efficiency. For those that say we don’t get value for increased membership price I leave you with this message I got: Please fix this issue @JBriggsLondon and intersect team.