Kyle Solomon

I am voting YES on Withdraw 25,400,000 ada for Intersect. In addition to core administration services, Intersect is an important hub for bringing the ecosystem together to solve ecosystem problems.

I am voting YES on Withdraw 1,193,000 ada for Intersect Technical Steering Committee Support. TSC does a good job and the proposal ask is reasonable.

I am voting YES on Withdraw 1,310,960 ada for Hardware Wallet Maintenance. Ensuring support with major hardware wallets is essential to ecosystem resiliancy.

I am voting YES to Withdraw 540,750 ada for UTxO RPC by TxPipe. UTxO RPC provides a standardized interface for developers to interact with UTxO-based blockchains. This is essential to dev-x.

I am voting YES on Withdraw 540,750 ada for by TxPipe Dolos. I consider Dolos core infra.

I am voting No on Withdraw 3,961,538 ada for Bringing Real-World Payments to Cardano with Wirex. As a competitor I would vote abstain but as an expert I vote no because the proposed approach is naive as a go-to-market for Cardano and thus an absolute wasted spend.

I am voting No on the Strike Finance Liquidity Deployment. Strike has moved away from on-chain transparencies in favor of user experience. While I strongly believe in prioritizeing user experience, I also believe scaling a financial business utilizing public funds requires transparency and risk mitigation. If Strike wants to purusue scaling via treasury funds, it's only fair to the ecosytem we mitigate that risk via inspection (third-party audit of backend financial mechanics and health)

I am voting YES on Se7en Labs: Daedalus Wallet Maintenance and Improvements. I am on this team but it's a really good team. We will make Daedalus useful and desireable again.

I am voting YES to increase the Net Change Limit: Cardano Treasury (Epochs 613-713). We have to spend to win during the bear.

I am voting YES on Withdraw 120,000,000 ada for AlphaGrowth’s Cardano PRIME. As an entrepreneur I believe we've lost DeFi. That being said, the best DeFi minds in our ecosystem beleive this will be beneficial and give us a real shot at winning, so we owe it to the ecosystem to try. And if we fail here to capture meaningful DeFi market then that's the indicator for the ecosytem to aggressively pursue adotion outside of DeFi.

I am voting YES to Withdraw 4,969,231 ada for Cardano Enterprise Adoption. This is a good bet at market fit with an established company to mitigate risk. This proposal positions for a real shot at adoption while helping to keep the Anvil team fed through the bear. Go get 'em Cash.

I am voting YES Eternl: Path to Sustainability - v2. Eternl is integral to the Cardano power user. Emurgo should vote yes too now that they no longer have a wallet.

I am voting YES to reimburse Ikigai. It's the right thing to do.

I am voting YES to Reduce the committeeMinSize parameter from 7 to 5. Requiring a min committee size of 7 given the current lack of interest and compensation creates significant additional risk for governance stall. 5 is a better number and leaves the community with room to operate in the face of one or two resignations.

I am voting YES on the IO Hydra proposal. I appreciate IO resubmitting this proposal as a standalone, and beleive Hydra to be an important component in addressing the pieces required for adoption-driven products

I am voting YES on supporting the Cardano Vision 2026: Human Centred, Scalable, Post Quantum Secure - IO Research proposal. The research and output scope is broad such that we will receive many outputs from funding this reserarch. Aligning for quantum resistance is critical. \n
I would have prefered IOR engage the community to align strategy, as much research is not exactly relevant near term given the current economic landscape of the Cardano ecosystem. Research initiatives should be driven by specific demand and linked to specific market requirements or/or risk mitigations and timelines of relevant market scope potentcy/applicability. Strategy matters a great deal and I feel like IOR could have done a much better job at engaging the community there.

I am voting NO on supporting the Cardano at TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026: Top-Up ‘Title’ Sponsorship Upgrade proposal.

Showing up is enogh if we do it right

I am voting ABSTAIN on supporting the Tweag Core Cardano Infrastructure: Treasury Withdrawal 2026–2028 proposal. The amount requested is immense and the team has publicly to resubmit a new proposal which will cover a shorter term.

I am voting NO on supporting the [OriLife × TonFarm] Identifying 180 Million Durians Without Physical Labels proposal. Model does not provide any path to meaningfulk RIO and Durian is stanky.

I am voting ABSTAIN to support the Cardano Summit 2026 and TOKEN2049 Singapore proposal. We absolutely need these events to to happen, though I would most certainly personally benefit as I would work position two vending machines - one that enables Hydra based gamification and the other enabling Cardano+Bitcoin payments.

I am voting YES to support the Pebble + Gerolamo - HLabs 2026 Budget proposal. While node diversity is important (see previous rationales), this node variation will equip the ecosystem with valuable latitude to serve a new range of user experiences.

I am voting YES to Approve Cardano Foundation as New Managing Entity of Project Catalyst because I am not retarded.

I am voting YES on Dingo: a Production-Grade Block Producer in Go by Blink Labs. I very strongly believe we absolutely must prioritize market traction and protocol revenue above all else. That being said there is immense value in reducing costs associated with node development/maintenance and SPO infrastructure overhead. Node diversity also reduces the surface area of attack relevant to censorship resistance of Cardano. I also believe it critical to continue supporting great ecsoystem contributors. Reporting from the front lines of adoption, the Blink team has earned this one.

I am voting YES on Cardano DeFi Liquidity Budget - Withdrawal 1. I think deepening liquidity is important as well as strengthenig the footing of our home players. We will learn a lot from this initiative both on executiona and in revenue.

I am voting YES on Cardano x Draper Dragon: Orion Fund. I should abstain but this is too important. We have an existential gap in ecosystem funding. Catalyst is postponed and may never come back. Builder DOA will not produce the protocol revenue we need or investor-ready initiatives. Through my work with the Intersect Product Committee we have identified a dire need to enable multiple prongs of highly specialized ecosystem funding initiatives (Catalyst tried to do too much for too many). Draper Dragon fund addresses the tip of the spear and will ultimately get us our first Series A startup wins. Dreps who are nitpicking this proposal on the basis of imperfecton deserve to lose every last lovelace of delegation because they have demonstrated they are so damn out of touch with the ecosystem and too detached from the front lines to undersatnd WE DO NOT HAVE THE LUXURY OF TIME - signed one of the few (count on one hand) Cardano entrepreneurs with a track record of launching a highly successful product that: 1) played to Cardano's unique strengths, 2) created millions of on-chain transactions and 3) helped keep some of the best community talent in the ecosytem working here. We are going Series A and very much want Draper Dragon in the ecosystem supporting us.

I am voting YES on Cardano Budget Process Framework (facilitated by Intersect). While not entirely perfect, this new process a fantastic improvement over the last budget process. I would like to the newly introduced treasury donation scale in proportion (possibly linearly) with the amount of funding asked

I am voting YES to Increase Transaction and Block Memory Units (Part 1 of 2). Y'all know the drill.

I am voting YES on Cardano DeFi Liquidity Budget - Withdrawal 1. I think deepening liquidity is important as well as strengthenig the footing of our home players. We will learn a lot from this initiative both on executiona and in revenue.

I am voting YES. Goodbye, Max

I am voting YES on Net Change Limit (Epoch 613 to Epoch 713). It's YOLO time for the ecosystem - I beleive we will waste a bit but I also believe accountability will prevail

I am voting NO on DeltaDeFi: Hydra Trading Infrastructure Budget. First off, I love the work DeltaDefi is doing and think they should keep requesting funds. KPI dashboard makes a lot of sense but we have to nail KPIs first - a refined submission will come on chain in a few months this year. Also, please pursue funds from Builder DOA as they SHOULD be funding you guys - and also continue to socialize this initiative and come back with a hydra-focused infra budget if needed.

I am voting YES on CARDANO BLOCKCHAIN ECOSYSTEM CONSTITUTION v2.4. These changes help streamline governance and further clarify the constitution. I welcome YUTAs work.

I am voting YES to the Cardano 2030: Vision, Mission, Strategy Framework and KPIs. While I was involved extensively in facilitaing this vision process, I do not stand to personally benefit from its acceptance and thus do not see a conflict of interest in voting. This workstream is critally important to the ecosystem.

I am voting YES because an election was held in accordance with the constitution and Cardano needs a functional government.

I am voting YES on the Cardano Critcal Integrations budgets and withdrawal. It's good to see the founding stakeholders strengths coming together to solve significant problems for the ecosystem. This will be a good demonstration of the founding entities' abilities to collectively execute

I am voting YES to extending the NCL a couple epochs - the show must go on.

I am voting YES on the Cardano Critcal Integrations budgets and withdrawal. It's good to see the founding stakeholders strengths coming together to solve significant problems for the ecosystem. This will be a good demonstration of the founding entities' abilities to collectively execute

I am voting YES because the SNEK team is gasoline and the treasury is lit. See rationale on corresponding info action vote

I am voting YES because this is an important component to enabling strategic marketing efficiency.

I am voting YES because what matters is what's in your heart, and it's ok to be retarded

I am voting YES because ensuring execution of Constitutional Committee duties is a responsibility critical to government function. We get what we pay for.

I am voting ABSTAIN as I currently serve the vice-chair of the Intersect Product Committee. Had the Author engaged the Product Committee, the Author would have been highly aware the Product Committee is already planning to solicit feedback via info action circa end of October. So what dREPS will see now is eseentially heavily incomplete work and have to spend valuable time voting again. This is a fantastic example of an attempt to make oneself feel helpful and special at the expense of progress. I recomend the Author attend a Product Committee meeting if they wish to be helpful relevant to Product Committee initatives

I am voting YES on the Stablecoin DeFi Liquidity Budget proposal. The existance of a tDAO governed by a broad selection of dreps capable of adding/removing administrators or even shutting down the tDOA and retuning funds back to the treasury is a critical component. I have witnessed firsthand the progression and depth of community collaboration associated with this initiative, and believe both the intent and administrative skillsets reuired for successful execution are present. While aspects may appear imperfect, the tDAO structure appears to support adaptive management. As there is much we will learn of great value from this initiative to further our path towards sustainability, the initial team is well-known and trusted (reputations are valuable), and YOYO, LFG fam.

I have voted YES on the current proposal to fund the Snek. The request for a loan was exeptionally thoughtful as significant reputational stake will placed on the Snek's team ability to pay back the loan. The Snek team has proven capable and it will be helpful to create incentives for centralized exchanges to integrate stacks relevant for listing Cardano native assets.

I have voted NO on the current proposal to fund Cardano in Oceana. A proposal like this should follow in-depth community discussion to use the treasury to scale a viable model - proven out prior via Catalyst or some other means

I have voted YES on the current proposal to update the Cardano Constitution. The updated Constitution introduces further clarity, streamlines efficiency while favoring agile governance.

I have updated my vote to YES on the current proposal to fund Ecosystem Pavillions. After further consultation and listening to the community, I believe we need parallel event-driven participation initiatives to ensure the best quality output.

I am updating my vote to YES on the current proposal to fund Ecosystem Exchange Listing and Market Making. My original objection was due to overlooking the specific native asset projects this proposal would help.

I am updating my vote to ABSTAIN on the current proposal to fund improving Voltaire. I still believe it a bit early to begin planning to making improvements and that we need to run a bit further and catch a few more scars before we will be in a position to make comprehensive governance improvements. That being said, governance is the single most double-edge sworded feaature we have in Cardano, and any early insights into trajectories realized from such initiatives could be helpful

I am updating my vote vote to YES on the current proposal to fund a free Native Asset CDN for Cardano developers. My first instinct is the price tag seems steep for the value-add received. After speaking with community developers and projects I now better understand how some projects rely on this tech. That being said, projects should be self-sustainable, and I will be looking for the projects relying on NFTCDN to have become self-sustainable when when reconsidering additional funding. Let's give them a bit more runway to ensure our projects have the best footing possible

I have updated my vote to ABSTAIN on the current proposal to fund Haus real estate market. I have updated my vote after meeting with Haus at Rare Evo in Las Vegas. I still believe Haus should be a VC play (or retroactive funding), and is not suitable for treasury funding. If Haus builds on Cardano (not 3M Ada hard to do) and show auditable market traction, I would certainly support the Cardano treasury helping scale those solutions.

I have voted Yes on the current proposal to fund Socious. I think it is important to explore balancing mechamnisms complimentary to Catalyst voting

I have voted YES on the current proposal to fund Cardano Builder DAO. I believe startups should find their path to stand on their own revenue, I understand a little help can go a long way, and I also believe its ok to fail.

I would normally have abstained, but these guys deserve a shot at finding footing. Given I am voting yes and not abstaining, I commit DripDropz will neither vote or pursue funds relevant to funding associated with this proposal

I have voted YES on the current proposal to fund a unified global events strategy. We need a more consistant global presence and this marketing addresses that core need

I have voted YES on the current proposal to fund the Ledger App rewrite. This is awesome and will improve UX greatly. They had us out here double clicking buttons forever looking like retarded chipmunks taking crotchshots.

I have voted YES on the current proposal to fund Dolos. Enabling developers reliable chain data access via low-resource edge nodes is beneficial to improving developer experience

I have voted YES on the current proposal to fund zkFold ZK rollup technology. Enabling native ZK rollup support enhances Cardano L1 capabilities while further preparing the ecosystem for potential adoption on multiple fronts

I have voted YES on the current proposal to fund Anastasia for Lucid Evolution. Lucid Evolution is an open-source library designed to simplify and enhance the development of off-chain smart contract interactions on Cardano.

I have voted YES on the current proposal to fund UTxO RPC by TxPipe. UTxO RPC simplifies interactions with UTxO-based blockchains by providing a standardized interface for blockchain integrations. Given Cardarno is one of the most popular eUtX0 chains, simplification tools are an absolute must in regards to dev-centric tech proliferations

I have voted YES on the current proposal to fund TxPipe Pallas. Pallas is now a critical Rust-native foundation for Cardano development and both open source maintenence and TxPipe talent retention are important to the success of Cardano

I have voted YES on the current proposal to fund MLabs research torwards tooling for elliptical curves. These features enhances developer UX and increases Cardano sellable market

I have voted Yes on the current proposal to fund PyCardano. Enabling Python devlopers a path to build on Cardano is strategic.

I have voted Yes on the current proposal to fund OpShin. Enabling Python devlopers a path to build on Cardano is strategic.

I have voted YES on the current proposal to fund IOR. While I may not agree with every research path listed here being taken, I see 2025 as a transition phase and would rather spend a extra and have necessay edge on tooling at the ready when needed as opposed to scrambling when urgent. At some point I believe IOR execution should be driven by the community vision we are all currently working to derive

I have voted NO on the current proposal to fund Anzens. This is a VC play

I have voted Yes on the current proposal to fund Vacuum to maintain hardware wallet compatibilities. This is critical to sustaining favorable UX of self-custody applications and overall confidence in self-custody itself.

I have voted YES on the current proposal to fund Cardano Foundaton for the Cardano Summit and regional tech events. While these events are expensive, they are extremely fruitful in regards to networking which is critical to ecosystem growth.

I have voted YES on the current proposal to fund Intersect. In addition to providing a critical need of budget administration, Intetrsect is doing vital work in identifying ecosystem needs such aligning components for governance execution and achieving community consensus on Cardano product sustainability vision/strategy. Furthermore, and possibly more importantly, Intersect has successfully provided a forum where the community can come together to solve problems.

I have voted YES on the current proposal to fund AdaStat.net. AdaStat is badass, and I use it in both my day-to-day operational role as CEO of DripDropz and (for supplementing 100% of GovTool) my role as Cardano dRep. AdaStat is doing governance right

I have voted YES on the current proposal to decentralize Blockfrost. Blockfrost is critical infrastructure for startups and lean initiatives looking for a viable entry point to engage with Cardano. I created Cardano's first token claim UX using Blockfrost APIs a few months before launching DripDropz

I have voted NO on the current proposal to fund Cexplorer.io. The Cexplorer.io UX (imo) is subpar and as result this is not a site I personally rely upon. If relatively unuseful compared to competitive alternatives, how could I support when we haven't achieved anywhere close to the revenue pillars we need for ecosystem sustainability? Nah.

I have voted Yes on the current proposal to fund Scalus. There is solid Scala/Java/Kotlin talent and developer increasing onboarding and improving dev ux is good strategy

I have voted YES on the current proposal to fund Eternl. Eternl is the a staple to self-custody adoption. Where we're going, we'll need Eternl presence to balance the scales of mass adoption.

I have voted YES on the current proposal to fund ZK bridge by Intersect. ZK tech enhances market capabilities and betting on a few paths helps us test relevant potentials.

I have voted Yes on the current proposal to fund Tweag. I believe these core budget projects would enhance the technical foundations of Cardano

I have voted YES on the current proposal to fund MLabs Plutarch maintenance and enhancements. Plutarch is a core tool for Cardano smart contracts and continuous efforts towards improving developer experiences are necessary

I have voted YES on the current proposal to fund Gerolamo. Enabling a light node in typescript will improve developer UX and open up bandwidth for developer adoption

I have voted YES on the current proposal to fund the Intersect Open Source Committee proposed budget. A handful of important reasons include OSC having operated with tact and vision, implementing bug bounties is solid and strategic, and retaining open source maintainer talent is critical. I think the other areas the proposal explores are interesting and deserving to test a wide array of ROI potential and OSC execution.

I have voted Yes on the current proposal to fund Maestro. Maestro indeed has a proven track record of delivering high-performance infrastructure and developer tooling, and enabling footing to the bitcoin defi narrative is good chips to play

I have voted YES on the current proposal to fund MLabs to maintain Cardano.nix. Nix for Cardano is a tool for consistant reprpoducable node deployments and a favorite among many many developers and devops I respect.

I have voted YES on the current proposal to support Catalyst. While Catalyst is still finding its bite, Catalyst has proven critical to supporting Cardano projects and preserving ecosystem talent. Let the funding roll woot woot ...

I have voted YES on the current proposal to fund IO Core development of Cardano. While I would like to see greater focus overall in Cardano budgeting, I appreciate IOs committment and furthering community ownership of core Cardano development. I understand decentralization of this particular component is nuanced and takes time. IO has served the Cardano mission well and albeit arguably costly, the output is both necessary to our course of action and has proven reliable.

I have voted YES on the current proposal to fund Midgard Optimistic Rollups. Cardano scaling initiatives will ultimately require a handful of viable and competitive L2/rollup solutions and Midgard by the Anastasia team is an excellent candidate.

I have voted YES on the current proposal to replace the Interim Constitutional Committee. I believe the committee members being enacted will serve Cardano well.

I have voted NO on the current proposal to fund GovTool.

The proposal addresses areas well-beyond foundational maintenence, and into needs not yet defined by the community. Furthermore, lights-on maintenence should cost sub ~$50k anually with adequately scalable serverless infrastructure. GovTool failing to support CLI-based voting out the gate reveals a great deal of incompetance around Cardano governance and inconsideration for our community and ethos. Hard NO fam.

I have voted YES on the current proposal to fund Amaru.

A viable rust node has the potential to mitigate high development costs while increasing the censorship resistance of the Cardano mission.

I have voted YES on the current proposal to set the Cardano Blockchain Ecosytem budget to 275M ada.

While I do not support each individual proposal encapsulated, I do understand the absolute urgency in moving the ball forward.

There are a number of encapsulated initiatives I strongly believe should not be funded and will address those at the relevant treasury withdrawal stages.

I do believe core development, strategic scaling initiatives and Intersect should all be funded

I have voted NO on the current proposal.

The proposal author is unaffiliated with any of the projects initiatives being proposed and has not submitted this proposal on behalf of the stated budget administrator.

I find introducing this degree of bureaucracy unwelcome and both detrimental and disrespectful to governance process.

I have voted YES on the current proposal to fund Amaru.

I firmly believe our absolute top priority must be establishing ecosystem sustainability. While introducing new alternative block-producing nodes certainly entails potential to introduce delays in releasing mission-critical scalability components due to the necessity of maintaining compatibility across nodes, I believe the Amaru initiative is critical to solidifying the censorship-resistance of the Cardano mission and introduces a potential path for more cost-effective node development in the long-term. I also believe learnings from building out an alternative node inherently lend to improve the overall integrity of the existing Haskell node.

The Amaru team is solid, reputable and well-deserving of the immense responsibility.

I have voted NO on the current proposal to set the NCL to 300M Ada.

While I am an advocate for fiscal responsibility and firmly believe our absolute top priority must be establishing ecosystem sustainability, I have already voted YES to support the passing a 350M NCL.

I beleive it strategically short-sighted to limit our latitude for flexibility earlier than later when visibility is always more clear, hence I will be most critical when voting on treasurty withdrawal actions.

I am voting NO on this proposal. Could have been cool but the metadata is invalid.

I have voted NO on the current proposal to set the NCL to 200M Ada. I firmly believe we need to establish a fiscally responsible annual NCL, but timing matters. The current timeline in the relevant proposal does not lend the ability to guarantee continuous funding as it forces larger proposals to consider multiple and subsequent treasury withdrawal actions to achieve target annual budgets, which are not guaranteed to successfully pass. Furthermore, I have previously voted YES on a 350M NCL, an amount which I believe may be a necessary contingency to account for unexpected delays in scaling (Leios) by permitting the ecosystem latitude to focus on Praos enhancements.