Defining the Cardano Vision and Roadmap for 2025 and beyond
234 DReps voted · 60 with a rationale · 3 changed their vote · 4 re-voted unchanged
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Changed votes: 3 to yes, together voting with 143M ₳ of voting power.
- Yes8.9M ₳Rationale
RCADA supports the Info Action regarding the 2025 Cardano Product Roadmap. The roadmap outlines a solid direction for improving Cardano’s scalability, performance and infrastructure through initiatives like Leios, Mithril enhancements, modular node architecture and Actively Validated Services. These are meaningful developments for the health and resilience of the network.
As a member of the Climate Neutral Cardano Alliance, I encourage the Product Committee to collaborate with CNC to model the energy and hardware implications of protocol changes like parallelization early in the process. This would support informed decisions and reinforce Cardano’s commitment to sustainability.
Clearer delivery milestones—particularly for Leios—would help the ecosystem plan more effectively and track progress. I also recommend that governance-linked documents use immutable references such as IPFS, rather than mutable URLs, to ensure long-term integrity and transparency.
The roadmap’s inclusion of a zero-knowledge bridge to Bitcoin is promising. This initiative, connected to the BitcoinOS project, has the potential to link Cardano’s smart contract platform with Bitcoin’s liquidity in a secure and decentralized way. I recommend naming BitcoinOS directly in the roadmap to better communicate its relevance and technical rationale.
Finally, I support the introduction of governance-enabled parameters like a minimum margin and adjustments to the a0 pledge-benefit curve. These changes would help rebalance incentives and create a healthier, more decentralized staking environment. Giving this work more visibility in the roadmap would demonstrate a commitment to supporting smaller, yet highly active, stake pools.
Overall, I support the direction of the roadmap and look forward to seeing it evolve with continued community input. - Yes7.7M ₳No rationale
- Yes7.6M ₳Rationale
The proposed elements of the Cardano Vision and Roadmap for 2025 and beyond seem to be pretty wide-ranging and I think that the product committee has done a good job.
I would like to see more explicit references in the 2025 Vision & Roadmap web page (https://product.cardano.intersectmbo.org/vision-roadmap-2025/) to:
a. research on quantum resistance for Cardano
b. research of improved algorithmic/collateralized stablecoin models for Cardano (i.e. improved versions of Djed-style stablecoins) - if possible
c. as Cardano is being built as an alternative financial operating system, there could be value in conducting dedicated research on Cardano's current limitations/opportunities for serving as a financial operating system for the world. Especially, on how Cardano's capabilities can be improved to achieve this global ambition - outside of the typical blockchain trilemma focus (decentralization, scalability, security).
I may update this vote with a larger rationale if the ongoing debate leads to new insights from delegators and other sources. - Yes7.3M ₳No rationale
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- Yes3M ₳Rationale
This is an overall good vision of the next stage in the Cardano roadmap.
Although the details are fairly general, this is enough to work with as a vision for the future. More specific details, like timelines and budgets should definitely be built out and supplied for the Cardano Budget, since they are not present here.
Overall, the categories present some solid goals, but I am disappointed with the SPO Improvements category.
Both suggestions presented (min margin and modified pledge-benefit for a0) have been researched and assessed by the Cardano community and IOG for a long time without any implementation or effort to be put into effect.
I would have expected new suggestions here or new ideas to present to the community, since the previous improvements were not deemed important or significant enough by IOG to implement in the past.
If we are going with this line of thinking, then adjusting the K parameter to 1000 should also be presented as an SPO Incentive Improvement.
I think what needs to be addressed is primarily the issue of large pool operations that control a significant portion of the network, reducing the effectiveness of K.
Addressing sticky stake to retired pools and providing backup pool selections on initial delegation would be some key issues to solve for which would help with SPO Incentive Improvements.
Hopefully there is much more intended work to be done in this category, as it is the one that is lacking compared to the other categories.
- Yes2.8M ₳No rationale
- Yes2.7M ₳Rationale
The governance action in question is about defining Cardano's vision and roadmap for 2025 and beyond, a critical step for the blockchain's future development. This roadmap outlines plans to improve scalability, expand Layer 2 solutions, and enhance developer experience, all of which are vital for Cardano's growth. Voting "Yes" supports these strategic initiatives, which could make Cardano more competitive and user-friendly. For example, enhancing scalability could mean faster transactions, benefiting everyday users. I do consider Leios, Hydra and Midgard as some of the top priorities.
- Yes2.7M ₳No rationale
- No2.7M ₳No rationale
- Abstain2.7M ₳Rationale
カルダノの適応的攻撃者に対する耐性を高めた証明可能安全性が「量子耐性」として、一般の人々やメディアにもわかりやすく明示的に表現されるべきだと考えています。現在、カルダノはOuroboros Praosプロトコルにおいて適応的攻撃者に対する耐性を高める取り組みを行っていますが、この取り組みが量子耐性とどのように関連するのかを明確に示すことが、エコシステムにとって重要だと思います。そのため、このテーマに対する明確な表現が進むことを期待しつつ、現時点では中立的な立場を取ります。
I believe that the provable security enhancements made to resist adaptive attackers should be explicitly expressed as "quantum resistance" in a way that is clear and understandable to the general public and the media. Currently, Cardano is working on improving its resistance to adaptive attackers through the Ouroboros Praos protocol, but it is important to clarify how this work relates to quantum resistance. I hope that this topic will be more clearly articulated moving forward, and I am maintaining a neutral position at this time.
- Yes2.6M ₳No rationale
- Abstain2.5M ₳Rationale
We can't vote for the URL because its content may change at any time in the future, but our votes cannot.
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- Yes1.9M ₳Rationale
Nothing in the roadmap seems controversial, these are all well socialized and are required to help Cardano achieve its promise.
- Abstain1.7M ₳No rationale
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Clear vision and roadmap are needed.
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