On-chain governance action (Treasury Withdrawals).
Cardano is approaching consequential decisions about governance incentives without a shared evidence base for determining which mechanisms work, what they cost, or who should remain accountable for their outcomes. The project separates evidence-based validation from governance legitimacy: candidate incentive mechanisms will first be evaluated through research, data, modeling, and evidence, and then presented to governance for a decision on adoption.
Significant work already exists across Cardano on governance compensation, participation, rationale incentives, reward distribution, voting-power concentration, and governance reward design. The Governance Incentives Working Group has already created a mapping document identifying 49 relevant efforts, proposals, research papers, tools, and related initiatives across this space [1]. This includes work developed through CPS-0020 [2], as well as CPS-0033 [3], CIP-0149 [4], Beyond MVG [6], formal reward-scheme research [7], process-first DRep compensation research [8], and Input Output Research’s Cardano Vision 2026 work [9]. The project will consider these existing ideas and approaches, examine their assumptions, advantages, disadvantages, and potential unintended effects, and combine them with further research, governance data, modeling, controlled testing, and community input to build research-backed community consensus around the most suitable governance incentive models for Cardano.
The result will be a practical Governance Incentives Framework, public dataset and dashboard, documented model and formula outputs, research publications, findings from a controlled incentive pilot, and a governance integration pathway. This directly supports Cardano 2030 Pillar 3 and, through its research and data infrastructure, Pillar 1.
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- Submitted: epoch 649
- Expires: epoch 656