Se7en Labs: Daedalus Wallet Maintenance and Improvements 2026-2027

On-chain governance action (Treasury Withdrawals).

This Treasury Withdrawal funds Daedalus Wallet Maintenance and Improvements
2026–2027, delivered by Se7en Labs, Inc.

Daedalus is Cardano's only full-node desktop wallet — it runs an embedded
Cardano node and derives all wallet and governance data directly from the
chain, with no third-party APIs or trusted backends. Because it participates
in P2P networking and maintains its own local mempool, Daedalus transactions
compete for block inclusion on equal footing with full-node participants,
providing reliable submission even under high chain utilisation where lite
wallets can fail for hours.

Daedalus's security model is equally distinctive. Private keys are generated
and stored on your own device and never transmitted to any external service.
Because Daedalus is open-source under the Apache License 2.0, this is not
a claim users must take on faith — anyone can audit the source code to
verify that key handling works exactly as described. Se7en Labs actively
works to ensure a positive use

• Proposer return address: stake1u85was6qks0exltkfl74clay4p6l272ry6kpkgweyfs7vtcvaj7xm
• Deposit: 100,000 ₳
• Submitted: epoch 639
• Expires: epoch 646

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Deep Dive into this Proposal with Samuel Leathers and Nicolas Cerny: https://www.youtube.com/live/FTZyVQCWi4Y

I believe that cryptocurrency is self-sovereign monetary control and the existence of Daedalus ensures that at the ultimate extreme of our values there is at least one option to be the most pure version of a interaction on the blockchain as possible.

While I am not a user, and Daedalus has caused me days and days of frustration over the years, especially back when it was the only wallet, but this is a values based vote that we need to maintain the core of what a blockchain is supposed to be as an option on Cardano.