Withdraw ₳1,300,000 for Blockfrost Platform community budget proposal
200 DReps voted · 61 with a rationale · 13 changed their vote
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- No245.5K ₳No rationale
- No238.8K ₳Rationale
While the Blockfrost Platform community budget proposal aims to decentralize a key Cardano API through the Icebreakers program, I’m voting "nay" due to concerns about its necessity, unclear financials, and competing priorities. Moreover, I believe the Cardano treasury should prioritize projects with transparent budgets, immediate ecosystem impact, or support for existing decentralized alternatives like Koios. I encourage refining the proposal with a clear budget, evidence of SPO commitment, and a stronger case for why Blockfrost’s API is essential over alternatives.
- NoChanged238.6K ₳History
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Yes11mo agoSuperseded
- Yes208.3K ₳No rationale
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- Yes185.6K ₳Rationale
I am voting yes on all 39 Intersect Governance actions. The community has thoroughly reviewed the many proposals presented in the Intersect Budget Process for the 2025 budget. I was deeply involved in the entire process as an SME for the Budget Committee, and then as the Secretary for the Budget Committee.
The proposals presented represent an incredible amount of development for our ecosystem for the next year. The teams all received at least 50% on Ekklesia polling. The teams will face milestones in order to continue to receive funding. If a team fails to deliver, the process will stop them from enriching themselves without returning value.
If anything, we are spending too little on our community. We need to spend more to further develop our governance and our organized events. This is a liquid democracy. If you believe that all of these proposals deserve a chance to deliver, you can shift your delegation to my DRep ID.
- Yes178.9K ₳No rationale
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- Yes108.3K ₳Rationale
I am voting in favor of approving the treasury withdrawal for all 39 withdrawal actions that are part of the approved ecosystem budget administered by Intersect. I am voting this way for several reasons, as I will outline here. This rationale will be included in all 39 withdrawal votes.
First and foremost, I believe that we would be making a mistake in underfunding our community with our available treasury funds. The budget system as it currently stands has some flaws, as should be expected from a first version of any system. Of the current proposals, I voted to include several in the budget when it was being formed; however, I also did not vote in favor of several others. This is, of course, the case for most DReps. If I were to vote only for the proposals I initially favoured, and all other DReps did the same, we would likely approve only 2 or 3 proposals out of 39 due to the vote split. In my view, this is not an acceptable outcome for the community, and this is why I was also opposed to the idea of having 39 separate treasury withdrawal actions. I have reviewed all 39 requests, and they all have merit. Are they exactly in line with the priorities I wanted as part of the initial budget? No. Is that reason enough to vote no on several of these and end up approving only 2 or 3 proposals in the end? I certainly don't believe so.
In addition to this, the total amount of the intersect budget is roughly 10% higher than what I voted for, and I find that to be within an acceptable margin to approve all the withdrawals.
The individual proposals also all received at least 50% community approval to be included and will be subject to reviews and milestones to receive funds.
For these reasons, I am casting my vote to approve and am wishing the best of luck to all the teams waiting for funding through this process. - Yes103.1K ₳No rationale
- Yes92.6K ₳No rationale
- Yes71.3K ₳Rationale
As a DRep, I vote Yes. I personally run a Cardano pool and am also participating in Blockfrost’s Icebreaker program. I support their decentralization efforts, vision, and the way they are executing it.
- Yes68.8K ₳Rationale
- Yes65.7K ₳No rationale
- Yes58.6K ₳Rationale
It supports decentralizing critical API infrastructure via the Icebreaker roadmap, enabling SPO-hosted Blockfrost nodes.
Blockfrost is used by over 50% of dApp developers, and this budget helps transition from single-point centralization to a secure, open-source, and SPO-powered model.
I appreciate the $50K security audit. - Yes55.9K ₳No rationale
- NoChanged50.5K ₳History
Earlier votes
Yes11mo agoSuperseded
- Yes49.6K ₳No rationale
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- Yes36.3K ₳Rationale
✅ Blockfrost Platform – ₳1,300,000
Why I voted YES:
Blockfrost has become essential infrastructure for Cardano developers, abstracting node interaction and enabling rapid dApp development. This proposal takes a critical step forward: decentralizing the Blockfrost API through the Icebreakers network—a system that lets SPOs process requests and earn rewards.Key deliverables include:
• Decentralized data access through Blockfrost Gateway
• Revenue sharing for node operators
• Hydra integration for fast microtransactions
• Solitary mode for enterprise-grade, customizable deployments
• Open-source infrastructure to avoid vendor lock-inThis is a strategic investment to decentralize tooling and support SPO income, while maintaining developer-friendly APIs.
- Yes29K ₳No rationale
- Yes26.7K ₳Rationale
Blockfrost is essential for the ecosystem and is owned and operated by IOG. I have faith that the money for this project will be spent wisely.
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- Yes14.3K ₳No rationale
- Yes10.6K ₳Rationale
I vote for this proposal
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- Abstain2.5K ₳No rationale
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- Yes682 ₳No rationale
- Abstain335.3 ₳No rationale
- YesRevoted13.5 ₳History
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Yes11mo agoSuperseded
- Yes8.3 ₳No rationale
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- YesRevoted0 ₳History
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Yes0y agoSuperseded
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Yes0y agoSuperseded