{"id":40264,"date":"2025-08-04T08:01:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T08:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=40264"},"modified":"2025-08-04T08:01:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T08:01:49","slug":"cardano-community-approves-70m-core-dev-budget-boosting-ada-prospects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=40264","title":{"rendered":"Cardano Community Approves $70M Core Dev Budget, Boosting ADA Prospects"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Cardano\u2019s core development team, Input Output Global (IOG), secured approval for a $71 million treasury allocation to fund 12 months of network upgrades following a drawn-out governance vote that drew concerns around transparency, accountability and cost.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/adastat.net\/governances\/8ad3d454f3496a35cb0d07b0fd32f687f66338b7d60e787fc0a22939e5d8833e01\">proposal passed with 74% in favor<\/a> and authorizes the disbursement of 96 million ADA, or roughly 13% of the protocol\u2019s treasury, to IOG. Payments will be milestone-based and overseen by Intersect, a member-driven governance body.<\/p>\n<p>Smart contracts and an independent committee will add additional oversight, IOG said.<\/p>\n<p>Key deliverables include Hydra, a layer-2 scaling product for faster and cheaper transactions, and Project Acropolis, which aims to re-architect the Cardano node for greater modularity and ease of developer onboarding. The team also plans to reduce memory usage and improve operational costs for validators.<\/p>\n<p>Such implementations can eventually lead to increased developer activity and new use cases on the Cardano network, contributing to demand for ADA, the network\u2019s gas token.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal, which has been under discussion since the start of the year, faced a degree of opposition, with some critics arguing that it lacked granular breakdowns and questioned whether it should have been split into smaller, individually voted items. A rival proposal by Cardano\u2019s Technical Steering Committee was ultimately rejected despite gaining early traction.<\/p>\n<p>Rival chains are also pushing ahead with upgrades. Solana increased its compute unit ceiling by 20% last week, and Ethereum\u2019s recent Pectra upgrade lifted its so-called blob limit and staking caps. Another major fork, Fusaka, is scheduled for late 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardano\u2019s core development team, Input Output Global (IOG), secured approval for a $71 million treasury allocation to fund 12 months of network upgrades following a drawn-out governance vote that drew concerns around transparency, accountability and cost. The proposal passed with 74% in favor and authorizes the disbursement of 96 million ADA, or roughly 13% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-40264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}