Tevo Kask

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Weaving trust networks. Primarily focusing on contributing to Cardano and SingularityNET social infrastructure

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Rodrigo P₳cini | Agora Research | dRep

@RodrigoPacini

19 days ago

I want to be clear: I am not saying this👇🏻 to point fingers or turn a complex governance failure into a personal accusations at specific individuals. I know you are open-minded and willing to engage with criticism constructively, which is why I feel comfortable raising this point directly. I am also trying to contribute solutions myself, including governance-related proposals intended to improve coordination and decision-making in Cardano. But I still struggle with one fundamental question. Wasn’t Voltaire part of IOG’s original roadmap responsibility? Catalyst gave Cardano 4-5 years of real governance experimentation: proposal reviews, incentives, coordination failures, voter behavior, accountability gaps, social dynamics, funding asymmetries, reviewer fatigue, and governance capture risks. That was an enormous dataset of practical governance lessons. Yet my impression is that Voltaire/MVG was delivered partially unfinished, with major coordination gaps and unresolved governance questions, while much of Catalyst’s institutional learning was not meaningfully incorporated into the governance layer itself. And this matters because decentralization without coordination simply becomes chaos. At some point, someone needs ownership, accountability, and responsibility for driving governance improvements forward. Otherwise everything becomes fragmented into endless discussions, partial efforts, volunteer exhaustion, and extremely slow progress. That is precisely why I keep emphasizing IOG’s role here. Not because Cardano should remain centralized forever, but because IOG originally owned the roadmap and was responsible for delivering the governance era itself. So if the entity responsible for delivering Voltaire did not deliver a sufficiently mature governance coordination layer, then who exactly owns this problem now? Intersect does not seem to fully assume that role. Founding entities do not appear strongly coordinated around it either. And governance-focused funding remains extremely small compared to infrastructure and core tech spending. Beyond MVG requested less than 1M ADA, while massive Treasury allocations continued flowing toward scalability and engineering. Meanwhile, many of the people with the deepest governance experience in Cardano, including contributors who spent years inside Catalyst, still largely operate as volunteers. We still have the opportunity to gather those lessons, those people, and those years of experimentation into something genuinely useful. But coordination requires ownership. Execution requires funding. And governance improvement requires dedicated people focused on solving governance problems full-time. Without that, I honestly do not see how governance evolves at an acceptable pace. Especially when you look at nearly 100 Treasury proposals in this cycle and realize that only a very small fraction are even attempting to improve governance itself, while the community still shows strong resistance toward funding governance work in the first place.

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