What Cardano is lacking right now is leadership.
If we do not want Cardano to die, Charles should be made the leader again immediately.
Decentralization is an ideal, but in reality, the Cardano community has as many different goal vectors as there are people. In such a state, making Cardano No.1 is nothing more than a distant dream.
The introduction of governance that entrusts the use of the treasury to the community was probably too early for us.
DAO is an idealistic concept. We have now seen that when the constitution, goals, and rules are incomplete, the community becomes divided and the ecosystem begins to move toward collapse.
The problems are clear:
・There are no annual strategic goals
・Treasury spending is handled too loosely
・There is no clear basis for deciding the NCL amount based on strategic goals
・Treasury withdrawal proposals are submitted without sufficient discipline
・The budget process barely functions as a real process
・DReps are facing voting fatigue and declining participation
・The treasury is being treated without enough structure or direction
It is not too late.
Cardano still has a chance.
Cardano’s most serious problem right now is that we are trying to move a massive amount of treasury funds while the strategy, budgeting process, and decision-making process needed to operate the system — including the Constitution and the DRep system — are still immature.
In particular, when it comes to treasury withdrawals, it feels like hundreds of millions of dollars are being allocated without clear annual goals, KPIs, or priorities.
In a normal country or large organization, the process would begin by setting goals for the next fiscal year.
Then, people would spend months discussing the policies and initiatives needed to achieve those goals, decide priorities, and only then allocate the budget.
But what about Cardano today?
We finally have Vision 2030 KPIs.
But what exactly are we trying to achieve next year?
Which areas should receive priority investment?
Which proposals should be prioritized?
These points have not been sufficiently clarified, yet important budget decisions, including NCL, are already moving forward.
A five-year goal alone does not become a realistic action plan.
For example, even if your goal is to go to Japan in five years, you still need to decide what to do now, what to do next month, and what progress you need to make next year.
Without that, you will never reach the destination.
Right now, Cardano seems to lack that annual plan.
Despite the absence of clear goals for next year, various projects are submitting treasury withdrawal proposals independently.
And DReps and the community are being forced to make decisions within a short period of time, without enough shared understanding or discussion.
Of course, DReps voting based on their own principles and values is an important part of decentralized governance.
But is voting without a shared direction, priorities, or evaluation criteria really healthy decentralized governance?
Is this truly the Cardano we wanted?
Right now, it does not feel like the founding entities, development organizations, DReps, SPOs, and the community are moving in the same direction.
It looks as if everyone is standing in the same circle, but in reality, they are facing away from each other and walking in different directions.
Is that not the situation we are in today?
The Cardano community I loved was not only about technology.
It was a place that valued principles and dialogue.
But now, I feel that people are attacking each other on X, doubting each other, and becoming increasingly divided.
I want to change this situation.
What we need is not to attack someone.
What we need is to redefine Cardano’s shared goals, annual KPIs, budget policy, and proposal evaluation criteria, and discuss them again as a community.
I want Cardano to become a united community again.
I want us to be able to face the same direction and move forward together.
If anyone shares this concern, please let’s talk.
I am tired of seeing people attack each other on X.
Please.
Let’s start a constructive conversation to move Cardano forward again.
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Throughout this period, the main feedback we have received has concerned promises about the future.
Thanks to the collaboration of the Pentad and decentralized governance, important integrations have already been delivered across the ecosystem.
There were also important mentions and developments that reflect a strong strategic positioning, such as the references in Google’s paper, “Safeguarding Cryptocurrency by Disclosing Quantum Vulnerabilities Responsibly,” as well as the SEC’s classification of it as a non security.
We are now in the fourth month of 2026, and the results are already speaking for themselves.
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#Cardano fam, as promised tonight I will be down voting EVERY proposal asking for $ADA from the treasury. It is MADNESS to be aggressively spending in this type of market. Crashing the price of ADA will be catastrophic for the long term outlook of the ecosystem. Being in the top tier by MC of crypto is far more important for adoption and usage than building a beautiful cathedral that disappears into irrelevancy. Let Tezos and Polkadot serve as a warning!!
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Cardano has set a budget cap of 350M ADA (~$140M USD) annually, and treasury withdrawal proposals are now flooding in. Yet the top 10 DReps control over 48% of voting power, meaning 10 accounts effectively decide how $140M is allocated, with zero external audit.
To put $140M in perspective:
A mid-cap public company's annual R&D budget
A Series C startup funding round
A small municipality's entire annual budget
Now consider: 10 people control these decisions.
No board of 10 would unilaterally allocate $140M in a publicly traded company without shareholder approval, audit committees, and regulatory oversight.
No municipality of comparable budget would allow 10 officials to spend taxpayer money without council votes, public hearings, and external audits.
Yet Cardano's treasury, of equivalent scale, operates with 10 accounts holding veto power over $140M, answerable to no one.
Daily flow under their control: 960K ADA = $380K USD
The Clarity Act Question:
Under the SEC's new guidance, sufficient decentralization determines whether crypto assets are commodities or securities. How would regulators assess a network where 10 accounts control $140M in capital allocation without oversight?
This isn't just poor governance—it's a regulatory time bomb.
What needs to happen:
Delegation diversification: Break up concentrated voting power
Hard caps on DRep voting power: Structurally prevent re-concentration
Transparency and accountability: External audit mechanisms
For Cardano, decentralization isn't an ideal—it's a survival requirement.
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