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Cardano Foundation Shifts Strategy to Adoption With 50M ADA Liquidity Fund and Governance Reallocation

The plan channels treasury returns through a 15% monthly top-up, leaving 85% compounding in deployed protocols, with impact targeted in six to twelve months.

Overview

  • Cardano proposes a 50 million ADA liquidity fund to expand stablecoin supply and DeFi depth, with deployments estimated to yield about 4% annually.
  • The Foundation sets a revenue split for liquidity earnings, sending 15% to the treasury each month while retaining 85% in protocols to compound growth.
  • Governance will widen through 220 million ADA delegated to eleven new Adoption and Operations DReps, with self-delegation reduced to 80 million ADA and methodology details to follow.
  • An operational change will sunset the long-running SPO delegation program in favor of fully pledged Foundation pools rolling out over the next few months.
  • Real‑world assets and integrations advance with a $10 million MembersCap pilot, priority work on CIP‑0113 and CIP‑0143, Masumi’s x402 payments framework, a two‑role Web3 team expansion, up to 2 million ADA for the Venture Hub in 2026, and a 12% lift to 2026 marketing.