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- Nearly 100 grants planned to back projects to supercharge and expand community-led decision making for Cardano
Intersect, a member-based organization for the Cardano ecosystem, has announced a substantial funding pool of ₳2m dedicated to supporting projects that empower the community's voice and fostering active participation in the evolution of Cardano’s Voltaire era.
The initiative will facilitate transparent discussions about the future of Cardano by supporting projects that enhance public discourse within the community. The first round of grants funded projects to engage and collaborate in the design of Cardano’s on-chain governance. This collaboration highlighted community needs regarding the tooling required for participation and education. As a result, the second round will see grants open up to develop community tooling to support and enrich Cardano’s governance. This will include a ‘Proposal Discussion Forum’, with other categories available here. This forum will be a tool which enables, promotes, and facilitates structured public discourse, and presents the most relevant information about proposals.
Intersect is a key institution for the Cardano ecosystem which unites companies, developers, individuals, and other ecosystem participants to shape and drive the future development of Cardano. Intersect pioneers a new model for institutions and governance in blockchain. It is a key institution for the ecosystem, bringing together participants to shape and drive the future development of Cardano.
Intersect will serve as a steward of the underlying technology blueprints for the community beginning with the Cardano Node, core Cardano libraries and components required to operate the blockchain and all of its accompanying documentation, knowledge, and contributors.
These grants are a key component of enabling Voltaire – developing the tools to increase participation and access to Cardano’s on-chain governance, ultimately with the aim of driving better outcomes on-chain. We’re excited to continue building in a distributed way, encompassing broad and long-term perspectives for a sustainable and innovative ecosystem.”
The application window for various grant categories is now open. All Intersect members are encouraged to learn more here and apply to transform their innovative ideas into impactful products, DApps and open source projects. The Cardano community can also join Intersect as a Founding Member where they can apply for funding opportunities, participate in the decision making process and join committees and working groups, here.
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