Cardano Foundation
Cardano Foundation is an active Cardano DRep with ₳138M of voting power from 1,406 delegators. Voted on 62 of the 62 governance actions of the last six months.
- Status
- Active
- Voting power
- ₳138,191,114
- Delegators
- 1,406
- Votes, last six months
- 62 of 62 governance actions
- Explains their votes
- 151 of 148 votes came with a published rationale
- Registered
- 20 Nov 2024
- DRep ID
- drep1ydpfkyjxzeqvalf6fgvj7lznrk8kcmfnvy9hyl6gr6ez6wgsjaelx
Objectives
The Cardano Foundation aims to encourage wider participation in the Cardano ecosystem and ensure that Cardano remains a long-lasting, robust blockchain fit for building innovation. We look to eight core elements as criteria to keep it a secure, inclusive, and sustainable network: accessibility; decentralization; security and resilience; scalability; viable economic models; educational resources; the infrastructure’s core development; and governance itself.
Motivations
The Foundation believes in collaboration, in working hand-in-hand with the community while also promoting innovation. And we strive to do so while upholding integrity, transparency, inclusivity, and maintaining sustainable practices. We vote both to empower the ecosystem and drive adoption by facilitating the onboarding of various organizations to Cardano.
Qualifications
Founded in 2016, the Cardano Foundation is an independent, Swiss-based not-for-profit advancing Cardano as a public infrastructure across a wide range of industries.
Our efforts have resulted in collaborations with UN organizations, commercial sectors, and universities, among others. We also contribute to the creation and maintenance of several open-source tools, and have developed the Cardano Academy for easy access to high-quality blockchain education.
Starting in 2018, we support a global network of multilingual volunteers via the Cardano Ambassador Program to amplify community engagement. In 2025, the Foundation published the first ever Cardano Ecosystem Guide.
Since 2023, in line with our commitment to transparency, we share a yearly Financial Insights Report. And in 2025 we made our underlying regulatory data available on Reeve, a financial reporting solution built on Cardano.
The Foundation’s Reports and Governance pages provide further details.
Links
- Website
- X (Twitter)
- Cardano Foundation Reports
- Governance Action Flow Charts
- 'Our Cardano' by the Cardano F...
Latest votes
- No on Should stakePoolTargetNum (k) be raised from 500 to 1000? (SPO poll), 1 Oct 2026
- No on Withdraw 11,787,063 ada for the OpenZeppelin Stack administered by Intersect, 29 Sept 2026
- Yes on Reduce minPoolCost to 75 ada, 22 Sept 2026
- No on Governance Incentives Framework 2026, 25 Aug 2026
- Yes on Reimburse Ikigai Info Governance Action Deposit., 18 Aug 2026
- Yes on Reduce minPoolCost to 75 ada and increase Plutus Memory Limits (Part 2), 14 Aug 2026
- Yes on Name the Protocol Version 12 hard fork “von Bergen“, 14 Aug 2026
- Yes on Update Constitutional Committee 2026, 14 Aug 2026
- Yes on Withdraw 120,000,000 ada for AlphaGrowth’s Cardano PRIME, 10 Aug 2026
- No on Revised Cardano dOSPO and OMF Program Proposal, 7 Aug 2026