BKIND
BKIND is an active Cardano DRep with ₳1.83M of voting power from 15 delegators. Voted on 5 of the 39 governance actions of the last six months.
- Status
- Active
- Voting power
- ₳1,825,206
- Delegators
- 15
- Votes, last six months
- 5 of 39 governance actions
- Explains their votes
- 9 of 5 votes came with a published rationale
- Registered
- 22 Jun 2026
- DRep ID
- drep1ytc6867ae0xmkekvmex79r9akyy28eu8nu03jf3xu9fle6c82l4eq
Objectives
To strengthen Cardano's decentralization and the integrity of its treasury and governance through fact-based, verifiable decision-making. I judge every governance action on its merits, weighed against the chain and the data themselves rather than narrative or authority, and I vote to keep power dispersed and to hold proposals — including treasury withdrawals and protocol changes — to evidence rather than promises.
Motivations
I run the BKIND stake pool and have operated on Cardano since its early days (participated in Shelley ITN), where I saw how concentrated or undisclosed stake can shape a network from the start. That convinced me governance must be transparent and verifiable, so I verify everything against the chain myself rather than take claims on faith. I register as a DRep to turn that verify-don't-trust stance into a governance vote.
My belief is that a sustainable, expanding Cardano needs real diversity — decentralization of both stake and governance power — alongside high-quality, innovative, value-adding solutions for its stakeholders. That balance is the lens I bring to every proposal.
Qualifications
Stake pool operator (BKIND) and builder of independent Cardano infrastructure: a pure, from-scratch on-chain block decoder and ledger auditor that reconstruct chain state directly from the Ouroboros protocol without third-party indexers, plus audit systems for financial and metering data. Background in IT process and governance frameworks. I read CBOR, ledger rules, and on-chain evidence directly, and assess proposals on what the chain and the data actually show.
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Latest votes
- No on Cardano Strategic Copper Reserve | ₳22M RWA Tokenization, 15 Oct 2026
- No on Withdraw 11,787,063 ada for the OpenZeppelin Stack administered by Intersect, 1 Oct 2026
- No on Reduce minPoolCost to 75 ada, 18 Sept 2026
- Yes on Should stakePoolTargetNum (k) be raised from 500 to 1000? (SPO poll), 17 Sept 2026
- No on Update Constitutional Committee 2026, 31 Aug 2026
- No on Reduce minPoolCost to 75 ada and increase Plutus Memory Limits (Part 2), 28 Aug 2026
- Yes on Withdraw 25,400,000 ada for Intersect: Governance coordination and technical ..., 22 Jul 2026
- Yes on Blockfrost's transformation to not-for-profit, 16 Jul 2026
- Yes on Hard Fork to Protocol Version 11 ('van Rossem' Hard Fork), 27 Jun 2026