Peter Horsfall
Peter Horsfall is an active Cardano DRep with ₳5.12M of voting power from 66 delegators. Voted on 56 of the 62 governance actions of the last six months.
- Status
- Active
- Voting power
- ₳5,115,906
- Delegators
- 66
- Votes, last six months
- 56 of 62 governance actions
- Explains their votes
- 51 of 134 votes came with a published rationale
- Registered
- 5 Sept 2024
- DRep ID
- drep1ytfas4axhm8yzrqqh4ru2uuqesu87zeq6fwg5pq8azqf7ecu4nu8s
Objectives
Blend traditional and decentralised finance into something people can use every day - and lift Cardano governance literacy across Oceania, a region still under-represented on-chain. I spent twelve years inside one of Australia's largest banks; I now build independently. That move taught me the thing I bring to every vote: in an age where information is cheap and good judgement is scarce, governance lives or dies on judgement. I read every proposal and vote each governance and treasury action on its merits - common sense, fiscal discipline, and the long-term health of the ecosystem over short-term noise
Motivations
Cardano changed the trajectory of my life, so I show up for it - voting, explaining, and connecting people across my networks. My edge is the seam between worlds: a decade fluent in the establishment (banking, legal operations, regulated tech), now building at the frontier of decentralised systems. I can translate governance for both sides. I'm not here to rubber-stamp. I treat treasury like my own runway - courage paired with a plan, never recklessness - and I'll ask the awkward questions and cast the unpopular vote when the merits call for it. The way I weigh every decision comes down to four words I build everything by: Curiosity, Caring, Constructive, Chill. You can find out more about the 4C framework at https://selfdriven.you/
Qualifications
> 12 years at NAB, one of Australia's largest banks - in Legal Operations and Emerging Tech > Founder & Director, Executive Portlets Pty Ltd; now building full-time in the selfdriven Foundation ecosystem > Working at the frontier of decentralised identity and verifiable-evidence systems > Cardano contributor since 2021 and Active DRep since 2024 > One of the Sydney signatories of the Cardano Constitution, signed in Buenos Aires, Argentina (2024)
Links
Latest votes
- No on Governance Incentives Framework 2026, 26 Aug 2026
- Yes on Reimburse Ikigai Info Governance Action Deposit., 26 Aug 2026
- Yes on Reduce minPoolCost to 75 ada and increase Plutus Memory Limits (Part 2), 26 Aug 2026
- Yes on Update Constitutional Committee 2026, 26 Aug 2026
- Yes on Withdraw 120,000,000 ada for AlphaGrowth’s Cardano PRIME, 13 Jul 2026
- No on Revised Cardano dOSPO and OMF Program Proposal, 13 Jul 2026
- Yes on Bifrost: Unlocking Bitcoin DeFi on Cardano — Road to Mainnet (Phase 1 of 2), 13 Jul 2026
- Yes on Net Change Limit: Cardano Treasury (Epochs 613-713), 13 Jul 2026
- No on Scalus 2026: Maintenance, Dijkstra Readiness, Interoperability & Application Runtime, 9 Jul 2026
- Abstain on Global Order Book connect Cardano DeFi to increase transaction, 9 Jul 2026