Tweag Core Cardano Infrastructure: Treasury Withdrawal 2026–2028

Treasury withdrawal: Pays ADA out of the Cardano treasury.

Status: Expired: Voting closed without the action reaching the support it needed.
Proposed: 30 Apr 2026, in epoch 628
Amount: ₳39,787,316
Action ID: gov_action14u26vcn3wmcnhc5pqrt6494ypugr7c7f3e2ns60r32cntl6zjtxsqqgeu8p

Votes

DReps: 6.1% yes, 67% needed, threshold not reached, 44 Yes · 85 No · 33 Abstain.
Stake pools: do not vote on this action.
Constitutional Committee: 85.7% yes.

Abstract

This treasury withdrawal requests **₳39,787,316** (USD $9,946,829) to fund Tweag by Modus Create's delivery of 17 work packages across 9 core infrastructure areas for the Cardano ecosystem over 2026–2028.

The primary focus is the **mainnet deployment of Peras** (faster finality: ~2 min vs. ~12 min today), alongside improvements to resilience, scalability, developer tooling, and network observability. Work packages include:

- **Peras v1** – production cryptography, KillSwitch, mainnet readiness - **Peras v2** – pre-agreement algorithm, cooldown recovery, performance optimizations - **History Expiry** – partial-history nodes to reduce SPO storage costs - **Hard Fork Mempool Bridger** – transaction preservation during fork incidents - **Conformance Testing** – CTC framework extended for Peras and Leios - **Adversarial Fork Testing** – Genesis property-based test improvements - **Canonical Ledger State & Mithril** – standardized state snapshots (CIP-0165) - **Plutus Script Re-Executor** – debugging tooling for DApp developers - **Mutation Testing** – test suite adequacy framework for Haskell/Cardano - **Hoarding Node** – live deployment, distributed mode, embedded consensus validation, transaction collection - **Block Cost Investigation** – empirical and analytical cost models - **Genesis Sync Accelerator & Node Emulator** – ongoing maintenance

Intersect is requested to serve as proposal and contract administrator. All deliverables are open-source and publicly tracked.