| Vendor | Contract Name | Contract Description | Contract Amount (ADA) |
|---|---|---|---|
| IO | IO: Cardano Developer Experience Link to Dashboard | IO will deliver the beginning of a comprehensive Cardano Developer Experience programme to
grow and retain the Cardano builder community. The programme covers five workstreams: (1) Community Alignment – mapping the ecosystem and securing community buy-in for a shared roadmap; (2) a CLI/TUI developer tool to streamline project scaffolding; (3) a Contracts Library of reusable smart-contract templates; (4) Developer Hub and Outreach – clear onboarding paths at developers.cardano.org and active engagement channels; and (5) Hackathon and Community Bounties to drive participation. Success is measured by Monthly Active User uplift and improved builder NPS. | 3,493,868 |
| IO | IO & Ensurable Systems: Cardano Upgrades Link to Dashboard | IO will deliver three major Cardano protocol upgrades during 2026/27: Babel Fees, enabling
users to pay transaction fees in native assets rather than ADA; Multi-Asset Micro Fees (CIP-159), introducing enhanced account address architecture to support new micro-payment use cases; and a Multi-Asset Treasury design that enables the Cardano treasury to hold diversified assets. | 12,709,947.83 |
| IO | IO & Partners: Enhancing Plutus - Performance, Correctness, and Usability Link to Dashboard | Formal specification and correctness. Build a property-based conformance testing framework
extending the current test suite, enabling alternative Plutus evaluators to verify correctness against the canonical implementation. Run a systematic security and correctness audit of security-critical code (Plutus evaluator and costing). Formalize built-in types and functions in the Plutus metatheory. Developer tooling. Deliver a new compiler and optimizer architecture that improves code optimization, produces clearer source-level error messages, and reduces boilerplate. Simplify development environment setup, removing the need for tools like Nix or manual dependency installation. Performance. Deliver Plutus optimizations that reduce script overhead by roughly 25% | 11,521,247.75 |
| IO | IO: Cardano High Assurance Technical Collaboration Link to Dashboard (Part 1 of 2) Link to Dashboard (Part 2 of 2) | This Statement of Work delivers the Cardano High Assurance Technical Collaboration across
| 2,686,220 |
| IO | IO: Consensus – Leios (Ship It) Link to Dashboard | IO will deliver Leios, a consensus extension designed to dramatically increase Cardano’s
The programme validates technical feasibility on real infrastructure,
| 26,882,912 |
| IO | IO: Cardano Maintenance & Support Link to Dashboard | IO will provide comprehensive Cardano network maintenance and support throughout the
DevOps and multi-level support teams will ensure operational
| 60,270,591.10 |
| IO | IO: Cardano Vision 2026: Human Centred, Scalable, Post Quantum Secure Link to Dashboard | The Supplier will provide a strategic program of research and development designed to
realize Cardano Vision and place Cardano at the forefront of blockchain innovation. The services are designed to deliver foundational research and technology validation programs up to TRL5, alongside communication and dissemination activities. | 31,928,520 |
| IO | IO: Hydra Link to Dashboard | Hydra is the only production-grade Layer 2 on Cardano, already running live workloads for Delta
DeFi, Masumi, Intersect, Vtechcom and others. This proposal funds four workstreams - performance optimization, operational excellence, ecosystem support, and developer experience - delivering a feature-complete and hardened Hydra v2 so we offer a competitive scaling solution to existing builders and new builders adopt Cardano. Hydra delivers sub-second finality, near-zero fees, and high parallel throughput with L1-grade settlement. It unlocks verticals such as institutional and perpetual DEXes, agent-to-agent commerce, micropayments, gaming, point of sale, and verifiable information processing. | 4,947,757.57 |
| TxPipe | Pallas by TxPipe: Maintaining Cardano's Core Rust Libraries, Year 2 Link to Dashboard | The Supplier shall provide a part-time maintainer to
maintain and enhance Pallas, a collection of Rust crates re-implementing core Ouroboros and Cardano primitives used as shared infrastructure across the ecosystem (https://github.com/txpipe/pallas), over a 12 month period, across essential maintenance, community support, and AI-driven development compatibility. All work is performed on the public repository and released under an open-source licence. | 525,000 |
| TxPipe | Dolos by TxPipe: Maintaining Cardano's Lightweight Data Node, Year 2 Link to Dashboard | The Supplier shall provide a part-time maintainer to
maintain and enhance Dolos, an open-source lightweight Cardano data node built in Rust (https://github.com/txpipe/dolos), over a 12 month period, across essential maintenance, community support, and AI-driven development compatibility. All work is performed on the public repository and released under an open-source licence. | 525,000 |
| TxPipe | Tx3 by TxPipe: Open API Layer for Cardano's dApp Protocols Link to Dashboard | The Supplier shall deliver an open, standardised API
layer across Cardano's leading on-chain protocols so that developers and AI agents can discover, integrate and compose them through a single consistent surface, over a 12 month period, comprising twelve additional protocol onboardings with verified Tx3 interfaces and six-language SDKs, a per-protocol agent-first experience (MCP tools and Skills), editor and agent plugins, public TRP transaction resolution infrastructure, and comprehensive developer and LLM-structured documentation. | 1,635,000 |
| TxPipe | UTxO RPC by TxPipe: Maintaining Cardano's Integration Standard, Year 2 Link to Dashboard | The Supplier shall provide a part-time maintainer to
maintain and enhance UTxO RPC, an open interface specification with multi-language SDKs that standardises interactions with UTxO-based blockchains (https://github.com/utxorpc), over a 12 month period, across protobuf specification maintenance, SDK maintenance, community support, and AI-driven development compatibility. All work is performed on the public repositories and released under an open-source licence. | 525,000 |
| TxPipe | Oura by TxPipe: Maintaining Cardano's Event Pipeline Link to Dashboard | The Supplier shall provide a part-time maintainer to
maintain and enhance Oura, a Rust-native pipeline tool that connects to Cardano nodes, monitors blockchain events and routes matching patterns to pluggable outputs (built on Pallas; https://github.com/txpipe/oura), over a 12 month period, across essential maintenance, community support, and AI-driven development compatibility. All work is performed on the public repository and released under an open-source licence. | 525,000 |
| Tweag | Tweag Core Cardano Infrastructure: Treasury Withdrawal 2026–2027 Link to Dashboard | Tweag by Modus Create proposes a comprehensive suite of infrastructure services aimed at
strengthening the foundational layers of the Cardano blockchain. These services are centered on delivering innovative, high-impact enhancements to critical components of the Cardano technology stack. By focusing on long-term utility and technical robustness, our goal is to support the ecosystem’s evolution through scalable, research-driven, and production-grade solutions. | 17,532,956.16 |
| 5am Earth Foundation | 5am.earth Foundation: Decentralized Agricultural Trust Layer on Cardano Link to Dashboard | The Supplier will build, operate, and hand to the Foundation stewardship an open, reusable, decentralized agricultural information trust layer anchored on Cardano Mainnet, as ratified by the
| 9,700,000 |
| Cardano Foundation | Cardano at TOKEN2049 Link to Dashboard | The Supplier will provide services to support Cardano’s ‘Platinum’ sponsorship presence at
TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026, taking place from October 7–8, 2026. The services include securing and coordinating the sponsorship package, managing booth build-out and on-site logistics, providing a dedicated Cardano builder stage and exhibition presence, coordinating participation by Cardano ecosystem builders, facilitating attendee engagement and networking opportunities, arranging event tickets and on-site support, capturing post-event photo and video content, and supporting reporting on agreed performance metrics. The objective of the project is to increase Cardano’s visibility, showcase ecosystem builders to a global Web3 audience, generate partnership and adoption opportunities, and deliver measurable community value from the event activation. | 3,207,535 |
| Teragone Factory | Mithril Protocol Link to Dashboard | Continued development and maintenance of the Mithril
protocol, which uses stake-based threshold multi-signatures to certify Cardano state in a trustless way, enabling nodes and applications to verify chain state rapidly without relying on the entire chain. The Project covers faster node syncing and trustless state verification, migration of artifact storage to IPFS, recursive zk-SNARK succinct proofs, one-command SPO onboarding, hard fork readiness, and ongoing maintenance and hosting infrastructure. | 3,696,110 |
| VacuumLabs | Hardware Wallet Maintenance 2026 Link to Dashboard | The Supplier shall provide twelve (12) months of production maintenance for Cardano
hardware-wallet support. This is a continuity engagement for an existing, proven access layer, not the build of a new wallet product. The Services comprise Ledger and Trezor compatibility updates, maintenance of supporting interoperability libraries and cardano-hw-cli, developer support for ecosystem integrators, support for integration paths involving externally maintained components where shared hardware-wallet flows intersect, release and test work, incident response for high-priority compatibility and signing issues, and vendor-required product or security audits (including Ledger-certified audits) where firmware or app changes trigger them. The Services are delivered as a capped time-and-materials engagement with milestone claims at eight (8) week intervals, public progress reporting, and evidence-backed acceptance. | 1,310,960 |
| Se7en Labs | Daedalus Wallet Maintenance and Improvements 2026-2027 Link to Dashboard | The Supplier shall provide maintenance, security and
development services for Daedalus, Cardano's only full-node desktop wallet (open-source under the Apache License 2.0), over a 12 month period on a time and materials basis. The Services cover three areas: (i) Protocol Maintenance, including node and wallet backend upgrades and hard fork readiness (Leios, Peras and Nested Transactions), with a compatible release available at least two weeks before each mainnet hard fork; (ii) Ecosystem Expansion, including Keystone and Flex hardware wallet support, a CIP-30 dApp connector and Japanese localisation; and (iii) User Support for the Daedalus user base, with dedicated support for the Japanese community. All platforms (Windows, macOS x86_64, macOS aarch64 and Linux) are maintained and all work is performed on the public Daedalus repository and released under the Apache License 2.0. | 1,715,999.68 |
| MLabs | MLabs Core Tool Maintenance & Enhancement: Plutarch and Ply Link to Dashboard | 12 months of maintenance and enhancement
work for Plutarch and Ply, delivered through four quarterly maintenance cycles using a maintainer-led, priority-based model. The work keeps both libraries reliable, compatible, performant and well-documented as Cardano’s ledger, Plutus, UPLC and developer ecosystem continue to evolve, including protocol-era compatibility work (such as Dijkstra-era changes) where relevant updates land during the funding period. | 1,117,591 |
| Reservoir
DAO LLC (AlphaGrowth) | Cardano PRIME - Treasury Funding, Custody and Program Execution Link to Dashboard | The Supplier shall implement the approved Cardano PRIME program, including deployment of
approved grants and incentives, supported by upfront mobilization funding, establishment of the Operating Group and custody arrangements, and authorised bulk transfers to program working wallets. Program funds shall be applied to the purposes and budget of the approved proposal. | 119,040,000 |
| Intersect | Governance coordination and technical stewardship for the Cardano ecosystem Link to Dashboard | This SOW funds Intersect’s core operating model for the Project term: operation of the Member Based Organization that supports open ecosystem coordination; a reserved capacity to address critical unowned processes; and technical stewardship, incident response and release coordination to help keep Cardano secure, reliable and operationally resilient. The Services are delivered across three Work Packages: (WP1) Intersect operations and ecosystem coordination; (WP2) Technical Stewardship, Incident Response and Coordination, including the core Cardano Haskell repositories; and (WP3) Management of critical processes. | 1,715,999.68 |
| Intersect | Intersect Technical Steering Committee Support Link to Dashboard | The Supplier will administer Work Package 1 (Community-Facing Technical Coordination) of the Intersect TSC Support 2026 programme, which aims to close the gap between technical leadership and the broader Cardano community and to give DReps independent, authoritative technical analysis. | 256,000.00 |