Over the past year, I've been passionately working on addressing one of the biggest challenges facing open source: long-term sustainability.

Both Web2 and Web3 continue to struggle with this issue. While Web3 offers unique advantages through access to capital, decentralized mable funding mechanisms, it often lacks the institutional and operational structures needed to effectively support maintainers, security, community collaboration, emerging technologies like AI, and the actual costs of sustaining open source projects.

Building on a pilot program in the Cardano ecosystem, along with lessons learned from other open source communities and industry initiatives, I've been developing a comprehensive approach that connects governance, operational maintenance, and economic sustainability into a cohesive model.

This research is structured around three interconnected frameworks:

The Who — Decentralized Open Source Program Office (dOSPO): How traditional Open Source Program Offices can evolve to coordinate governance, accountability, and open source stewardship within decentralized ecosystems.

The What — Open Maintenance Framework (OMF): How to structure programs that address the real needs of open source projects, including maintainer support, contributor development, security, community collaboration, and infrastructure resilience, rather than simply throwing money at the problem.

The How — Open Replenishment Framework (ORF): How to connect the economic value created by open source infrastructure back to the systems responsible for maintaining it, creating opportunities for recurring funding and long-term financial sustainability.

I encourage everyone to explore the first two whitepapers, covering the Who and the What, which are already available. The final piece of the puzzle, the How, is undergoing its final round of review and edits and will be published soon.

I've also been working with the @lfdecentralized to help establish a neutral home for this research through its Labs initiative, making these frameworks freely accessible for ecosystems to explore, adopt, test, and improve.

Ultimately, the goal is to move beyond asking how we fund open source today and start building the systems that can sustain it tomorrow. I believe this challenge will only become more important as our collective dependence on open source, decentralized infrastructure, and AI continues to grow.

Whitepapers and Frontiers Lab can be found here:

github.com/LF-Decentraliz…

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Dear DReps,

I’ve gone through many of your comments on the @trivolvetech PFMS proposal. There are good observations and fair concerns, but I believe many of them miss the bigger picture.

Cardano needs adoption, and this proposal is a strong path toward it.

The opportunity:

A working MVP that already demonstrates value, shows a real need for blockchain, and generates on-chain transactions
A government contract to scale. Securing a multi-year government contract is extremely difficult.
It’s in India, where implementation means scale
A clear path to measurable KPIs
Potential for adoption beyond India

Do we trust the team? For me, it’s a big YES:

A strong team active on Cardano, with both deep technical and business capabilities
A 4–5 year track record of delivery
Ongoing contributions to the ecosystem, such as hackathons

I understand the risks. But the biggest risk we face right now is not investing enough in adoption. Alongside DeFi, we need to back great teams pursuing major real-world opportunities.

Thank you for your attention.

@yutazzz @dori_coin @jasonappleton @JaromirTesar

Does Cardano want government and institutional adoption or not?

I've seen a lot of debate around the @trivolvetech PFMS proposal and I think the discussions have uncovered some important topics that speak to Treasury use, adoption and value.

Several people have commented that if a government wants to use Cardano, the government should pay for the development itself. I think reflects a limited understanding of how technology ecosystems compete for institutional adoption.

Other chains actively invest in attracting governments and enterprises.

What's Cardano's strategy?

Institutional adoption requires upfront investment, integration work, specialized expertise and risk-sharing.

Ecosystems should have a strategic interest in helping remove barriers and it seems like in Cardano we've had a long history of upholding barriers for builders (and this just doesn't just apply to government use-cases obviously).

In my mind if a successful government deployment (like PFMS) creates reusable/open-source infrastructure, Cardano stands to benefit greatly from it.

Isn't that the entire premise of investing in ecosystem growth?

Part of the reason Cardano's numbers are what they are is that we have a long history of giving large grants to projects and teams that did not result in sustainable onchain activity or ongoing value for the ecosystem...

We've engaged in a glaring amount of experimental funding and it hasn't worked in our favor.

This proposal with Trivolve comes with a government agreement supporting a state-scale deployment with the government committing to covering ongoing infrastructure, maintenance and Cardano transaction fees.

It's a functioning deployment, creates a credible institutional use-case reference with reusable open-source infrastructure that can support adoption by other states and countries in the future.

For years we've talked about needing real-world adoption on Cardano, well here it is... and we're sitting here debating whether the Treasury should invest in it.

I think it's short-sighted personally, and I encourage DReps to re-think "NO" votes.

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In order to be born, you needed:

2 parents
4 grandparents
8 great-grandparents
16 second great-grandparents
32 third great-grandparents
64 fourth great-grandparents
128 fifth great-grandparents
256 sixth great-grandparents
512 seventh great-grandparents
1,024 ts
2,048 ninth great-grandparents

For you to be born today from 12 previous generations, you needed a total of 4,094 ancestors over the last 400 years.

Think for a moment:
How many struggles?
How many battles?
How many difficulties?
How much sadness?
How much happiness?
How many love stories?
How many expressions of hope for the future? – did your ancestors have to undergo for you to exist in this present moment...

[theoretical calculation not considering the Pedigree Collapse]

For once in my life looking back, I feel I've done enough, not that I'm stopping anytime soon, but from my days in high school, there was now way, I'd ever think I'd have the journey I did.
I mean even getting married in India 😅, much less building showers for custom middle east prince aircraft, being a part of the craziest decentralization experiment ever done both in governance and data storage.
Not something I would've thought 😄

Can I take a moment to celebrate where Cardano has come, it's like I've lived an entire lifetime in this place and been in every branch of real government.

But with this love I have I have to get his off my chest.

I want to start by saying this comes from someone who cares about Cardano and wants it to win. A lot of people are putting in real work right now, and they know how they are, even if I toss pebbles at their window.

But I think we need an honest conversation about where we are, because Cardano is in a tough spot and action needs to be taken. That might mean staying the course, amending some changes, or rethinking parts of what we've built, all the way up to the governance layer. That's for this community to decide.

4) My Ideas: Not saying they'll work, just stuff I've seen work elsewhere

So what would I do if I were calling the shots? I'm not saying I have all the answers, but here's my view.

I'd focus Intersect on what it does well, which is coordinating core development. It doesn't need to host every project. The core software that runs Cardano, mainly the Haskell node, could move to the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust, the way Hedera did with its codebase in 2024 while keeping its own network governance. Intersect would coordinate the development, and the Linux Foundation would provide a neutral, politics-free open-source home and open us to a much bigger developer audience.

Pragma can thrive as an independent development shop without carrying core. The Cardano Foundation should lead accelerator operations and education, because that's where they've proven themselves and they're the ones getting us into government rooms. Input Output can lean into being multi-chain while its core teams keep contributing. That spreads the load so we're not relying on one organization for everything.

On spending, let's land Leios and then shift away from endless infrastructure. The urgent work now is quantum readiness, because that's existential, plus basic infrastructure and a dedicated kernel-development bucket. Keep the bucket allocation, but let multiple stewards serve each bucket, and bring in new qualified entities alongside the ones already doing the work.

I'd also love to see Emurgo invest in infrastructure over the next couple of years. Its genesis allocation of about 2.07 billion ADA was meant to build the ecosystem, and putting it into real projects would mean a lot right now.

The baseline for me is simple. What matters most for Cardano right now is incentive structures and real network traction. Let's fund what drives those, keep core strong, focus on security where it counts, and leave the politics behind.

To everyone grinding on this right now, at Intersect, the Cardano Foundation, IO, the committees, the DReps and the builders: thank you. Let's keep marching together.

Today for a brief moment, my world was in balance:

Update, the Qwen 3 and Ollama set-up is running, well, used Claude to organize a similar chat interface for the deployment.

They are currently working on my prototype project , since it's not in production, a lot of leeway here, but either way, impressed so far, it's slower of ve to take turns using the machine, but each is tailored differently, and getting up to 42 words a second on a single machine, no extra gear at all.

Currently I have six bots queued for running a series of tasks, each with different role:

1) Project Manager
2) Competition Analyst
3) Legal Reviewer
4) Coder
5) Verifier
6) Writer

My set-up is an Asus Laptop with RTX 4070, with *GB , 32 GB Ram and Intel i9. It's enough to use an unlimited open weight ai model in background for doing various mundane things.

Have some more experiments in mind, and curious to remap the neural pathways I saw recently for these models.

Cardano stake pool retirements are worth paying attention to....

As of Oct 31, 2026:

• 3,283 pools retired since 2020
• 179 reportedly retired in the past year
• 2,884 pools remain registered
• ~933 produced blocks in Epoch 664

That raises questions about SPO sustainability.

Based on the reported 179 annual retirements, Cardano is averaging roughly 15 pool retirements per month.
That's an estimate, not a verified count for the last 30 days.
Also, registered pools that didn't produce blocks aren't necessarily inactive.

Several established pools are leaving:

• ADRIA — retired Epoch 665
• CLAY — retired Epoch 665; ~5,681 delegator addresses and ~7.7M ADA remaining delegated
• RABIT — retirement filed for Epoch 666
• SQUID — retirement filed for Epoch 666

The bigger question isn't simply how many pools are retiring.

It's whether independent stake pool operation remains economically sustainable, particularly for smaller operators.

Cardano's decentralization depends on viable operators, not just registered pool counts.

Sources:
cardanoscan.io/certificates/p…
supercardano.com/pt/pools
cardanoscan.io/epoch/664

Posting here for awareness, those who like Skyrim and Oblivion, a 10 year in the making community project called Skyblivion, which brings oblivion into Skyrim needs help, mostly legal, hopefully someone could assist there. Somone suing to remove their contributions on a volunteer project.

This is not like the remaster release we got earlier this year, but a beautifully recreated Oblivion game.

youtu.be/cbECoFxtaI4?si…

@TESRSkyblivion @IOHK_Charles @ChinstrapC @elonmusk