# Cardano Summit Stop/Start/Continue Exercise | Budget Presentation Retro | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | STOP | START | CONTINUE | | | | | | Too much discussion on Discord, which is harder to keep up. Instead put ? on the portal. | Utilize treasury to seed USDA liquidity. There needs to be full buy-in from Cardano entities before 3rd party seed. | Catalyst | | Nothing to stop. Everything seems to be good for now. | Establish internal audit process. | Communication | | Tradeoffs between single and multiple actions need to be explained. | Utilize treasury to increase 1. new projects on Cardano and 2. porting non-Cardano web3 projects to Cardano. | Be transparent. | | | Utilize Catalyst to drive commercialization on Cardano (ie. Catalyst to drive ROI on Cardano) | Radical transparency. | | | Transparent communication with members. Perhaps more communication mechanisms. | Consulting Cardano community. | | | A centralized hub, a website, to see all the projects funded...who, why. | Put a framework and fund allocation so it is done. Including liasing with other committees. | | | Gathering data from our first budget in 2025. | Educate about the budget process. | | | Reach out to projects that could benefit the protocol with their work to be part of the budget. | Actively measuring chain activity. | | | A framework to spend budget in loan, subsidy, and grant system. | Feedback into the budget process. | | | Discussion and planning of active budget management. (eg. DCA into stables when price moves up to maybe don't need a treasury withdrawl in 2026 at all if we have a proper 2025 all time high) | Measuring the ecosystem of core partners/solutions to grow/sustain Cardano. Promote them so they survive. | | | Explain the budget process to the community in a transparent way. | Support committees in their financial planning. | | | Online sessions | The buckets allocation system. | | | Active management of treasury stable coins/ high yield (options outside crypto professional management ) | Focusing on expanding hubs by allocating funds to organizing events for member onboarding. | | | Create principles for how all committees should manage their budgets. High-level principles. (eg. transparency, multiple proposals) | Developing the budget process. | | | Get more members' input. | Making short video updates. | | | Start considering all the observations suggesting to have more than one vote and one withdrawal for the budget. | | | | Thinking about tactical budget allocations to capture emerging opportunities in crypto. | | | | Making references to the constitution in the Intersect mandate and actions. | |