June 19, 2025 • 4 mins
In this episode, Peter dives into an important development for Cardano governance: the release of a new decentralised voting tool by the Cardano Foundation. This open-source platform, accessible at voting.cardanofoundation.org, enables DReps (Delegated Representatives), SPOs (Stake Pool Operators), and Constitutional Committee members to vote on-chain using a streamlined interface.
Critically, the tool supports multisig wallets and stores immutable voting rationales on IPFS via integrations with Endmaker or custom IPFS providers. The release comes at a crucial time, as the existing community-built voting tool, GovTools, is facing funding challenges. GovTools wasn’t included in the latest Intersect budget, leaving its continued development uncertain. A 100k ADA maintenance grant will keep the tool functional for now, but future progress depends on renewed community support.
Peter walks through how the Cardano Foundation’s tool works, outlining the step-by-step process from inputting your DRep ID to signing and submitting your vote. The new interface simplifies rationale submission, removing the need for GitHub uploads and allowing users to use Endmaker API tokens or even custom storage like Iagon.
Crucially, the entire voting tool is open source and can be run locally or on private infrastructure, which ensures the resilience and decentralisation of Cardano governance. If hosted tools like GovTools go offline, users can still vote independently. This tool complements other platforms in the governance ecosystem like Tempo Vote, Governance.space, and the Cardano Forum, but it's one of the few to offer full voting capabilities.
Peter applauds the Cardano Foundation for their contribution to the ecosystem’s decentralisation and encourages the community to explore this new tool to strengthen participation in on-chain governance.
Critically, the tool supports multisig wallets and stores immutable voting rationales on IPFS via integrations with Endmaker or custom IPFS providers. The release comes at a crucial time, as the existing community-built voting tool, GovTools, is facing funding challenges. GovTools wasn’t included in the latest Intersect budget, leaving its continued development uncertain. A 100k ADA maintenance grant will keep the tool functional for now, but future progress depends on renewed community support.
Peter walks through how the Cardano Foundation’s tool works, outlining the step-by-step process from inputting your DRep ID to signing and submitting your vote. The new interface simplifies rationale submission, removing the need for GitHub uploads and allowing users to use Endmaker API tokens or even custom storage like Iagon.
Crucially, the entire voting tool is open source and can be run locally or on private infrastructure, which ensures the resilience and decentralisation of Cardano governance. If hosted tools like GovTools go offline, users can still vote independently. This tool complements other platforms in the governance ecosystem like Tempo Vote, Governance.space, and the Cardano Forum, but it's one of the few to offer full voting capabilities.
Peter applauds the Cardano Foundation for their contribution to the ecosystem’s decentralisation and encourages the community to explore this new tool to strengthen participation in on-chain governance.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Kadana Foundation has developed a brand new voting tool
to allow users, de reps and anyone else participating in
governance to vote online. And this one's really important because
it's a decentralized version compared to what a lot of
people using at the moment. This is a Caddanda Foundation
releasing the Candndo government's voting tool. You can get to
(00:21):
this at voting dot Candomo Foundation dot org. It is
developed by the Candanda Foundation to help de reps, spos
and Constitutional Committee members to vote easily. It supports multi
sig wallets. I think that's rather important, especially with the
groups of de reps that are out there and hassle
free process of recording and storing immutable voting rationales on
(00:44):
ipfs powered by nmakers. That's really really good stuff there,
and you can get to this online. It's all available
already now. The important thing to note here is that
this is decentralized and a lot of people at the
moment are using gov dot tools, this website here, and this.
(01:04):
They're looking for additional funding to keep this tool running.
So gov Tools wasn't included in the current Candano budget,
so that means they won't have the additional funding that
they're required to keep this or going. So one hundred
K eight maintenance grant will sustain essential infrastructure bug fixes
through twenty twenty five, but future development depends on renewed
(01:28):
community backing. So find out what this means and you
can read this blog post all about it. But essentially
they need more funding. But now the Condanna Foundation has
built this new tool that will allow anyone to continue voting.
And let me just take you through the process here.
So we can start the vote. You can put in
your derap id, pick a proposal, choose the storage that
(01:51):
you want to upload your rationale too. So this is
that the rationale process, and at the moment, gov dot
tools puts you through through that process and you have
to upload to gethub and some people aren't used to that,
so this is a slightly different process. You can use
your ndmaker IPFS end maker id and you can API
(02:11):
token there, so you can use that process, or you
can even use a custom IPFS server and maybe we
could use igon here in this case. I haven't tried
this one out yet, but we've got header authorization, token authorization,
so hopefully we can. But I will let you guys
know if it's possible or not. The other thing you
need to do is put the voting rationale rationale signature,
(02:35):
confirm the storage, build the transaction for all of that,
and then sign it. So eight steps and you're good
to go. It seems a little complicated, but it's pretty
much the same process that you would expect with the
guv dot tool's website. Now, the important thing I was
talking about here, this is a decentralized version of it,
and you can get to all of this at GitHub
dot com. This is all the code for it. You
(02:57):
can run this voting tool on your own environment. You
can run it locally on your computer, or you can
run it on a server and get it up and running.
So you do. You probably will need a little bit
of technical knowledge here, but there are some instructions on
how to get this up and running within a doc container.
But from there you'll be able to run this code
(03:18):
and you'll have a copy of this website essentially on
your own environments where you can then go ahead and vote.
And I think this is so important for the decentralization
of governance for Condana as well. So if any of
these other websites go down, such as the gov Tool's
website or any of these other ones that the Kdana
(03:40):
Foundation has mentioned here. There's a lot of projects working
in the space, so we've got Tempo Vote, Governance Space
Forum as well all these other governance ones. Now, I
don't think any the other ones actually let you vote
within the process. I may be wrong, correct me if
I am wrong, but I think only gov tools will
allow you to vote for the various governance actions. It's
(04:03):
the only one that has enabled that through its interface,
So having more options there is really important, all right.
I think this is a brilliant move. Thank you so
much to the Condoina Foundation for building that tool, releasing
it and making an open source and allowing anyone to
pick it up and start building out or having a
fallback for voting within the governance action space. Now, if
(04:25):
you enjoyed this video, if you like these kind of
quick updates as well, let me know down below and
on your way out, don't forget you have that thumbs
up the subscribe button if you haven't done so already,
And I'll catch you guys in the next video.
The Kadana Foundation has developed a brand new voting tool
to allow users, de reps and anyone else participating in
governance to vote online. And this one's really important because
it's a decentralized version compared to what a lot of
people using at the moment. This is a Caddanda Foundation
releasing the Candndo government's voting tool. You can get to
(00:21):
this at voting dot Candomo Foundation dot org. It is
developed by the Candanda Foundation to help de reps, spos
and Constitutional Committee members to vote easily. It supports multi
sig wallets. I think that's rather important, especially with the
groups of de reps that are out there and hassle
free process of recording and storing immutable voting rationales on
(00:44):
ipfs powered by nmakers. That's really really good stuff there,
and you can get to this online. It's all available
already now. The important thing to note here is that
this is decentralized and a lot of people at the
moment are using gov dot tools, this website here, and this.
(01:04):
They're looking for additional funding to keep this tool running.
So gov Tools wasn't included in the current Candano budget,
so that means they won't have the additional funding that
they're required to keep this or going. So one hundred
K eight maintenance grant will sustain essential infrastructure bug fixes
through twenty twenty five, but future development depends on renewed
(01:28):
community backing. So find out what this means and you
can read this blog post all about it. But essentially
they need more funding. But now the Condanna Foundation has
built this new tool that will allow anyone to continue voting.
And let me just take you through the process here.
So we can start the vote. You can put in
your derap id, pick a proposal, choose the storage that
(01:51):
you want to upload your rationale too. So this is
that the rationale process, and at the moment, gov dot
tools puts you through through that process and you have
to upload to gethub and some people aren't used to that,
so this is a slightly different process. You can use
your ndmaker IPFS end maker id and you can API
(02:11):
token there, so you can use that process, or you
can even use a custom IPFS server and maybe we
could use igon here in this case. I haven't tried
this one out yet, but we've got header authorization, token authorization,
so hopefully we can. But I will let you guys
know if it's possible or not. The other thing you
need to do is put the voting rationale rationale signature,
(02:35):
confirm the storage, build the transaction for all of that,
and then sign it. So eight steps and you're good
to go. It seems a little complicated, but it's pretty
much the same process that you would expect with the
guv dot tool's website. Now, the important thing I was
talking about here, this is a decentralized version of it,
and you can get to all of this at GitHub
dot com. This is all the code for it. You
(02:57):
can run this voting tool on your own environment. You
can run it locally on your computer, or you can
run it on a server and get it up and running.
So you do. You probably will need a little bit
of technical knowledge here, but there are some instructions on
how to get this up and running within a doc container.
But from there you'll be able to run this code
(03:18):
and you'll have a copy of this website essentially on
your own environments where you can then go ahead and vote.
And I think this is so important for the decentralization
of governance for Condana as well. So if any of
these other websites go down, such as the gov Tool's
website or any of these other ones that the Kdana
(03:40):
Foundation has mentioned here. There's a lot of projects working
in the space, so we've got Tempo Vote, Governance Space
Forum as well all these other governance ones. Now, I
don't think any the other ones actually let you vote
within the process. I may be wrong, correct me if
I am wrong, but I think only gov tools will
allow you to vote for the various governance actions. It's
(04:03):
the only one that has enabled that through its interface,
So having more options there is really important, all right.
I think this is a brilliant move. Thank you so
much to the Condoina Foundation for building that tool, releasing
it and making an open source and allowing anyone to
pick it up and start building out or having a
fallback for voting within the governance action space. Now, if
(04:25):
you enjoyed this video, if you like these kind of
quick updates as well, let me know down below and
on your way out, don't forget you have that thumbs
up the subscribe button if you haven't done so already,
And I'll catch you guys in the next video.
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