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Intersect is a member-based organization tasked with ensuring the Cardano ecosystem's continuity and future development. Bringing members together behind a shared vision, Intersect enables a more resilient, secure, transparent, and innovative ecosystem that puts members in the driving seat of Cardano’s future.
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## Intersect Purpose
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Cardano’s strength lies in its community’s ability to self-organize. Intersect exists to help coordinate efforts to address the most significant needs in Cardano today that require consensus, facilitating essential functions that have no single owner but are critical for the network’s progress. 
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We create shared understanding, standards, and shared direction, reducing fragmentation and competing interests.
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We ensure these processes are transparent, participatory, and result in actionable outcomes, maintaining momentum, keeping Cardano open and community-led throughout.
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## Intersect Mission
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_(What do we do, for who and in what distinct way)_
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Through coordination of member's expertise and effort, we help address the most significant needs in Cardano ecosystem.
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<summary>Mission - Explanation</summary>
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We provide impartial coordination of decentralised processes in blockchain ecosystems governed by their communities, specifically Cardano, guiding them to tangible outcomes (channeling effort to outcomes). We do this by helping people find commonalities, by proposing transparent standards for anyone who would like to actively provide value, leveraging a distributed global membership to reach consensus. (We help define open standards not rigid gated processes)
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We support specialized member driven groups to coordinate and focus effort on areas that drive the ecosystem positive evolution.
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We aim to provide the clearest and easiest entry point to participate and advance Cardano, and get value from it as a blockchain ecosystem governed by its community. We do this by acting as a reliable entity to look at when something important, that needs community participation and consensus, is happening or about to happen, and by making it easy to discover and use Cardano services provided by the ecosystem.
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Through our innovative organizational structure we also help bridge and operationalize Cardano’s constitutional principles harnessing the power of the decentralised treasury and potential to the real world. We provide oversight via transparent on-chain reporting back to Cardano’s community.
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## **Our values**
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### Cardano first
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Our role is to inform and empower our members, not to dictate actions or decisions. We provide the resources, information, and support necessary to drive progress but recognize that progress is ultimately delivered by our members. By supporting members to make informed decisions, we aim to achieve better outcomes on-chain and ensure that the direction of Cardano is shaped by those who are most invested in its success.
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## Our [2024 ](#user-content-fn-1)[^1]focus
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## Our 2026 focus
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Intersect becomes a simpler, clearer and more effective coordination layer for Cardano, with stronger processes, empowered members and a reliable delivery assurance function.
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### 1. Governance and technical coordination
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Strengthening the processes, standards and technical coordination that enable Cardano to be effective and efficient as a decentralized ecosystem.
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* 1.1 Budget, roadmap and vision cycles
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* 1.2 Critical upgrades, resilience and open source
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* 1.3 Governance standards and constitutional evolution
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### 2. Membership experience and member-led delivery
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Strengthening Intersect as an entry point to contributing to Cardano, and improving the structures that enable members to contribute easily, be recognized, and deliver value to the Cardano ecosystem.
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At its core, Intersect will focus on ensuring, through its members, the future maintenance and development of Cardano. As a community-governed blockchain, this means caring about both the technology and processes that enable technical progress and consensus through discourse and collaboration.
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* 2.1 Membership clarity and value
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* 2.2 Committees, working groups and elections
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* 2.3 Member engagement and visibility
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Our focus in 2024 has been:
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### 3. Organisational excellence and delivery assurance
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1. Supporting the rollout of Cardano's on-chain governance through support services for the ICC and DReps, plus tooling (like Cardano GovTool) and hard fork facilitation.
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2. Creating a shared Cardano product roadmap to take Cardano into 2025 and beyond.
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3. Establishing an annual budget process for Cardano, utilizing Cardano's treasury to support key areas such as core infrastructure, research and development, community grants, marketing/growth. and more. 
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Ensuring Intersect remains lean, focused and capable of delivering on its responsibilities with absolute clarity.
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[^1]: This section should either be updated to 2025 or removed altogether.
*[Intersect Development Update - 2025 Report](intersect-membership/annual-member-meetings-amm/2025-annual-members-meeting/intersect-development-update-2025-report.md)
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*[Intersect Purpose, 3 years mission and vision & 2026 goals](intersect-membership/annual-member-meetings-amm/2025-annual-members-meeting/intersect-purpose-3-years-mission-and-vision-and-2026-goals.md)
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*[AMM - Intersect Development Update - 2025 Report](intersect-membership/annual-member-meetings-amm/2025-annual-members-meeting/intersect-development-update-2025-report.md)
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*[AMM - Intersect Purpose, 3 years mission and vision & 2026 goals](intersect-membership/annual-member-meetings-amm/2025-annual-members-meeting/intersect-purpose-3-years-mission-and-vision-and-2026-goals.md)
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*[2024 Annual Member Meetings](intersect-membership/annual-member-meetings-amm/2024-annual-member-meetings.md)
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description: 'Intersect: Where Individuals come together to drive Cardano forward'
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# Intersect Purpose, 3 years mission and vision & 2026 goals
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# AMM - Intersect Purpose, 3 years mission and vision & 2026 goals
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View updated post-AMM refined version [here](../../../updates/intersect-2026-goals.md)
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Similar to municipalities, local councils, and other member-based organizations, Intersect has a governing board occupied and administered by its members, with various committees and working groups focused on specific domains and interests.
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The design of Intersect’s governance and membership structure helps identify strategic priorities for Cardano’s development by having broad representation through a diverse global membership base. 
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The design of Intersect’s governance and membership structure helps identify strategic priorities for Cardano’s development by having broad representation through a diverse global membership base.
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### **Incorporation**
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Intersect is incorporated in Wyoming, United States, as a Mutual Benefit Nonprofit organization in accordance with applicable state laws. Given the state’s receptiveness to innovation and new technology, specifically around blockchain and DAOs, it was the ideal jurisdiction to incorporate Intersect. 
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Intersect is incorporated in Wyoming, United States, as a Mutual Benefit Nonprofit organization in accordance with applicable state laws. Given the state’s receptiveness to innovation and new technology, specifically around blockchain and DAOs, it was the ideal jurisdiction to incorporate Intersect.
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Intersect was incorporated on July 13, 2023.
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## Member based organization - our members
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Cardano on-chain governance needs off-chain discussion and coordination to properly serve the people. We are a member-based organization (MBO) because our mission and value depend on collective ownership, shared governance, and community participation. 
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* Members aren’t just customers or beneficiaries, they are stakeholders.
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* Members bring diverse perspectives, expertise, and lived experiences. Better problem-solving, more representative governance, and fewer blind spots in decision-making.
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* The organization exists to serve its members, not to maximize profit or external shareholder value. So incentives stay aligned with the long-term goals of the community.
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* A member-based structure amplifies collective advocacy. The organization can influence policy, standards, or industry direction with the weight of its membership behind it.
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* We give voices to each members via our one-member-one-vote voting 
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Intersect is simply an aggregation and coordination point. Without the people, who have the expertise, who are interested and passionate about making Cardano better, Intersect can’t provide any value. So Intersect as an organization needs to ensure its structure is easy to navigate and use, so that these people can connect their effort and provide value to the ecosystem.
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Intersect members have the right to vote who sit in which committee and on the Intersect board, so deciding who has the right expertise for the task. Members, via their discussions and work, are the one providing the recommendations to bring Cardano, and Intersect with it, forward, playing a critical role in the ecosystem. Without their effort, today the Cardano ecosystem would not even have the right to self-govern.
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## Committees and working groups
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(WGs and Committees broad framework, how do they act and evolve, what role do they play)
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In Intersect, we open paths for participation to any contributor, from the least committed one who has little time to those who take on critical roles. We do this via options for participation related to detailed subjects.
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Working groups, which can be created by any member or directly via the committees, are the core places where hands-on work happens, where detailed proposals are created, and where members and associates alike, as well as external contributors, can come together with a common task. 
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Committees are the formal member-elected bodies, where voting members represent Intersect as an organization in relation to the remit they have assigned. They discuss the broader needs of the Cardano ecosystem to arrive at a proposed solution, which could lead to a formal proposal in Cardano’s on-chain’s governance. To do this they meet regularly, work hands-on or might create dedicated working groups, and ultimately they vote on what proposal to bring forward.
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When the membership or the Intersect sees a new need emerging, they might propose or decide to promote a working group to be an elected committee, or create a working group with the purpose of creating a new committee. 
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### Membership
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Intersect membership provides different levels of commitments to the effort members want to give to Cardano. Within the Wyoming structure, it ensures voting rights, and so direct decision making, for Members.
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The different membership tiers, and the free associate subscription, give participants with different needs, a set of dedicated benefits to better provide their contribution to Cardano.
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# Intersect funding
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Intersect supports the growth of decentralized and inclusive systems through technology and education, the administration of Cardano’s governance processes enabling technical changes, and advocacy. This can translate to internal operations and providing funding to develop Cardano’s open-source technology. 
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# \[review] Intersect funding
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To establish Intersect and provide sufficient capital to operate, Intersect has been seed funded by members [Input Output Global](#user-content-fn-1)[^1] and Emurgo. [On the proviso that Intersect becomes a success in 2024](#user-content-fn-2)[^2], Intersect will seek funding for 2025 via a community vote from the Cardano treasury or alternative sources. 
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Intersect supports the growth of decentralized and inclusive systems through technology and education, the administration of Cardano’s governance processes enabling technical changes, and advocacy. This can translate to internal operations and providing funding to develop Cardano’s open-source technology.
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To establish Intersect and provide sufficient capital to operate, Intersect has been seed funded by members [Input Output Global](#user-content-fn-1)[^1] and Emurgo. [On the proviso that Intersect becomes a success in 2024](#user-content-fn-2)[^2], Intersect will seek funding for 2025 via a community vote from the Cardano treasury or alternative sources.
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### **Funding Cardano & the DevTrust**
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Cardano has an underlying operational cost to keep the network running [each year](#user-content-fn-3)[^3]. This includes maintenance, upgrades, and a variety of technical innovations to ensure Cardano continues to be current and a leading blockchain.[ Initially, for 2024, members Input Output Global and Emurgo have funded Cardano’s continuity. This funding enables a collection of members to continue supplying technical services to deliver the core operations. In Q1, Intersect will announce the scope of services these members have planned for 2024.](#user-content-fn-4)[^4]
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Cardano has an underlying operational cost to keep the network running [each year](#user-content-fn-3)[^3]. This includes maintenance, upgrades, and a variety of technical innovations to ensure Cardano continues to be current and a leading blockchain.[ Initially, for 2024, members Input Output Global and Emurgo have funded Cardano’s continuity. This funding enables a collection of members to continue supplying technical services to deliver the core operations. In Q1, Intersect will announce the scope of services these members have planned for 2024.](#user-content-fn-4)[^4]
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To hold these initial operational funds, Intersect designed the Cardano Development Trust (DevTrust). This is a fund that’s mandated to **only use its funds for the benefit and development of the Cardano blockchain**. The DevTrust acts as a vehicle to support and fund the continuity & vision contracts, and other commitments (such as grants). Intersect’s mandate is to administer the DevTrust to fulfil contractual agreements and earn service fees to support its operations.
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