Dear Cardano,
In couple of weeks time - @Catalyst_onX will be hosting a special edition town hall presenting preliminary outcomes of the vision that the team has set forth a while back in line with the community’s sentiment to continue working on how might we collectively advance decision making mechanisms. That work-stream is now making its way gradually into production.
Catalyst is uniquely positioned to experiment with in safe and coordinated manner.
Here’s a note from Sasha - our Head of Engineering at Catalyst:
"From a technical standpoint, the integration of Generalised Quadratic Voting (GQV) into Catalyst Fund14 is a strategic move aligned with the long-term architecture of Catalyst voting stack. In Fund14, GQV will serve as a proof of concept applied exclusively at the tallying stage, enabling us to rigorously evaluate its impact on vote distribution without modifying the existing vote-casting flow.
This isolated implementation allows for a clean comparison between linear and quadratic outcomes, providing valuable empirical data to assess its effectiveness in reducing the concentration of influence by high-stake wallets. Our approach ensures compatibility with the evolving modular architecture of Catalyst platform while leveraging Hermes’ secure and scalable infrastructure for future deployment.
Looking ahead to Fund15, we plan to fully embed GQV with end-to-end cryptographic integrity and privacy-preserving mechanisms, maintaining verifiability and anonymity at scale. This phased rollout reflects our commitment to both innovation and robustness in advancing Catalyst’s governance tooling and the first instantiation of this is located in our open source repos."
ACTION ITEMS: What sort of questions are in your mind when it comes to Fund14 and later deployments of new voting protocols in Catalyst? Be it quadratic methods or others that have been evaluated against set of criteria.
Please retweet this call to action here and share your question(s) in comments below. I will aggregate all of your notes and share with the research team ahead of the call that will read all of these to help them get ready.
Appreciate you. 
Danny & the Catalyst Team