# Question about treasury

**URL:** <https://forum.cardano.org/t/question-about-treasury/146271>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Tags:** treasury, questions, english\
**Created:** [24 May 2025 03:22 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/question-about-treasury/146271 "2025-05-24T03:22:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Fatus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/fatus/32/84232_2.png) [@Fatus](https://forum.cardano.org/u/Fatus)\
**Post date:** [24 May 2025 03:22 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/question-about-treasury/146271/1 "2025-05-24T03:22:32Z")

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The treasury currently has over 1 billion ada, so why doesn’t anyone stake it ? wouldn’t that increase security ?

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**Author:** ![Nana\_Kwadwo\_Safo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/nana_kwadwo_safo/32/83834_2.png) [@Nana\_Kwadwo\_Safo](https://forum.cardano.org/u/Nana_Kwadwo_Safo)\
**Post date:** [24 May 2025 05:40 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/question-about-treasury/146271/2 "2025-05-24T05:40:50Z")

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The funds in the treasury are not associated with a specific wallet or stake key, so they cannot be delegated to a stake pool.

Note that the treasury is a special-purpose fund managed by the Cardano protocol itself. It accumulates ADA from sources such as:

1. A portion of transaction fees
2. A portion of stake pool rewards

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**Author:** ![HeptaSean](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/heptasean/32/82306_2.png) [@HeptaSean](https://forum.cardano.org/u/HeptaSean)\
**Post date:** [24 May 2025 09:01 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/question-about-treasury/146271/3 "2025-05-24T09:01:56Z")

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No, it would not increase security. It would just distort the stake distribution. The stake pools chosen (by what process?) for those treasury ADA would get more blocks, the stake pools _not_ chosen would get less.

We could vote who should get that stake (if it were technically even possible, which it isn’t, see other answer), but that doesn’t make any sense at all: If voting was a secure way of choosing stake pools, why would we do proof of stake at all?

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**Author:** ![Nana\_Kwadwo\_Safo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/nana_kwadwo_safo/32/83834_2.png) [@Nana\_Kwadwo\_Safo](https://forum.cardano.org/u/Nana_Kwadwo_Safo)\
**Post date:** [24 May 2025 21:55 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/question-about-treasury/146271/4 "2025-05-24T21:55:19Z")

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Exactly the other side to think of. It would increase centralization drastically.