We Listened. Here Is Our Refined Proposal.
Tweag by Modus Create submitted our revised 2026 Cardano infrastructure proposal earlier this year. Over the past weeks, we continued engaging directly with DReps across Discord, X, and email, and read every rationale shared with us.
The feedback was consistent across many voices. Two years is too long for the current treasury environment. The scope is too broad. The NCL constraints are real and DReps are making difficult prioritisation decisions across many proposals.
We heard you.
We are now submitting a refined proposal that responds directly to that feedback.
What has changed
The proposal has been narrowed to three work packages: Peras v1 delivery and support, Conformance Testing of Consensus: Peras & Leios, and History Expiry. The total ask is ₳18,263,496.
What has been removed :
- Peras v2
- Hardfork Mempool Bridger
- Plutus Script Re-Executor
- Mutation Testing Framework
- Block Cost Investigation
- Canonical Ledger State maintenance and Mithril integration
- Hoarding Node live network deployment
- Genesis Sync Accelerator maintenance
- Cardano node emulator maintenance
What remains is the work that is essential to ship Peras safely.
What has not changed
The milestone based payment structure remains. Funds are released against milestones, not upfront. Every milestone is reviewed and signed off by Intersect before the next payment triggers, before submitting to interesect all the work will be assured by the third-party: No Witness Labs.
Our commitment to transparency remains. Regular updates, public demos, open source repositories, and a full delivery log at tweag.github.io/cardano-website.
Why this work matters
Peras is the primary deliverable. Transaction finality on Cardano today takes around 12 minutes. Peras brings that down to around 2 minutes. That is not a marginal improvement. It changes what can be built on Cardano, how exchanges integrate, how L2 solutions operate, and how partner chains interact with the base layer.
The other two work packages are not standalone additions. Conformance Testing ensures that as more node implementations are built on Cardano, they all follow the same consensus rules. Without it, Peras validation behaviour cannot be verified across implementations. History Expiry addresses a problem that grows with every transaction. As throughput increases with Leios, SPO storage requirements could grow by around 1 GB per hour at full load. Without intervention, node operation becomes economically unsustainable for smaller operators, which weakens decentralisation. History Expiry lets nodes operate without storing the entire blockchain history while keeping the full header chain intact for security.
Voting
Cardano governance is still finding its feet and so are we.
This proposal exists because the community pushed back and we took that seriously. If you believe Peras needs to reach mainnet, vote Yes.