Here is what is documented: since October 21 a proposal for 9.6 million ADA from the Cardano treasury has been up for a vote, the deadline falls on November 20, 2026, and as of October 28 holders of 89.25 percent of the voting power had not cast a vote at all. Our own reading follows further down: it is not the opposing votes that will decide this proposal but the silence, because on Cardano a voting right that goes unused counts arithmetically as a no.
The proposal was filed by the company Trivolve Tech together with the Cardano Foundation. It would expand a management system for police evidence that writes checksums of individual exhibits onto the Cardano blockchain. If you hold ADA and have delegated it, that delegation carries a voting weight which either counts during these three weeks or does not.
9.6 million ADA for a police system: what the proposal covers
The project in question is called the Police Force Management System, PFMS for short. It is an open-source platform meant to make the path of an exhibit traceable from the place it was found through the forensic laboratory to the prosecutor and the court. The technic...
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