Cardano’s 2030 Roadmap: Nine Proposals, Half the Budget, One Community Vote

That narrative is now being tested against a concrete set of deliverables, a compressed timeline, and a governance structure that puts funding decisions in the hands of the community rather than its founders.

In late April 2026, Input Output Global published nine treasury proposals outlining what it wants to build through 2030 and how much it expects the network to pay for it.

The total ask is $38.9 million, which is roughly half of what IOG requested last year. The stated reason is operational self-sufficiency – the organization says it is reducing its dependency on treasury injections as on-chain revenue matures. Whether that framing holds up will depend on whether the underlying technology actually ships on schedule.

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