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2026 Budget Process - Final Audited Results

Hydra Voting Audit Results

Following the completion of the Hydra Voting phase of the 2026 Cardano Budget Process facilitated by Intersect, an independent audit was conducted to verify voter eligibility, vote validity, participation metrics, and proposal support calculations.

The full audit report is available below.

Voting Summary

Metric
Value

Snapshot Epoch

636

Participating Voters

113

Voters with Valid Votes

112

Invalid Voters

1

Total DRep Voting Power

6,008,653,786.69 ada

Valid Participating Voting Power

5,070,798,414.70 ada

Invalid Participating Voting Power

0.00 ada

Non-Participating Voting Power

937,855,371.98 ada

Participation Rate (Voting Power)

84.39%

Proposals Meeting the 67% Support Threshold

The following proposals achieved at least 67% support based on the final audited Hydra voting results.

Proposal
Support

Pallas by TxPipe: Maintaining Cardano's Core Rust Libraries, Year 2

85.67%

Dolos by TxPipe: Maintaining Cardano's Lightweight Data Node, Year 2

85.28%

UTxO RPC by TxPipe: Maintaining Cardano's Integration Standard, Year 2

85.08%

Mithril Protocol

81.33%

Intersect: Governance Coordination and Technical Stewardship for the Cardano Ecosystem

80.91%

Bringing Real-World Payments to Cardano with Wirex

78.93%

Tx3 by TxPipe: Open API Layer for Cardano's dApp Protocols

75.63%

Oura by TxPipe: Maintaining Cardano's Event Pipeline

73.57%

MLabs Core Tool Maintenance & Enhancement: Plutarch and Ply

72.62%

Hardware Wallet Maintenance 2026

71.33%

Intersect Technical Steering Committee Support

68.45%

Full Audit Report

The complete audit report is available below and includes the audit methodology, voter eligibility verification process, participation calculations, and final proposal results.

Audit Report:

Independent Verification

All voting data is publicly verifiable.

Independent Verification Guide: https://docs.ekklesia.vote/audit/

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