Product committee

This page covers everything related to the contracts that were proposed by the community to be contracted via the Product Committee. Note that some of these contracts were established through the original 2024 contracting process, with funding provided by the CDH. Any contracts awarded from June 2025 onward will be financed through the Treasury withdrawal, in alignment with the budget process.

Contract overview section

Supplier	Contract	Description	Contract Amount	Dates	Status
DQuadrant	GovTool Maintenance - Integrated Testing	The Customer is facilitating the development of a range of web app-based tooling to support the emergence of governance on Cardano. With tools being developed by different teams, the Customer is seeking a set of tests which can be shared and applied across current and future tooling. For governance tooling, documentation should relate to the Chang Hardfork User Story Inventory.	€24,000	01/01/2025 - 03/31/2025	Complete
WeDeliver	GovTool Maintenance - Proposal Discussion Pillar	The Supplier will support following streams of work: Adjusting proposal discussion pillar to work with other pillars (voting, delegation, wrapper and governance action outcomes) Adjusting frontend of proposal discussion pillar to be in line with changes in the design system Ongoing maintainer role supporting and maintaining govtool proposal discussion pillar	€63,000	01/01/2025 - 06/30/2025	Ongoing
Byron	GovTool Maintenance - Voting and Delegation pillars	Cardano GovTool is a webApp that implements key governance tools to enable full governance as described in CIP-1694. The Supplier has previously developed two pillars (voting and delegation) and the wrapper and will be continuing this stream of work, by supporting the launch for full governance hard fork and beyond, to and including the support for other test networks and mainnet, to fix bugs that will be discovered during this period and collect feedback and ideas. The Supplier will support following streams of work: Adjusting voting and delegation pillars to work with other pillars (proposal discussion and governance action outcomes) Adjusting frontend of voting and delegation pillars to be in line with changes in the design system Ongoing maintainer role supporting and maintaining govtool delegation and voting pillars	€99,000	01/01/2025 - 06/30/2025	Ongoing
Bloxico	DevOps support for Governance Tooling	The Supplier will support the following key stream(s) of work: DevOps support for GovTool DevOps support for the Constitutional Committee portal	€9,000	01/01/2025 - 03/31/2025	Complete
Bloxico	CC Portal Maintenance	The Constitutional Committee portal is a web app allowing the Cardano community to see a rendered version of the Cardano constitution. It allows Constitutional Committee members to manage and submit rationales for their votes efficiently. The Supplier will support the following key stream(s) of work: Maintainer role for Constitutional Committee portal	€51,000	01/01/2025- 03/31/2025	Complete
Dquadrant	GovTool Maintenance - Integrated Testing	The Customer is facilitating the development of a range of web app-based tooling to support the emergence of governance on Cardano. With tools being developed by different teams, the Customer is seeking a set of tests which can be shared and applied across current and future tooling. For governance tooling, documentation should relate to the Chang Hardfork User Story Inventory. Cardano GovTool is a web app that implements key governance tools for vital Voltaire user journeys. Three key flows (DRep Explorer flow, Governance Action Submission flow and Proposal Discussion flow) have been added in order to deliver a usable tool to the Cardano Community. The Supplier has previously developed and implemented a testing strategy for Cardano GovTool and will be continuing this stream of work, by extending existing frameworks to account for new features. Additionally, the Supplier will continue maintenance of the GovTool Governance Action Loader.	€28,500	04/01/2025 - 06/30/2025	Ongoing
Byron	Constitutional Committee Voting Tool	Develop a user-friendly, accessible, and scalable voting tool as necessary for the Project. Allowing votes from both web-based interfaces and command line. Propose a plan to expand the tool and build a tool that allows community members to create polls for various voting events. Propose a plan and build a tool that aligns with Cardano Improvement Proposals (CIPs) (existing and being worked on) and the GovTool design system.	€61,500	04/01/2025 - 07/31/2025	Ongoing
Lido Nation	GovTool Maintenance - Governance Action outcomes pillar	Adjusting proposal discussion pillar to work with other pillars (voting, delegation, wrapper and proposal discussion) Adjusting frontend of Governance Action outcomes pillar to be in line with changes in the design system Ongoing maintainer role supporting and maintaining govtool Governance Action outcomes pillar	$4000	5/1/2025 - 6/30/2025	Ongoing

Overview of current product committee milestones