Cardano 2026 Budget Audit Confirm Say 11 Proposals Don Reach Support Threshold

Intersect don publish the final audited Hydra Voting results for the 2026 Cardano Budget Process, confirm say 11 of 69 proposals don reach the required support threshold and dem dey expected to enter the on chain governance stage.

The audited results provide verified record of participation, proposal support and voting outcomes after dem review the Ekklesia Hydra voting ballot for Cardano mainnet. The process record more than 84% participation by active DRep voting power, and the audit confirm the voting evidence chain and document limited technical and eligibility findings.

Cardano Budget Results Move 11 Proposals Toward On Chain Governance

The 2026 Cardano Budget Process wey Intersect facilitate use Hydra Voting to collect DRep voting input across 69 proposals. The voting window run from May 26 to June 12, 2026, with 113 voters wey dem include for the proof package.

Intersect talk say 11 proposals don reach the required support level based on the final audited Hydra Voting results. Those proposals now dey positioned to move go on chain, so the budget process dey shift from audited DRep signaling to formal Cardano governance execution.

The published proposal list include work wey connect to Cardano core infrastructure, technical standards, open source tooling, governance coordination, payments, wallet maintenance and developer support. Listed items include TxPipe proposals wey cover Cardano core Rust libraries, Dolos, UTxO RPC, Oura and Tx3, plus Mithril Protocol work, MLabs core tooling for Plutarch and Ply, Hardware Wallet Maintenance 2026, Wirex real world payments and Intersect technical steering support.

The result give the next stage of the budget process defined proposal set instead of single package. The 11 proposals wey reach the support threshold now carry audited voting data enter the on chain phase, while the full result record show how the remaining proposals perform during Hydra Voting.

Hydra Voting Audit Verifies the Cardano Budget Evidence Chain

The independent audit review both cryptographic ballot verification and eligibility verification. The scope include on chain datum decoding, ballot Merkle root reconstruction, results hash verification, proof package verification, per voter inclusion proofs, evidence file hashes, signed payload checks, vote history chains and independent tally recomputation.

According to the audit, the ballot content reconstruct the on chain Merkle root, the published results match the on chain results hash and the proof package match the committed evidence Merkle root. The audit also find say all voter inclusion proofs trace back to the committed evidence root, selected evidence files match their committed vote hashes and vote history chains dey intact and inside the voting window.

The internal audit reach the same broad conclusion on the integrity of the ballot. E state say the cryptographic evidence chain dey intact and dem independently reproduce am, with on chain commitments, published results, the evidence Merkle root, per voter inclusion proofs and full re tally of all 69 questions verified.

That audit framing separate the certified voting result from the operational issues wey dem find during review. The reports identify bounded defects for signing representation, settlement metadata and voter eligibility, but maintain say the structural integrity and tabulation of the ballot stand gidigba.

Audit Findings Set Fixes for Future Cardano Budget Votes

The audit identify one multisig DRep voter wey one co signer signature no match the signed payload. The internal audit describe the matter as backend signing target defect, with one signer wey sign the correct signed payload Merkle root and the other sign internal evidence voteHash wey dem derive from the same vote content.

The internal report talk say the discrepancy na representational and no be substantive, and say both signers don forensically confirm say dem authorize identical selections. But for the cryptographic layer, the vote no satisfy the all of two script verification as recorded. The internal audit refer the counting decision go governance handling, while the independent audit describe the related COSE payload mismatch as disqualified from the final calculation.

Second issue involve uniform ballot identifier mismatch. All 113 voters sign one ballot identifier, but the settled datum record different fingerprint. The internal audit describe am as benign settlement metadata mismatch wey connect to Hydra middleware, with no effect on tabulation or ballot integrity.

The eligibility review find three voter related issues. One stake credential dem exclude because the authorized voter set limit to DRep credentials. Two DRep credentials get valid signed evidence and intact vote history chains, but dem no register on chain and dem assign zero voting power. Their signed votes remain part of the evidence record, but dem no affect the weighted result.

The corrective actions wey the audit list focus on backend signing flow, Hydra middleware, eligibility gates and audit tooling. Dem include serving co signers the correct signed payload Merkle root, verifying witness signatures before storage, enforcing native script threshold rules, preserving ballot identifiers during Hydra head re seeding and rejecting non DRep credential types inside DRep scoped ballots.

The final audited results leave the 2026 Cardano budget process with two concrete outputs, defined group of 11 proposals for on chain submission and documented repair list for the voting system before future treasury cycles.