Cardano Open Road Wey Arrange Well for Change Inside Constitution

Intersect don open the Constitutional Amendment Portal, or CAP, for alpha testing, to introduce one structured place wey people fit take propose changes to the Cardano Constitution.

The portal dey solve one gap wey remain after Cardano set up im constitutional and on-chain governance framework.

People fit finally submit constitutional amendments through governance actions, but before now no be say get one dedicated process to develop the exact wording, collect feedback and refine proposal before e reach that level.

How the CAP Portal Take Work

The CAP Portal put the Cardano Constitution and the tools to propose changes inside the same environment.

Users fit choose specific passage for the Constitution, propose replacement or extra language, explain why the change make sense and preview how the amended section go read. Once dem complete submission, e turn to Constitutional Amendment Proposal, or CAP.

The portal still support Constitutional Issue Statements, or CIS, for cases wey participant notice ambiguity, gap or other issue but never get the exact amendment language to propose.

Proposals go remain publicly linked to their discussions and fit progress through consultation, ready and done stages. The model dey designed to keep the amendment text, reason behind am and community deliberation together for the same proposal.

Participation tie to Cardano, no be conventional account system. Users fit connect CIP-30 compatible wallet and choose username, while their stake address go serve as identity. No need email address or password.

Intersect talk say the idea behind the portal first begin take shape for October 2025. Dem develop am together with the Civics Committee and Constitutional Amendments working group, and Input Output, the Cardano Foundation, Intersect, the Constitutional Committee, DReps, stake pool operators, constitutional delegates and community members all join.

From CAP Proposal to On-Chain Governance

CAP dey operate as off-chain consultation and drafting layer. To publish proposal for the portal no dey amend the Cardano Constitution and e no automatically create on-chain governance action.

Any constitutional proposal wey wan pass this process must still be submitted on-chain separately as the correct governance action.

Under Cardano’s current governance parameters, to submit governance action require 100,000 ADA deposit. For new constitution or guardrails script action, ratification need two-thirds Constitutional Committee threshold plus approval from 75% of active DRep voting stake. Stake pool operators no dey vote for this type of governance action.

Dem go return the governance action deposit to the proposer designated reward account after the action comot from im live state.

This one separate the two parts of the constitutional process. CAP provide environment to develop and discuss the proposal, while Cardano existing governance system go determine whether the resulting constitutional action go get approval and be enacted.

Cardano First CAP Proposals Don Enter Consultation

The alpha portal don already start to receive submissions.

Four items dey publicly visible for the consultation stage on August 8. The first na CAP #1, wey dem title “Require Milestone-Based Treasury Disbursement and Return of Undistributed…” Another proposal, CAP #2, dey seek to remove Article II, Section 7.4 of the Constitution.

CAP #3 dey propose to “Evolve the Net Change Limit into a Strategic Spending Plan,” while CIS #4 raise wetin the author describe as the “Bundling” problem.

The portal still be alpha product, and Intersect dey find feedback as dem still dey develop the workflow and user experience. The early submissions don provide the first live examples of how constitutional issues and proposed amendments fit move through the consultation system.

CAP no dey change Cardano constitutional voting thresholds and e no dey bypass on-chain governance. E add public drafting and consultation layer before those thresholds go apply, to give proposed amendments defined place to develop before anybody go commit the 100,000 ADA deposit wey dem require to submit the corresponding governance action on-chain.