Who Be the Four Candidates Wey Cardano Foundation Support for the 2026 Constitutional Committee?

Cardano Foundation announce on July 23, 2026 say e don submit im ballot for Cardano Constitutional Committee election and e also publicly identify the four candidates wey e support. The Foundation no publish any scoring framework or detailed explanation for why e choose dem.

Who Be the Four Candidates Wey Cardano Foundation Support?

Cardano Foundation share im support give two individual candidates and two consortiums:

>Gbiri Oluwaseun, known as Olokoji

• >Marek Mahut

• >Cardano Curia

• >Asia Africa Cardano Coalition, or AACC

Gbiri Oluwaseun, known as Olokoji, na governance practitioner wey get three years experience for decentralized autonomous organizations, including work wey involve interpretation of constitutional documents. Inside Cardano, e dey contribute to the Governance Incentive Working Group and the Constitution Amendment Workgroup.

Im candidacy focus on to apply the Cardano Constitution carefully and consistently, with published reasoning wey go help the community follow how dem take reach each decision.

Marek Mahut na long-standing technical contributor to the Cardano ecosystem and founder of Blockfrost, one infrastructure and API platform wey developers dey use to access blockchain data and build Cardano applications.

Mahut background include open-source development, infrastructure tooling, and work for Cardano since the Shelley Incentivized Testnet. Im candidacy emphasize deliberative governance, with focus on the process wey constitutional decisions take get legitimacy.

Cardano Curia na five-member consortium wey currently dey serve for the Constitutional Committee. Dem elect am during the December 2025 snap election wey dem hold to restore the committee quorum.

The consortium don serve through active period for Cardano governance and dem don publish public rationales for im committee votes. Dem dey seek re-election based on their existing record, continuity of institutional knowledge, and experience to review governance actions.

Asia Africa Cardano Coalition na volunteer-led consortium of community leaders, developers, educators, and governance participants from Asia and Africa.

AACC dey focus on regional representation, multilingual access, financial inclusion, and the socioeconomic barriers wey fit limit participation for decentralized governance. Several of im members participate for the Cardano Constitutional Convention, and the coalition broader work include education, town halls, and support for community participation across both regions.

Intersect official candidate overview confirm say ten candidates dey stand for four available seats.

How the 2026 Constitutional Committee Election Take Work

The Constitutional Committee dey review governance actions to determine whether dem comply with the Cardano Constitution. E no dey decide whether proposal commercially attractive or politically desirable. Im role limit to constitutional oversight inside Cardano governance framework.

DReps dey vote through Intersect Ekklesia platform using delegated voting power. Each DRep fit support up to four candidates, and every selected candidate go receive the DRep full stake-weighted voting power. Ballot selections fit change until voting close on July 23 at 21:45 UTC.

The Foundation published selections na part of the broader stake-weighted DRep vote and e no be direct appointment. The choices combine DAO governance experience, technical infrastructure knowledge, current committee service, and representation from communities across Asia and Africa.

Wetn Go Happen After DRep Voting Close?

The off-chain election result no go immediately appoint the four successful candidates to the Constitutional Committee.

After voting close, dem schedule the results to undergo independent audit before dem publish the final candidate ranking. The elected candidates and their constitutional credentials go then consolidate into on-chain Update Committee governance action.

The action must then complete Cardano on-chain ratification and enactment process. Na only after that process complete the successful candidates go formally assume their seats.

Cardano Foundation published ballot identify the four candidates wey e prefer, but the election legal effect go come from the audited result and the subsequent on-chain governance decision, no be from the Foundation endorsement alone.