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@thisisobate thisisobate requested a review from HarunJr October 22, 2025 12:09
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Hoping this is helpful advice! Can't wait to see the re-work.

- **Helios** - JavaScript-based for web developers

**Decentralized Governance**
ADA holders can vote on proposals for protocol upgrades and fund new projects through a decentralized treasury (Project Catalyst), ensuring the network's future is community-driven. No CEO decides Cardano's future - the community shapes the roadmap through on-chain governance.
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This needs to identify Catalyst as still around, but no longer the primary method of Funding for Cardano. The treasury is opened and is the true source moving forward.

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Also, I believe there are additional steps involved to vote in Catalyst, holding ADA is likely just step 1.

ADA holders can vote on proposals for protocol upgrades and fund new projects through a decentralized treasury (Project Catalyst), ensuring the network's future is community-driven. No CEO decides Cardano's future - the community shapes the roadmap through on-chain governance.

**Scaling Solutions**
Cardano has implemented or is working on scaling solutions like Hydra (Layer-2 scaling) to increase transaction speeds and lower costs. These solutions allow the network to handle thousands of transactions per second while maintaining security and decentralization.
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Take out: "has implemented or"

If we are going to discuss implementation, then we should state what has been implemented, how that influences scaling etc.

Pushing to ensure that what is shared has a proper/logical understanding. Don't want to give a whole bunch of tidbits, those typically get deleted and then anyone that may have wanted to follow nevver gets their answer. Or a bigger issue, if there is not a "start to finish" view with each topic, This resource may degrade quickly in the public arena.

### Key Functions:
- **Facilitating Governance:** Intersect is a core institution in implementing Cardano's community-led governance model (known as the Voltaire era and specified by CIP-1694). It provides the off-chain structure and tooling (like GovTool) that enables on-chain voting and decision-making by ADA holders and their delegates (DReps).

- **Coordinating Development:** The organization orchestrates the delivery of the community-approved Cardano Technical Roadmap. A key part of this is to facilitate working groups and committees (e.g., Technical Steering, Budget, Civics) which assign specific tasks, discuss proposals, and coordinate open-source development of core technologies.
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might be better to rephrase? Or may read the same.

Alternate: The organization orchestrating (facilitating) the delivery of the community approved Technical Roadmap for Cardano.


- **Coordinating Development:** The organization orchestrates the delivery of the community-approved Cardano Technical Roadmap. A key part of this is to facilitate working groups and committees (e.g., Technical Steering, Budget, Civics) which assign specific tasks, discuss proposals, and coordinate open-source development of core technologies.

- **Managing the Treasury:** Intersect plays a crucial administrative role in managing the Cardano treasury funds. It implements policies for transparency, accountability, and the disbursement of funds for community-approved projects, using a mix of traditional contracts and smart contracts, often guided by recommendations from its budget committees.
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- **Managing the Treasury:** Intersect plays a crucial administrative role in managing the Cardano treasury funds. It implements policies for transparency, accountability, and the disbursement of funds for community-approved projects, using a mix of traditional contracts and smart contracts, often guided by recommendations from its budget committees.

- **Community Engagement:** It supports the community by hosting events, hackathons, and town halls to foster collaboration and local engagement through regional hubs. These platforms are used to solicit input that feeds into the working groups and governance processes.
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I get the general terms as this is under the Intersect heading, Might be beneficial to just say Intersect here.

**What You'd Work On:**
- cardano-node (the core node implementation)
- plutus (smart contract platform)
- marlowe (financial contract language)
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Need to check Marlowe and Mithril as not directly owned by Intersect, tracked but have not recently checked build activity.


The Cardano ecosystem is vibrant and growing, offering numerous career paths beyond individual contributions, freelance, grant-funding or entrepreneurship. You can find full-time, part-time, and contract work across various organizations that support the network.

**Ecosystem Companies** - Hundreds of projects hiring across DApp development, infrastructure, wallets, consulting [Intersect Members](https://www.intersectmbo.org/our-members)
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Just a note, Let's try to verify who has active positions and set deadlines to refresh the list.


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## INTERSECT PARTICIPATION
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This feels a bit out of place, Let's make some tabs with this page (sub pages) One for Intersect, Catalyst, Non-Technical, Technical, etc.


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## HOW TO GET STARTED
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Maybe give an intro paragraph, but let's make this the main page and point to the above reference subpages

**Gimbalabs:** [gimbalabs.com](https://gimbalabs.com)


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Here down can likely be duplicated on every page.

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