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Cardano Impact DevKit: Attestations & Governance (SDK/CLI)

Problem

On Cardano, teams hand-roll proofs and voting. Lacking a standard toolkit, delivery is slow, inconsistent, and unsafe for consent-sensitive work, hurting adoption, wallet activation and ADA tx growth.

Solution

Free DevKit (TypeScript SDK + CLI + example apps) to add verifiable “digital receipts” and simple voting (incl. Quadratic Voting) in hours, with adapters to identity and governance tools.

Total to date

This is the total amount allocated to Cardano Impact DevKit: Attestations & Governance (SDK/CLI).

100,000 $ADA
Total funds requested
170
Total votes cast
22.6M
Votes yes
11.2M
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About this idea

Team

Project Team — roles & scope (concise)

Core (Impact Web3):

Razali Samsudin — Lead / Partnerships & Ethics. Owns delivery, budget, partner onboarding; sets privacy/consent guardrails and adoption KPIs. (~0.3 FTE)

Cole Bartlett — Product & Ops (+ AI-assisted dev). Roadmap, SDK/CLI delivery, CI/releases, docs/tutorials; coordinates contractors. (~0.5 FTE)

Teodor Petricevic — Impact Methods. Pilot Rubric, indicator schemas, usability testing & synthesis. (~0.2 FTE)

Gareth Farry — Governance & Legal. DAO/governance patterns, licensing/consent notes, risk review. (~0.1 FTE)

Contracted engineers (2–3 people, as needed)

Cardano FE/BE engineers with Lucid/Mesh/cardano-js-sdk: build adapters, harden verify(), implement reference apps, QA/CI. (~1.0–1.5 FTE total across M2–M3)

Tech writer/i18n (part-time). Structure Docusaurus docs, quick starts, EN+1 baseline.

Advisors (non-delivery; reviews/office hours):

Dr. Mihaela Ulieru — AI ethics & complex systems. Human-in-the-loop guardrails; risk framing.

Miguel Ávila — SEA go-to-market. Regional adoption & partner intros.

Damián Hryb — UTxO/Smart-contract architecture. Cardano since 2021 (CardanoTrees; Cardano Forest/Veritree); SC dev on Cardano & Midnight; UTxO design patterns.

Jimmy Londo — standards & marketplaces. Building web3 music solutions since 2021; authored the first draft of a music metadata (cip60) standard proposal discussed in the CIP process; Artist Relations and NFT development for NEWM; founder of Sick City; NFT/metadata expertise.

RACI snapshot:

Responsible: Cole (SDK/CLI, releases), contracted engineers (adapters, QA, ref apps).

Accountable: Raz (delivery, budget, partners).

Consulted: Teo (rubric/metrics), Gareth (governance/legal), advisors (Damian/Jimmy/Mihaela/Miguel).

Informed: pilot partners & community via Forum/GitHub.

Skills in place / gaps:

In place: TypeScript/Node, Cardano tx libs (Lucid/Mesh/js-sdk), CI/CD, open-source docs, governance patterns, pilot design.

To recruit (short contracts/bounties): adapter specialist (wallet/indexer nuances), QA/Security reviewer for verify() & schemas, tech writing/i18n pass.

Availability & commitments

Core members have confirmed availability contingent on funding.

Advisors provide lightweight reviews/office hours; they are not responsible for milestone delivery.

Why this team fits:

We’re packaging what we already built in IMS v1 MVP, and pilot HRDAO into a reusable SDK/CLI + reference apps, with open repos from day-1 and milestone acceptance tied to public evidence. Contractors are engaged only for scoped tasks to keep the project lean.