BlockPrint | Gimbalabs build a cardano Treasury explorer.

[Proposal setup] Proposal title

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BlockPrint | Gimbalabs build a cardano Treasury explorer.

[Proposal Summary] Budget Information

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150000

[Proposal Summary] Time

Please specify how many months you expect your project to last

10

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No

Original Language

en

[Proposal Summary] Problem Statement

What is the problem you want to solve?

Cardano’s treasury is unclear and fragmented, with no unified simple, data-driven way to see where funds go or how long the treasury can last, inflows, outflows, long-term runway, across categories.

[Proposal Summary] Supporting Documentation

Supporting links

• https://blockprint.team
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• https://gimbalabs.com
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• https://github.com/blockprintio
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• https://x.com/blockprint0
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• https://gimbalabs.notion.site/BlockPrint-x-Gimbalabs-to-build-BlockGov-all-in-one-cardano-governance-platform-2aa0db6d1d5d8014a648f2022456cfb0?source=copy_link

[Proposal Summary] Project Dependencies

Does your project have any dependencies on other organizations, technical or otherwise?

Yes

Describe any dependencies or write 'No dependencies'

SundaeLab treasury contracts and tools, Intersect treasury tools

[Proposal Summary] Project Open Source

Will your project's outputs be fully open source?

Yes

Please provide details on the intellectual property (IP) status of your project outputs, including whether they will be released as open source or retained under another licence.

MIT License & IP: This project is open-source under the MIT License. You may use, modify, and distribute it freely, provided you include the original copyright notice. The software is provided “as is”, without warranty, and the authors are not liable for any issues. All contributions are licensed under MIT unless stated otherwise.

[Theme Selection] Theme

Please choose the most relevant theme and tag related to the outcomes of your proposal

Governance

[Campaign Category] Category Questions

Describe what makes your idea innovative compared to what has been previously launched in the market (whether by you or others).

• https://cardanotreasury.fi/
  • A Financial dashboard by Xerberus specifically tracking annual budgets funds, intersect contracts for tracking balance and payouts.
  • Limited to the overall treasury balance in terms of predictive modeling, comparing of inflows to outflows for impact analysis.
  • Not easy to navigate for educational purposes.
• https://treasury.sundae.fi/instances - SundaeLabs built a web-interface specifically for budget administrators, auditors and vendors which is linked to the one above. - limited to overview of cardano treasury flows - Not easy for educational purposes
• https://tempo.vote/treasury - Focused on voting and governance tools for DReps, DAOs, SPOs. May offer a treasury dashboard for projection, but more governance-vote centric; lacks rich analytics.

Describe what your prototype or MVP will demonstrate, and where it can be accessed.

• The MVP is a web-based Cardano Treasury Explorer that demonstrates core functionality for transparency, accountability, and governance intelligence.
• It showcases real-time treasury inflows and outflows, top beneficiaries, funded projects with milestone tracking, and sustainability projections.
  • Example of the gitHub is an insight we had on how a cardano governance explorer should look like
• Accessible on website and GitHub
  • https://block-gov.vercel.app/
  • https://github.com/BlockPrintio/BlockGov

Describe realistic measures of success, ideally with on-chain metrics.

success will be measured with quantifiable on-chain, usage, infrastructure, and community KPIs.

• On-chain metrics:
  • over 1,500 unique wallet interactions within first six months, over 500 on-chain transactions initiated via the explorer resulting to an estimation of over ₳100,000 in treasury donations first year, 99%+ on-chain event indexing accuracy.
• Usage metrics:
  • User friendly interface will boost 3,000+ Monthly Active Users, 300+ Daily Active Users, 60% user retention, and median API response.
• Transparency metrics:
  • Over 20 community contributors, over 500 feedback responses via mails, and at least 10 governance decisions informed by the platform’s data.
• Infrastructure metrics: 99.5% uptime, <60-second indexing delay, 100% historical coverage, and <0.1% API error rate.

[Your Project and Solution] Solution

Please describe your proposed solution and how it addresses the problem

Intersect serves as an Administrator within Cardano’s funding ecosystem, helping to operationalize community-approved proposals by coordinating due diligence, contracting, and on-chain disbursements, Smart contracts will hold treasury funds and vendor payments transparently on-chain, effectively in escrow.

SundaeLabs has developed on-chain onchain designed for treasury management.

This platform on the outflows panel would serve as a visualizer tracking the cardano treasury funds in the following manner of this gotten from intersect docs

• Solution

  • Our solution is a cardano treasury explorer that showcase a dashboard with a social Media (X,Thread) type Interface, of 6 different tabs in the following,

• Overview -

  • This tab showcase the real-time treasury balance in ADA and cardano supported stables(USDA, USDM), treasury loans and all other forms of cardano treasury balance.
  • at the page bottom, It also showcases top treasury beneficiaries useful for transparency, awareness of active builders among others.

• Proposals

  • This showcases the number Governance action proposals on treasury withdrawal ongoing, awarded and rejected proposals, available ADA allocated for all proposals if they all gets passed
  • It also showcases treasury withdrawal proposal details and value requested.

• Outflows -

  • This showcase all treasury current project withdrawals in chronological order with a status in categories of Approved, processing or paid and value
  • Tracking approved annual budgets and pending withdrawals
  • Shows a graph of withdrawals for each milestones for record of timely delivery

• Inflows -

  • Showcases and tracks treasury incomes either from each epoch or donations and any additional treasury streams, understanding how the treasury grow overtime.

• Projects -

  • This tab provides description and details on all ongoing and previously funded treasury projects.
  • Tracking projects status in the following category, publish, initialize, reorganize, fund, disburse, complete, withdraw, pause, resume, modify, cancel, Sweep
  • segmented to milestone progress, budgets, delivery timelines, and verifiable outputs tracking to the smart contract payments.
  • Users can follow or subscribe to specific projects with e-mail to receive updates on deliverables, enabling real-time checks and balances which is limited to intersect scope.

• Analyser -

  • This tab estimates the long-term health of the treasury by projecting future inflows vs. outflows using staking activity, protocol parameters, fees trend, and spending patterns.

• The platform also allows donation directly to the cardano treasury via connect wallet

• Overtime support submitting a governance action directly focus on treasury withdrawal.

[Your Project and Solution] Impact

Please define the positive impact your project will have on the wider Cardano community

• The explorer improves governance by making treasury activity transparent, easy to understand, and data-driven.
• It reduces information gaps between voters, builders, and reviewers by clearly showing where funds come from, how they are spent, and what value funded projects deliver.
• Real-time analytics, sustainability forecasts, and project accountability tools strengthen decision-making for dReps, SPOs, and community members.
• By enabling better oversight, highlighting top beneficiaries, and making treasury health measurable, the platform boosts trust, participation, and responsible ecosystem growth.

[Your Project and Solution] Capabilities & Feasibility

What is your capability to deliver your project with high levels of trust and accountability? How do you intend to validate if your approach is feasible?

The project is highly feasible due to the availability of open-source projects on Cardano governance data and backend integration of treasury resources via APIs such as Koios, Ogimios, Maestro, db-sync mirrors, and governance metadata feeds.

• leverage the docs by Sundealabs to create our instance of treasury oversight Management https://github.com/SundaeSwap-finance/treasury-contracts/blob/main/offchain/src/metadata/spec.md
• The team’s experience in Cardano tooling, Governance participation, and explorer development ensures technical readiness across backend indexing, frontend visualization, and UX design.
• BlockPrint
  • A cardano developers community, with ten (10) contributors of different specialities and stacks and years of experience, fully focused on making blockchain accessible to end users, which got started from the Gimbalabs African developers Education Initiative - 2025,
  • we came across a gap between the cardano treasury participation and it’s transparency to the end users which we believe cardano treasury deserves more awareness and transparency compared to what is happening on polkadot https://polkadot.dotreasury.com/#/
• Gimbalabs

Gimbalabs contributors have successfully delivered:

• multiple Catalyst-funded infrastructure tools and governance applications
• dRep utilities, dashboards, and Discord governance bots
• learning libraries and long-running developer education cohorts
• production APIs, wallet-enabled portals, and open governance prototypes
• The team’s combination of technical depth and real-world governance experience makes them uniquely positioned as a good partner to deliver a trustworthy, scalable cardano treasury explorer.

[Milestones] Project Milestones

Milestone Title

UI/UX Design, Research & Governance Preparation

Milestone Outputs

• Complete UI/UX design system for the Treasury Explorer, including wireframes, user journeys, navigation flows, and component library.
• Discovery research covering:
  • Cardano governance structure on treasury withdrawals and managements
  • Intersect’s administrative processes (treasury reserve contracts, vendor contracts, milestones)
  • Existing API modellind documentation
• Public documentation site with early drafts

Acceptance Criteria

• Final UI/UX wireframes published publicly (Figma or repository).
• User research notes and governance research findings documented and accessible on web-page or Github link
• Product requirement documentation (PRD) of all features
• Documentation site online with at least five initial sections

Evidence of Completion

• Public Figma link or expor to Miro for the complete design system.
• Research summary documents and governance reference notes.
• Published product requirements and documents in GitHub or documentation website.
• Live documentation website link.

Delivery Month

1

Cost

15000

Progress

10 %

Milestone Title

Milestone 2: Implement Frontend UI/UX

Milestone Outputs

• A functional frontend application built with Next.js + React showing all features matching the submitted Figma file in M1
• Donation with integrated Cardano wallet.
• Real-time treasury activity feed
• Full set of loading states, empty states, and error boundaries.

Acceptance Criteria

• dashboard render correctly on mobile and desktop
• Real-time components reflect live updates with no manual refresh required.
• All major user flows (donation, viewing activity, connecting wallet, navigation) are fully clickable and functional.
• Link to GitHub repo showing commits and PRs
• Demo video published on YouTube.

Evidence of Completion

• GitHub repo link showing commits and PRs to the frontend and UI integration
• video of Live Frontend Deployment either locally or in a deployed link
• Frontend Demo Video (YouTube) of Wallet connection, Donation flow, Real-time feed updating, Loading/empty/error states, Responsive mobile and desktop layouts

Delivery Month

3

Cost

30000

Progress

30 %

Milestone Title

Implement treasury Backend and indexer

Milestone Outputs

• a functional Treasury Data Layer connected to Cardano via Ogmios, Cardano Node APIs.
• a Treasury Indexer that tracks inflows, outflows, epoch summaries, and donation UTXOs.
• A Beneficiaries Processing Engine ranking top recipients and mapping treasury spending patterns.
• An Analytics & Insights Engine generating, Treasury runway projections, Health-score metrics, Concentration charts, Epoch-based inflow/outflow analytics
• Postgresql database migrations all build in Typescript

Acceptance Criteria

• Treasury data successfully fetched via custom indexer
• All API endpoints return correct and validated data
• Backend codebase is fully documented and accessible publicly.
• Demo video is accessible via YouTube.

Evidence of Completion

• Recording demonstrating data fetch and successful syncing of treasury data and transactions.
• Screenshots or logs showing successful API endpoints calls.
• GitHub repo showing commits and contributions
• YouTube link to backend demo video showing all necessary treasury data fetched and synced

Delivery Month

7

Cost

60000

Progress

60 %

Milestone Title

complete explorer implementation

Milestone Outputs

• Fully functional Treasury Dashboard with all features implemented
• Real-time synchronization between frontend dashboards and backend indexer.
• Data analytics engine generating charts, concentration scores, and treasury health metrics.

Acceptance Criteria

• Treasury Dashboard updates automatically with live onchain data
• UI fully responsive
• Users can connect a Cardano wallet and successfully submit donations on testnet.
• All API endpoints return correct, paginated JSON data.
• Projects Tracker displays accurately

Evidence of Completion

• Recording of live Treasury Dashboard showing all features on Figma and PRD
• Link to BlockGov cardano treasury explorer final project link
• Video recording showcase and demo or recordings of complete treasury explorer with al functionalities and Donation Module.

Delivery Month

9

Cost

30000

Progress

90 %

Milestone Title

Mainnet Launch, QA Testing & Documentation

Milestone Outputs

• Full deployment of the Cardano Treasury Explorer on mainnet, including
• QA Testing & Bug Fixes
• Functional and regression testing across multiple websites and API endpoints
• Load and performance test
• Comprehensive Documentation

Acceptance Criteria

• Explorer fully operational on mainnet with all features live.
• QA testing confirms all dashboards, explorers, and donation flows work as intended.
• User and developer documentation published and accessible.
• Demo video available via YouTube and social media announcements

Evidence of Completion

• web-page Links to mainnet explorer deployment.
• Screenshots/video recordings showing dashboards, explorers, and donation flows in live mainnet.
• Logs from API endpoints and mainnet transactions.
• GitHub commits showing QA fixes and final mainnet-ready code.
• Youtube and social media link

Delivery Month

10

Cost

15000

Progress

100 %

[Final Pitch] Budget & Costs

Please provide a cost breakdown of the proposed work and resources

• Budget & Costs (150,000 ADA) -
• Budget 1 UI/UX Designers (2) - 10,000 ADA
  • Rate: 40 ADA/hour
  • Hours: 2 designers × 125 hours
  • Total: 10,000 ADA
• Frontend Engineers (2)
  • Rate: 45 ADA/hour
  • Hours: 2 engineers × 220 hours
  • Total: 19,800 ADA
• Backend Engineers (5)
  • Rate 70 ADA/hour
  • Hours 5 engineers × 230 hours
  • Total: 80,500 ADA
• Cardano Governance Director (1)
  • Rate: ~70 ADA/weekly meetings
  • Total: 7,500 ADA
• Marketing an Awareness
  • Rate: ~35 ADA/hour
  • Hours: 250 hours
  • Total: 8,750 ADA
• Infrastructure (Hosting, APIs, Monitoring)
  • Estimated: 12,725 ADA
• QA and Testing
  • Estimated: 10,725 ADA

[Final Pitch] Value for Money

How does the cost of the project represent value for the Cardano ecosystem?

• The Cardano Treasury currently holds over 1.6B ADA, making long-term monitoring, health assessment, and strategic oversight critical for sustainable ecosystem growth. This project delivers a comprehensive, data-driven system for tracking treasury performance, enabling smarter allocation of funds, reducing waste, and increasing accountability. By prioritizing open-source development, reusable components, and community-driven contribution, the solution maximizes impact while minimizing ongoing costs. With a funding amount of 150,000 ADA, this represents excellent value for money, protecting Cardano’s interests while ensuring responsible governance and long-term treasury sustainability.
• The explorer provides exceptional value by unifying treasury tools, real-time analytics, and governance insights into a single, transparent platform, eliminating the need for multiple disparate systems. It delivers high-impact capabilities, including: - Real-time treasury inflow/outflow dashboards - Beneficiary transparency and ranking - Long-term treasury sustainability forecasting - Project accountability tracking with milestone monitoring - Public governance intelligence supporting informed voter decisions - Checks and balances between community and proposers milestone update
• Beyond technical functionality, the platform strengthens the entire Cardano ecosystem by: - Improving decision-making processes for voters and stakeholders - Reducing governance inefficiencies and opaque fund allocation - Enhancing oversight and transparency of funded projects - Supporting community engagement and participatory governance through accessible, auditable, and actionable data
• For a modest budget of 150,000 ADA, the project delivers high return on investment, ensuring that Cardano’s treasury is protected, optimized, and transparent, while laying the foundation for scalable, long-term ecosystem resilience.

[Self-Assessment] Self-Assessment Checklist

I confirm that evidence of prior research, whitepaper, design, or proof-of-concept is provided.

Yes

I confirm that the proposal includes ecosystem research and uses the findings to either (a) justify its uniqueness over existing solutions or (b) demonstrate the value of its novel approach.

Yes

I confirm that the proposal demonstrates technical capability via verifiable in-house talent or a confirmed development partner (GitHub, LinkedIn, portfolio, etc.)

Yes

I confirm that the proposer and all team members are in good standing with prior Catalyst projects.

Yes

I confirm that the proposal clearly defines the problem and the value of the on-chain utility.

Yes

I confirm that the primary goal of the proposal is a working prototype deployed on at least a Cardano testnet.

Yes

I confirm that the proposal outlines a credible and clear technical plan and architecture.

Yes

I confirm that the budget and timeline (≤ 12 months) are realistic for the proposed work.

Yes

I confirm that the proposal includes a community engagement and feedback plan to amplify prototype adoption with the Cardano ecosystem.

Yes

I confirm that the budget is for future development only; excludes retroactive funding, incentives, giveaways, re-granting, or sub-treasuries.

Yes

[Required Acknowledgements] Consent & Confirmation

I Agree

Yes