The Cardano Foundation operates 6 staking pools, 5 of which are saturated. Each epoch, CF earns about ₳155K ADA. That’s ₳900K per month. Roughly ₳11M per year. Pool tickers/average rewards per epoch: [CF1] ₳30K [CF2] ₳30K [CF3] ₳30K [CF4] ₳30K [CF5] ₳30K [C65] ₳5K Even at the current low price of ADA, this is roughly $2.7M in dollar terms. This would cover the costs of the Cardano Summit, by the way. If the price of ADA were a few dollars, the staking rewards would cover the annual operating costs of the Cardano Foundation. It is in the interest of all entities in the ecosystem for the price of ADA to rise. ADA in Treasury are passive. It is definitely a good idea to open a debate on the Sovereign Wealth Fund. In the context of staking and the debate on DReps compensation, I wonder if it would be possible to withdraw ₳75M to run one staking pool. Staking rewards would be divided among active DReps. If the rewards were distributed evenly, the top 100 DReps would receive ₳300 ADA each epoch, i.e., ₳1800 per month. We can, of course, choose a different reward system or reward a different number of DReps. If more pools were run, the rewards would be higher. But we can start with a pilot, i.e., with a single pool. The operator could be Intersect, later another entity, for example, DRep DAO. The point is that if the founding entity runs 6 pools to cover operating costs, the governance could consider the same mechanism. CF uses Genesis coins for staking. It seems fair to me to allow governance to similarly use Treasury. It would be enough to increase the NCL for this purpose and submit a Withdrawal. The Withdrawal could be framed as a loan, since ADA can be returned to the Treasury. Do you think such a proposal would gain support?

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