Cardano MCP by Lido Nation & 2 Lovelaces

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    "extraction_notes": "Notable: USD peg is $0.18, not $0.25 — most aggressive (lowest) ADA price assumption in this batch. Differs from other proposals' $0.25 peg by 28%. Audit explicitly not funded ('no additional auditing line item') and assurance is 'fully open source and open to the entire community for auditing'. Return clause exists but no contingency line is itemised in the budget breakdown — claim is 'any portion of the contingency not used' but the contingency itself isn't visible in WP totals. Proposer is two-org coalition (2 Lovelaces + Lido Nation). Total ADA is itemised as 4×WP=330K, plus 9.9K admin fee = 339,900 ADA. Smallest ask in this batch."
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    "title": "Cardano MCP by Lido Nation & 2 Lovelaces",
    "proposer_name": "2 Lovelaces & Lido Nation",
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    "proposer_url": "https://www.lidonation.com",
    "doxxed": true,
    "primary_contact": "Emmanuel Titi (Developer Advocate); Darlington Wleh (Software Engineer, Cardano Ambassador)",
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    "team_size_disclosed_note": "Combined '30+ years of experience'. Two named principals (Emmanuel Titi, Darlington Wleh) plus '2lovelaces' engineering team. Specific FTE count not given."
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    "official_pillar": "Adoption & Utility",
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    "working_category_suggestion": "Tooling/DevEx",
    "working_category_confidence": "high",
    "tags": [
      "mcp",
      "ai-tooling",
      "developer-experience",
      "drep-tooling",
      "governance-ui",
      "cip-1694",
      "cip-100",
      "ai-agents",
      "open-source"
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    "ada_amount": 339900,
    "ada_amount_note": "Total including 9,900 ADA Intersect administration fee. Most aggressive USD peg in this batch ($0.18) — proposer claims '₳350,000 of investment' in WP4 narrative which is close to the 339,900 figure.",
    "usd_amount": 61182,
    "usd_peg_price": 0.18,
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    "duration_months": 12,
    "milestone_count": 4,
    "milestone_payments_disclosed": true,
    "raw_ask_text": "Requested budget 339,900 ADA. USD equivalent $61,182 (ADA/USD 0.18)*. This conversion rate was specified by the proposer. Budget Summary: WP1 85,000 ADA + WP2 85,000 ADA + WP3 85,000 ADA + WP4 75,000 ADA + Intersect Budget Administration fee 9,900 ADA = 339,900 ADA total."
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    "raw_return_text": "Any portion of the contingency not used will be returned to treasury."
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    "github_url": "https://github.com/lidonation/Cardano-mcp",
    "website_url": "https://2lovelaces.com",
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    "other": [
      {
        "label": "2 Lovelaces X",
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      {
        "label": "Catalyst Explorer",
        "url": "https://www.catalystexplorer.com"
      },
      {
        "label": "AdaLink",
        "url": "https://www.adalink.io"
      },
      {
        "label": "Lido Nation",
        "url": "https://www.lidonation.com"
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  "content": {
    "abstract": "Cardano is the only major blockchain without a production AI developer MCP. This proposal funds the production build of cardano-mcp — a working prototype already live at github.com/lidonation/Cardano-mcp — into 54 production-grade tools across six modules: query, transaction building, tokens and NFTs, smart contracts, indexing, and a 26-tool governance and DRep workbench built specifically for CIP-1694 participation. The governance module is the proposal's defining contribution.",
    "problem_statement": "Cardano is the only major blockchain without a production AI developer MCP. Solana has 40+. Ethereum has 30+. Every developer who tries to build on Cardano with an AI agent today gets wrong answers — and many of them quietly migrate to chains where the tooling works. This is an active driver of developer attrition that no amount of documentation, grants, or evangelism fixes on its own.",
    "proposed_solution": "Four sequential 3-month milestones: WP1 production engineering foundations (npm-published, CI/CD against preprod, CBOR datum decoder, security review); WP2 governance module build + developer adoption (all 54 tools live against mainnet, docs site, 3 tutorial posts, workshop, MCP registry listing); WP3 live mainnet governance validation + ecosystem integration (GovTool, Tempo.vote) + community ownership handoff (3+ external PRs merged); WP4 maintenance and close-out (active maintenance log, advocacy, close-out report and video).",
    "deliverables": [
      "@cardano-mcp/server npm package, one-command install <60s",
      "54 production-grade tools across 6 modules (query, transactions, tokens/NFTs, smart contracts, indexing, governance/DRep)",
      "26-tool governance and DRep workbench (summarize_proposal, draft_vote_rationale, get_my_voting_queue, sentiment, forecasting)",
      "CBOR datum decoder with ≥95% accuracy on real mainnet datum shapes",
      "CI/CD pipeline against Blockfrost preprod",
      "Documentation site with per-tool reference + 8 workflow walkthroughs",
      "3 tutorial posts (UTxO queries, smart contract debugging, DRep governance)",
      "Workshop recording",
      "MCP registry listing at github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers",
      "GovTool and Tempo.vote integration documentation",
      "Live mainnet governance cycle validation report",
      "3+ external contributor PRs merged",
      "Close-out report and video"
    ],
    "milestones": [
      {
        "name": "WP1 (Months 1–3)",
        "deliverable": "Production Engineering Foundations",
        "ada_release": 85000,
        "deadline": null
      },
      {
        "name": "WP2 (Months 4–6)",
        "deliverable": "Governance Module Build and Developer Adoption",
        "ada_release": 85000,
        "deadline": null
      },
      {
        "name": "WP3 (Months 7–9)",
        "deliverable": "Ecosystem Integration and Community Adoption",
        "ada_release": 85000,
        "deadline": null
      },
      {
        "name": "WP4 (Months 10–12)",
        "deliverable": "Maintenance and Close-out",
        "ada_release": 75000,
        "deadline": null
      }
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    "team": [
      {
        "name": "Emmanuel Titi",
        "role": "Developer Advocate",
        "background": "Senior SWE / DevRel Engineer in Nairobi, Kenya. 4+ years production full-stack (TypeScript, Rust, PHP/Laravel, Vue.js, Docker, Kubernetes). Led $1M Tooling Sustainability Program at Intersect/Cardano."
      },
      {
        "name": "Darlington Wleh",
        "role": "Software Engineer, Co-Dreamer @lidonation, Cardano Ambassador, Co-Founder Blockchain Centre Nairobi, DB Sync Community Maintainer",
        "background": "Deep blockchain experience across the Cardano ecosystem"
      }
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  "metadata": {
    "open_source": "yes",
    "open_source_url": "https://github.com/lidonation/Cardano-mcp",
    "has_prior_funding": true,
    "prior_funding_sources": [
      "Prior funding 'As an entity, yes. For this specific work stream, no.' Specific prior grants not enumerated in this proposal."
    ],
    "has_prior_delivery": true,
    "prior_delivery_evidence": "Working prototype already live at github.com/lidonation/Cardano-mcp. Prior delivery: Catalyst Explorer (www.catalystexplorer.com), AdaLink (www.adalink.io). Lido Nation 'plain English, Swahili, and Spanish' educational content. Emmanuel Titi led the $1M Tooling Sustainability Program at Intersect.",
    "is_administered_by_intersect": true,
    "administration_fee_pct": 3,
    "duplicate_of_existing_solution": "no",
    "duplicate_notes": "Proposer's central claim is that Cardano has no production AI developer MCP. Worth verifying against any other in-progress MCP efforts in the Cardano ecosystem before voting. The Cardano MCP at mcp.easy1staking.com (used by this dashboard project itself) is a counter-example — but a different scope (Cardano docs vs full MCP toolkit). Multiple MCPs may coexist."
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    "title": "Cardano MCP by Lido Nation & 2 Lovelaces",
    "proposer": "2 Lovelaces & Lido Nation"
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