Blink Labs Treasury Proposal: Dingo Development

Cardano Treasury Withdrawal governance action proposal to fund Dingo development.

Overview

This repository contains everything needed to create, test, and submit a Cardano Treasury Withdrawal governance action for Blink Labs to fund 12 months of Dingo node development, including Dijkstra hard fork readiness, Leios protocol implementation, and mainnet production readiness.

Prerequisites

• cardano-cli (Conway-era, v8.x+)
• cardano-node (preview testnet and mainnet access)
• jq >= 1.5
• basenc (GNU coreutils) >= 9.1
• make

Quick Start

make help              # Show all available targets
make check-prereqs     # Verify tools are installed
make metadata          # Generate CIP-108 metadata
make hash              # Hash metadata with blake2b-256
make submit-testnet    # Full testnet submission workflow
make test-lifecycle    # Automated testnet lifecycle test

Every workflow in this repo is driven by a make target. Run make help for the full list. Network selection is via NETWORK=preview|preprod|mainnet (default: preview).

Repository Structure

metadata/          CIP-108 proposal metadata JSON (self-contained)
docs/              Proposal narrative, budget, milestones
docs/reports/      Progress report templates
scripts/           Makefile-driven automation scripts
journal/           On-chain transaction transparency journal
contracts/         SundaeSwap treasury contract configuration

Proposal

The full proposal narrative is in docs/proposal.md. The CIP-108 metadata JSON at metadata/proposal-metadata.json contains the complete proposal in the format required for on-chain submission.

Smart Contracts

Uses audited SundaeSwap treasury-contracts (treasury.ak + vendor.ak) with an independent oversight board for fund management. See contracts/README.md for the permission scheme.

Testnet Workflow

# 1. Configure
cp config.env.example config.env
# Edit config.env with your keys and addresses

# 2. Test on preview
make test-lifecycle

# 3. Or step by step
make metadata
make hash
make governance-action NETWORK=preview
make build-tx NETWORK=preview
make sign-tx NETWORK=preview
make submit-testnet

Mainnet Submission

make metadata
make upload-ipfs              # Pin metadata to IPFS for immutability
make governance-action NETWORK=mainnet
make build-tx NETWORK=mainnet
make sign-tx NETWORK=mainnet
make submit-mainnet           # Prompts for confirmation

Requires a 100,000 ADA governance action deposit (refunded on ratification or rejection).

Reporting

Monthly lightweight updates and quarterly detailed reports are generated from docs/reports/TEMPLATE.md:

make report              # Monthly report -> docs/reports/YYYY-MM-report.md
make report-quarterly    # Quarterly report with financials -> docs/reports/YYYY-QN-report.md

Monthly reports omit the Financial Summary section; quarterly reports include it. If $EDITOR is set, the generated report opens for editing.

Transparency Journal

Every on-chain transaction against the treasury and vendor contracts is recorded in journal/:

make journal-entry       # Interactive prompt for tx hash, action, amount, signers, justification

See journal/README.md for the entry format and required fields. Entries follow the SundaeSwap metadata standard so anyone can verify them against on-chain data.

License

Apache 2.0