Intersect community franchise hubs
Cardano is global, and everyone involved should have an equal opportunity to participate and contribute. As such, we're excited to announce a pioneering step forward by introducing Intersect community franchise hubs.
Intersect community hubs will act as a geographical central point for members to collaborate, meet, and participate. They will enable members to join local events and working groups where all can express their opinions with a regional twist. This is crucial when considering the consensus mechanism that is the foundation of Cardano’s governance system.
The first regional hub starts in the LATAM region with Intersect member, and committee member, Alex Pestchanker, acting as the LATAM community hub franchise manager. Japan will follow later this spring!
What to expect from community hubs?
- Monthly Town Halls tailored to local Intersect communities
- Dedicated regional Discord channels
- Translation and localized content to drive inclusion and participation
- Local meet-ups and regional events
- And much more!
To learn more about the process and to enquire about starting your own regional community read more on our knowledge base.
New members area coming soon!
We have started to develop Intersect’s members area. The members area will make it easy and simple for new and existing members to access their membership and improve onboarding and routes to participation. The members area will also introduce tiers and reasons to join Intersect. All membership levels offer unique benefits, allowing members to fully immerse themselves in the Intersect community and supercharge your Cardano experience as an Intersect member.
Our members stand at well over 1,000 and with the introduction of tiers and subscription levels, there’ll be a home for all at Intersect. One of the key benefits that full members will enjoy are voting rights at Intersect’s Annual Members Meeting, including voting on Cardano’s budget for 2025 and more.
We will soon open up the members area in beta, starting the feedback loop with the Membership and Community Committee. Following early feedback, we’ll then expand to all interested members for further testing. We’re aiming to release a final version in Q2 2024, and from there, it will continue to iterate and evolve to provide more value to members.
Much more on this to come, with demo’s and sneak peeks to be shared throughout April.
Governance tooling update
Development continues with new features for Govtool. This week, Intersect member Byron Networks finished creating the governance action submission feature, which covers information and treasury actions. This development includes the introduction of context (or metadata) for governance actions. In addition, we've completed an update to the governance action page, which now displays this context, making it easier for users to cast informed votes.
Also this week, the Intersect product team gathered in London to outline the development roadmap for Govtool in Q2 in collaboration with some of the community builders involved in its development. We plan to wrap up the development of the new DRep directory and the delegation and DRep registration processes next week. We’ll share more on these developments and our plans for Q2 shortly, so remember to keep checking our updates here and in our knowledge base.
Govtool & SanchoNet
Govtool has seen a spike in activity, with over 40% growth in users testing the latest governance features coming to Cardano through SanchoNet! Check out the stats for the week: