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    "comment": "RCADA votes **YES** on **Withdraw 1,162,746 ada for MLabs Core Tool Maintenance & Enhancement: Plutarch and Ply**.\n\nRCADA supports this proposal because Plutarch and Ply are useful open-source developer tools for the Cardano smart-contract ecosystem. Plutarch helps teams build efficient Cardano smart contracts through a Haskell-based eDSL, while Ply supports serialization to and from CIP-57 blueprint-style artifacts and helps protect the boundary between on-chain and off-chain code.\n\nThese tools are not user-facing products, but they support teams building Cardano applications. Reliable smart-contract tooling matters because teams need libraries and frameworks that remain compatible with ledger, Plutus, and UPLC evolution. If these tools fall behind, builders may face avoidable friction, migration costs, workarounds, or rewrites.\n\nRCADA views this proposal as practical maintenance funding rather than speculative development. The stated priority order is appropriate: critical breakages and serious vulnerabilities first, then protocol-era and hard-fork compatibility, bug fixes, correctness improvements, optimisations, documentation, examples, technical writing, and developer-experience improvements.\n\nThe proposal also demonstrates real ecosystem use. The metadata refers to MLabs identifying active teams building with Plutarch and Ply, although RCADA notes that the proposal uses both a broader and more conservative count. Going forward, RCADA would like to see clear usage reporting so the community can better understand adoption and impact.\n\nThe governance and administration structure is positive. This withdrawal passed the required Intersect Budget Process support threshold and will use the 2026 Treasury management smart contract framework, including oversight, milestone-based disbursement controls, and public dashboard visibility.\n\nThe requested amount of **1,162,746 ADA** is reasonable for annual maintenance and enhancement of specialised smart-contract tooling, provided delivery remains visible. RCADA expects transparent reporting, repository activity, compatibility updates, issue resolution, documentation improvements, examples, and evidence that Plutarch and Ply continue to provide value to production Cardano teams.\n\nOn balance, RCADA believes this proposal meets the standard for support. It funds open-source developer infrastructure, supports Cardano’s application layer, reduces maintenance risk for builders, and helps keep important smart-contract tooling reliable as the protocol evolves.\n\nRCADA's full vote assessment can be found here:\nhttps://brolloks.github.io/rcada-drep-votes/"
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