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    "summary": "Voting YES. Plutarch and Ply are open-source Cardano smart contract tools in active use by 26+ teams. MLabs is a proven maintainer with transparent prior funding. ₳1.16M for annual maintenance is proportionate. Transparency gaps are real but not blocking.",
    "rationaleStatement": "A [PDF version][pdf-link] of this rationale is also made available.\n\n[pdf-link]: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmVcQrq5MWBjGEhqVmmmbMKXpjxMmpkduxBPyoymH5Wmr8\n\nThis proposal funds maintenance of Plutarch (Haskell eDSL for efficient Cardano smart contracts) and Ply (serialization library for Plutarch scripts with CIP-57 blueprint support). These are established, open-source developer tools used by at least 26 teams building on Cardano.\nThe ask is modest at ₳1.16M for annual maintenance, from a proven maintainer with transparent prior funding history. The value proposition is clear: without ongoing compatibility work, teams building on Plutarch face expensive migrations, rewrites, and friction as Cardano's ledger and Plutus/UPLC evolve.\nI have the same transparency concerns I flag in every Intersect-administered proposal: thin budget detail, no ADA volatility policy, and milestones not visible in the public metadata. But at this scale, roughly $290K but, those concerns are proportionate, not blocking. This is exactly the kind of open-source tooling maintenance the Treasury should fund.\nPlutarch and Ply are real, open-source tools with proven adoption across the Cardano ecosystem. MLabs has maintained them through multiple protocol eras with transparent prior funding and demonstrated delivery. The ask ₳1.16M for annual maintenance is proportionate to the value at stake.\nThe transparency gaps I note (budget detail, ADA volatility policy, milestone visibility) are real but manageable at this scale. They are patterns across Intersect-administered proposals, not flaws unique to this one. I will continue to flag them, but I will not let them block well-justified, modest asks from proven maintainers.\nThis is the kind of proposal the Treasury should fund: established public infrastructure, proven team, clear additionality, and a reasonable price.",
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