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Voting closed Friday, May 29, on a revised proposal seeking 7.8 million ADA, worth roughly $2 million

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Cardano Foundation cancels 2026 summit after treasury funding vote falls just short.

By headcount, a majority of voting delegates supported the request, 135 in favor to 61 against, with 24 abstaining, and the Constitutional Committee approved it.

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The Cardano Foundation confirmed on Saturday that its proposed Cardano Summit 2026 will not go ahead this year after an onchain vote to fund the event from the network's treasury failed to pass. "Governance requires not only participation, but also a commitment to accept collective decisions," the Foundation wrote. Voting closed Friday, May 29, on a revised proposal seeking 7.8 million ADA, worth roughly $2 million, to stage a two-day summit in Singapore on October 5–6. The measure was already a scaled-back version of an original 14.07 million ADA proposal (~$3.66 million) that bundled the summit with an EMURGO-run TOKEN2049 sponsorship. (EMURGO is the official commercial arm of the Cardano blockchain.

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