Intersect ID: 69fac66e89371182537b3096

The constraint isn't content.
It's signal.

A twelve month subsidy for 6 Cardano focused content creators producing high effort, high trust work the open market underpays for and that an AI saturated feed can no longer be trusted to deliver.

1.52M
ADA Requested
12
Month Term
6
Creators
M6
Review Gate
02On the Record

Built without funding.
For years.

Before the ask, the receipts. Six creators. Active in Cardano since 2019–2021. Aggregate audience built one subscriber at a time, on their own time, without ecosystem subsidy.

50K+
Combined YouTube Subscribers
100K+
Combined X Followers
850+
Original Videos · 12-month commitment
6+
Years in the Ecosystem · Unfunded
Cardano Foundation Ambassador Peter Midnight Ambassadors Peter · Linda · La Petite Catalyst Fund 12 · Minswap DeFi Edu delivered Catalyst Fund 13 · DeFi & Short-Form delivered Catalyst Fund 9 · CardanoPress Plugin delivered Cardano SPOs BigPey · La Petite Active DReps Peter RareEvo & Cardano Summit Speakers The Cardano Aura Podcast BigPey
Most of the content the ecosystem most needs is exactly the content the algorithm punishes.
— From the Proposal
03The Problem

Cardano is being
out-marketed.

Solana funds creators. Avalanche funds creators. Cardano's mainchain doesn't. Predictably, the chains that pay for coordinated coverage are the chains that show up in the conversation.

Other ecosystems run structured KOL programs. Solana's marketing machine is the live example — a coordinated, subsidised base of creators who simultaneously cover launches, projects and protocol moves. When Strike Protocol added Solana, every Solana KOL knew about it on the same day. That is not luck. That is funded coordination.

Cardano has none of this at the mainchain level. The creators who built the audience are doing so unpaid, off the back of their own time, while ad-revenue economics push them away from exactly the content the ecosystem most needs. The market underproduces high-effort, high-signal work because the market doesn't pay for it. A two-minute memecoin reaction pulls six-figure views. A forty-minute Catalyst deep-dive rarely clears four figures.

The result is a public-goods gap precisely where Cardano needs the opposite — at the developer onboarding surface, the governance literacy surface, and the long-form project-due-diligence surface. These are where the next builder, the next DRep, the next informed delegator is made.

AI has not closed this gap. It has worsened it. Generative tooling has collapsed the cost of plausible-but-wrong crypto content to zero. Hallucinated CIPs, fabricated tokenomics, outdated dApp recommendations — these now flow into the feed at scale. What the ecosystem needs is not more synthetic explainers. It needs accountable humans willing to put their name on the correction.

The asset the consortium brings is not the video. The video is cheap. The asset is years of audience relationship — tens of thousands of subscribers who have already decided to listen, accumulated one viewer at a time, unsubsidised. That cannot be re-spun up with a budget.

Project founders prove the gap themselves: the inbound from teams who cannot get coverage elsewhere is constant. If content were truly abundant and substitutable, that demand would not exist.

04The Ask

A subsidy for the work
that already needs doing.

No new committee. No new platform. A defined cohort. A fixed term. A monthly cheque tied to monthly evidence.

Cardano Treasury · Intersect Budget Proposal
Cardano Content Creator Consortium
REQ: 1,524,400 ADA · TERM: 12 MONTHS
Creators6
Creator Content Production1,440,000 ADA
Independent Audits (×2)40,000 ADA
Intersect Admin Fee44,400 ADA
Term12 Months
ReportingMonthly
Review Gate6 Months
Total1,524,400 ADA
StatusIntersect Budget 2026

Long-form founder interviews.

Forty-to-ninety-minute conversations with project teams the broader feed never reaches. Recorded, captioned, archived, embeddable — a permanent public record of who built what, when, and why.

Governance literacy.

Plain-language walkthroughs of active governance actions, DRep rationales, Constitutional Committee decisions. Designed for ADA holders deciding how to delegate, not for the already-fluent.

Developer onramp.

Aiken, Plutarch, MeshJS, Lucid / Evolution-SDK — concrete, working tutorials maintained against current toolchains. The kind of content the algorithm rewards least and the ecosystem needs most.

Project due-diligence.

Structured reviews of dApps, wallets, and infrastructure — what they do, what they don't, what to watch. Coverage where there is no editorial outlet and no incentive for one to exist.

05The Consortium

Six creators. Different audiences.
One accountability standard.

The consortium is deliberately not six versions of the same channel. It spans developer educators, governance commentators, DeFi explainers, ADA-holder-facing newsroom voices and newcomer onramps — answering directly the critique that "more content" addresses no one in particular.

CreatorDevelopersADA HoldersDeFi UsersGovernanceNewcomers
Peter Bui · Learn Cardano
Linda · @cryptofly777
BigPey · The Cardano Aura
Paul · Cardano with Paul
David · David X Crypto
La Petite Ada

Peter Bui

@astroboysoup · Learn Cardano

Long-form developer and founder interviews, ecosystem walkthroughs and educational tutorials. The lead coordinator of C4.

Best known for · Cardano Foundation Ambassador · Midnight Ambassador Leader (Cohort 1) · DRep · Catalyst F12 Minswap DeFi Edu · CardanoPress Plugin
View channel ↗
YouTube20K+
Channel since2021
Catalyst DeliveredF9 · F12

Linda

@cryptofly777

DeFi-focused educational content. Walkthroughs, protocol explainers, ecosystem awareness for ADA holders deciding where to deploy capital.

Best known for · Midnight Ambassador · Catalyst F13 DeFi education proposal delivered
View channel ↗
YouTube5.2K+
X Followers35K
Channel since2021

BigPey

@bigpey · The Cardano Aura

Podcast-format Cardano conversations. Project interviews, deep-dives and ecosystem coverage from inside the operator community.

Best known for · The Cardano Aura podcast · Bloom SPO (8th Cardano block) · RareEvo speaker
View channel ↗
X Followers38K
Active since2020
RoleSPO

Cardano with Paul

@CWPaulM

Long-running educational channel — DeFi tutorials, governance walkthroughs and technical education for non-developer audiences.

Best known for · DeFi tutorials · governance breakdowns · long-form Cardano education
View channel ↗
FocusDeFi · Gov
FormatLong-form
Years Active4+

David X Crypto

@DaveXCrypto

Educational and entertaining ecosystem coverage. Short-form viral content and ecosystem news, with a track record for breaking through outside the existing community.

Best known for · Viral short-form Cardano content · Catalyst F13 short-form education delivered
View channel ↗
FormatShort-form
ReachViral
Catalyst DeliveredF13

La Petite Ada

@lapetiteada

Multi-platform short-form across TikTok, Instagram and X. The newcomer onramp — bringing Cardano to audiences the long-form channels don't reach.

Best known for · Midnight Ambassador · Cardano SPO · Switzerland-based · multi-platform short-form expertise
View channel ↗
X Followers35K
PlatformsTT · IG · X
RoleSPO
06Accountability

Funded creators report monthly.
Funding stops if they don't.

A subsidy is not an entitlement. The cheque is conditional, the schedule is public, and the exit ramp is built into month six.

M0 · Start M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 Review GateM6 · Continue/Pause M7 M8 M9 M10 M11 Term EndM12 · Report

What gets reported

Outputs published, audience growth, watch-time on underserved surfaces, coverage of Catalyst projects, governance actions reviewed, and a transparent ledger of funds drawn.

What triggers a pause

A missed monthly report, a failed M6 review gate, a documented breach of editorial integrity, or formal community governance challenge. The cheque doesn't continue until the issue is resolved.

Who holds the cheque

Funds disburse from a multisig held by the lead coordinator and two independent ecosystem signatories. Every transaction is on-chain and traceable from this page to settlement.

07On AI

"Just use AI" is the strongest objection.
It's also the wrong one.

The argument against funding human creators usually arrives like this: generative AI has collapsed the cost of content to zero, therefore subsidising humans to make it is a category error. The premise is half-right. AI has collapsed the cost of generic content — the explainer-style middle of the curve — to zero. What it has not done is collapse the cost of specialist content, and the difference matters.

AI cannot interview the founder of a project that hasn't shipped yet. It cannot read the latest governance action and write a rationale a human DRep will actually defend in public. It cannot run the wallet, mint the NFT, hit the bug, file the issue, and come back with the working tutorial. The work the consortium produces is not the kind that gets cheaper when language models get better. It gets more valuable — because the synthetic noise floor rises, and the cost of being the trusted human voice rises with it.

The second piece is that AI is already where misinformation enters the ecosystem at scale. Hallucinated CIPs. Fabricated tokenomics. Confidently wrong dApp recommendations. The ecosystem needs accountable humans willing to put their name on the correction — not a feed of synthetic explainers that may or may not be hallucinating.

The consortium's creators use AI. They use it to transcribe, to summarise, to assist editing, to draft show notes. AI is leverage on the production side. It is not a substitute for the five years of audience trust, on-chain history, and editorial accountability that constitute the actual asset.

AI can write the video. It can't write the five years of audience trust.
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Intersect Budget Proposal

Intersect ID · 69fac66e89371182537b3096 · Budget Proposal 2026

Authors

Peter Bui · Lead Coordinator
Linda · BigPey · Paul · David X Crypto · La Petite Ada
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Last updated · 2026-05-16 · Brisbane AEST