Cardano’s vote to approve four elected Constitutional Committee members has entered its final week, but support from both required voter groups remains well below the thresholds needed for approval.
The vote expires on 1 September, identified by Intersect as epoch 653. Unless delegated representatives (DReps) and stake pool operators (SPOs) both reach their respective targets before then, Cardano’s Constitutional Committee could fall from seven active members to just three.
That would leave the committee two members short of its required minimum of five and prevent it from ratifying governance actions that require its approval.
The latest CardanoScan figures, recorded on 25 August, put DRep support at 41.7%, against the required 67%. SPO support was 12.0%, while the threshold for that group is 51%.
The proposal is intended to install four winners from Cardano’s 2026 Constitutional Committee election before four current members leave. It requires both voting groups to cross their individual thresholds before the action expires.
Support has increased in the available dated readings. A GovTool snapshot published by CryptoSlate on 17 August showed DRep backing at 32.46% and SPO support at 1.95%. Intersect’s figures for 20:00 UTC on 21 August placed the respective totals at 37.9% and 7.93%.
However, the different sources mean the figures should not be treated as a precise point-to-point progression. The earlier reading came from GovTool, while the latest was taken from CardanoScan. Cardano’s governance framework also uses separate active-stake calculations for different roles, meaning the two sets of figures are best regarded as separate measurements.
Using the latest CardanoScan data, DReps still need to close a gap of 25.3 percentage points. The shortfall for SPOs is 39.0 points.
Voting levels and stake distributions can change before the deadline, so the proposal can still pass. But the scale of the remaining gaps, combined with the limited time available, leaves the result uncertain.
If the vote expires without approval, the committee would become too small to ratify governance actions covered by CIP-1694. That would create a bottleneck in Cardano’s governance process, although it would not affect the operation of the network itself. Blocks would continue to be produced and transactions would continue to be processed.
There would still be routes to restore the committee. Intersect has said Info Actions and Update Committee actions remain available when the committee is undersized, allowing a later committee update to refill vacant seats. CIP-1694 also states that motions of no confidence do not require committee approval.
Intersect has warned that any interruption to governance continuity could slow progress towards the planned Dijkstra hard fork. The immediate issue is therefore whether DReps and SPOs can reach their separate thresholds before the four outgoing members leave the committee without enough replacements approved.
Cardano was down 4.19% over the previous 24 hours and was ranked 15th by market capitalisation at the time of publication.
Liam Wright, also known as “Akiba”, is a reporter, podcast producer and Editor-in-Chief at CryptoSlate. He believes decentralised technology has the potential to make a significant impact.
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