{"@context":{"CIP100":"https://github.com/cardano-foundation/CIPs/blob/master/CIP-0100/README.md#","hashAlgorithm":"CIP100:hashAlgorithm","body":{"@id":"CIP100:body","@context":{"comment":"CIP100:comment"}}},"hashAlgorithm":"blake2b-256","body":{"comment":"I vote **YES** to reimburse the Ikigai Info Governance Action deposit.\n\nThis is not a conventional Treasury funding request. It is a narrow restitution for an exceptional issue that occurred during the earliest weeks of Cardano's on-chain governance.\n\nThe original Ikigai Info Action was submitted in September 2024 with the required 100,000 ADA governance deposit. The governance tooling at the time permitted an unregistered stake credential to be specified as the deposit return address, resulting in the otherwise refundable deposit becoming inaccessible when the action concluded.\n\nI do not believe an early governance participant should permanently lose 100,000 ADA because the governance system accepted a return configuration that could not successfully return the deposit.\n\nImportantly, the current withdrawal sends the funds directly to the same reward credential specified by the original Ikigai governance action. This provides an on-chain and cryptographically enforceable link to the original affected party and removes the need to trust an intermediary.\n\nThe additional 3,000 ADA intended to compensate for foregone staking rewards is more open to debate, but I consider it modest and proportionate given the period for which the original 100,000 ADA has remained inaccessible.\n\nThis should not establish a general precedent for using the Treasury to compensate ordinary user errors, investment losses, failed projects or third-party incidents.\n\nThe circumstances here are exceptional: this occurred during the earliest phase of Cardano governance, the system accepted the problematic credential, the loss is objectively identifiable on-chain, the recipient is verifiable, and the remedy is a single direct payment with no ongoing programme, execution or delivery risk.\n\nThis issue has remained unresolved for far too long.\n\nMaking the original participant whole is fair, proportionate and supportive of trust in Cardano's governance system.\n\nI therefore vote **YES**."}}