Governance Scripts

This repository holds shell scripts that Intersect uses to engage in Cardano on-chain governance.

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Scripts

2025 Budget Scripts

• budget-check-metadata.sh
  • Runs correctness and validity checks for budget treasury withdrawal CIP108 metadata.
  • Uses a combination of the other scripts

IPFS Scripts

• ipfs-check.sh
  • Checks if a file is accessible via free IPFS gateways
• ipfs-pin.sh
  • Allows user to pin a file on a number of pinning services
  • Optionally allows the user to check file's discoverability first

CIP-100+ Metadata Scripts

• metadata-validate.sh
  • Compares governance metadata against the established schema(s)
  • Applies a spell check to CIP108 metadata

CIP-108 Scripts

• cip-108-create-human-readable.sh
  • Creates a markdown file from CIP108 metadata

CIP-100 Author Scripts

• author-create.sh
  • Adds an author witness to CIP100/CIP108 metadata
• author-validate.sh
  • Checks the correctness of CIP100/CIP108 metadata with a author(s) witness(es)

Other Scripts

• hash.sh
  • Performs a blake2b-256 hash on provided file

Documentation

• 2025 Budget Treasury Withdrawals
  • Documents the scripts and high level process to create the treasury withdrawal governance actions for the Intersect 2025 budget.

Dependencies

In order to run all of these scripts you will need

• ajv-cli
• aspell
• b2sum
• cardano-cli
• cardano-signer
• ipfs
• jq

Secrets

Secrets can be stored via ./scripts/.env and based on ./scripts/.env.example.

The only script that uses secrets is ipfs-pin.sh.

License

See License.