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No DRep can be an expert in everything. The Training Lab teaches the concepts, frameworks, and questions that improve governance decisions.
Each track has a stated outcome and grows one published course at a time. Hours shown are the summed workload of what is published today. Start anywhere; nothing here is a prerequisite for membership.
What the published course covers: classifying a governance action by type, and knowing which body decides it.
Classify a governance action by type and name who else votes on it, with the sources open in front of you.
Reading a treasury withdrawal: cost lines, labour reconciliation, milestone structure, and recording what the budget leaves out.
Review a withdrawal request line by line and produce an omissions register rather than a verdict.
A repeatable review workflow: verifying claims against sources, checking delivery history, and documenting what you could not verify.
Run the same documented diligence pass on every proposal, including the parts you could not check.
Protocol parameters in plain language: what each lever does, what changing it risks, and which claims need an expert.
Read a parameter change proposal and separate the claims you can check from the ones that need review.
TVL, liquidity and incentive design: how ecosystem growth numbers are produced, and how they mislead.
Test an incentive proposal for mercenary liquidity and double-counted TVL before accepting its growth claim.
Team and delivery risk: track record, key-person exposure, and the mitigations worth requiring before funds move.
Build a delivery risk register for a funding decision and state the mitigations you would require.
Programme metrics that survive contact with reality: baselines, gaming, and what a KPI can honestly show.
Rewrite a vague KPI set into measurable indicators with baselines and a monitoring plan.
Two published courses: writing an auditable vote rationale, and disclosing material conflicts in plain language.
Publish a rationale a stranger can audit and a disclosure that names your material interests.
Search covers titles, summaries, outcomes and the topics of every source a course cites.
Showing 9 of 9 published courses
What counts as material, how to write a disclosure entry a delegator can actually use, how to choose between disclosure, abstention and recusal, and how to keep the record honest as circumstances change.
What the Cardano Constitution does and does not do, who the governance bodies are, how an action moves through its lifecycle, and how to check a proposal against the guardrail that actually applies.
How to assess execution risk fairly: reading delivery history as evidence rather than reputation, spotting key-person and vendor dependencies, issue-spotting custody and change controls, matching mitigations to the size and reversibility of the ask, and recording it all in a delivery-risk register.
How to tell whether a proposed success measure can actually be observed, attributed, defended against gaming and verified after the money is spent - and how to rewrite the ones that cannot.
One repeatable workflow applied to every proposal: scope the review and check your own conflicts, map claims to evidence, verify sources honestly, test feasibility and delivery, then steelman the proposal and publish a neutral record of questions and unknowns.
A working map of the protocol parameters, how to read a parameter change proposal line by line, what second-order effects to expect, and the point at which the honest move is to ask an expert.
Work line by line through a withdrawal request: what the budget claims, whether staffing and rates reconcile, whether milestones are verifiable, what the budget omits, and how to turn findings into public questions.
What a total-value-locked figure counts and what it hides, how liquidity differs from depth and volume, why incentivised liquidity leaves, how to evaluate an incentive proposal against a counterfactual, and the market-structure risks that sit underneath all of it.
The four traits of an auditable rationale, how to attribute evidence, how to state uncertainty without collapsing the decision, how to handle the strongest counterargument, and a drafting workshop that ends with a published, correctable document.
Every course is text-first. You work through each lesson, submit one practical exercise, and pass a final assessment. Nothing is timed and nothing is ranked.
44 lessons across 9 courses, all readable at your own pace.
