Intersect is a member-based nonprofit organization that serves as an open-source foundation and governance body for the Cardano ecosystem. Intersect's Twitter Score is 7.2 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #123,556 among 493,668 tracked accounts.
Intersect is incorporated in Wyoming as a mutual-benefit nonprofit, structured around members, a governing board, committees, and working groups operating under a one-member-one-vote model. Its mandate covers administering governance processes, coordinating community-approved development roadmaps, and supporting the maintenance and continued development of the Cardano protocol. Input Output Global and EMURGO were documented as Seed Funder Members, each holding a $500,000 membership contract in Intersect's 2024 contract register. The University of Wyoming was previously a Pioneering Member of the organization.
Intersect acts as an independent steward of Cardano's open-source codebase. Input Output Global began migrating the first 25 core Cardano repositories to Intersect in December 2023, with key repositories under its GitHub organization including cardano-node, cardano-ledger, ouroboros-network, cardano-api, cardano-cli, cardano-db-sync, and Plutus. Intersect also coordinated readiness for Cardano's first Chang hard fork, which executed on September 1, 2024 at epoch 507 after network operators confirmed sufficient readiness. Intersect's account has published 3,472 posts and has been mentioned by 38 accounts a total of 260 times, reflecting active engagement across the Cardano community.
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The accounts that follow Intersect include 34 founders, 14 influencers and 1 VCs, among them Caitlin Long, Charles Hoskinson, David Gokhshtein, Justin Bons, Consensus By CoinDesk and Fireblocks.