Cardano became the first major blockchain protocol to place its treasury, its protocol parameters, and its constitutional order under full on-chain community control when CIP-1694 went live across the Chang and Plomin hard forks of 2024 and early 2025. Eighteen months later, the system's most consequential statistic is not a vote tally. It is an absence: 68.6% of all delegating wallets have routed their voting power to a predefined "Abstain" option, 60.72% of all governance-delegated...