Trivolve seeks 9.6M ADA for Cardano evidence system in Telangana

By Elena Vasquez

According to Trivolve Tech, its forensic application has processed more than 156,000 Cardano mainnet transactions; the developer now seeks 9.6 million ADA for a Telangana police-system expansion. The 15-month request targets about 3,500 facilities in Telangana. Trivolve forecasts more than 1.53 million Cardano mainnet transactions during the first deployment year.

The proposal extends an application already used with police in Uttar Pradesh, where Trivolve says the system generates about 11,000 Cardano mainnet transactions each month. The existing project offers a reference point, but the proposal discloses no independent audit or outside verification of those figures.

What does the existing evidence system record?

The Cardano Foundation’s case study says traditional evidence boxes display case numbers to everyone handling them. Trivolve instead assigns separate codes to each authorized participant, making it harder for people at different stages to coordinate unauthorized changes.

Police officers record evidence in an application, while secure QR codes identify individual boxes. Laboratory personnel receive distinct identifiers when scanning them, and Trivolve links each recorded action to Cardano through a cryptographic hash.

Cardano stores a digital fingerprint of the record. Authorities can use it to check whether the underlying information has changed, while sensitive case files and personal information remain within government systems.

In a November 10 Governance Hour video, Trivolve Tech founder and CEO Rahul Konudula said: “The entire chain of evidence is now being tracked and secured on Cardano.” He was describing the system’s overall design, not a completed Telangana rollout. In plain terms, the design aims to make unauthorized changes easier to detect, not to move case files onto Cardano.

What would the Telangana expansion add?

Trivolve lists five stages for the proposed Police Force Management System, or PFMS: evidence collection before a crime, investigations, storage facilities, prosecution and courts. The company wants shared infrastructure that links those stages without requiring authorities to replace their existing applications.

Trivolve’s first-year estimates cover approximately 113,000 personnel and 1.81 million devices. They also include 3.2 million evidence items and 5.1 million decentralized identifiers across the system. The projected workload exceeds 1.53 million Cardano mainnet transactions, but these figures remain estimates rather than measured deployment activity.

The proposal would place the core infrastructure under the Apache 2.0 open-source license so other police departments and judicial authorities could adopt it. No additional police or judicial adopter is named. The business case therefore depends on joining existing systems, while broader adoption remains untested beyond Uttar Pradesh.

How would the system generate revenue?

After deployment, the government customer would pay ongoing Cardano transaction fees, infrastructure expenses and maintenance costs. That shifts the project from a grant-funded build to a service contract whose scale depends on actual government use.

Trivolve also expects revenue from an optional evidence verification service for authorized parties. The service would be available to defense lawyers and prosecutors, with requests starting at $1.89 and higher charges for larger or more complicated datasets.

The proposed revenue distribution sends 70% to Cardano’s treasury and 20% to maintaining core Cardano libraries, leaving Trivolve Tech with 10%. The proposal provides neither projected verification volume nor a cost forecast, so the size of that share remains unresolved. The model creates an operating revenue stream, but neither its demand nor its unit economics have been demonstrated.

Can the treasury request withstand governance scrutiny?

Cardano’s governance community is reviewing how treasury resources should support development and institutional adoption. In October, Project Catalyst selected 12 projects from 117 applications for a separate 2 million ADA funding program. Most grant payments in that program depend on adoption targets and sustained network activity.

Treasury spending has drawn opposition from delegated representatives. A June report in crypto.news said a 7.8 million ADA proposal for the Cardano Summit failed with 65.2% support, below the required two-thirds threshold. PFMS remains subject to approval, and the October selection concerns a separate program.

Trivolve Tech’s earlier forensic project received support through Project Catalyst Fund 12. Trivolve and enterprise software provider Quixy requested 550,000 ADA to integrate Cardano into evidence management in Uttar Pradesh. Their original six-month development plan focused on securing evidence integrity through blockchain timestamps at the point of capture.

Cardano has pursued other verifiable-record applications in India. In October, the Cardano Foundation reported that 100,000 farms had been registered through agricultural technology provider 5am.earth, which uses blockchain records alongside satellite observations and field information. Prior deployments show institutional interest, not proof that the treasury will approve or sustain this larger program.

No treasury vote deadline is disclosed. The next checkpoint is community approval; if approved, the project has a 15-month development timetable, while its 1.53 million transaction forecast remains contingent on deployment and sustained use.