A milestone week for the handover. The Xi'an Milestone 1 vote went live, the community quietly took over Foundation node duties, and SRWA closed its first NZ lending deal. Meanwhile validator fees jumped, a wallet scam hit, and builders spent the weekend debating agent marketplaces and torrent-index architectures.
Messages / day
peak 74/day · most active: projectShift, Dezza, James
What the room talked about
Xi'an Milestone 1 vote opens
After a fast temperature check, Hyperscale's Xi'an Milestone 1 went live as an active proposal with a 940m XRD quorum and seven days to vote. projectShift and Mr. Peanutbutter drove the community to cast ballots, while Daffy clarified snapshot-based voting power.
driven by Mr. Peanutbutter, projectShift, Daffy
Community takes over the node stack
Decommissioned Foundation bootstrap nodes broke new installs, so Timan, DefiPlaza, Jazzer9F, tednol and others stepped up with replacement seed nodes. Faraz announced the handover, shambupujar will update the docs, and projectShift confirmed radix.community is the interim domain.
driven by projectShift, Faraz, Timan | Astrolescent
Validators raise fees post-subsidy
With the subsidy over, Ed (RadUp.io) jumped to 15%, Vlad to 10%, austin signalling similar, and projectShift reminded everyone new fees take effect roughly 14 days later so delegators can unstake. Stakers were urged to read carefully.
driven by Ed | RadUp.io, Vlad, austin
RAC transparency under the microscope
Austin and Matt Hine pressed the RAC on why legal work stays private, and projectShift defended lawyer-client privilege while promising anything relevant gets shared. Nicolai also pitched a full on-chain DAO framework that projectShift said is too much for the current transition.
driven by austin, projectShift, Nicolai | Sentura
Council & insider watch
The RAC fielded transparency questions from the community, with projectShift explaining that lawyer-client privilege keeps some work private while anything the community needs will still be shared. Council members confirmed community seed nodes replaced the Foundation dependency and coordinated with shambupujar on doc updates.
projectShiftRAC
Urged the Xi'an Milestone 1 vote, confirmed the community-led seed-node handover, defended RAC legal confidentiality, and reminded stakers new validator fees take ~14 days to apply.
“It ain't finished 'till we all say it is, dire as it may be.”
FarazRAC
Announced community seed nodes are in place to support new validators, removing another Foundation dependency, and confirmed the ledger snapshot is around 240 GiB.
avauntRAC
Clarified merchant-badge requirements for the gateway, promoted Debix's on-chain direct-debit feature, and encouraged pitching SRWA's solar loan to journalists.
flightofthefox (hyperscale.rs)Hyperscale lead
Pushed back on using the ledger as a database, sketched a Merkle-root + Veilid + DHT architecture for the torrent-index idea, and doubted anyone uses Redstone's Push oracle tier.
“I think trying to treat smart contract platforms like database is generally not the best idea.”
Question of the week
“How do you download the Radix ledger snapshot without permission or corruption errors?”
Use the Radix-Live aria-based script, which avoids needing extra space for tar + uncompress overhead; projectShift's shortcut is downloading the tar on a separate machine, copying it into the VM, then cloning the synced VM for new nodes.
asked by Dezza · answered by projectShift
Debate of the week — AI-built projects on Radix
One side
Nicolai argued the ecosystem needs fewer speculative tokens and more real use cases for XRD, treating AI-built launches with suspicion after the Radiant wallet incident.
The other
Vlad countered that plenty of legitimate Radix devs use AI tooling and what matters is whether the product works, not how it was built.
Still open — expect a rematch.
Heard in the room
“You have to be a pretty unambitious scammer to go after the Radix community at this point”
— Radix Blue Balls
“always aim for far and high my friend ... so even if you go Icarus , you still fall ahead of the many that are only trying the possible”
— projectShift
“I thought a lot about what a possible reason for being for crypto could be after the Klondike era. Turns out it is Community.”
— rotane.xrd rotane
Prediction tracker
PendingXi'an Milestone 1 vote passes the 940m XRD quorum
Vote opened this week with seven days to run.
Came trueFoundation bootstrap-node dependency fully resolved
Faraz confirmed community seed nodes are now in place and Shambu is updating docs.
Came trueVote delegation won't be ready for upcoming votes
projectShift confirmed delegation isn't native to the protocol or Radix Engine.
NewxStelea ships a reference implementation of x402
Around the ecosystem
Caper launches on StokenetBayesien shared Caper.network: a one-transaction DAO launchpad with bonding-curve liquidity and soulbound vote tokens, now live on Stokenet.
Radix Wallet 1.22.0 shipsGhenadie released 1.22.0 with a better Multisig view, an Address Book, and extra fallback price services; Android already updated.
rdx-cli and RAP spec debutxStelea published rdx-cli for Manifest V2 workflows and a draft Radix Agent Protocol for agent-driven signing without key custody.
From the dev room
Builders split between big architectural debates (on-chain torrent index, agent marketplace) and pragmatic tooling (rdx-cli, RAP, the babylonnode CLI fix) — flightofthefox's 'don't use a blockchain as a database' line set the tone.
Worth a click
Jargon, decoded
Quorum — The minimum share of voting power that must participate for a proposal's result to be valid.
Seed node — A well-known entry point a new node connects to first when joining the network.
Manifest V2 — Radix's current transaction format that lets dApps describe multiple actions in one signed payload.
The pulse
The mood: Builders are shipping and the community is quietly absorbing Foundation responsibilities, but validator fees climbing and another wallet scam have made the room a little weary.
The bottom line
Remember this
Xi'an Milestone 1 is on the ballot — the first big community vote on the path to a sharded mainnet is now live.
Next week
Watch for: the Xi'an M1 vote result early next week and the Foundation's clarification on the Olympia explorer outage.
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Written by AI from the public community Telegram chat — may contain mistakes. Never financial advice. · generated 2026-07-12