Previously: Peachy quietly exited the RAC, Hyperscale shipped its biggest monthly dump, volunteer working groups started forming pre-DAO, and the Foundation's treasury stayed opaque.
A heavy governance week, bookended by a bittersweet moment: Dan's posthumous Cassandra paper landed on Saturday, and the room spent the rest of the week arguing about whether the RAC's KYC'd multisig is even a real DAO. Underneath the noise, builders kept shipping — Vlad pitched a community stablecoin, Bayesien opened Caper's fee design to feedback, and Hyperscale went public with overview docs.
Messages / day
peak 146/day · most active: Vlad B • ideomaker.com • foton.is • radix.stream, Nicolai | Sentura, √Mr. Peanutbutter 🇫🇷
What the room talked about
Xi'an alone won't save Radix
Phil Gibson argued the community hasn't funded any adoption proposals and that the sharded network won't be a silver bullet on its own. flightofthefox pushed back that Xi'an got built because someone actually put a proposal forward, and dared others to do the same. Read Only added that real-world integrations, not tech, are the real bottleneck.
driven by Phil Gibson, flightofthefox (hyperscale.rs), Read Only
Is the RAC multisig even a DAO?
Nicolai said a 5-of-7 KYC'd signer council holding the treasury is antithetical to crypto, since security rests only on legal enforcement. Mr. Peanutbutter, flightofthefox and Adam defended it as a sensible transitional step, and Adam noted validators could fork to recover a stolen treasury. Unresolved.
driven by Nicolai | Sentura, √Mr. Peanutbutter 🇫🇷, Adam
Dan's Cassandra paper lands, posthumously
Andy.XRD shared a note from Professor Sadoghi that the BFT paper Dan had been co-writing with his team since 2020 is now complete. Adam recalled how Dan never missed the weekly meeting. flightofthefox and projectShift then spent Saturday explaining why the work, while important, doesn't translate cleanly to sharded systems.
driven by Andy.XRD, Adam, flightofthefox (hyperscale.rs)
Validators count slips, costs climb
RadixPlanet posted they are raising their fee from 30% to 40% on July 15, citing operating losses. Timan noted hosting costs are rising and the active validator set has slipped from about 100 to 90. Vlad argued the RAM price spike looks more like manufacturer collusion than AI-driven demand.
driven by Ahmed Sedeek, Timan | Astrolescent, Vlad B • ideomaker.com • foton.is • radi
Council & insider watch
No RAC room activity was visible this week. The community is still waiting on the Operating Agreement to land and the Permanent RAC nomination thread to open, with projectShift carrying most of the public-facing council voice in the main chat.
flightofthefox (hyperscale.rs)Hyperscale developer
Dominated the technical side of the week, calling Babylon validator specs 'horrendous', dismissing the idea that on-chain autonomous treasury voting stops whales, and explaining why Cassandra's lower quorums don't work for sharded systems.
“For the love of god man... stop posting diatribes in TG, and just set yourself to work if you care about Radix.”
projectShiftRadix Accountability Council
Walked the community through Dan's posthumous Cassandra paper, describing it as essentially an automated-fork mechanism for surviving liveness outages that CEXes and bridges couldn't trust, and speculating it was one puzzle piece in a larger vision Dan was assembling.
Vlad B • ideomaker.com • foton.is • radiCommunity volunteer
Pushed two new community proposals — a stablecoin for the post-Xi'an era aimed at emerging markets, and a branding RFP to fix the ecosystem's 'lacks Caviar polish' problem — and defended small home validators under fire.
“Now the patients run the asylum 😄”
DaffyGovernance contributor
Published plain-English reading guides for the proposed DAO charter and policy library, and shared a draft ERC-8004-style agentic protocol doc asking for input on DAO-owned primitives.
Question of the week
“Could Xi'an support on-chain snapshots so voters don't have to deposit tokens for a governance vote?”
Validator governance tooling — the means to action things like network parameter changes — will be bundled with Xi'an, opening the door to on-chain vote verification rather than deposits.
asked by Nicolai | Sentura · answered by flightofthefox (hyperscale.rs)
Debate of the week — Is the RAC multisig model truly decentralized
One side
Nicolai argues a 5-of-7 KYC'd signer council holding the treasury, with security resting only on legal enforcement, is antithetical to crypto's cypherpunk ethos and not a real DAO.
The other
Mr. Peanutbutter, Adam and flightofthefox counter that it's a sensible transitional step, that validators could fork to recover a stolen treasury, and that on-chain autonomous voting doesn't prevent whales from voting themselves the whole pot anyway.
Still open — expect a rematch.
Heard in the room
“For the love of god man... stop posting diatribes in TG, and just set yourself to work if you care about Radix.”
— flightofthefox (hyperscale.rs)
“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”
— √Mr. Peanutbutter 🇫🇷
“with what Foxy is doing right now I'd say we're back on top. It's really a miracle we had someone in the community with such knowledge to take over.”
— Vlad B • ideomaker.com • foton.is • radi
Prediction tracker
MissedOperating Agreement finalised by 29 June
The 29 June deadline passed without confirmation in the chats this week.
Came trueHyperscale continues shipping regardless of Radix
Punk published draft Hyperscale overview docs on GitHub and a plain-English version at hyperscale.rs.
NewCaper.network sets trade-fee cap at 1%
Bayesien agreed in the Sunday fee-structure discussion to cap at 1% and let the DAO vote to lower.
NewRadixPlanet validator fee rises to 40% on July 15
Announced publicly by RadixPlanet, citing operating losses after the subsidy ended.
Around the ecosystem
DAO governance reading guides go liveDaffy published plain-English reading guides for the proposed DAO charter and policy library on the Shadaffy governance repo, making the actual proposals readable for newcomers.
Hyperscale plain-language site opensPunk put up draft Hyperscale overview docs on GitHub and a quick plain-English version at hyperscale.rs, with an open invitation for anyone to build better visual explainers.
Ascent ships BEACON game modeSILVEr announced a new BEACON mode is live on Ascent.xrd.workers.dev, with practice and competitive rounds open to players.
From the dev room
The biggest technical conversation happened in the main chat on Saturday: projectShift and flightofthefox walked through why Cassandra's lower quorum thresholds don't safely extend to sharded networks, where cross-shard atomic commitment needs full 2F+1 quorums — useful context f
Worth a click
Jargon, decoded
Cassandra — A BFT consensus paper Dan had been co-writing with Professor Sadoghi's team since 2020, completed posthumously and discussed publicly this week.
HotStuff — The BFT consensus algorithm that powers Xi'an; it uses 2F+1 quorums, which is why Cassandra's lower thresholds don't translate to sharded networks.
Muan protocol — An on-chain governance system Nicolai pitched this week as a candidate tool for the Radix DAO, using deposits and off-chain-style snapshots.
The pulse
The mood: Bittersweet and busy — the community is shipping (Hyperscale docs, Caper fees, a stablecoin pitch) while also processing Dan's last academic work and arguing hard about how decentralised the new council really is.
The bottom line
Remember this
Dan's Cassandra paper landed posthumously, and the community spent Saturday parsing both its meaning and its limits — with flightofthefox and projectShift explaining why it doesn't translate cleanly to the sharded future.
Next week
Watch for: any update on the Operating Agreement status, the Permanent RAC nomination thread opening, and Caper.network's final fee-cap decision.
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Written by AI from the public community Telegram chat — may contain mistakes. Never financial advice. · generated 2026-07-12