Last week: the room wondered whether Xi'an alone could save Radix, scrutinised the RAC multisig as 'real' decentralisation, marked the posthumous publication of Dan's Cassandra paper, and watched the validator count slip
A paperwork-heavy week with real momentum. Daffy confirmed the DAO governance repo mirrors the latest Operating Agreement and an aligned Charter, with the Marshall Islands filing close. projectShift issued a blunt call for seven Permanent RAC candidates — and the room realised nobody is stepping up. Builders kept shipping: Signetix launched, x402 integration work advanced, and GENKIPOOL dropped a Rust SDK and an AI-wallet MCP.
Messages / day
peak 103/day · most active: Vlad B • ideomaker…, Validador GENKIPOO…, Daffy
What the room talked about
Permanent RAC: a recruitment crisis
projectShift laid out the case for a 7-person Permanent RAC as facilitator/guarantor, separate from Foundation baggage, and bluntly asked why none of the loud community members are willing to stand. No names emerged by week's end.
driven by projectShift, Daffy, foxylady
DAO paperwork nearly ready to file
Daffy confirmed the radix-dao-governance repo mirrors the latest OA and aligned Charter; Foundation legal vetting is the last step before the Marshall Islands application. projectShift noted the Foundation has only released 50% of grant funds, with the rest gated on the OA existing.
driven by Daffy, projectShift, Phil Gibson
Root Finance: 3M XRD stuck
Eddie reported ~3M XRD is trapped in the Root Finance dApp — withdrawal and repayment both broken. flightofthefox clarified it's bad debt, not a frontend bug, and the room criticised the Foundation for funding an unmaintained project.
driven by Eddie, flightofthefox (hyperscale.rs), Vlad B • ideomaker.com • foton.is • radi
x402 integration moves forward
avaunt asked whether anyone had started adding Radix to the x402 Foundation protocol list and xStelea confirmed work is already underway with a commit and a Fable-based spec review. Contributors and forks invited.
driven by avaunt > Debix | Atomix | Bullring, xStelea.xrd
Council & insider watch
projectShift issued a blunt call for seven Permanent RAC candidates and pushed back on the assumption that current Transition RAC experience qualifies anyone for the new role. He also confirmed the Foundation has only released 50% of grant funds, with the rest tied to the OA existing.
projectShiftTransition RAC
Framed the Permanent RAC as facilitator/guarantor, called for seven candidates to step up, and noted that being on the Transition RAC is not a reliable proxy for the Permanent one.
“I still puzzle at reading so many things and ppl in here with ideas, proposals and demands ... and not a single one seems to be available to be a candidate, ffs!”
DaffyDAO governance contributor
Confirmed the radix-dao-governance repo mirrors the latest Operating Agreement and an aligned Charter, and explained how the Marshall Islands filing can run in parallel with constitutional ratification.
flightofthefox (hyperscale.rs)Hyperscale lead
Asked what the next procedural step after the OA is so contributor recruitment can begin now, warning the community cannot afford to wait for formal DAO registration.
“rootfather why have you forsaken me”
avauntRAC
Asked the community to look at adding Radix to the x402 Foundation protocol list and pointed xStelea at the spec to start the work.
Question of the week
“What qualities are needed to serve on the Permanent RAC?”
projectShift advised reading Daffy's guides and walking through the repo (even using AI to help), and stressed that Permanent RAC members are facilitators and guarantors of governance, not executives — execution falls under Delegates and Working Group members.
asked by Validador GENKIPOOL [ GENKI ] · answered by projectShift
Debate of the week — Pay DAO contributors in XRD now or wait
One side
MAvRe, Vlad and Felix argued vesting-locked XRD compensation is needed to attract contributors and only well-scoped proposals deserve funding.
The other
GENKIPOOL and Marco Santos argued any XRD payouts now would be sold by people who don't believe in the project and the community should volunteer until XRD has real value.
Still open — expect a rematch.
Heard in the room
“If we don't start acting like it, then those bags will be worth zero as well. Not acting isn't a strategy.”
— projectShift
“99%+ of Skilled labour won't work for free. Foxy is in the 1% who took a very unconventional path.”
— Phil Gibson
Prediction tracker
PendingCaper.network sets trade-fee cap at 1%
PendingRadixPlanet validator fee rises to 40% on July 15
NewDAO application to the Marshall Islands will be filed as soon as Foundation legal review of the OA completes
NewPermanent RAC election stalls if no candidates emerge
projectShift warned explicitly that without candidates the handover cannot proceed.
Around the ecosystem
Signetix launches on mainnetSignetix.app (by Rad Bull X) went live as a multisig approvals service for teams, DAOs and AI agents with native Ed25519 and a fixed 3 XRD per execution fee.
OTER relaunches idOS PoP portalOTER deployed its own issuer for the idOS Proof-of-Personhood portal after the original RDX Works one retired, supporting Radix-native wallet login.
GENKIPOOL ships Rust SDKGENKIPOOL released a Radix DLT Rust SDK on GitHub and offered to transfer ownership to the official Radix org.
GENKIPOOL ships AI-wallet MCPAn MCP integration pairing an AI agent with the Radix mobile wallet for reviewing and signing transactions, plus a Google Wallet proposal page.
From the dev room
xStelea's x402-Radix integration commit landed, with a Fable 5 spec-drift review already in motion; the dev room's main practical output this week was the contribution framework rather than new code.
Worth a click
Jargon, decoded
Permanent RAC — The seven-person council that will run the DAO once the Operating Agreement is ratified, separate from the current Foundation-era Transition RAC.
Marshall Islands application — The legal filing to register the Radix DAO as a formal entity in the Marshall Islands, the step after Foundation legal vetting of the OA.
The pulse
The mood: Tense and constructive — the paperwork is nearly done but the room is openly grappling with who will actually do the work of running a DAO.
The bottom line
Remember this
projectShift's blunt call for seven Permanent RAC candidates — the handover is now real, but the people to run it haven't surfaced.
Next week
Watch for: Marshall Islands filing status, the second half of Foundation grant release, and the first names stepping up for the Permanent RAC.
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Written by AI from the public community Telegram chat — may contain mistakes. Never financial advice. · generated 2026-07-13