Previously: the Permanent RAC recruitment crisis ended with seven candidates stepping forward, the DAO paperwork awaited Foundation legal review, and debates over paid proposals and contributor vetting kept simmering.
A week of grassroots momentum and governance tinkering. LRB85's community-built website and dashboard drew both praise and fierce design critique, two proposals entered temperature check, and the room prepared to mark the first anniversary of Dan Hughes's passing with warmth and reverence.
Messages / day
peak 68/day · most active: LRB85, djtrebel, gilesmorris
What the room talked about
Community website divides the room
LRB85 built a full Radix website and explorer from scratch, but the design split opinions: foxylady and Kafkafrate called it cluttered and generic, while LRB85 defended it as information-rich for institutions. djtrebel proposed dropping the costly Webflow subscription and migrating to Cloudflare as a first step, and a migration proposal was teed up for a…
driven by LRB85, Kafkafrate, foxylady
Two RFPs enter temperature check
Daffy's Stokenet operations proposal and Timan's website migration proposal both opened for temperature-check voting. tomsnn urged the community to engage and vote to demonstrate real support, while foxylady questioned whether temperature checks add value or just cause voter fatigue.
driven by tomsnn, Doelle_Doeck, foxylady
Social media handover to FarahXRD
Andyxrd proposed bringing back FarahXRD to manage Foundation social channels as an interim bridge until the DAO launches. After some discussion about payment transparency, Farah agreed to do it free of charge, with community-submitted posts vetted against Foundation guidelines.
driven by Andyxrd, FarahXRD, projectShift
Remembering Dan Hughes
As the 29 July anniversary of Dan Hughes's passing approached, sonotopia, djtrebel and ProphetCantex shared warm memories over Kraken rum. djtrebel recalled Dan's wish to involve the community more in development, calling him 'spicy with a little bit of sweetness.'
driven by sonotopia, djtrebel, ProphetCantex
Council & insider watch
projectShift endorsed the interim social media plan, pushed for transparent disclosure of any compensation, and reminded the community that stepping up with proposals is effective training for the DAO. He also posted governance materials in the RAC channel and asked for them to be pinned in main chat.
AndyxrdRAC
Proposed bringing FarahXRD back to manage Foundation social channels on an interim basis until the DAO launches; confirmed Farah agreed to do it free of charge after payment-transparency concerns were raised.
projectShiftRAC
Endorsed the social media transition plan, called for transparent disclosure of any compensation, and reminded the community that submitting proposals and voting is real DAO training.
“This community is perhaps finally realizing that instead of just asking/demanding/claiming that 'this and that' should happen, it needs actual ppl to step up, make a proposal and get it approved”
FarahXRDCommunity / ex-Foundation staf
Accepted the interim social media role, suggested using a form or dedicated Telegram group to collect community post submissions, and agreed to do the work free of charge.
LRB85Community contributor
Built a community Radix website and explorer from scratch, defended its information-rich design against critics, raised concerns about payment transparency for Farah's social media role, and celebrated 9,600 views on a Reddit post about Radix.
“I created the website because someone on radixtalk suggested making the radix website from scratch, and the idea is that in the future the website will be the official Radix website”
Question of the week
“What's the best way to buy XRD with BTC, and is a direct swap possible through a DEX?”
A direct BTC-to-XRD swap isn't available; the recommended route is swapping USDC (ETH) to USDH (Radix) via nexus.hyperlane.xyz, then swapping USDH for XRD on CaviarNine or Astrolescent. DEX aggregators like caviar.io may offer better value.
asked by SV_3N · answered by gilesmorris
Debate of the week — Radix website clarity vs depth
One side
The website should be clean and targeted: foxylady, Kafkafrate and Perer argued it is overloaded with buzzwords, lacks character and confuses newcomers.
The other
Depth serves institutions: LRB85 and Flor_182 defended the information-rich approach as appropriate for an institutional audience that wants substance.
open — djtrebel proposed a website migration RFP as a practical first step, now in temperature check.
Heard in the room
“Hughesy was a mad captain, but he was our captain. He just got the steering wheel back. One wonders where we would have took us.”
— ProphetCantex
“It's spicy with a little bit of sweetness. Like Dan 😛”
— djtrebel
“Issue isn't tech, it's adoption, nobody's working on adoption, lots of people working on tech”
— philcgibson
Prediction tracker
PendingDAO Marshall Islands filing after OA legal review
No update this week; Andyxrd previously signalled mid-August deadline.
PendingAndroid wallet unstaking bug fix ships this week
No explicit confirmation this week, though LRB85 shared an Android wallet PR.
PendingMM contract ends mid-September, DAO needed by mid-August
Andyxrd referenced the DAO launching in roughly a month, consistent with mid-August.
Came trueConsultation v2 vote takes place this weekend
Two proposals entered temperature check over the weekend.
Around the ecosystem
Community dashboard goes liveLRB85 launched a community-built Radix dashboard and explorer on mainnet, built from scratch after a RadixTalk suggestion.
Hyperscale sharding FAQ comparisonplstagme shared a new page comparing hyperscale-rs architecture against Vitalik Buterin's classic sharding FAQ, still relevant nearly a decade later.
Two proposals in temperature checkDaffy's Stokenet operations proposal and Timan's Webflow-to-Cloudflare website migration proposal both opened for community temperature-check voting.
Foundation 2026 strategy postThe Foundation's official blog post on the 2026 strategy and community transition was shared for those seeking context on the handover.
From the dev room
LRB85 shared two GitHub PRs — a Babylon Android wallet PR and a Sargon PR — while magal36 requested vote-delegation support in the Mountain Top consultation dApp for hardware-wallet users, which djtrebel committed to adding.
Worth a click
Jargon, decoded
Temperature Check (TC) — A preliminary community vote to gauge support before a proposal goes to a binding governance vote.
ROLA — Radix's off-ledger authentication: proving control of an on-chain identity to a dApp without making a transaction.
Stokenet — Radix's testnet environment where developers and the community can experiment without using real funds.
The pulse
The mood: Productive and bittersweet — grassroots builders shipped real things, governance ticked forward, and the room remembered Dan Hughes with genuine warmth as the anniversary approached.
The bottom line
Remember this
Two community RFPs are in live temperature-check voting — the first real test of whether the community can surface, debate and approve its own proposals.
Next week
Watch for: temperature-check results on the Stokenet and website migration proposals, and the Dan Hughes anniversary on 29 July.
Links
Written by AI from the public community Telegram chat — may contain mistakes. Never financial advice. · generated 2026-07-27