Previously: the community prepared to mark Dan Hughes's first anniversary, debated website design, and voted on two temperature-check proposals for Stokenet operations and website migration.
A week of remembrance and quiet progress. The community honoured Dan Hughes on the first anniversary of his passing with warm tributes, while flightofthefox stunned the room by running eight full Hyperscale nodes inside a browser tab. Governance kept moving: two temperature checks advanced to formal governance proposals, and avaunt opened a new interoperability standards vote.
Messages / day
peak 62/day · most active: Timan | Astrolescent, Rockysan, Vlad B • ideomaker…
What the room talked about
Remembering Dan Hughes
On 27 July the community marked the first anniversary of Dan's passing. Seven urged everyone to carry Dan's vision forward, and Timan recalled Dan choosing beers and a cheap döner with Radix people over broader crypto-scene attention at a Barcelona conference.
driven by Seven, Timan | Astrolescent
Hyperscale runs eight nodes in a browser
Vlad B shared that flightofthefox compiled full Hyperscale nodes to WASM and ran eight across a multi-shard network in a single browser tab. Fox clarified genesis will start as a single shard with Babylon as root, and future splits will be governed by a configurable state-size threshold.
driven by Vlad B • ideomaker.com • foton.is • radi, flightofthefox (hyperscale.rs)
Two temperature checks advance to governance vote
Daffy announced that both temperature checks — Daffy's Stokenet operations and Timan's website migration — passed and are now lifted to formal Governance Proposals, calling the community to vote again on the consultation platform. Daffy also confirmed his back-pay proposal covers May–December 2026.
driven by Daffy, Andy.XRD
Avaunt pushes x402 and CAIP standards
avaunt proposed registering Radix in the CAIP namespaces registry and adding it to the x402 open payment standard, then opened a temperature-check vote. The consultation showed strong FOR support but still needed more participation to reach quorum by week's end.
driven by avaunt > Debix | Atomix | Bullring, GENKIPOOL
Council & insider watch
flightofthefox (hyperscale.rs)Hyperscale developer
Ran eight full Hyperscale nodes compiled to WASM in a browser tab, and clarified that genesis will launch as a single shard with Babylon as root, with future shard splits governed by a configurable state-size threshold.
Timan | AstrolescentCommunity contributor
Explained that RDX still holds Dan Hughes's estate XRD in PrimeVault, has fiat for running costs, and is building new non-DeFi products conceived with Dan. Also reported that GPT 5.6 can one-shot complex Scrypto code thanks to Scrypto being Rust-based and manifests being…
“I also think that Scrypto being rust based and manifests plain-text is making it a lot easier for LLMs to write solid implementations”
avaunt > Debix | Atomix | BullringRAC member
Proposed and opened a temperature-check vote to register Radix in the CAIP namespaces registry and add it to the x402 open payment standard. By Sunday he thanked voters for strong FOR support but noted it still needed to reach quorum.
Question of the week
“What will the initial shard and validator topology look like at Hyperscale launch?”
Genesis will be one shard with Babylon as the root shard. Future shard splits will be governed by a configurable state-size threshold per shard, not a fixed validator count.
asked by Anthony · answered by flightofthefox (hyperscale.rs)
Debate of the week — Foundation resource management
One side
Mr. Popo argued the treasury is drained by mismanagement and flightofthefox needs a team of engineers rather than working alone.
The other
Gary said there is plenty in the treasury, and flightofthefox said progress is going fine without a big team.
Still open — expect a rematch.
Heard in the room
“My fondest memory of Dan is from the conference in Barcelona two years ago… once he found a moment he just wanted to have some beers and a cheap döner with his Radix people.”
— Timan | Astrolescent
“But if we make it, we'll have one hell of a story to tell our grandkids 😄”
— Vlad B • ideomaker.com • foton.is • radi
“honest answer probably mixture of bad timing, marketing and also a market that has been driven more by speculation then real need for the technology... with the dawn of AI that might change...”
— foxylady
Prediction tracker
PendingDAO Marshall Islands filing after OA legal review
PendingMM contract ends mid-September, DAO needed by mid-August
NewHyperscale genesis launches as a single shard
Confirmed by flightofthefox during the browser demo discussion.
Pendingx402/CAIP temperature check reaches quorum
Avaunt reported strong FOR support but insufficient participation as of Sunday.
Around the ecosystem
VIBOLTO launches on RadixA new sports-betting platform went live on Radix with more features planned, trading its VBT token via RSwap.
Proposal vs RFP terminology clarifiedDoelle_Doeck explained that an RFP is the DAO reaching outward for bids, while a community-placed proposal should simply be called a Proposal or Community Proposal.
Worth a click
Jargon, decoded
CAIP namespaces registry — A cross-chain standard registry that gives each blockchain a consistent identity so wallets and dApps can recognise it regardless of platform.
x402 payment standard — An open payment protocol that lets web services charge for content or API access using cryptocurrency, inspired by the original HTTP 402 status code.
WASM — WebAssembly — a binary instruction format that lets code written in languages like Rust run inside a web browser at near-native speed.
The pulse
The mood: Reflective and quietly hopeful — the community honoured Dan's memory with warmth while concrete governance and technical progress kept the handover moving forward.
The bottom line
Remember this
flightofthefox ran eight full Hyperscale nodes in a browser tab — the most tangible proof yet that sharded Radix can actually run.
Next week
Watch for: the x402/CAIP temperature check reaching quorum, and Muanprotocol's relaunch with non-custodial snapshot voting.
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Written by AI from the public community Telegram chat — may contain mistakes. Never financial advice. · generated 2026-08-03