Meeting Minutes February 25, 2026
Attendees:
Name
Attendance
Role
Voting Seat (Y/N)
Term
Kevin Hammond
Yes
Chair
Y
October 2026
TBC
No
Vice Chair
Y
October 2025
Bosko Majdanac
Yes
Secretary
N
N/A
Tex McCutcheon
Yes
Alt - Secretary
N
N/A
Nicolas Biri
Yes
Member/Seat
Y
April 2026
Duncan Coutts
Yes
Member/Seat
Y
April 2026
Sebastian Nagel
Yes
Member/Seat
Y
April 2026
Neil Davies
Yes
Member/Seat
Y
April 2026
Alexander Moser
Yes
Member/Seat
Y
April 2026
Ryan Wiley
Yes
Member/Seat
Y
October 2026
Udai Solanki
Yes
Member/Seat
Y
October 2026
Leandros Holleman
Yes
Member/Seat
Y
October 2026
Seungheon Oh
No
Member/Seat
Y
October 2026
Community/Other Attendees
Benjamin Hart
Gauthier Paluku
Ian Njuguna
Ken-Erik Ølmheim
Mike Hornan
Pedro Lucas
Ryan Williams
Recording: Technical Steering Committee - 2026/02/25 - Recording
Transcript: Technical Steering Committee - 2026/02/25 - Transcript
Chat Transcript: Technical Steering Committee - 2026/02/25 - Chat Transcript
Intros
Kevin: Kevin Hammond, Ensurable Systems, TSC Chair Ryan (Cerkoryn): Ryan Wiley, Cybersecurity Professional, TSC Voting Member Udai: Udai Solanki, member TSC , AIQUANT Tech Sebastian: Sebastian Nagel, Technical Architect, nCoding, IO Nicolas: Nicolas Biri, Director of Software Architecture, IO Group Bosko: Bosko Majdanac - Senior Project Manager, Intersect Staff, TSC Secretary
Agenda 02.25.26
Linear Leios Update
Actions from the Last Meeting
Update on 2030 Vision KPI's
Parameter Committee Updates
ccMinCommitteeSize passed to Civics Committee
Plutus V1/V2/V3 cost models to be considered
Hard Fork Updates
van Rossem status
future HF planning
Question from CPC about TVL
Constitution v2.4 Review
2026 TSC Operational Budget
April Elections
Number of Seats for Election 5 vs 6
Clarification on 2yr terms (if needed)
dRep compensation paper
AOB
Decisions/Actions
Decisions
KPI Publication: The committee agreed to make the TSC review of 2030 Vision KPI document public to stimulate community debate.
Elections Logic: Confirmed five seats are officially open for election in April; replacing the sixth vacant seat will be handled via a separate co-option or election process.
Constitutional Review: The committee moved to formalize a document listing the technical inconsistencies found in v2.4 to guide the "Version 3.0" revision.
Actions
Alexander: Publish the community post regarding the Stake Pool Operator (SPO) auto-abstain mechanism within 24 hours
Leandros: Incorporate feedback from the Product Committee into the KPI document by next week’s meeting
Kevin & Neil: Convene a dedicated session to draft the formal "Technical Concerns" statement regarding Constitution v2.4 for the Civics Committee
Bosko & Ryan Williams: Update the hard fork timeline diagram based on the two-week shift in node readiness and share the link on GitBook
Ryan WIley: Prepare the DRep compensation paper and the "off-chain process change request" proposal for detailed discussion next week
Sebastian: Organize a dedicated technical session for the TSC to dive deeper into Linear Leios risk management
Topic
Discussion
Notes
Linear Leios Update
Sebastian provided an update from the monthly review. Progress includes an EBS (Endorsement Block Services) relay prototype on a small network.
A key concern is the "tail end" of the protocol: data storage duration and endorsement dissemination.
Chain Growth Concerns
Sebastian noted that Linear Leios could lead to gigabytes of chain growth per week.
Current estimates suggest 150 GB of storage growth over six days, necessitating SSDs for latency.
Benchmarking Risks
Sebastian is worried that benchmarking for the Haskell ledger hasn't progressed enough to validate high transaction loads.
Risk mitigation is ongoing through simulations of network diffusion and ledger state creation.
Hard Fork Timeline
Node v10.7 is the candidate for Protocol Version 11. Mid-to-late May 2026 is the tentative hard fork enactment date.
10.6.2 was for testing Plutus primitives on SanchoNet but is not the final forking node.
Dijkstra (Next HF) Scope
The committee discussed starting a process to collect requirements for the "Dijkstra" hard fork.
Ryan presented a proof-of-concept for an on-chain survey via info actions to rank community CIP priorities.
2030 KPIs Review
Leandros presented the updated 2030 vision document, including protocol revenue, TVL, and chain density.
Discussion focused on positioning Cardano competitively against top-tier chains like Solana and Ethereum.
Chain Quality Metrics
Leandros and Sebastian debated "Chain Density" vs. "Chain Quality."
Neil suggested measuring "slack" on the happy path to see how much computation is wasted during failures.
Parameter Updates
Alexander reported that new Plutus cost models are being reviewed by the Parameter Committee, with a major meeting set for next Thursday.
The previously failed CC min-size parameter change is currently being coordinated with Intersect.
CC Size Strategy
Kevin noted feedback suggesting the community prefers increasing the number of committee members rather than lowering the minimum size.
The Civics Committee will decide whether to elect new members to reach a count of eight or nine.
Constitution v2.4 Audit
Kevin and Neil expressed frustration over the "messy" state of v2.4, citing a lack of clear diffs from v1.0.
Concerns include "accidental changes" where preamble text was moved into guardrails, changing legal interpretations.
TVL Definition
The Product Committee asked about including deposits and min-UTXO in the TVL definition.
The TSC viewed this as a marketing/positioning question rather than a purely technical one.
April 2026 Elections
Five seats are open for two-year terms. The committee discussed how to handle the sixth seat left vacant by a recent resignation.
Neil proposed co-opting the sixth-ranked candidate for the remainder of the vacant term.
TSC Budget Proposal
Bosko and Kevin will work on a Miro board this week to package operational work packages for the budget committee.
The final proposal template is due in two weeks.
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