Meeting Minutes May 20, 2026
Attendees:
Name
Attendance
Role
Voting Seat (Y/N)
Term
Kevin Hammond
Yes
Chair
Y
October 2026
TBC
No
Vice Chair
Y
October 2026
Bosko Majdanac
Yes
Secretary
N
N/A
Tex McCutcheon
No
Alt - Secretary
N
N/A
Marcin Szamotulski
Yes
Member/Seat
Y
April 2028
Alonzo Benavides
Yes
Member/Seat
Y
April 2028
Neil Davies
No
Member/Seat
Y
April 2028
Alexander Moser
Yes
Member/Seat
Y
April 2028
Christian Taylor
Yes
Member/Seat
Y
April 2028
Ryan Wiley
Yes
Member/Seat
Y
October 2026
Udai Solanki
No
Member/Seat
Y
October 2026
Leandros Holleman
Yes
Member/Seat
Y
October 2026
Seungheon Oh
No
Member/Seat
Y
October 2026
Community/Other Attendees
Lorenzo Bruno
Thiago Nunes
Thomas Lindseth
Wilco van de Burgwal
Chat Transcript: Technical Steering Committee - 2026/05/20 - Chat Transcript
Agenda 20th May 2026
Actions from the last meeting
TSC Proposal Feedback
Providing TSC Feedback on Ekklesia Proposals
van Rossem Hard Fork
Two repositories transferred to Intersect
Post Quantum Crypto (Standing Item)
Parameter Committee
CC Member Nomination
Upcoming Event: Node Diversity workshop in Porto: June 2-3
AOB
Decisions/Actions
Decisions
Guidance for DReps: Approved the principle of publishing the 6-point evaluation framework checklist to assist DReps, rather than reviewing individual technical proposals.
Format for Quantum Session: Decided to host the upcoming post-quantum crypto session as an open, 1-hour community workshop rather than a standard, restricted TSC meeting item.
Pre-Prod Recommendation Criteria: Established that the Hard Fork Working Group will only recommend the Pre-Prod fork if the Ogmios upgrade PR is fully out of draft status by the epoch boundary.
Actions
Kevin: Revise the TSC Ekklesia budget proposal by Friday noon to explicitly include the community-requested transparency and conflict of interest guidelines.
Alonzo & New Members: Review the CC minimum size rationale metadata document prepared by Ryan and comment on Slack.
Marcin, Alonzo, & Alexander: Check email inboxes to accept the pending ClickUp workspace invitations sent via Intersect.
Alonzo: Coordinate with Terence and Bosko to update and sync his official member profile email address for private Slack channel access.
Ryan: Invite Rich Mandarino to join tomorrow's Parameter Committee meeting as an observer for the K parameter adjustment debate.
Topic
Discussion
Notes
Meeting Leadership
Kevin announced he must leave after 30 minutes to present the maintenance proposal to Cardano Over Coffee. The committee agreed to a decentralized, "self-chairing" approach for the second half.
Bosko acted as a facilitator to keep the meeting aligned with the pre-defined agenda.
CC Nominations & CIP-182
Leandros discussed his candidacy for the Constitutional Committee (CC). Alexander introduced SIP-182 (Optimistic Constitutionality), which explores treating non-votes as passive "Yes" votes.
Ryan and Leandros noted that utilizing a script to auto-delegate CC hotkeys is more secure than changing ledger defaults.
Post-Quantum Presentation
Kevin received a positive response from Hamza regarding a post-quantum risk presentation. Christian and Kevin are following up on potential speakers.
The presentation will be structured as a dedicated public workshop in 3–4 weeks.
Ecosystem CPS Review
Kevin emphasized that all members, particularly new ones, must review CPS-27 and CPS-30 to familiarize themselves with post-quantum cryptography problem definitions.
Alexander noted that CPS-30 provides a clearer problem breakdown than CPS-27.
TSC Budget Proposal
The committee reviewed community feedback on the TSC Ecclesia proposal. The feedback requested explicit conflict of interest rules, reviewer criteria, and public reports.
The deadline to finalize and submit revisions on Ecclesia is Friday, May 22nd, at 12:00 PM Noon.
Ekklesia Proposal Advice
The Intersect Steering Committee asked if the TSC could provide technical evaluations for the 92 submitted proposals to guide DReps.
The committee expressed concern over the high workload and low ROI for a shallow review process.
DRep Guidance Criteria
Kevin drafted a 6-point checklist to help DReps evaluate proposals objectively without the TSC endorsing specific projects.
The criteria cover public good status, team track record, milestones, cost, roadmap fit, and security.
Hard Fork & Ogmios Status
Bosko provided an update from the Hard Fork Working Group. Ogmios readiness remains the critical path bottleneck for the Pre-Prod hard fork.
John Latuski and Eric de Castro (IOG) are drafting PRs, which are currently being reviewed by Matthias.
Pre-Prod Cutoff Timeline
If the Ogmios PR is not finalized by tomorrow's Pre-Prod boundary, the Pre-Prod fork will be delayed, subsequently impacting the planned May 29th Mainnet governance submission.
Node 11.2.5 adoption among SPOs has progressed to 33% according to PoolTool data.
DB-Sync Discrepancy
Alexander and Bosko noted a bug where DB-Sync version 13.7.0.5 fails to track the entirety of Epoch 631.
IOG and integration teams are working on a resolution script.
Repository Transfers
Marcin announced the transfer of two basic, non-Cardano-specific IOG network libraries (io-sim and typed-protocols) to Intersect.
These libraries focus on testing and type-safe network protocols.
Parameter Committee Preview
Alexander previewed the upcoming Parameter Committee meeting, highlighting a highly anticipated debate on increasing the K parameter.
Ryan shared a custom Dune Analytics dashboard collating incentive data to support the debate.
Porto Tech Workshop
Bosko shared details for an upcoming technical workshop in Porto, Portugal, from June 2–3. Free accommodation is available via the Amaru team.
Committee members traveling to the event must coordinate with Damian on Discord.
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