23rd July 2026
Agenda
Action items from the last call - Bosko
Van Rossem Upgrade Update - Bosko, Sam, Can
Enacted on 18th July with ~10 mins gap before the first block
SRE & Engineering is closely monitoring the network behavior, especially on the epoch boundary
Dijkstra era hard fork - Bosko, all
Hard fork naming
Motion of naming it after Alexander Esgen, with adding In Memoriam section to eternalize others who sadly passed away in recent months/years
CIP 179 - Tesera application - Ryan C
AOB
Key materials
Summary
van Rossem hard fork
SRE team and engineering teams re-confirmed that they are on standby for at least one epoch to observe whether there will be any issue similar to what happened on the van Rossem enactment epoch boundary
Technical Steering Committee shared their insights on potential causes
Dijkstra Era hard fork
Scope
Sam Leathers from the Product Committee gave a transparent walkthrough of the Dijkstra hard fork phased rollout plan which opened the way to a good discussion on whats possible within the designated time frame of October 2026 for code completion of Dijkstra era hard fork (primary activation target are nested transactions)
Phased rollout plan also lists 2 subsequent intra-era hard forks, one in Q1 2027, one in Q2 2027, where they would activate Ouroboros linear Leios and Ouroboros Peras respectivelly
Hard Fork working group was informed of that the team behing Dingo node already implemented CIP-23 and CIP-50
Sebastian will reach out to Dingo and Amaru nodes teams to assess their scoping and future hard fork readiness around the discussed timelines
Potential constitutional changes, both technical and social are carefully considered by the hard fork working group to properly asses their anticipated impact on the timeline
Haskell node team product manager Carlos will attend the next parameter committee call in 3 weeks to further discuss that impact
Timing
The plan for having the first (out of anticipated three hard forks enacted by the end of 2026) remains ambitious which subsequently limits the scope discussion
Prioritization & process
Kevin, Sam and Ryan (Cerkoryn) are continuing the work in order to have meaningful and impactful process for community participation in defining the scope of any future hard forks post first one in Dijkstra era
Next hard fork naming - motion
Motion of "naming the hard fork after Alexander Esgen, with adding In Memoriam section to eternalize others who sadly passed away in recent months/years" took place with 14 attendees voicing their support for it and 1 who didnt vote
Consequential expectation is that there is going to be an info action for naming it Esgen hard fork submitted and that all other respected community members who passed away in recent months/years will be eternalized in the In Memoriam section of the governance action
Hard Fork Working group continued to discuss future naming options and how to avoid potential challenges over naming as, unfortunately, there are too many candidate names for too few hard forks
Hard Fork Working Group meetings will continue to happen twice a week, until at least the Dijkstra hard fork scope is set, after which the future meeting cadence will be decided
Hard Fork Working Group communication channels
Discord —
#wg-hard-fork
Action items and next steps
Carlos: Attend the next parameter committee call in 3 weeks to further discuss the impact on constitution and parameters for the Dijkstra era hard fork
Sebastian: Reach out to Dingo and Amaru nodes teams to assess their scoping and future hard fork readiness around the discussed timelines
Geoff: Attend the Technical Steering Committee meeting on 29th July to present the scope for Dijkstra and plans for delivery
Kevin/Sam L/Ryan C W: Draft the decision making and prioritization process for future hard forks
Bosko: Continue creating supporting structure and relevant documentation within the hard fork working group GitBook space under Technical Steering Committee
Tex: Create ecosystem dependency mapping document(s)
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