Hard Fork Working Group
Purpose
The Hard Fork working group supports one of Intersect's core pillars: Orchestrate delivery of the community-approved Cardano Roadmap.
The working group is focussed on the facilitation of the Chang upgrade and associated developments, oversee and coordinate issues relating to hard forks, and report status and progress to the Technical Steering Committee (TSC) and the wider Intersect membership. The working group aspires to have representation from all stakeholders required to enable a hard fork; from builders, stake-pool-operators, exchanges, as well as members and the broader community.
Why
The Voltaire era of Cardano will provide the final pieces required for the Cardano network to become a self-sustaining system. In order to move to this technology, the Cardano blockchain needs to go through a significant upgrade, this is achieved through a process called a hard fork.
The working group has then been formed to oversee and facilitate the process required to do this upgrade.
Related committee
Intersect - Technical Steering Committee
Working group lead
Matt Davis - Lead (Intersect Technical Operations Lead), Lewis Mayne -Deputy (Intersect Technical Assurance)
Working group members
An initial cohort has been invited into the hard fork working group, it is anticipated this will expand as the window for the hard fork approaches:
Adam Dean (Community)
Abhik Nag (Intersect Community Manager)
Danielle Stanko (Constitution and Civics Committee)
David Clarke (Cardano Foundation)
Duncan Soutar (Intersect Technical Steering Committee)
Karl Knutsson (Cardano Foundation, Networking)
Kevin Hammond (IOI Engineering lead)
Kristian Kowalsky (Tweag)
Leonard Hegarty (IOI Delivery lead)
Maric Mahunt (Blockfrost)
Matthew Capps (IOG Communications)
Martin Lang (SPO)
Michal Petro (Vacuum Labs)
Michael Madoff (Constitution and Civics Committee)
Miten Gohil (Intersect Technical Analyst)
Pi Langham (Sundea Swap)
Rick McCracken (Security)
Ronald Span (Dquadrant)
Ruslan Dudin (EMURGO)
Ryan Williams (Wallets Working Group/Intersect)
Sam Leathers (IOI Head of Product)
Sandip Pandey (Dquadrant)
Tim Richmond (Intersect Communications Lead)
Who will participate in this working group?
To ensure the process is well-considered representation will be sought from the key hard fork continuity suppliers, exchanges, SPOs and dApps, as well as representation from the Intersect membership.
If you would like to participate in the hard fork working group please email one of the working group leads listed above.
Working group objective / desired outcome
How will the working group achieve its goals?
The working group will meet with an increasing cadence until the criteria for a hard fork are met. The first condition is to have a node which has all the required new features available. A full list of dependencies are listed and updated with progress on the knowledge base link below.
The hard fork working group are directly updating the following main Intersect knowledge base spaces:
Please note the above pages of the knowledge base will be updated more frequently then this working group page. The working group aspires to work in the open after meetings the above pages are usually updated within 24 working hours.
Learn more and get involved
Regular updates will be provided to Intersect members on the progress of hard fork-related activity, through the TSC, then followed by public updates.
Release notes for Cardano node versions can be found here:
https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-node/releases
Latest system test updates can be found here: https://tests.cardano.intersectmbo.org/test_results/requirements/chang_user_stories_system_tests.html#
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