# Meeting Minutes January 14, 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 | No | Member/Seat | Y | April 2026 | | Sebastian Nagel | Yes | Member/Seat | Y | April 2026 | | Neil Davies | Yes | Member/Seat | Y | April 2026 | | Alexander Moser | No | Member/Seat | Y | April 2026 | | 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 * Christian Taylor * Niamh Ahern * Fergie Miller **Recording:** [Technical Steering Committee - 2026/01/14 - Recording](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y9fQTiLoKwZQXMyc0lLukB-AAWJwp0cm/view?usp=sharing) **Transcript:** [Technical Steering Committee - 2026/01/14 08:29 CST - Transcript](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Slyp9TeWEcDAMeSOOmaZjxKFXII8VzXFGENpVGtVxXU/edit?usp=sharing) **Chat Transcript:** [Technical Steering Committee - 2026/01/14 - Chat Transcript](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IO07k6wE65kTpibvwwDclg4MOoTcX7TG/view?usp=sharing) ## Intros Kevin: Kevin Hammond, TSC chair, Ensurable Systems\ Leo: Developer\@KeyPackt/AnetaV2/GenWealth single pool SPO, CEO LnLlabs, TSC member\ Neil: TSC, Network Params, PNSol Ltd\ Nicolas: Nicolas Biri, TSC voting member, Director of Software Architecture, IOG.\ Ryan: Ryan Wiley, TSC Voting Member, Cybersecurity Professional\ Sebastian: Sebastian Nagel, TSC voting member, Software Architect, nCoding, IOE\ Bosko: Bosko Majdanac - Senior Project Manager, Intersect Staff, TSC Secretary\ Tex: Terence "Tex" McCutcheon - Open Source Program Manager, Intersect Staff, OSC Secretary, Committee Liaison\ Christian: Christian Taylor, Head of OSO/ Incubation, Intersect and a guy who pretends to know what he's doing regularly ## Agenda 01.14.26 * Actions from the last meeting * Chain Incident Partition Report * Hard Fork Update (van Rossem) * Presentation on increasing k to 1,000 * TSC Operational Budget * Security Incident Office Appointed * 2030 Vision * IOR 2025 EOY Report * AOB ## Decisions/Actions **Decisions** * Closure of Working Group: The Technical Steering Committee formally voted to close the Chain Incident Working Group as the report is now finalized. * Product Committee Representation: The group decided not to send the full TSC to the 90-minute Product Committee meeting; instead, a smaller representative group (Neil, Leandro, Kevin, Nicolas, and Ryan) will attend. * Hard Fork Naming: The name "van Rossem" was confirmed and the info action has been submitted on-chain. * Report Finalization: Version 0.5 of the Chain Incident Report (dated the previous Friday) was approved as the final factual version, with no further changes to be made by the TSC. * Security Appointment: Mike was officially appointed and onboarded as the Security Incident Response Officer. **Actions** * Kevin: Follow up with Alex via Slack to confirm if the blog post regarding the Constitution Committee size has been published. * Kevin: Apply additional pressure to the Intersect Executive and Board to ensure the timely release of the Chain Incident Report. * Ryan: Perform detailed mathematical analysis on how much stake needs to move to smaller pools to make them viable under the proposed K=1,000 change. * Kevin: Schedule a "pre-meeting" for the TSC small group to align on KPI criticisms before the joint session with the Product Committee next Tuesday. * TSC Members: Download and save a PDF copy of the finalized Chain Incident Report (v0.5) for personal records to ensure no unauthorized changes are made during the legal review. * TSC Members: Review the 2025 Foundational Research and Technology Validation reports provided by Fergie and provide feedback by January 23rd. * Nicolas: Act as the primary proxy/point of contact for any technical questions regarding the IOG research papers. * Kevin: Organize a separate session to progress the TSC Operational Budget proposal * Bosko: Reconcile calendars to potentially move the Hard Fork Working Group meeting time to better align with IO's internal node meetings. | Topic | Discussion | Notes | | --------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | Action Items Review | Bosko reviewed status of previous actions. Blog post regarding constitution committee size is still open (waiting on Alex). | Kevin to follow up with Alex on Slack. | | Product Committee Alignment | Discussion on aligning the 2030 vision with 2026 goals. A 90-minute joint session is scheduled for next Tuesday. | Group decided to delegate a small subset (Neil, Leandro, Kevin, Nicolas, Ryan) to attend rather than the full TSC. | | Chain Incident Report | The factual report on the recent network incident was finalized Friday (v0.5). Neil expressed "paranoia" and frustration that the Board is requiring legal approval before publication. | Action: Members to keep private PDF copies. Kevin to apply pressure on the Executive/Board for timely release. Working Group is formally closed. | | Hard Fork Update | Update on node v10.7 release candidate, which includes Prometheus features for SPOs. Targeting a possible Q1 hard fork. | Info action for "Van Rossem" name submitted on-chain. Node RC expected in 2–3 weeks. | | Plutus Cost Models | Kevin confirmed with Ryan (Williams) that cost model settings can be updated ahead of the hard fork event. | Parameters to be presented to the Parameter Committee on Jan 15. | | Parameter K to 1,000 | Ryan presented benefits of increasing K (Nakamoto coefficient, pledge viability). Neil challenged the assumption that it automatically helps struggling small pools. | Ryan to provide more detailed arithmetic/math on stake movement for the next meeting. | | Min Pool Cost Reduction | Ryan proposed lowering minPoolCost from 170 to 75 ADA to prevent delegator rewards from being eaten by the "first block tax" as rewards decrease. | Long-term solution: Moving toward SIP-23 (min pool margin) in the Dykstra hard fork (v12). | | 2030 Vision & KPIs | Leandro shared a document criticizing existing KPIs, noting they don't necessarily correspond to sustainability or technical reality. | Action: Kevin to schedule a small group meeting before next Tuesday to refine the TSC's stance on these metrics. | | 2025 Research Reports | Fergie presented end-of-year reports for Foundational Research and Tech Validation. 24 papers were published in 2025 (20% over target). | Community feedback on reports is open until Jan 23. Nicolas to act as proxy for technical research questions. | | Security Appointment | Christian announced that Mike has been onboarded as the Security Incident Response Officer this week. | Mike will take the lead on SecOps and support the Security Council. | | TSC Operational Budget | Kevin discussed the need for a formal budget to support TSC operations. General support from the Intersect Steering Committee. | Kevin to organize an outbound meeting to define budget specifics before his upcoming absence. |