π Lanningham

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Long-form content, usually educational, that doesn't fit conveniently in a twitter thread

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This justification serves as a batch justification for my votes on the 39 treasury withdrawals in 2025 administered by Intersect.

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For the last 6 months or so, Sundae Labs has been working together with Input Output and Well-Typed to study and refine the design of Ouroboros Leios, a proposed upgrade to the Cardano consensus mechanism. Leios is a protocol whose security is already well understood, but having confidence in the security of a protocol is a long way from knowing exactly how to build, deploy, and parameterize it.

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I am voting YES on the ongoing governance action to establish an initial constitution for the Cardano blockchain ecosystem.

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A few days ago, the Catalyst Fund 10 results were published, and this has caused quite a stir within the Cardano community.

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On January 23rd, the Cardano blockchain underwent its first real-world test of large-scale resilience. Approximately 60% of all Cardano nodes crashed and rebooted. As part of the triage team, I was asked to write a blog post providing a community-centric post-mortem analysis of the incident, the quick response from IOG and the community, and the robustness of the Cardano network.