The Signal

Welcome to Intersect update #112

In what is a busy and fast-moving period across Cardano, with multiple governance, technical, and operational workstreams progressing in parallel from upgrade coordination and budget voting preparation to Constitutional Committee elections and working group activity, there’s a lot happening across the ecosystem all at once.

One of the goals of these weekly updates is to help break that activity down into something more accessible, highlighting what’s moving, what’s coming next, and where the community can get involved.
This week’s update looks ahead at several important milestones approaching over the coming weeks, and the coordination efforts continuing behind the scenes to help support them – read on:

Contributors: Bosko M, Kevin H, Hard Fork Working Group, Parameter Committee, Intersect Technical Steering Committee

Cardano upgrades

The van Rossem upgrade program continues progressing through staged rollout activities, though ecosystem readiness discussions this week increasingly focused on the risk of schedule pressure around critical tooling dependencies. Coordination efforts remain concentrated on minimizing disruption while maintaining ecosystem stability and integration confidence ahead of Mainnet governance actions.

: Node v11.0.1 remains the mandatory upgrade path for infrastructure providers to successfully transition through the Protocol Version 11 hard fork boundary. Ecosystem discussions this week centered on ensuring dependent tooling and services can complete upgrades in time to support the broader rollout sequence.

: Discussions this week focused on a recently identified and resolved DB-Sync issue affecting synchronization stability under certain upgrade scenarios. While compatibility with node v11.0.1 remains in place, additional validation and soak time were deemed necessary before progressing further with the hard fork rollout.

: ing the latest Hard Fork Working Group discussions, the previously targeted Mainnet governance action submission timeline is expected to shift in order to accommodate additional ecosystem readiness work and critical tooling validation. The group aligned on delaying progression being preferable to risking instability, particularly while dependencies such as Ogmios readiness and related integration confirmations remain unresolved. The revised sequencing continues prioritizing ecosystem stability, operational confidence, and sufficient soak time across Preview and PreProd before proceeding toward Mainnet enactment.

Plutus cost models: Plutus Cost model parameter update governance action is due to be submitted on mainnet on May 22.

Operational aspect: The Hard Fork Working Group continues meeting twice weekly to maintain coordination across wallets, infrastructure providers, exchanges, tooling teams, and node integrators as rollout sequencing progresses through Preview and PreProd stages.

has been collaboratively maintained during the working group calls to better reflect overall ecosystem preparedness.

In Memory of Max van Rossem:
“…Max was also a cardano builder. Through AdaMoments and finally Moments, he pursued a singular vision: that individuals should own their digital signal, their identity, and their story. “User data = User’s data” was not a slogan for him. It was a principle he defended in code, in governance, and in every conversation…”

Contributors: Thomas L, Ian H, Larisa McF, Intersect, Civics Committee

Constitutional Committee election updates

The Constitutional Committee candidate registration period is open now, and

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