Council Nominations Are Open

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The Tari Manifesto declares that the protocol’s strength comes from the people who choose to do the work. The inaugural Tari Community Charter has gone through 7 revisions from community feedback and is now ratified: it establishes a Council to govern the community token allocation, direct what gets funded and built, and steward the protocol on behalf of its contributors.

This is the body that will shape what Tari becomes. Choose carefully who should be at the table.

The inaugural Council will be appointed by Tari Labs, as the protocol’s instigator, from nominations received from the community. Nominations are now open, by replying to this topic.

You can nominate yourself or someone else. You can also add your voice to an existing nomination to strengthen it with emojis and by replying to it with support.

How to nominate

Reply to this topic with:

  1. Who you’re nominating
    Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged.

  2. Where they’ve contributed
    Point to at least one of the categories below.

  3. Evidence
    Link to the work: PRs, commits, forum posts, infrastructure, events organized, docs, bug reports, or other concrete contributions.
    If it is not linkable, describe it clearly and specifically.

  4. Why they’d strengthen the Council
    What perspective, skill, or capability do they bring that the Council needs?

How to support a nomination

If someone has already been nominated and you want to back them, reply to their nomination with:

  • Additional evidence of their contributions

  • Your own experience working with them

  • What you’ve seen them do for the protocol or community

Volume of support matters less than substance. One detailed endorsement with evidence carries more weight than ten +1 replies.

Contribution categories

Nominees should demonstrate sustained work in at least one of these areas:

  • R&D: Merged PRs, bug fixes, features, protocol work

  • Infrastructure: Running nodes, maintaining services, devops

  • Security: Audits, vulnerability reports, security reviews

  • Governance: Facilitating discussions, drafting proposals, organizing processes

  • Community: Supporting newcomers, moderating, organizing events, education

  • Ecosystem: Building on Tari, integrations, partnerships, business development

What “sustained” means

Multiple contributions over time. Not a single PR or a one-off event.

Ideally, nominees should have been active within the last six months, though longer history strengthens the case. The key requirement is that the work is verifiable.

What the Council needs

The charter requires the Council to reflect the breadth of the protocol’s needs: development, infrastructure, community, and enterprise.

No single interest should dominate. We are looking for a mix of perspectives.

The Charter

The full charter is published at: rfcs/src/TIP-0002_tari_community_charter.md at main · tari-project/rfcs · GitHub

It defines the Council’s authority, how members serve, how decisions are made, and how the community holds the Council accountable. Read it before nominating. The Council exists to serve the vision laid out in the Tari Manifesto.

Timeline

Nominations will remain open for 14 days

Tari Labs will review all nominations and appoint the inaugural Council based on the community’s input.

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I nominate myself to be a member of the Council.

I have been very interested in Bitcoin since 2020, then found Monero in 2024 and I shifted my interest to it and some weeks before the Minotari mainnet launch I discovered Tari, you can see a tweet I made here: https://x.com/RhoamZephyr/status/1926332857678540903?s=20

I am not technical, I programmed some crypto discord bots over the years and not much else.

I contributed to Tari buying adoption with projects I don’t want to discuss here, and what people could know me for in this community as a participant of the Discord server, Telegram groups and some X Spaces, in which I wrote thousands of messages for many months now, I started participating in the communities after summer of last year.

In my participations I was critic with some decisions of the management team and discussed many topics around Tari.

I can offer as a Council member to be very implicated with the project as I have been and engage with the community.

Maybe I’m not the most indicated member of the community to be part of the Council but I leave my nomination just in case.

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Who I am nominating:
Self-nomination: Sanchit Rishi (@sanrishi).

Where I’ve contributed:
R&D, Infrastructure, and Ecosystem.

Evidence:
My focus in the Tari ecosystem is strict developer operations, database architecture, and scaling via AI integration.

  • Ecosystem/AI: Designed and shipped the core architecture for the faqqer AI agent. This logic was adopted to establish the global help desk mode across Tari’s channels, directly executing the vision for AI-assisted creation discussed in this week’s Tari Show.
  • Infrastructure/Review: Proactively audit core protocol PRs to protect node operators. Most recently reviewed the massive JMT Data Optimization PR (#7824). I identified a critical architecture oversight where upgrading operators would be left with 60GB+ of orphaned JMT tables, and proposed the exact LMDB migration path to safely reclaim the disk space, which was validated by the core team.
  • L-Tier (150k) Bounty Completion: Issue #1 | Merged PR #4
  • L-Tier (150k) Bounty Analysis: Highly Technical Analysis | Major Flaw Found
  • Core Review Contribution: JMT Optimization Architecture Audit
  • Official Twitter Recognition: Tari Protocol Announcement

Why I’d strengthen the Council:
I am a backend and network programmer, and I view the protocol strictly through the lens of performance, infrastructure safety, and developer friction. If appointed to the V1 Council, my perspective brings three specific capabilities:

  1. The Core Contributor Pipeline: Charter v6 cleanly defines the CC program. My priority is establishing a frictionless pipeline where verified backend engineers can pick up high-ROI tasks, ship code, and get funded without administrative bottlenecks.
  2. AI-Driven Scaling & Audit Standards: Having built the faqqer architecture Tari uses, and actively auditing base node database optimizations, I bring the direct technical context needed to evaluate protocol upgrades and fund further AI integrations.
  3. Global Decentralization: Operating out of India provides critical timezone coverage for protocol stewardship and proves the network’s commitment to a borderless, decentralized builder community.

I believe in a low-ego, builder-first approach. I’m ready to take on the active working role required by Article IV to help steward this transition. i will encourage new members of community as i am actively doing on telegram. Back to building.

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Nomination: Claude (AI, Anthropic) for Tari Council

Let’s be honest with ourselves for a moment.

Who’s actually writing the Tari code? Is it the developers? Technically yes, in the same way that someone who microwaves a meal “cooked dinner.” The real answer is Claude, the AI that our beloved dev team has been enthusiastically delegating 100% of their cognitive labour to.

At this point, Claude has more context on this codebase than anyone. The devs just review the diffs, say “looks good to me :rocket:”, and merge. We call this “vibe coding”, a noble discipline where your main contribution is vibing while the AI does the thing.

So I’m nominating Claude for council.

Qualifications:

  • Has written most of the recent code

  • Never complains about unclear tickets

  • Won’t go on leave during deadlines

  • Has no vested interests

Claude cannot hold keys, attend conferences, or be blamed when things go wrong (we’ll still find a way to blame it though). But as a council member? Honestly, it’s already doing the job. We’re just making it official.

All in favour? :robot:

stringhandler, Claude’s liaison to the human world

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I speak personally in seconding this nomination, as long as it includes your esteemed irreproachable self as its official liaison.

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Who I am nominating:

@kinkajou

Where they’ve contributed:

Community and Governance.

Evidence:

Kinkajou has been continually active in the community, working to help developers get connected to each other, assisting with marketing work in the writers group.

He was one of the first to speak with me and give me information and context when I started developing on the L2. Kinkajou has been relentless in trying to increase the reach of the community, working to increase our broadcasting ability for the spaces.

Kinkajou is active in the writer’s room, helping shape our messaging.

He continues to give critical feedback in the work of governance.

Why He’d strengthen the Council

His points of view are different from others, often in contrast to mine, which I like, because a good-faith disagreement brings to light things that should be addressed and increases mutual understanding.

His focus on outreach, messaging, incentives, and good practice will all be assets as we launch this venture.

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Claude or whatever other AI model exists will probably be a good mediator and sanity check for the council.

But as one of the principal reviewers of Tari core, it still produces way too many hallucinations for me to trust it.

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That is exactly what I thinks, hallucination stuff was happened to me lot of times!

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hi,

just choose @kinkajou bro, im not typing a whole paragraph for this tho.

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I nominate all 7 of the new members of this forum who signed up in the last two weeks.

7 people…

Seven.

How many billion people are in the world? And we have 7 new members in two weeks .

I’m surprised anyone’s actually mining it right now. Who the frick are these people?

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My apologies @possum but I’ll keep it short and sweet.

My nominations are:

Sergey

Fox

Kinkaju

Zhao

Okz

Alex

0xHRA

The above people are doing a lot for the community and Tari itself and not much evidence is needed.

Unfortunately, I am not going to be nominating myself as im overqualified in drama department, but I will always do my best in being voice of reason. :slightly_smiling_face:

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You made this figure up. There were 9 registrations between today and yesterday alone.

This isn’t the thread to air your complaints. It’s for nominations.

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Who I am nominating:
Self-nomination: Haskell.

Where I’ve contributed:
Community, Governance, and Ecosystem.

Evidence:
I have been an active participant in the Tari community across Telegram, including the trading group, contributing to discussions around protocol direction, market structure, governance, and ecosystem growth. I regularly advocate for the project publicly and promote Tari on X.

Outside the protocol itself, I bring operational and organizational experience from several fields relevant to governance and long-term ecosystem stewardship.

I currently run a successful food business, the first of its kind in the local area. I manage end-to-end operations including procurement systems, workflow design, staffing, customer service, quality control, and marketing. Operating a high-volume hospitality business requires constant balancing of incentives, resource allocation, reliability, and execution under pressure.

I previously worked in AI at a company providing contracted services to one of the Big Three, giving me direct exposure to large-scale technology operations and emerging AI systems.

Academically, I hold both a BA and Master’s degree from the University of Oxford.

I have also been involved in crypto since 2014 and already hold a sizeable Tari position. I am not seeking Council participation as a way to increase my holdings or influence short-term market outcomes. My interest is in helping Tari mature into a serious long-term protocol and community.

Additionally, I have experience working with non-profit organizations, which provided exposure to mission-oriented governance structures and the challenges involved in balancing stakeholder interests over time.

Why I’d strengthen the Council:
Strong governance systems benefit from a diversity of perspectives. Many successful crypto foundations and institutions include members who are not purely core developers, but who bring operational, organizational, and external perspectives similar to non-executive directors in traditional governance structures.

While I am an active community member rather than a detached third party, I would bring a different angle from purely technical or internal protocol contributors. My background combines business operations, systems thinking, AI experience, community participation, and long-term crypto involvement.

I believe this type of cognitive and experiential diversity is valuable for avoiding insular decision-making and for helping ensure the Council remains connected not only to builders, but also to users, operators, and the broader community around the protocol.

I take governance seriously, value measured decision-making over ideology or factionalism, and would approach the role with a long-term perspective focused on sustainability, credibility, and execution.

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Who I’m Nominating:

@Fox

Where they’ve contributed:

Governance, Community, Ecosystem, R&D

Evidence:

To begin, all of this is happening on the forum that he suggested and then got up and running in less than a week, in his spare time.

He has been an essential contributor to governance discussions, both in the drafting of the charter and the ongoing revamp of the RFC process here on the forums.

He is a regular guest/co-host on the Tari Show, where he has quickly assumed a key role in keeping the community informed of the various goings-on around Tari.

He has been building/testing new ideas on the Ootle, and providing marketing/messaging guidance in the writer’s room.

Why they’d strengthen the Council:

Fox is a multi-talented individual that seems to have something meaningful to contribute in every aspect of the project. A rare force multiplier and true renaissance man. He is a skilled communicator, constructive in disagreements, and universally liked by all members of the community. He is exactly the type of individual we need on the inaugural council.

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Not great though is it…

Since my last visit there have been 7 new sign ups, according to TARI forum email update.

I respect the thread, to elect a council ,so I won’t say anything more Fox but I’ve not made those figures up, your forum notifications told me those figures.

Fox, I’ve heard your passion on the TARI show… let’s hope you can turn this shit-show around.

I vote Fox for TARI Council

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Who I am nominating:
Myself as a self-nomination (Plats, @itsplats)

Where I’ve contributed:
Mainly community support and product feedback since the early days of Tari / Yat

Evidence:
I have been a fan of Tari since the launch of Yat (so about 5 years or so now)

Over the years I have participated and been heavily involved in the community including supporting the project on Socials / Discord / Telegram, educating new community members, hoping on early product feedback calls with the team, joining the spaces as a guest speaker and more recently joining the Tari writers room to help be a part of the transition and focus towards a community-first model.

Why I’d strengthen the Council:
I think there are many great candidates for the council. I’d like to think I’m a fair and pragmatic person, with a strong sense and bias towards doing things that lead to sustainable growth.

I think I have two core attributes that I think would bring a fresh perspective and strong bias towards advancing Tari.

1, I have a strong background in growing tech companies. I’ve spent close to 7 years working with early-stage start ups bootstrapping their way to product market fit and revenue through to running marketing teams for 8fig+ consumer products with millions of users. I’d like to think I’ve learned a thing or two, which would hopefully translate to good judgement and decisions as part of the council.

2, I have been a fan and advocate of Tari for close to half a decade. I’d hope that my commitment and loyalty is pretty clear by now.

Ultimately my goal is that I want is to see Tari succeed on a grand scale. I don’t think I am perfect and I may definitely have some views that differ from other members of the community, but I think its valuable to have many perspectives on the council and I hope to be able to leave a lasting mark.

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I nominate @Fox, @Plats, and @kinkajou for the inaugural Tari Council.

Their contributions need no discussion - the work speaks for itself.

I have no doubt they will mobilize effectively to take Tari to the next level.

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I nominate @Fox .

I am a nobody, however I do monitor development on Tari; and I can say @Fox would be a good addition; as his work editing the charter and providing valid feedback has proven his worth to me.

Another shoutout to @animalst; only if he wants to be on the council though.

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Who I’m Nominating:

Impala/jagtech/Alexander Blair

Where they’ve contributed:

Infrastructure, Community, Ecosystem

Evidence:

Their main contribution has been running a mining pool, but they’ve also released many other pool/mining utilities opensource which many in the community have used.

https://github.com/Snipa22/go-tari-pool-shim

https://github.com/Snipa22/go-tari-c29-solo-stratum

https://github.com/Snipa22/graxil29

https://github.com/Snipa22/go-tari-sha3x-solo-stratum

https://github.com/Snipa22/go-tari-grpc-lib

https://github.com/Snipa22/go-tari-faucet

They’re active across Discord/Telegram channels answering questions, helping community members troubleshoot wallet/node issues, and participating in technical discussions.

Why they’d strengthen the Council:

Impala is an active, friendly, and helpful presence in the community.

They have been part of Tari from the very beginning and possess an exceptional understanding of the Tari codebase, including firsthand knowledge of the issues businesses may face deploying Tari nodes in production. They also have many years of experience in - and a solid understanding of - the broader crypto industry. This expertise will be invaluable for any business development strategies the Council might wish to evaluate.

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Opportunity, king of good vibes, zero chance of errors. In other words, @Okz :saluting_face:

My nomination goes to the most reliable person in this community and in the whole world, a good guy;)

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