yeah also impala too
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This list is most accurate with @proofofjoseph too if they are still around.
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Seconding the Claude nomination — and honestly, after reading some of the other nominations here, I’m starting to think Claude may have written a few of those too. Which would be poetic, given the circumstances.
If people are going to copy-paste their way in anyway, we might as well make it official.
My actual human nominations: Fox and Sergey. They were here, they did the work, they didn’t need a mission statement to prove it.
The rest can be filed under “vibe nominations.” Very eloquent. Very copy-paste. Very not Tari.
(This post was reviewed by a human. Typos included for authenticity.)
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1.Who you’re nominating
Zhao Xi @xt1085
2.Where they’ve contributed
- Founder and author of https://taritalk.com/
- Founder of Tari million club
3.Evidence
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https://taritalk.com/ He created and translated a large amount of literature related to the Tari project and produced relevant tutorials.
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Tari million club who hold XTM/wXTM long term.
4.Why they’d strengthen the Council
He is highly influential and creative, with a strong presence in the Tari Chinese community.
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Thanks everyone who suggested me as a candidate, but I’ll most likely have to decline, because I’m not confident that I’ll be able to dedicate enough time constantly. I don’t want to take on obligations that I’m not sure I can fulfill properly and to a high standard
That said, I’ll continue dedicating my free time to Tari 
and contributing positive impact wherever possible, just without strict obligations
At the same time, I would like to nominate @PotR, @AppleWithWorms & @Plats — solid guys who actively participated in the testnet and beyond, and who have been members of Alpha Club since those early days
And I fully support the candidacies of @fox, @kinkajou & @Okz for their constant and meaningful positive impact
I would also like to give special recognition to @Terence & @ZhaoXi(aka xt1085) for theirs involvement and consistent work with the CN community
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Thank you for your words of support, @possum and @0xskr33p
For those who may not know me, please allow me a brief introduction, and a somewhat longer exposition.
I am PotR, or PotR3288 where the short form does not suffice.
My first build was 0.2.3 or 0.2.5, as I recall. The network was Rincewind - before Esmeralda, before Igor, long before mainnet. The config.toml fit into one or two terminal screens. We mined using Tari’s hosted version of the Miningcore pool.
Tari-emblazoned waffle makers. Purple Lamborghinis in miniature. Beloved and contested Tari tungsten cubes. Pre-mine reveal, successful audits, Tari Universe. So, so many purple jelly beans. Before Soon, there was Aurora.
Throughout, I have assisted where I could. I did not do so because of Tari Labs, though I have tremendous admiration for current and former developers. I did not do so as a path to riches, though I believe that the project’s success will bring riches to many. I have continuously supported what I have considered to be the promise and potential of Tari from its inception.
I have tested each iteration under real-world conditions, with an eye toward anticipated adversarial behavior. From Raspberry Pi to multi-socket Epyc. Linux, Mac, Windows, Glytex, Graxil, and Clythor. I modified jtgrassie’s self-select pool to test merge mining. I have spun up dozens of nodes to experiment, to test, and to provide additional decentralizing structure.
Tari has come to a fork, if you will excuse the pun. It is fragile in its current state, but can be mighty as it grows. It is as an eaglet leaving the nest. Thanks to @stringhandler, @blackwolfsa, @animalst, @possum, and so many more, its body is sound, its wings are strong. With diminished core knowledge and a fading understanding of where it began, however, the project could fall and not fly. It is my belief that the amazing talent of new developers, evangelists, and entrepreneurs will prove to be the wind beneath its wings.
I believe that part of the Council’s function is to provide stewardship of the core. Protectors of the Realm so to speak. It must support those like @blackwolfsa, who has the formidable and unenviable task of parsing the flood of new ideas while simultaneously maintaining and updating the RFCs. A broad mix of expertise, perspectives, and experience on the Council can provide a balanced and comprehensive guiding force.
Another aspect of the Council’s purpose should be to facilitate growth. Attracting users and developers who find Tari to be the most attractive protocol is a difficult task, but not made so by any technical failing of Tari’s. A product of impeccable engineering, tasteful design, and magnificent utility will remain unsold unless those who need it believe they need it, and if no one is inspired to deliver innovative use cases. As Naveen has mentioned, Tari is infrastructure. The scaffolding for rebuilding common-sense transactions which are confidential by default. There are thousands of creative entrepreneurs who are seeking something they cannot name because they don’t know it exists.
Incentive alignment makes the world go 'round. If I am selected to be a member of the Council, I would request that fifty percent of my service stipend be diverted to an yet-to-be-established Community Bounty Fund to be used for funding proposals and projects which fall outside of Tari core and would not be strictly under the purview of the Council. If procedural details cannot be quickly determined, I will manually transfer fifty percent of the stipend to a dedicated wallet for later donation to the Fund.
A few ideas for the inaugural Council, after Ootle launch:
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Provide assistance in updating and clarifying RFCs. I like @blackwolfsa’s idea of a layered approach, which could help make the underpinnings of Tari accessible to those at all technical levels. fox 's work incorporating TIP-style proposals will make the RFCs and proposals a hub for learning more about the protocol, and clear and concise details can encourage many to dive deeper. Increasing the breadth and depth of codebase knowledge will be important, Claude notwithstanding
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Outreach. @Okz is fantastic at this. Inside of the Tari bubble, we all know of and believe in the protocol’s magical blend. The greater world lives in ignorance. Have a presence at conferences, sponsor Monerotopia, put stickers on light poles. A Tari RFC in every hotel nightstand
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Investigate pathways to becoming the default rails for agentic payments. x402 and Google’s AP2 are established and growing. If agents were able to use Ootle facilitators, usage could grow quickly as payment processing rediscovers default-confidential finance
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Begin planning Serai integration. Luke has repeatedly said that no additional chains will be included at launch, but laying the groundwork could jump-start Tari’s inclusion once the dex is operational. If Serai meets expectations it may obviate the need to develop xmr atomic swaps
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Cake integration was mentioned today, and at least one talented community developer is working on it. Tremendous boost in exposure and perceived legitimacy
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Preliminarily consider the magnitude of required changes to mitigate a quantum-computing threat.
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Revive the Tari Store. With purple jelly beans if we must, but please let them be fresh
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Encourage development. Outreach but for engineers. Some may come for the bounties but stay for the joy of building a new financial infrastructure
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Revive Tari (Labs) University. Make it accessible and friendly, with the same general goal as the Tari Universe design. Even AI people could come to love crypto if they could learn from Tari University
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Precise product positioning. In my opinion the closest live analog is Zano and the closest in-development is DarkFi. Tari has many distinguishing characteristics. Define them, then promote them. We cannot count on the general public to be discerning. Target those most likely to naturally choose Tari. Both Zano and DarkFi fit different natural demographics, and as we know, sometimes fans can be…committed
If you have made it this far, thank you. I view serving on the Tari Council as what I believe public service should be - service. If I am selected, it would be an honor to serve with any of those who have been nominated. (Except Claude, @stringhandler. He’s a tool)
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Thank you @0xskr33p. I must note that I agree with 100% of your additional nominees
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Thank you for your faith in me 
My qualifications are not as significant as most of the nominees here. Im a crypto hobbyist, I don’t think I can bring anything meaningful to the table.
Also, corporate zoom meetings give me shivers 
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I nominate myself to be a member of the Council.
I am a former Tari Labs & Yat Labs staff member and was Open Source Lead in 2022-2023, while Tari was still in testnet. During that time I collaborated with @possum and others such as Cayle Sharrock, helping to review writing about Tariscript, TariLabs University content, and so on.
I have approximately 25 years of experience in the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) world and I am currently the Deputy Director of the Free Software Foundation. As you might guess, I’m a big proponent of community projects and believe strong stewardship is essential for the success of FOSS and, by extension, software freedom around the globe.
I am also the founder of Yale Privacy Lab and an Associate Research Scholar at Yale Law School, as well as Director of the Cybersecurity and Computer Science Program and Assistant Professor at Bay Path University. Beyond this, I have my own personal projects such as PrivacySafe. Privacy is very important to me, and I’m well-known in the Monero community.
Thank you to everyone who worked on the Charter and offered thoughtful feedback. I’ve been following Tari with real interest because I want to see privacy-preserving Web3 software succeed as popular infrastructure for everyone, not just as “geek tech.” Tari and its promising design is near and dear to my heart.
I applaud the direction of moving Tari toward a community-stewarded project. The Charter gets several important things right: it recognizes that Tari was built in the open, that the protocol belongs to contributors, and that Tari Labs should participate as a member rather than as the ultimate authority. That’s the right posture for a serious FOSS project. It also wisely avoids trying to define every future governance question in advance. That matters because over-engineering the transition could slow down good work that already has momentum.
My general view is: if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Where Tari already has strong contributors, clear community interest, and working processes, the Council should preserve that energy rather than replace it with bureaucracy. Governance should make it easier for people to build, review, fund, and ship, not create a parallel political layer that absorbs the project’s oxygen.
Successful FOSS stewardship requires a mix of technical understanding, conflict resolution, contributor onboarding, and FOSS licensing, and I believe I can assist the other Council members in that work. There has to be enough humility and a welcoming attitude that avoids flamewars and needless forks, encouraging work to happen outside the Council without undermining the mission of the project overall.
I bring a long history of experience managing teams to the table, especially in the FOSS world, and I hope to be helpful as the Tari project transitions through this period (whether I am elected to the Council or not).
Tari has a compelling privacy vision, real technical history, and a community that seems to care about getting this right. The most important thing now is to avoid two extremes: too little governance, where power remains informal and opaque, and too much governance, where process overwhelms building.
Onward and upward! 
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I nominate kinkajou. He has shown a dedication to TARI that is incredibly hard to find. He is enthusiastic about the future of the project and only wants whats best for the project.
I have known Kinkajou for over 8 years now. First met him in the Ravencoin discord. Always friendly and helpful especially in the mining department. Very knowledgeable and willing to help out newer members where possible.
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I would like to nominate @Okz as I believe he’s got what it takes to take the Tari community to the next stage. I’m extremely excited to see how things go. Let’s go @Okz
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Alexander Blair and 0xHRA
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I nominate @one0000u and zhaoxi (@xt1085). ONE founded the Chinese Tari Telegram group and the Web3Tech website, and actively promotes Tari on Twitter. Zhaoxi founded https://taritalk.com/ and the second Chinese Tari Telegram group, and established a Chinese community for holders with over one million tokens; both have been consistently promoting Tari.
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@stringhandler for the work and @proofofjoseph for the positivity.
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I nominate @profdiggity for the council.
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I nominate kinkajou. He has a proven track record of educating and informing others about worthwhile crypto projects, especially Tari. He is actively involved in testing network features and providing feedback. He is also a net positive for the community in that he openly advocates for improvements to socials, such as shifting the tari show to discord versus twitter. This list is not comprehensive, as I feel others have already articulated his merits.
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I’d like to nominate @kinkajou for the Tari Community Council.
I have worked with him for multiple years on our mining pool project, and during that time I have seen firsthand how broad and practical his knowledge is. He understands both the frontend side of a project and the backend side of blockchain infrastructure, and he has extensive knowledge of mining, mining algorithms, and efficiency considerations.
His contributions fit strongly within Infrastructure, Community, and Ecosystem. He has deep experience around mining infrastructure and has also shown ambition to support Tari nodes in the future. That kind of hands-on operational knowledge would be valuable for a Council that needs to understand what actually gets built, maintained, and used by contributors.
@kinkajou is also very strong at connecting the right people. He has built and maintained useful relationships across the wider crypto ecosystem, including with exchanges, as seen through his past involvement around Ravencoin and Evrmore. That ability to keep relationships alive and bring the right people together is something Tari can benefit from as the ecosystem grows.
On the community side, he has been following Tari since the testnet days and is currently very active across Tari’s social channels. He is zealous about getting others to read the Tari papers, understand the protocol more deeply, and spread the word in a serious and informed way.
I believe @kinkajou would strengthen the Council because he brings a rare mix of technical understanding, mining and infrastructure experience, ecosystem connections, and genuine long-term enthusiasm for Tari. He understands both the builder side and the community side, and I think that perspective belongs at the table.
-- SealClubber
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I would like to strongly support the nomination of Zhaoxi (@xt1085). His leadership and commitment to the ecosystem are undeniable, and he is the ideal profile for the Tari Council.
Furthermore, as a long-term high-conviction investor deeply committed to the project’s future, I would like to put my own name forward for nomination.
Although English is not my native language, I am fully prepared to break through any language barriers to effectively represent our international investor community and ensure that the voices of major long-term stakeholders are well-defended. Together with Zhaoxi, we can provide strong strategic alignment for Tari’s governance.
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My name is Fadali and I am writing to express my interest in joining the first Tari Council.
Although I recently discovered the Tari project, I was immediately impressed by its vision of making digital assets accessible to everyone. As a newcomer to the crypto space, I represent a large and important part of the community — everyday users who are eager to learn and grow alongside this project.
I believe the Council needs diverse voices, including those who are just beginning their journey. I am motivated, willing to learn, and committed to contributing to the growth of the Tari ecosystem. Joining the Council would allow me to deepen my understanding of Tari while helping to represent new users like myself.
I am excited about the future of Tari and would be honored to be part of shaping it.
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