On December 5, 2024, delegates from the 63 Constitutional Workshops achieved a historic milestone by approving the Cardano Constitution with an overwhelming 95% approval rating at convention in Buenos Aires and Nairobi.
The next step to formalize this decision involves updating the Interim Cardano Constitution with the newly endorsed version. However, this process requires completing the Plomin Hard Fork, a prerequisite for enabling all governance action types, including the critical “Update Constitution” action.
The “Update Constitution” Governance Action has the following ratification requirements:
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75% approval of the active voting stake delegated to DReps.
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A positive constitutionality assessment by the Interim Constitutional Committee (ICC).
Once these conditions are met during the governance action lifetime, the governance action will be considered ratified, and one epoch after ratification will be enacted.
The text is hosted in the following GitHub repository for those interested in verifying the approved Constitution. It also includes a guide on how to confirm that the hash digest voted on by the delegates matches the constitution file:
GitHub Repository: Delegate-Endorsed Constitution
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What is the plomin hard fork
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That’s the name of the next hard fork that will introduce the full on-chain Governance feature set on Cardano.
Previously it was known as Chang 2 or Chang+1
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Hey Nic,
Thanks for all the insights you have shared. I did follow your X Space, and I would like to commend you for the detailed analysis and education you did on there. Kudos to you for that.
While listening to your show, I noticed you kept referring to the next Hard Fork (Chang 2) as Plomin Hard Fork while having stated clearly in your premise that there was an info governance action seeking the opinions of Cardano Community members as to renaming the Chang 2 HF to Plomin HF.
As a DRep, knowing very well that Info actions are just to collect feedback, thoughts, and suggestions and have no effect on chain, I’m struggling to understand your justification:
when asked;
even when the governance action is still open until December 20th.
Perhaps there’s some explanation that I am yet to learn about; I will be very glad if you can share.
In my humble opinion, I think the name for the next HF, which is expected any sooner, remains Chang 2 Hard Fork. I do believe that our beloved Matthew Plomin contributed greatly to the community and deserves to be honored just as other prominent personalities like Chang, Vasil, etc., are being honored. However, I think it will be proper for Intersect to look into future forks and dedicate one that aligns with governance, tokenism, community expansion, etc., to our beloved Matthew Plomin to honor his ecosystem legacy while leaving the Chang 2 HF as it is, given that the name has already traveled and is most familiar to the community and the timeline is pretty close for its implementation.
Matthew was a GREAT GUY.
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@Nicolas and/or others that were present: How were these differences of opinion & language resolved at the Convention?
Or did the presented constitution draft achieve a nearly unilateral endorsement because these differences were resolved before the Convention? If that’s what happened I expect that would make an interesting story as well.
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