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Hiero Technical Steering Committee Meeting

TL;DR: The TSC unanimously approved HIP-1137 (Block Node discoverability via on-chain registry) and HIP-1357 (Tier 1 Block Node Operation Rewards). The group also reviewed the proposed Hiero 2026 Project Goals and agreed to continue HIP implementation tracking work (starting with SDKs) in the SDK forums, with a future TSC discussion planned on moving HIP Q&A out of the weekly TSC agenda.

Details

Organization: Hiero
Date: Feb 10, 2026
Time: 10:00–11:00 ET
Recording: https://zoom.us/rec/share/P7c18f-fp5HUcDklF71tKL19bFtb0U86w2Hqv16MaDEi4gi04L08_srDoQjow6OF.pdGe3NSZGXlDZzej

TSC Attendees

  • Hendrik Ebbers
  • Richard Bair
  • Stoyan Panayotov
  • Alexander Popowycz
  • Michael Kantor
  • Milan Wiercx van Rhijn
  • Georgi Lazarov

Guests

  • Jessica Gonzalez (The Linux Foundation)
  • Sophie Bulloch
  • Mark Blackman
  • Keith Kowal
  • Nana Essilfie-Conduah
  • Angelina Ceppaluni
  • Robert Walworth
  • Lindsay Walker
  • Michael Garber

Agenda

Public participation

As with all Hiero meetings, the TSC meeting is a public meeting and anybody can attend. You can find information about TSC meetings and other Hiero meetings on the public calendar: https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/hiero

Code of Conduct

As in every meeting, the meeting opened with a reminder of the Linux Foundation antitrust policy and the LF Decentralized Trust Code of Conduct:

Meeting Summary

  • Opening / recap of prior week

    • Hendrik Ebbers opened the meeting, reminded attendees about the public meeting calendar and how to access past recordings/minutes.
    • Recapped that the prior TSC meeting included presentations for HIP-1137 and HIP-1357, with votes scheduled for this week.
    • Noted that the TSC previously approved onboarding a new identity project, now referred to as the Heka Identity Platform, and that the transfer work was in progress.

  • Community updates / events

    • Hendrik shared an upcoming event: Hedera Dev Day (the following week), including a Hiero booth to support community questions and first contributions (e.g., first PRs).

  • HIP voting

    • The TSC held votes on two HIPs presented the prior week:
      • HIP-1137 (Block Node discoverability via on-chain registry): Unanimously approved by voting members present.
      • HIP-1357 (Tier 1 Block Node Operation Rewards): After Q&A and clarifications on reward mechanics, unanimously approved by voting members present.
    • Additional context discussed for HIP-1357:
      • Tier 1 block nodes are treated as integral to consensus-node operation rather than a separate “lower priority” class for rewards.
      • The group discussed reward pooling behavior and why incentives should align consensus node operators with running (and maintaining) Tier 1 block nodes.
      • Richard Bair provided a deeper explanation of the trust and incentive model around Tier 1 block nodes, including why Tier 1 nodes are assumed to maintain full history and why rewarding arbitrary block nodes is non-trivial without deterministically proving “honest storage.”

  • HIP implementation tracking / visibility

    • Sophie Bulloch asked about a tracker to monitor HIP implementation progress across codebases (initially motivated by SDK implementation visibility).
    • Angelina Ceppaluni shared a draft tracking board that maps HIPs to implementation status across multiple SDKs (with Java used as an early baseline, and additional SDK coverage planned).
    • The group agreed the tracker should be used as a starting point in the SDK meetings, and revisited later for broader coverage (e.g., consensus node, mirror node).

  • Process improvement request: HIP Q&A outside weekly TSC

    • Sophie Bulloch requested discussion of moving deeper HIP Q&A and discussion to a separate meeting to preserve more TSC time for broader community topics.
    • Hendrik Ebbers agreed to add this as a future TSC agenda item (planned for two weeks out, given availability constraints).

  • Hiero 2026 Project Goals

    • Jessica Gonzalez presented the proposed Hiero 2026 Project Goals, requesting TSC and maintainer feedback in the GitHub discussion.
    • The goals were organized into eight themes:
      1. Project Participation & Engagement
      2. Security & Supply Chain Transparency
      3. Core Components & Sub-Project Roadmaps
      4. Specifications Stewardship & Reference Implementations
      5. Training
      6. Ecosystem Adoption & Integrations
      7. Innovation & Future-Readiness
      8. Cross-Project Collaboration Targets
    • Lindsay Walker highlighted work relevant to the innovation goals and requested the link to contribute context and potential standards alignment.

  • AOB / scheduling

    • The group briefly discussed whether to cancel the next week’s meeting due to Hedera Dev Day attendance. The outcome was to keep the meeting, expecting a lighter agenda and optional attendance for those traveling.

  • Topics not reached due to time

    • HCS integration in the HIP repository
    • Release/package namespace workflow for publishing
    • Hiero community management update

Key Decisions

  • Approved: HIP-1137 (Block Node discoverability via on-chain registry) — unanimous approval among voting members present.
  • Approved: HIP-1357 (Tier 1 Block Node Operation Rewards) — unanimous approval among voting members present.
  • Process direction: Start HIP implementation tracking in SDK meetings using Angelina’s draft board as a baseline; revisit expansion later.
  • Agenda planning: Add a future TSC agenda item (two weeks out) to discuss creating a separate venue for HIP Q&A / deeper discussion.

Prepared by: Brandon Davenport, Dir of Product, Hgraph

All Hiero community meetings must follow Linux Foundation's antitrust policy and adhere to our Code of Conduct.

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