The Update Constitutional Committee 2026 governance action is nearing its voting deadline, and participation has not yet reached the threshold needed.
Intersect notes that the governance action expires at 21:44:51 UTC on September 1 and encourages DReps and stake pool operators (SPOs) to vote before the deadline.
A setback in the governance action could affect progress towards the Dijkstra hard fork and Leios upgrade, which will require constitutional as well as technical updates.
Less than 48 hours left
According to Intersect, the Update CC 2026 action will expire on September 1 at 21:44:51 UTC, with less than 48 hours to vote.
Intersect shared the current voting progress; DReps are now very close to the required threshold of 67%, currently at 66.3%. For SPOs, a significant shift in voting participation is still needed within the next 48 hours, with 39% achieved out of the 51% threshold.
Intersect highlighted the urgency of SPO participation, as if this action does not pass, existing committee members' terms will expire, and the committee will fall below the required "committeeMinSize" of five.
Until the committee returns to at least five members, Treasury Withdrawal, Parameter Update, Constitution Update, and Hard Fork Initiation actions cannot be ratified. This could also hinder progress towards Dijkstra and Leios, which necessitate constitutional and technical updates.
The Dijkstra era delivers Cardano's next major protocol upgrade in two phases. Phase 1 introduces the Dijkstra ledger era and ships Ouroboros Linear Leios as a complete, activated feature, targeting Q4 2026. Phase 2 activates Ouroboros Peras via an intra-era hard fork.
Cardano goes live as public proof layer
Cardano is now live as the public proof layer in Blockforce's traceability platform. The system runs with Brazil's largest fashion groups and has anchored more than 500,000 supply chain records.
The architecture separates confidentiality from verifiability. Records for each supply chain step sit on a permissioned network, visible only to the parties involved. Only the cryptographic proof of those records is anchored to Cardano, where any auditor, regulator, or customer can confirm a record is genuine without seeing the underlying data.
