How to Join the Community Governance Committee

The canonical testnet registry governance committee currently has 5 members with a 3-of-5 threshold.

Current process

Validator committee membership is not currently open via a self-service on-chain flow. To apply:

1. Open an issue on the GitHub repository with the title “Governance committee application”
2. Include your compressed secp256k1 public key (33 bytes, hex)
3. Describe your background and why you want to participate
4. The current committee will review and, if approved, initiate a set-treasury governance proposal to add your key to the validator Merkle tree

Technical requirements

• A secp256k1 keypair with the private key stored securely offline
• Ability to run @ckb-firewall/cli when vote requests arrive
• Availability to cast votes within the 72-hour review window

For private registries

Private registry operators control their own validator set and can add members freely via a set-treasury governance proposal. See How to rotate the validator committee.