Our Tezos Flashbake coalition is growing! In the past few weeks, we have welcomed five new Flashbakers. A Flashbaker is a Tezos baker. In addition to their regular baking duties (creating and attesting blocks), they maintain an endpoint where they can directly receive transactions from users, bypassing the mempool. Read…

Any Tezos baker can submit a proposal. As per the rules of Tezos on-chain governance, any proposal approved by a 80% supermajority of the bakers will become the chain’s next protocol. However, there is a convention in Tezos where proposals have been named after cities, in alphabetical order. Every proposal…

Monitoring your nodes is an essential aspect of your Tezos operations. Since version 14, Octez is exposing a native metrics port. A “metrics port” is a simple http endpoint that, when queried, returns various data about the node status. …

When you submit a transaction to the Tezos Network, it is placed in a node’s mempool — a public list of all operations a node knows about, but have not yet been placed in a block. Nodes regularly gossip transactions from their mempool. We are introducing Flashbake on Tezos Mainnet…

Flashbake, the framework to send a Tezos transaction directly to a baker, is now available on the Ghostnet testnet. A Tezos transaction normally travels from you to the baker through the mempool, a broadcast mechanism built into the Tezos peer-to-peer network. But some users may prefer to send a transaction…

Ghostnet is live! For a while, the Tezos ecosystem has been launching a new testnet for each protocol update: Granadanet, Hangzhounet, Ithacanet, etc. And Tezos updates a lot, every three months on average. Dapp developers need to periodically redeploy contracts, sync nodes, set up indexing, and more... Testnets suffer from…

an initiative to work on the topic of Block Producer Extractable Value on Tezos When a Tezos user submits a transaction, it is transmitted to the bakers who store it in their mempool until it is included in a block. Every transaction contains a fee for the baker. When it…

Tezos protocol developments and improvements are constantly underway. Having a robust protocol requires testing the stream of changes by ecosystem participants. We recently deployed the teztnets.xyz platform. Our goals were to: reduce barriers for interested parties to interact with upcoming Tezos protocol features, be they feature complete or at the…