It’s a baker’s life for me

being a Tezos validator

What is baking?

Bitcoin has mining, Tezos has baking. In Bitcoin, miners compete to publish blocks containing a proof-of-work stamp by repeatedly hashing block headers. In Tezos…

Liquid Proof-of-Stake

tl;dr: Tezos allows token holders to transfer (“delegate”) validation rights to other token holders without transferring…

The Forgotten Contracts

“Smart contracts aren’t legal contracts,” they say.

Blockchains are not startups

On Blockchain Governance, Part 1

Towards Futarchy in Tezos

Futarchy, in a nutshell, is the governance technique of evaluating policies ex post while relying on a prediction market to determine the best policy ex ante.

The Tezos position paper explicitly mentions futarchy as a possible development for the governance…

Amending Tezos

Traversing the amendment process

Background

A few directions to improve Tezos

In which I outline, for different categories, what seems to me as reasonable, immediate, directions…

A Tutorial Introduction to Michelson & Tezos, Part I: Hello Michelson

A Tutorial Introduction to Michelson & Tezos, Part II: Hello Tezos