Blockchain

Spinning up a Tezos node in under a few minutes

An introduction to booting up a Tezos node using…

Tezos Athens

An overview of Athens, the first on-chain upgrade proposals for Tezos

Marigold: layer-2 scaling for Tezos

An introduction to Marigold

Current blockchain networks offer strong guarantees of correctness and resistance to censorship. In exchange, they are slow and too expensive to run applications at scale. Marigold is a layer-2…

Explaining My Project to My Mom

My mom is a smart lady but she’s not an avowed cypherpunk or CS professor. Here’s how I explain Tezos to her.

Over the last five years, cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin have come into some popularity. To date, the cryptocurrency market is ~$13bn…

The Myth of the Irrational Token Holder

Blockchain governance doesn’t fit squarely into any existing model.

Tezos is a blockchain with a first-in-kind implementation of a native governance mechanism. All proposed changes to the protocol are decided upon by the community…

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…

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…

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.