Ethereum

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…

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…

A quick tour of the Tezos code base, and the state of its development

Introduction

“There is no need for hard forks”

But there will be hard-forks nonetheless

One of the most salient aspects of the Tezos ledger is its ability to self-govern by accepting and deploying protocol upgrades, on chain, without hard-forking. Participants in a…

Why governance matters

— Arthur Breitman

Over the last three years, the appeal and utility of cryptographic ledgers has transcended political and commercial lines. Today, we find people from all over the world flocking to Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other leading ledgers to store value…