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Hash-Consing in Tezos

I’ve spoken several times of hash-consing as a way to store contract data efficiently for the Tezos blockchain. Here’s why it’s useful, how it works, and what its limitations are....

Delegation upon launch

Tezos is a proof-of-stake blockchain with a delegation mechanism. How delegation is handled at the launch of the network could have enduring consequences for the network.

Optimizing Stack manipulation in Michelson

This post describes a light compilation step to help stack manipulation in Michelson. It’s not critical for the launch, so we aren’t focusing on it in the near term, but...

Dev update 10/19/2017

Here is a short video update on Tezos development in the past week. Beware, this was largely improvised and the sound quality is not good. Please bear with us, we...

The Path Forward

A letter from Arthur & Kathleen Breitman to the Tezos community.

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

This post is an attempt to give a tour of the Tezos code base and its state of development. All of the functionality described in the whitepaper has been implemented...