Tezos Town Hall: The Next Amendment Proposal
Curious about the Tezos upgrade process?
At the last technical Tezos Town Hall of 2020, we were joined by a panel of experts, Adrian Brink, Founder of Metastate, Arthur Breitman, Early Architect of Tezos, Benjamin Canou, CTO at Nomadic Labs, Jacob Arluck, Co-founder of TQ Tezos, and Gabriel Alfour, Lead Developer at Ligo Lang, for an exploration into how Tezos protocol is continuing to grow and evolve.
Arriving off the heels of the Delphi protocol upgrade, we took a look into the plans for implementing upgrades in a more regular cadence. Arthur Breitman described how the shift in the upgrade structure to a “scheduling based on time, as opposed to features, makes more sense.”
Our panel touched on the Tezos governance structure and discussed the benefits and risks of incentivizing voter participation on the network. We also got a glimpse at some of the potential features and improvements coming to the protocol in the future and found out what our panel was most excited about moving ahead.
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Session Notes
0:12
Introduction of Tezos Town Hall speakers.
1:05
Moderator Jacob Arluck asked questions about amendment proposals on Tezos.
Q: A few weeks ago, there was a joint post published, basically describing a new plan for regular scheduling of amendment proposals. How was this plan developed? What makes it important for Tezos?
6:35
Q: Arthur, how did you envision when you originally thought about Tezos? Did you think of time versus features?
12:00
Q: How could Tezos handle upgrades better?
16:09
Q: What can be done to make Tezos easier to upgrade particularly on that time frame?
19:58
Q: How can the speed of regularity of these upgrades serve as a competitive advantage for Tezos?
22:18
Q: When should the community expect the next proposal? What features are planned for these proposals?
27:39
Audience Q&A Session:
Moderator Jacob asks Tezos Town Hall speakers questions from community members.
Q: How can we have more developers to work on core development?
29:15
Q: How can we incentivize more bakers to vote on-chain besides the off-chain nudging?
32:13
Q: Any ideas on incentivizing testers on test nets somehow? Maybe invoice to pay testers?
34:32
Q: Is there any estimate for when the tenderbake and plebeia proposal are going to be injected?
40:03
Q: Will you use OCaml-interop (done by simple staking) or are you developing your own interop rust <-> OCaml?
41:33
Q: Would you see a benefit in increasing vote activity by decreasing the amount of tez for a roll?
43:50
Q: What other features are being explored for future proposals? What is everyone excited for 2021?
51:02
Q: Is there any work on sharding?
54:25
Closing remarks
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