The team behind Tezos Giga Node has decided to cease operations. We want to thank the team for their stewardship of the Tezos ecosystem over the years. Tezos Giganode was providing the following services: Tezos RPC endpoints Tezos Snapshots Alternative RPC Endpoint Services A Tezos RPC endpoint is useful to connect to the Tezos…

by Nicolas Ochem In proof-of-stake, putting tokens at stake gives you right to participate in the consensus algorithm. Most PoS blockchains assign at least two cryptographic keys to a validator: a withdrawal key that lets you spend the funds you put at stake (perhaps after some unstaking time period), a…

by Nicolas Ochem Liquidity Baking has been submitted to Tezos on-chain governance. Several publications explain what it is (Agora post, TZIP, Nomadic Blog Post), in this blog post we attempt to show the concept under a different light, by explaining what will actually happen when/if it goes live on-chain. TLDR…

by Oksana Protsukha This article is aimed at those already familiar with Tezos protocol. If you are new to the ecosystem, I strongly encourage you to go over the Tezos documentation and familiarize yourself with what Tezos is, its design and features. Tezos latest self-amended upgrade to Edo 2.0 was…

UPDATE: based on further analysis by Nomadic Labs, it is no longer recommended to vote for Baking Accounts as proposed during phase 42. See below. We still believe Baking Accounts is a needed Tezos feature for the reasons explained below. …

Mina is a constant-size blockchain written in OCaml. We were eager to try itprogramatically before their mainnet release. We decided to give it a try in a Kubernetes cluster on Amazon EKS. Mina already maintains Helm charts, so deployment was easy. We normally use Terraform, but we recently got familiar…

Tezos is one of the major proof-of-stake cryptocurrencies. Our company, MIDL.dev, offers infrastructure services for Tezos bakers and builders. We just released version 2.0 of Tezos-on-GKE, an open-source framework that we built and that we are using internally. We announced version 1.0 here in 2019. Several bakers have deployed our…

by Oksana Protsukha Tezos is an on-chain governance blockchain protocol built on liquid proof-of-stake (LPoS) algorithm for consensus. Being PoS protocol, it relies on validators (aka “bakers” in Tezos lingo) to ensure network security. You can find detailed description of proof-of-stake consensus here. What differentiates Tezos from the other PoS…

by Nicolas Ochem When operating a Polkadot validator, it is critical to maximize your uptime in order to avoid being penalized. Good practices of a node operator incude disaster recovery: the ability to quickly repair your operations in case of failures. For example, if your hard drive dies, you need…