Jul 26, 2019

The Baking Sheet - Issue #12

By Tezos Commons • Issue #12 • View online

Land of the Fertile Crescent, bounded by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Welcome to Babylon.

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Babylon Proposal Injected!

This update is joint work with Cryptium Labs, with contributions from the Marigold team, and it is much more significant than Athens in terms of features.

Its main changes to Tezos are:

a new variant of our consensus algorithm, Emmy+, that is both more robust and simpler to analyse,
many new Michelson features which have been eagerly awaited by Tezos smart contract developers and designers of higher level languages,
an account rehaul that establishes a clear distinction between accounts (tz1, tz2 and tz3) and smart contracts (KT1),
refinements to the quorum formula and a new 5% proposal quorum.

Learn more about the Babylon Proposal

Jacob Arluck

@JacobArluck

Babylon is a big step up from Athens, which just changed some constants. And it's the work of 3 teams: @LabosNomades , @CryptiumLabs , and Marigold (team also behind @LigoLang)

What's in it?

https://t.co/jla4v7ctRA

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