Questions tagged [protocol]
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How to prepare a Protocol Change Proposal?
I want to know what is the procedure for preparing a protocol proposal.
From my understanding it goes like this.
Take the current Protocol src and make the changes in .ml files.
Use a script to ...
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Is there an equivalent of the Ethereum "selfdestruct" opcode in Tezos?
In Ethereum you can implement a selfdestruct opcode in a smart contract to remove its code from the blockchain and free up storage space.
Is there an equivalent on Tezos ?
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Can't see 35% gas optimization on protocol 009
I looked around and could not see any example of known smart contract (FA1.2, FA2, etc) that is now using less gas then before Florence protocol.
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Is there any possible balance update for an account on a "proposals" operation type?
I am trying to capture any operation that has a balance change - curious about the proposals operation and if there is any possibility that a balance can be updated?
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Active test networks
There are many test networks on Tezos.
What are the active and soon to be active public ones?
How do we participate?
Are there accessible public nodes?
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What is the difference between edonet and edo2net?
The block explorer tzkt.io has both a edonet and an edo2net option. Are these two different blockchains and what is the difference between these two test nets?
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Tezos-node and tezos client don't use same Edo protocol version
I have a problem with Edo protocol version.
On my computer, I tried to install tezos-node and tezos-client from PPA, with OPAM and from gitlab sources. With these 3 ways, I always have the same ...
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What is a manager operation?
Transactions, originations, public key reveals, and delegations are "manager operations". According to Different types of operation in Tezos Block - Which one fee is spent, "manager ...
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node log - node.validator: fetching protocol PtEdo
Seeing the following warning in the node log
node.validator: fetching protocol PtEdoTezd3RHSC31mpxxo1npxFjoWWcFgQtxapi51Z8TLu6v6Uq
node running PsDELPH1
what's the issue? thx
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How are main net and test net blockchain state migrated to new protocols?
As far as I know protocol updates are made on main net about every 3 months. When this happens all balances, smart contracts, and smart contract state are preserved on main net. But how does it work ...
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How to calculate KT1 addresses of the bootstrap_contracts
As we know, Tezos protocol activator accepts the bootstrap_contracts parameter to originate specified contracts when the blockchain is launched. For example, Tezos mainnet was launched with some "...
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Anticipated Delphi Switch
When is the Tezos mainnet expected to switch to Delphi?
Is there anything that node owners should do in anticipation?
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What exactly happens at the end of a cycle?
The Tezos protocol does a lot of bookkeeping at the end of a cycle to manage its validator set. According to our own research and that of others we came up with a list of assumptions that suggest the ...
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Difference made in various protocols
Can anyone briefly explain about "Protocol 003 vs Protocol 004 Athens vs Protocol 005 Babylon vs Protocol 006 Carthage" ?
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What is the Genesis key's power after activation?
If somebody had the activator/genesis private key for mainnet
(corresponding to edpkvVCdQtDJHPnkmfRZuuHWKzFetH9N9nGP8F7zkwM2BJpjbvAU1N
https://gitlab.com/tezos/tezos/blob/master/src/proto_000_Ps9mPmXa/...
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Is this the right way to activate protocol cathage?
./tezos/tezos-client -l --base-dir ./tmp --addr localhost --port 18731 --block genesis activate protocol PsCARTHAGazKbHtnKfLzQg3kms52kSRpgnDY982a9oYsSXRLQEb with fitness 1 and key activator and ...
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Testnet node crashes when activating protocol
I managed to manually set up a testnet consisting of 2 nodes on different hosts. The nodes connect, and using tezos-client I can successfully import secret keys (import secret key bootstrap1 ${...
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Rewards for Operations
Out of these Operations which operations affect the balance of an Account either by rewards or by any transaction?
First four I know they incur a fee at least so that balance gets affected. Can any ...
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Operations in a block
I have fetched the operations of a specific block and out of that have queris in one operation as shown below.
{
"protocol": "PsddFKi32cMJ2qPjf43Qv5GDWLDPZb3T3bF6fLKiF5HtvHNU7aP",
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How to calculate price of gas
In Ethereum one can get the gas price using web3.eth.gasPrice.
In Tezos, does any RPC provide the gas price, or is there a formula to calculate the gas price?
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Zero-fee transactions
Need so help to understand the below transaction :
[
{
"type": "transaction",
"id": 279,
"level": 26,
"timestamp": "2018-06-30T18:07:27Z",
"hash": "...
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Block Heights at which important changes happened to the protocol
I've been exploring the json dumps of each block through ./tezos-client rpc get /chains/main/blocks/<bid> and wanted to know the block heights at which some important changes might have happened ...
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Total baking balance calculation (includes inactive bakers stake?)
Does the total baking balance of the Tezos network (for example currently 76.9%) include the delegated XTZ to an inactive/sleeping/closed/defunct delegation services? At which point will these be ...
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Block reward calculation in Babylon
There seems to be a bug in the block reward calculation in Babylon.
For example, in block 664451 there were 26 endorsements. So the reward should be 16 * (0.8 + 0.2 * 26 / 32) = 15.4 XTZ (source). ...
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Recently annouced plan for the implementation of zk-snarks into Tezos -timing?
Apologies for this lay question but I would very much appreciate if anyone could kindly tell me (in plain English for lay people like me) the timeline for the implementation of zk-snarks into Tezos ...
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What causes the network to slowdown when a new protocol activates?
When Babylon activated there was a period of 30+ minutes where endorsements and bakes were very unstable and we ended up hitting some quite high priorities. I'm curious to know why this is the case ...
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What is the smallest monetary unit in Tezos?
What is the smallest monetary unit in Tezos, and where is it defined in the code?
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BABY5 vs. BABYM1? How does the network decide which is the "right" protocol?
The Tezos Docs say:
Any node running the May release, in case of a successful promotion
vote, will activate protocol 005_PsBABY5H, which contains a bug
affecting bigmaps in smart contracts.
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Why does querying tezos-node for test chain return 404?
I am querying a mainnet tezos node for test chain data using the url specified in the following question:
Can I use an RPC to switch the Tezos node to another protocol?
Specifically "/chains/test/...
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What is the procedure for testing a protocol upgrade?
How can we get example RPC data for a protocol upgrade, e.g. Babylon 2.0? How can we make transactions using the test protocol?
If we have to deploy our own private network for testing, is there ...
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Maximum supply in tezos
1) Is there a way we can vote for a maximum supply in tezos ?
2) would that be a desireable thing from a tokenomics perspective ?
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What flavor of zksnark in tezos
I have read that Nomadic Labs is working on incorporating some flavor of zksnarks into tezos for future amendment proposal (presumably in 2019).
Looking at the literature I see there are many flavors ...
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Where is the reward operation for athens?
Athens amendment proposal was succesfully integrated as proto004 into the mainnet at level 458753.
The first mined block can be seen here
https://api6.tzscan.io//v3/block/...
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Tokens on Tezos
I'm interested in creating a token, similar to an ERC20 token on Ethereum, on the Tezos network. If I see correctly, as of now there is no possibility to track tokens on any of the public block ...
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How should I prepare as a baker, for Athens A protocol activation?
Can someone provide a step-by-step guide to help bakers to be prepared for Athens A protocol activation? Do we need to upgrade Ledger baking software?
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Confusing about the Mathematical representation in white paper
I'm confusing with the S^S. Does it mean S*S in set theory? I need a detailed explain.
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Is the decimals can be change when protocol updating?
I am confusing when I'm reading the write paper because the decimals is actually 6 now.
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How to calculate the total locked XTZ?
Using the TZscan.io Stats - Key Numbers dashboard, how can I calculate the total locked XTZ in the system? And shouldn't this be a KPI measure by itself? Since delegators can very easily move their ...
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How to calculate a random seed?
For example, we have 126/128 nonces, revealed in cycle 99.
/chains/main/blocks/409599/context/raw/json/cycle/98/nonces?depth=1
If I understand correctly, using these nonces we can calculate the ...
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Alphanet protocol synced with mainnet
If I test on the alphanet and everything works correctly, can I then safely assume that the same code / process will also work on the mainnet?
The current Tezos protocol amendment voting process is ...
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Node gives testnet error
rebooted my system and restarted the node. Now I'm getting the following error. Is this simply the node telling me that it's not able to run the new fork because I started it with the old (i.e. ...
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the tezos protocol and the problem of over-delegation
Why does the Tezos protocol allow for baker over-delegation?
It is the Tezos protocol itself that has encoded the amount of XTZ that needs to be put up for baking and endorsements and the protocol ...
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Tendermint vs Grandpa & Babe
It seems Tezos is moving towards the Tendermint consensus, used by Cosmos. However, wouldn't a Grandpa & Babe consensus mechanism, as used in Polkadot, allow for better block scaling?
EDIT: I am ...
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Can /context/constants change apart from a protocol change?
The node RPC allows you to ask for the context constants for any block via /chains/<chain>/blocks/<block>/context/constants. Is it possible for these constants to change apart from a ...
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What steps should be taken to safely upgrade a baker after a new protocol update
With the Athens upgrade looking likely, I am interested to hear how bakers can safely update their nodes to the latest version whilst experiencing minimum downtime. It has been straightforward doing ...
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Amending the P2P Layer
Is it possible to amend the P2P layer of Tezos? As far as I understand from here, the amendment process is only for the economic protocol.
If we wanted to suggest changes to how the P2P layer works ...
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Can I use an RPC to switch the Tezos node to another protocol?
What is the command line command or RPC call for switching a Tezos node onto one of the protocol amendments being voted on?
During which phases is it possible to switch to a candidate protocol.
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Block Withholding Attacks
Would it be possible to do something similar to selfish mining or rather a block withholding attack in Tezos and if so how would that work? As far as I understand, Tezos being a PoS system, it'll be ...
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Michelson P2P message encoding
I'm looking to implement full message "forging" with no reliance on RPC calls. The P2P message doc does not cover all the details.
Let's say I have the JSON representation of parameters and code, how ...
