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opam 2.0.2 release

We are pleased to announce the release of opam 2.0.2. As sandbox scripts have been updated, don't forget to run opam init --reinit -ni to update yours. This new version contains mainly backported fixes: Doc: update man page add message for deprecated options reinsert removed ones to print a deprecat...

12 Dec 2018

OCamlPro

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MirageOS, towards a smaller and safer OS

This presentation by Romain Calascibetta took place at Lambda World Cádiz on October 26th, 2018 at the Palacio de Congresos in Cádiz, Spain.MirageOS, towards...

06 Dec 2018

Tarides

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An Introduction to Tezos RPCs: Signing Operations

In a previous blogpost, we presented the RPCs used by tezos-client to send a transfer operation to a tezos-node. We were left with two remaining questions: How to forge a binary operation, for signature How to sign a binary operation In this post, we will reply to these questions. We are still assum...

21 Nov 2018

OCamlPro

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Introduction aux RPCs dans Tezos : exemple d’un portefeuille (wallet) simple

Dans cet article technique, nous introduisons brièvement les RPCs dans Tezos à travers un exemple simple montrant comment le client Tezos interagit avec le noeud lors d’une instruction de transfert. Les RPCs de Tezos sont des requêtes HTTP (GET ou POST) auxquelles les noeuds Tezos répondent da...

20 Nov 2018

OCamlPro

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An Introduction to Tezos RPCs: a Basic Wallet

In this technical blog post, we will briefly introduce Tezos RPCs through a simple example: we will show how the tezos-client program interacts with the tezos-node during a transfer command. Tezos RPCs are HTTP queries (GET or POST) to which tezos-node replies in JSON format. They are the only way f...

15 Nov 2018

OCamlPro

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First Open-Source Release of TzScan

In October 2017, after the Tezos ICO, OCamlPro started to work on a block explorer for Tezos. For us, it was the most important software that we could contribute to the community, after the node itself, of course. We used it internally to monitor the Tezos alphanet, until its official public release...

08 Nov 2018

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Liquidity Tutorial: A Game with an Oracle for Random Numbers

A Game with an oracle In this small tutorial, we will see how to write a chance game on the Tezos blockchain with Liquidity and a small external oracle which provides random numbers. Principle of the game Rules of the game are handled by a smart contract on the Tezos blockchain. When a player decide...

06 Nov 2018

OCamlPro

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