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Improving Tezos Storage : Gitlab branch for testers

This article is the third post of a series of posts on improving Tezos storage. In our previous post, we announced the availability of a docker image for beta testers, wanting to test our storage and garbage collector. Today, we are glad to announce that we rebased our code on the latest version of ...

04 Feb 2019

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Improving Tezos Storage : update and beta-testing

In a previous post, we presented some work that we did to improve the quantity of storage used by the Tezos node. Our post generated a lot of comments, in which upcoming features such as garbage collection and pruning were introduced. It also motivated us to keep working on this (hot) topic, and we ...

30 Jan 2019

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Improving Tezos Storage

Running a Tezos node currently costs a lot of disk space, about 59 GB for the context database, the place where the node stores the states corresponding to every block in the blockchain, since the first one. Of course, this is going to decrease once garbage collection is integrated, i.e. removing ve...

15 Jan 2019

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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

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OCamlPro’s Liquidity-lang demo at JFLA2018 – a smart-contract design language

As a tradition, we took part in this year's Journées Francophones des Langages Applicatifs (JFLA 2018) that was chaired by LRI's Sylvie Boldo and hosted in Banyuls the last week of January. That was a nice opportunity to present a live demo of a multisignature smart-contract entirely written in th...

08 Feb 2018

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