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Making Crypto Safer: Introducing the ARGOS Project
We are partnering up to create a custom platform for evaluating, tracing, and detecting suspicious blockchain transactions.
Communications Officer
Optimising Archive Node Storage for Tezos
For the past few years, Tarides has been responsible for the storage component of Tezos, from L1 and L2 shells up to the Tezos protocol. In 2022, our main focus was on improving storage performance and UX for running nodes and bakers. Our efforts resulted in significant improvements, including reduc…
How Nomadic Labs Used Multicore Processing to Create a Faster Blockchain
The technology that makes blockchain possible is complex, cutting-edge, and fascinating. Balancing efficiency and security on a knife's edge, it finds perfect harmony between high transaction speeds and safe, predictable results. Blockchain technology is constantly evolving, pushing the boundaries o…
Communications Officer
Towards Minimal Disk-Usage for Tezos Bakers
Over the last few months, Tarides has focused on designing, prototyping, and integrating a new feature for Tezos bakers: automatic context pruning for rolling and full nodes. This feature will allow bakers to run Tezos with minimal disk usage while continuing to enjoy 12x more responsive operations.…
Adding Merkle Proofs to Tezos
The Upcoming Tezos Jakarta Protocol will support compact Merkle proofs to scale the network's trust infrastructure. This allows nodes that do not trust each other to agree on the validity of Tezos transactions with orders of magnitude smaller storage requirements. For instance, the block 2,400,319, …
Lightning Fast with Irmin: Tezos Storage is 6x faster with 1000 TPS surpassed
Over the last year, the Tarides storage team has been focused on scaling the storage layer of Octez, the most popular node implementation for the Tezos blockchain. With the upcoming release of Octez v13, we are reaching our performance goal of supporting one thousand transactions per second (TPS) in…
The New Replaying Benchmark in Irmin
As mentioned in our Tezos Storage / Irmin Summer 2021 Update on the Tezos Agora forum, the Irmin team's goal has been to improve Irmin's performance in order to speed up the Baking Account migration process in Octez, and we managed to make it 10x faster in the first quarter of 2021. Since then, we'v…
Senior Software Engineer
Announcing Tezos’ 8th protocol upgrade proposal: Hangzhou
The last upgrade of the Tezos protocol, Granada, activated on August 6th, 2021. We are now glad to announce a new protocol proposal, Hangzhou, the result of a collaborative work from various teams. This is a joint post with Nomadic Labs, Marigold, Oxhead Alpha and DaiLambda. …
Florence and beyond: the future of Tezos storage
In collaboration with Nomadic Labs, Marigold and DaiLambda, we're happy to announce the completion of the next Tezos protocol proposal: Florence. Tezos is an open-source decentralised blockchain network providing a platform for smart contracts and digital assets. A crucial feature of Tezos is self-a…
Software Engineer
Irmin: September 2020 update
This post will survey the latest design decisions and performance improvements made to irmin-pack, the Irmin storage backend used by Tezos. Tezos is an open-source blockchain technology, written in OCaml, which uses many libraries from the MirageOS ecosystem. For more context on the design of irmin-…
Introducing irmin-pack
irmin-pack is an Irmin storage backend that we developed over the last year specifically to meet the Tezos use-case. Tezos nodes were initially using an LMDB-based backend for their storage, which after only a year of activity led to 250 GB disk space usage, with a monthly growth of 25 GB. Our goal …
Senior Software Engineer
The future of Tezos on MirageOS
We are very glad to announce that Tarides has been awarded two new grants from the Tezos Foundation. Thanks to these new grants, Tarides will continue to work on the integration between Tezos and MirageOS. We believe that the secure deployment of blockchains is still a major challenge today, and tha…
MirageOS + Tezos funding
We are excited to announce that the Tezos Foundation will trust Tarides to package Tezos nodes as MirageOS unikernel, which will help participants establish nodes on the Tezos network in a more efficient and secure manner. …
