Upgrades and innovations on Tezos

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Upgrades and innovations on Tezos

Tezos is a self-amending blockchain with a proven, decentralized on-chain governance process. Organizations and individuals across the globe contribute to the development and growth of Tezos in a collaborative environment.

ON-CHAIN GOVERNANCE
Upgrades on Tezos

The Tezos ecosystem develops some of the most advanced innovations in the blockchain landscape and implements them via on-chain governance. Community members propose upgrades for the network and validators vote on which proposals they would like to see explored. The most popular proposal goes through a multi-step voting and adoption process.

Governance on Tezos

Contribute to Tezos

Interested in developing the core protocol? Check out the teams in the Tezos ecosystem actively working on protocol development and those who have contributed in the past.

Nomadic Labs

Nomadic Labs, based in France, is a research and development team composed of more than 50 people working on the Tezos core protocol.

TriliTech

TriliTech is a Tezos blockchain R&D and entrepreneurship hub based in the UK. The objective is to further develop and catalyze unique opportunities for the Tezos ecosystem.

Tarides

Tarides supports developers in building robust, secure, and high-performance applications whilst maintaining crucial reliability.

Key innovations on Tezos

Tenderbake

The Ithaca2 upgrade introduced a new consensus method called Tenderbake. This enabled faster finality (verification of transactions) and laid the foundation for improved scalability.

Liquidity baking

The Granada upgrade brought liquidity baking to Tezos. Liquidity baking incentivizes individuals to contribute liquidity to a tez - tzBTC pool by subsidizing the pool with tez tokens minted every block.

Sapling

Rollups were first introduced in the Jakarta upgrade and provide an efficient scaling solution. This enables bundling transactions together for verification off-chain via enshrined optimistic rollups, increasing the maximum TPS on Tezos.

Rollups

Tickets

The Edo upgrade introduced tickets. Tickets enable greater decentralization by providing a convenient mechanism for smart contracts to grant portable permissions or issue tokens without requiring the token holder or permission grantee to interact with a centralized contract.

UPGRADE TIMELINE

A community governed,
ever-evolving technological vision.

Tezos continuously adds the latest innovation, seamlessly leveling up to deliver novel and new capabilities within the space through its upgrade mechanism. See how far we’ve come and help us imagine where Tezos will go in the future.

Latest Protocol Upgrade

The Tezos protocol was activated successfully on 1 May, 2025.

Rio

The 18th Tezos protocol upgrade introduced 1-day network cycles for more flexible staking, allocated 10% of participation rewards to the Data Availability Layer to support Layer 2 scalability, and strengthened network resilience with stricter baker inactivity thresholds.