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Tarides
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#MirageOS #Irmin #OCaml
Feb 8, 2021 • 17 tweets • 9 min read
We’re excited to contribute an important feature to the next #Tezos protocol proposal: first-class _sub-trees_ of the blockchain context. 🌲

This feature has an interesting #OpenSource #OCaml history, dating back to before Tezos was born. A thread 🧵. (1 / N) The Tezos protocol runs on top of a versioned tree called the “context”, which holds the chain state (balances, contracts etc.).

Ever since pre-Alpha, the context has been implemented using Irmin – a Merkle tree database written for OCaml #MirageOS kernels. (2 / N)