Our guest today is Om Malviya, President, of Tezos India, who is working to popularise the Tezos blockchain in this region. In today’s conversation, Malviya talks about some of Tezos’s unique characteristics, such as how it started with proof-of-stake from the get-go and its self-amending feature. He also spoke of various initiatives to grow the Tezos ecosystem in India.

(00:40) Intro to The Daily Tech Conversation

(00:56) Our guest today — Om Malviya, president of Tezos India

(02:45) About the Tezos blockchain

(03:08) How Tezos is different — began with proof-of-stake from launch; ease of upgradability

(05:52) Tezos as a security friendly blockchain to write smart contracts

(06:48) About Tezos India — working to grow the ecosystem in the region

(08:30) The significance of proof-of-work based validation — advantages over proof-of-work

(10:45) “The more stake you have … the more likely you are to mine a block”

(12:54) Liquid proof-of-stake

(15:40) Who created Tezos, when was it launched?

(17:00) Strong uptake of Tezos

(18:28) Tezos for security tokenisation

(21:10) Self-amending feature of the Tezos blockchain

(24:34) Tenderbake — the ninth upgrade to Tezos, bringing much faster consensus on transactions

(27:44) Tezos in India — projects and efforts to grow the ecosystem

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