Announcing Octez.connect

Project Updates
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We are pleased to announce the release of Octez.connect, an open-source wallet connection library for Tezos Layer 1, enabling applications to seamlessly connect with Tezos wallets.

Octez.connect is a fork of Beacon beacon-sdk v5.0.0-beta.3. Maintained by Nomadic Labs, Trilitech and Functori, Octez.connect picks up the mantle from Beacon, which is expected to sunset at the end of the month. The release of Octez.connect ensures its long term availability and integration into the Tezos X roadmap.

Octez.connect v1.0.0 preserves all the functionality and interfaces of its predecessor, and intends to offer Tezos builders a smooth migration and integration—we provide more specific details below.

Octez.connect v1.0.0 also implements a few minor bugfixes. We refer builders to the Changelog and the release notes for further details

Migrating applications to Octez.connect

At this point, migrating Tezos Layer 1 applications from Beacon to Octez.connect requires minimal client-side changes like switching NPM upstream dependencies (e.g, from @airgap/beacon-sdk to @tezos-x/octez.connect-sdk); or updating import statements where relevant.

Timeline: Beacon’s support for the Tezos protocol is not guaranteed beyond the end of the month (February 2026).

  • Beacon nodes will be operational until the end of the current month.
  • An upcoming version of beacon-sdk, expected before the end of the month, will integrate octez.connect nodes in the SDK, enabling interoperability between Beacon and Octez.connect during this transition period.
  • There is no guarantee that Beacon will remain compatible with the Tezos protocol beyond this date.

We invite application and wallet developers to consider migrating their infrastructure to octez.connect as soon as possible. A complete migration guide is available on the docs:

We have also forked other repositories which implement upstream dependencies or provide additional functionality and documentation:

Next Steps

We invite Tezos builders to reach out to us on Tezos Discord (or in the thread below), if they need our support to explore and integrate Octez.connect, and for any other questions they might have.

We would like to thank the maintainers of Beacon, Papers AG, for their continued contributions to and support for the Tezos ecosystem.

Let’s build a bright future for Tezos together.

(Edited on 24/02/2026 following clarification requests).

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Security Update: Addressing critical Synapse vulnerabilities on Beacon relay infrastructure
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Thanks for the release and the migration info!

A couple of questions:

  1. Interoperability during transition — We’re looking at roughly a week before Beacon nodes go offline, which is a ridiculously tight window for the entire ecosystem to migrate. It’s almost guaranteed that we’ll end up with dApps and wallets on different sides — e.g. a wallet updates to octez.connect but a dApp is still on the old beacon-sdk, or vice versa. How does this play out in practice? Will connections just break? The upcoming beacon-sdk release with octez.connect nodes helps, but realistically not everyone is going to migrate in a week.

  2. Matrix vs WalletConnect — The library still supports both the legacy matrix relay and WalletConnect. Is there a longer-term plan to deprecate matrix in favor of WalletConnect, or will both transports be maintained going forward?

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Thank you for raising these important questions @foolean .

  1. Regarding interoperability during transition - beacon-sdk and octez.connect are completely interoperable. For example, you can check stake.tezos.com which is using octez.connect and you can connect it to any wallet, which is still using beacon-sdk.
    But point to note is that beacon hosted nodes will go down at the end of the month and thus after that users of beacon-sdk (older versions) will not be able to connect. I believe upgrading to latest version of beacon-sdk would be the fastest resolutions dapps/wallets can adopt if they dont have time to migrate. We will release this latest version today (EOD).

  2. Matrix vs WalletConnect - There is no plan to deprecate matrix as of now.

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Hi all,

We’re releasing a Taquito beta today that updates to the latest Beacon SDK v4.8.0, which includes the new octez.io relay nodes. A final minor release will follow shortly once testing is complete.

We understand from the Papers.ch team that their relay servers will continue to operate for the near term, so existing dApps and wallets should not experience any disruption.

Regarding migrating Taquito to Octez.connect: we’re actively evaluating it. Octez.connect is a fork of the Beacon SDK v5.0.0-beta.3 branch, which introduces changes to error handling, transport serialization, and protocol negotiation that need careful review. We want to understand the impact on existing dApps and wallets before shipping these changes to Taquito users.

We welcome any interoperability testing documentation or results from the Nomadic Labs, Trilitech and Functori teams and will factor them into our evaluation.

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