Releasing Tenderbakenet

[NomadicLabs]

We are pleased to announce that a test network has been spawned with a new experimental consensus algorithm, Tenderbake. Tenderbakenet will be used to evaluate this experimental consensus
algorithm on a larger scale. As of now, the network is already up and running. Please feel free to:

• have a look at the TzKT block explorer for Tenderbakenet (many thanks to Baking Bad);
• check out the instructions for joining.

[sgn]

This is great! Thanks for the continuous efforts to improve Tezos blockchain.

Two questions regarding this:

1. Block time: Do we plan to reduce block time for Tezos network once this goes live?
2. Number of validators: Tendermint(Cosmos) has limited set of validators(capped at 100-125). Will Tezos network also need to limit it’s validator set to enable this new consensus algorithm?

[tokyo_on_rails]

1. Yes, block time and finality will both improve.
2. No. This is a customized Tendermint consensus for Tezos, it will not affect decentralization and will not enforce any max validator count like Tendermint does.

You can read more technical details here:

https://blog.nomadic-labs.com/a-look-ahead-to-tenderbake.html