Tezos Core Development AMA #2 - Nomadic Labs, Metastate (007)

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ENVITED | Why the Tezos Amendment Process Needs an Adoption Period - A proposal to improve the on-chain governance mechanism

TL;DR Amendments to the Tezos protocol brought about by the on-chain governance are activated immediately after their promotion. This poses a problem for bakers and third-party applications built on top of Tezos whose functionality might be broken by an amendment. Preemptive developments of required modifications on application-level can only mitigate the risks to a limited extent and might turn out to be wasted if the amendment is not promoted. The Babylon amendment that only reached quorum l…