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

**URL:** https://forum.tezosagora.org/t/tezos-core-development-ama-2-nomadic-labs-metastate-007/1923
**Category:** AMA
**Created:** [May 19, 2020, 6:18pm UTC](https://forum.tezosagora.org/t/tezos-core-development-ama-2-nomadic-labs-metastate-007/1923 "2020-05-19T18:18:40Z")
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### Author: ![tezz](https://forum.tezosagora.org/user_avatar/forum.tezosagora.org/tezz/32/164_2.png) [@tezz](https://forum.tezosagora.org/u/tezz)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2020, 5:05pm UTC](https://forum.tezosagora.org/t/tezos-core-development-ama-2-nomadic-labs-metastate-007/1923/38 "2020-05-26T17:05:01Z")

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> [@ENVITED | Why the Tezos Amendment Process Needs an Adoption Period - A proposal to improve the on-chain governance mechanism](https://forum.tezosagora.org/t/envited-why-the-tezos-amendment-process-needs-an-adoption-period-a-proposal-to-improve-the-on-chain-governance-mechanism/1845):
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> 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…

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