Tezos is a distributed consensus platform with meta-consensus capability. Tezos not only comes to consensus about the state of its ledger, like Bitcoin or Ethereum. It also comes to consensus about how the protocol and the nodes should adapt and upgrade. For more information about the project, see https://tezos.com.
Instructions to install, start using, and taking part in the consensus are available at https://tezos.gitlab.io/.
This git repository contains the source code, the tests, and the developer documentation of the Tezos software running on the nodes of the main Tezos network and on various Tezos test networks.
The documentation for developers of the Tezos software is available online at https://tezos.gitlab.io/. This documentation is always in sync with the master branch which may however be slightly desynchronized with the code running on the live networks.
The source code of Tezos is placed under the MIT Open Source License.
The core of the Tezos software that implements the economic ruleset is called the protocol. The protocol can be updated through Tezos on-chain voting procedure. Protocol contributors are encouraged to synchronize their contributions to minimize the number of protocol proposals that the stakeholders have to study and to maximize the throughput of the voting procedure.
Except for the protocol, all development of the Tezos code happens on
GitLab at https://gitlab.com/tezos/tezos. Merge requests
(https://gitlab.com/tezos/tezos/-/merge_requests) should usually
target the master branch; see the contribution
instructions.
The issue tracker at https://gitlab.com/tezos/tezos/issues can be used to report bugs and to request new simple features. The Tezos Agora forum is another great place to discuss the future of Tezos with the community at large.
Links to community websites are gathered in the following community portals:
- https://www.tezos.help/
- https://developers.tezos.com/ (for developers of applications built on Tezos)