Tau HUD

Tau HUD

where the rules change by agreement · testnet alpha
Simulation
—online
tau-testnet-v2
#0
10 AGRS
Simulation · no real chain dataGuess the next roundWhat you see follows the documented tau-testnet protocol but is generated in your browser. To read a real node, switch to Live node and connect your own node. Experimental community project, no claim of accuracy.
Why this is not a normal blockchain

On other chains, code is law. On Tau, the agreement is law: users write the rules in logic, every rule is checked before it can apply, and nothing changes without the validators’ consent. There is no admin key.

Checked before it appliesA proposed rule is compiled on its own first. If it does not hold, it never enters the chain.see it: Rule changes · “compiled in isolation ✓”
from the protocoladmission.py:709 ↗
No admin keyNobody can change the rules alone. A change needs the validators’ agreement and takes effect at a later block.see it: Validators · “agreement needed”
seen on the testnetgovernance.py:496 ↗
Enforced against the key holderYour rule binds your account, not your device. A stolen key still obeys your limits.see it: Transactions · red “✕ refused”
from the protocolengine.py:1880 ↗
Money with termsA transfer can be returnable until a release point, locked until a time, or co-signed above an amount.see it: Personal money rules
from the protocolREADME §Retractable ↗

Block check by rules block —

Active consensus spec rev 1

      

      
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—Block pace

          
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Transactions waiting → sealed

      

    


    

      
Personal money rules 0 accounts

      
each account programs its own money · the node folds every rule into one spec

      

        

        

      

    


    

      
Rule changes by agreement 0 open

      
proposed → checked → agreed → scheduled → active

      

        
How a rule changes what each chain has to do

        
Other chainsmonths, if ever

          propose
          debatemonths · factions
          vote
          ⑂ forksplits
          upgradeby hand
        

        
Tau~1 min · simulated

          
propose—checked—agreed—active—

          done. no fork, no upgrade.
        

        
On Tau a rule change is a transaction: checked, agreed by quorum and live a few blocks later. No fork, no upgrade, no admin.

      

      

    


    

      
Blockchain following the newest block

      

      

      
Click a block above to inspect it here. The newest block is shown until you pick one.

    


    

      
Rule sharing 0 waiting

      
one account offers a rule, the other checks it and accepts or rejects

      

    


    

      
      

        
Rules in force now changes only when the chain agrees

        

        
          
            The Daily Consensus
            Where the rules change by agreement
            Vol. XIIINo. —
            Extra
            Users Vote to Change How the Chain Agrees, and Every Node Simply Obeys
            Consensus moves from a fixed list of validators to stake and back again, and not a single machine is reinstalled.
            
            Every blockchain has a rulebook. On most of them it is carved into the software itself, and changing a single line means a hard fork: new software, shipped to every machine, installed by every operator, with the ever-present danger that some refuse and the chain splits in two.
            Continued in the newspaper ›
          
        
        
      

      

        
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