The Octez Shell

As explained in the Tezos Software Architecture, the shell is the rest of an Octez node when excluding the protocol; in other terms, the “blue octopus”.

The following pages describe the principles underlying the shell design and implementation.

• The validation subsystem
  • Concepts
  • Validator
  • Prevalidator
  • Distributed DB

• The Prevalidator
  • Prevalidator filtering mechanisms
  • Operations classification
  • Pending operations ordering and prioritization

• The storage layer
  • Store
  • Context

• Synchronisation heuristic
  • Synchronisation heuristic status
  • Bootstrapped
  • Basic description of the heuristic
  • Acceptable values for parameters
  • Formal description of the heuristic
  • If the heuristic fails

• The peer-to-peer layer
  • General operation
  • Welcome worker & connect handler
  • Maintenance worker

• Protocol Environment
  • Motivation
  • Environment contents
  • Environment versions

• Micheline
  • Syntax
  • Serialization
  • Other tools and resources