Upgradeability

Deploying to production can be a stressful experience, especially if you don’t have a proper suite of tests to ensure that what you built will run smoothly.

Smart contract development is still in its early days. We’re all still trying to figure out what it will look like and how to polish the developer experience.

ZeppelinOS is all about making the technology of upgradeability into an accessible and frictionless tool for developers. Ideally, we want to enable a developer to create upgradeable instances...

Blockchains are immutable, and Ethereum is no exception. Ethereum has a rich smart contracts ecosystem that greatly lowers the barriers to creating new decentralized applications (DApps), governance models, and cryptocurrency tokens. It makes it so easy that

With the first release of ZeppelinOS two months ago, the key issue we wanted to tackle was upgradeability: that is, the ability to modify the logic of a smart contract already deployed to the...

One of the biggest advantages of Ethereum is that every transaction of moving funds, every contract deployed, and every transaction made to a contract is immutable on a public ledger...

During the last months we've been designing and developing a prototype of the zeppelin_os Kernel. Part of that work was to explore and compare different upgradeability mechanisms to decide which to use in zeppelin_os.

As mentioned in our Development Roadmap Part Two, the Kernel is the foundational layer of zeppelin_os, and we will soon be launching a prototype of it, starting with the functionality currently found in the OpenZeppelin framework.

The foundational layer of ZeppelinOS is the Kernel: an on-chain set of libraries offering common functionality and services that developers can call from within their smart contracts.