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This week on TezTalks Radio, host Brandon Langston is joined by Thomas Letan for a grounded conversation about what it actually means for Tezos to feel like one product.

Rather than starting with promises or roadmaps, this episode begins with a real moment: a failed FA token deposit just hours after an Etherlink upgrade went live. From there, Thomas walks through how reliability is tested when things break, what it takes to fix issues transparently, and how trust is rebuilt at the user level.

The conversation then shifts to speed, not benchmarks, but the kind of immediacy users feel when apps respond instantly. With Instant Confirmations, Tezos moves closer to real-time experiences, opening the door for new kinds of applications that simply could not exist before.

🔍 In this episode, we explore:

• What a real failure looks like from a user’s point of view
• How Etherlink 6.1 fixed a regression without leaving users stuck
• Why “funds are safe” has to mean something operational, not rhetorical
• What reliability really means when mainnet behaves differently than tests
• How Instant Confirmations change what apps can do in real time
• Why under-50ms feedback matters for trading, gaming, and live UX
• What “commitment” means when a sequencer says a transaction is in
• How first-come-first-served ordering creates predictable user experience
• What developers gain without having to rewrite their apps
• How Tezos X aims to remove mental overhead for users who just want things to work
• What end users should actually notice as Tezos starts to feel whole