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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

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This week on TezTalks Radio, host Brandon Langston is joined by Islam, Community Manager at Trilitech, for a thoughtful conversation about responsibility, judgment, and the emotional reality of working closely with people.

Before entering the Tezos ecosystem, Islam seriously considered a career in medicine. That interest in care, responsibility, and human impact never disappeared. It simply found a different place to live. In this episode, we explore how those values translate into community work, where decisions matter, clarity is essential, and there is rarely a script to follow.

Our guest is Islam, a community manager at Trilitech whose work sits at the intersection of people, communication, and responsibility across the Tezos ecosystem.

In this episode, we explore:

• What drew Islam toward medicine and what stayed with him after choosing a different path
• How responsibility shows up in community roles without formal authority
• The parallels between medical clarity and careful communication
• How judgment is formed when rules alone are not enough
• What community experiments reveal, even when they fall short
• The emotional weight of working closely with people at scale
• Lessons drawn from long-term loyalty and expectation
• What good engagement actually looks like from the community side
• One misconception about community-facing roles that causes the most friction
• What Islam hopes his work contributes to over time, beyond metrics

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This week on TezTalks Radio, host Brandon Langston reconnects with Bosque Gracias, the artist collective and residency built by hand in the forests of Patagonia by Rosio and Mariano. After years offline and a chance reconnection during lockdown, Bosque found a new creative chapter through Tezos. Now, one year later, we return to see how that chapter has unfolded.

🎙️ Our guest is Mariano, co-founder of Bosque Gracias, returning to reflect on how the residency has grown over the past year and how hosting artists continues to shape both the space and his own practice.

In this episode, we explore:

What it feels like, in hindsight, to reconnect to the internet after five years offline

- How daily rhythm changes when residencies fill an entire calendar

- Moments when forest, river, and weather quietly reroute creative work

- Unexpected collaborations sparked by Bosque’s pairing wheel

- Times when things broke down and improvisation led to meaningful outcomes

- How hosting others has revived parts of Mariano’s own artistic practice

- The story of the engraver living on a mountain island and what visiting her studio reveals

- The tension between growing the residency and protecting its soul

- What Mariano hopes artists feel on their first morning at Bosque as spring begins