<aside> ℹ️ TLIP: 0001 Authors: Romain [email protected] Status: Review Created: 2023-01-23 Types: Architecture | Documentation Description: Define, implement and document the upgradability strategies for TalentLayer

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A smart contract upgrade is an action that can arbitrarily change the code executed in an address while preserving storage and balance.

Objectives

⭐ Learn all about upgradability

⭐ Create documentation to share with the team and publically

⭐ Define the TL upgradability strategies and architectures

⭐ Develop the implementations

⭐ Define tools and processes to upgrade a contract on testnet and mainnet

Summary

Organization

Study

Sum up what we learn and our conclusion during our searches

Philosophical limits

• The promise of smart contracts and, ultimately, blockchain technology is that of trustlessness
• Immutability is a critical feature to achieve trustlessness and blockchains are meant to be immutable
• Upgradeability is fundamentally flawed

We are 100% aligned with this vision and we aim to remove upgradability on medium term