Architecture

The Tezos network is composed of many Tezos nodes running different jobs with the overall goal of maintaining the state of the data in its blockchain in a decentralized manner.

This diagram shows a high-level view of the Tezos system:

For more information about the architecture of Tezos, see:

• Components
• Layers
• Protocol and shell
• Accounts
• Tokens
• Smart Optimistic Rollups
• Governance