Establishing the first 10 self-sustaining Tezos bakers in Africa — We’ve partnered with Objkt.com to feature a Kuoka Project fundraiser, intending to raise 60,000 tez (XTZ), to finance the first 10 permanent self-sustaining Tezos bakers in Africa. We are calling upon NFT artists to contribute any artwork to the project featured collection. Proceeds of the featured art sold on Objkt…

Who/what powers TEZEX Bridge and how you can participate — TEZEX Bridge is a non-custodial cross-chain token bridge for Tezos, that runs on the basis of atomic swaps through a double-sided marketplace. At first, TEZEX Bridge will enable swaps to/from the Ethereum blockchain (ERC-20 tokens), to the Tezos blockchain (FA-1.2, FA-2.0) The first pairing available is USD Coin (USDC) to…

Decentralized on-chain lending/borrowing for Tezos DeFi — Tezos Finance (aka ‘Tezfin’)—launching 2022 [EDIT: mainnet beta launched Q3 2022]—is the first decentralized on-chain lending platform (conceptually akin to Compound or Aave) that will operate on Tezos blockchain. [I first wrote the prelude to this a year ago in an article titled On-Chain Lending — with Tezos. Since then…

A historical first — wrapping ETH on Tezos as a Tezos FA token — With the launch of a new token, ETHtez (ETHtz), we hereby confidently and audaciously proclaim the beginning of a path that will lead to the erosion of Ethereum’s dominance in the DeFi space. …

Buy/Sell USDtez to Tezos bakeries that are also enrolled minters — Whereas most asset trading is done in secondary markets (including exchanges like Quipuswap, and TEZEX), assets generally begin in their respective primary markets. From there, liquidity providers supply the liquidity pools of secondary markets. For USDtez (USDtz/USDTZ) the primary market is by default, the place where USDtz tokens are minted…

Passive income rewards from supplying Dexter and Quipuswap — [UPDATE: Dexter has launched since this article was published.] The Tezos ecosystem will soon have Uniswap-like DEXs, also known as Automated Market Makers (AMMs). Namely, Dexter by camlCase will launch soon, followed by Quipuswap from Madfish. When Dexter launches, many will rush to Add Liquidity to Dexter liquidity pools. That…

Armanino to provide audit reports over USDtz collateral holdings — USD Tez (USDtz) went live on Tezos mainnet, May 7th 2020, becoming the first USD-pegged stablecoin on Tezos. USDtz is one of the first tokens to utilize the Tezos community token standard “FA” (analogous to the ERC token standards on Ethereum). Decentralized auditing already exists for USDtz users. USD Tez…

Last month, the first USD-pegged stablecoin on Tezos launched! — From now on there will be regular update articles on the USDtez project and the USDtz (USDTZ) token. Updates The Tezos community has grown a lot since I announced and began writing about USDtz in the Summer of 2019, and so has the USD Tez project. …

For qualifying Minters of USD Tez (USDtz) | Tezos Stablecoin How easy is it to mint USDtz? Preparation Tezos FA-1.2 compatible wallet. You can see a list of these wallets here: https://usdtz.com/minting.html Ethereum wallet (not from an exchange). You can see a list of these wallets here https://www.centre.io/usdc#wallets Some amount of USDC in your Ethereum wallet. (How much…