Biweekly update 18th January — 1st February
This is not financial advice
Tezos has decentralized nature with lots of teams that are working separately without one unified roadmap, however, all of them are running for the common goal — the growth of Tezos. The company incentivizes developers with posting new tutorials, special extensions and platforms. Now Conseil and ConseilJS are available in beta version and Tezos app is functioning with Ledger Nano S. Tezos Community has superactive social life with meetups, lectures in Tezos Blockchain Camp and planning Tez Talks. We can also see the expansion of Tezos Bakers listed on MyTezosBakers, as well as the increase of subscribers in social networks. How is Tezos? Tezos is doing well.
Development
25 developers migrated to Nomadic Labs, thats why the number of members there is five times less
- Michelson Tutorial Part 4 — Data Structures. Look at detailed information via link.
- Tezos Stack Exchange site is now LIVE in private beta! Sign up or contribute here.
- After almost two hundred pull requests, Conseil and ConseilJS are now in beta! Tezos developers, start building and help us get into production. More info on Medium. The code can be viewed here and here. While Cryptonomic encourages developers to run their own Conseil instance for their projects, we also offer a public development instance of Conseil aligned with the Tezos alphanet. Conseil provides a RESTful API for querying blockchain data. ConseilJS is a front-end library for both reading from and writing into blockchains that uses Conseil as its back-end.
- Tezos created tools to make it easier for IOS developers to interact with tezos and its smart contracts. Check out these tutorials.
- Simple Staking just released our new lightweight web wallet, the first to support @Tezos on @Trezor and designed to counter blind signature attacks. Next, we will develop staking features for our wallet. Check it out.
- “LabosNomades is currently preparing to submit its first protocol amendment proposals for a vote.” Check out this inaugural edition of “Meanwhile at Nomadic” for more information.
- A new crypto asset to the Ledger platform with tezos. The Tezos app is now available on Ledger Live for the Ledger Nano S.
- Implementing @tezos smart contracts using @reasonml in a sandboxed environment by Matej Sima. Read here.
- Learn how to set up a dev environment for Tezos. Including a localhost instance of a Tezos network and Emacs with the Michelson mode.
- The Cortez wallet for Android by LabosNomades has been updated to include delegation.
- Introducing the first open-source tezos tool: Tempo, a @rustlang crate that automates the download and startup of a private tezos node.
- You can now run a Tezos Node in Kiln. Plus they’ve added monitoring improvements.
- Tezos environment manager has been updated. You can now browse your local node’s transactions, accounts, contracts and much more using TzScan.
Social encounters
- New York City! The esteemable @DigiTyler, founder of @camlCaseTech, was hosting Tezos in NYC on Jan. 29th. Visit his meetup page here.
- Nomadic Labs attended POPL2019. The annual Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages is a forum for the discussion of all aspects of programming languages and programming systems. Both theoretical and experimental papers are welcome, on topics ranging from formal frameworks to experience reports.
- Diego explains at the university of Lisbon the challenge of combining DSLs and generic programming languages with Formal Verification techniques, in a certified compilation environment, with unusual cost models. Creating a #blockchain like Tezos requires solving many problems.
- Country-Wise Location of Tezos Bakers Listed At MyTezosBaker.
- Tezos Blockchain Camp lectures — watch on YouTube.
- What is AirGap and how can you keep your crypto safe was discussed As well as the announcement of AirGap’s support for tezos. Watch the talk from last Saturday at the Tezos Blockchain Talk event hosted by Tezos_Korea
- Christopher Goes from @CryptiumLabs & @tendermint_team presented Tendermint x Tezos to @LabosNomades. Watch here.
- Cryptium Labs tweeted “We heard from some people who visited Paris that “the @LabosNomades Team were some of the nicest people in the ecosystem”. As usual, we needed to verify, and we were not disappointed.”
Upcoming events
- Meet up with fellow tezos enthusiasts in New York, Boston or Des Moines! Here are the details for the Boston event on January 30th.
- Tezos Tokio Meetup — Jun Furuse of OCaml and http://janestreet.com fame is presenting an update about core Tezos developments, in Tokyo on February 5th 2019.
- Announcement of Tez Talks — Join Tezos on March 23rd in San Mateo, CA for curated talks about Tezos and the Future of the Commons.
Partnerships and team members
- Cryptium labs put a reminder that none of this tech is “black magic”, you don’t need to be a wizard to understand it. @awasunyin’s resolution is help more people find the “why”.
- Tezos Commons tweeted “Having worked w/ both @TezosCommunity & the team @tezsure — we enjoyed this podcast. Take a listen! Looking forward to hearing about more buidlers on tezos blockchain insurance”. Podcast is here.
- Presentation of The Tocqueville Group (TQ) — an entity formed to advance the Tezos ecosystem by creating open-source tools and other public goods, providing support to projects and companies building on Tezos, and expanding the global community.
- Here are the Tezos documentation for users, developers and bakers
1. Wiki
@TQTezos : https://bit.ly/2S55QTZ
2. Developers
@LabosNomades : https://bit.ly/2TdhdpX
@deceteced : https://bit.ly/2HBVoz6
@camlCaseTech : https://bit.ly/2B6A3IB
3. Baking
@CryptiumLabs : https://bit.ly/2TgYZUN
Rumors
- A little sneak peek of a tezos $XTZ transaction with AirGap’s two app, same device approach. Support for Android & iOS.
- Obsidian Systems posted a guide about their wallet working with Tezos.
Finance
- The number of Tezos bakers per day has increased 600% over the past six months. More info here.
Social media metrics
The graph above shows the dynamics of changes in the number of Tezos Facebook likes, Reddit subscribers and Twitter followers. The information is taken from Coingecko.com.
