Tezos: Magic SDK And Seamless Passwordless Authentication Now On Tezos, Tezos Community Update For June, Introducing Tezos Domains, Coinbase Extends Tezos Staking Rewards To 4 European Countries, Tezos India Joins The T-Block Journey As Official Platform Partners
Biweekly update 25th May — 8th June
Hello, and welcome to our regular biweekly report on Tezos! Here You can find major recent news and updates that emerged within the Tezos ecosystem. Being one of the most top-rated crypto-projects, Tezos teams continue their extensive development, preparing more and more exciting releases. The Foundation, grantees, and operational entities have been working hard during the last two weeks. The first version of the FA1.2 token creation website is now ready — this dApp allows people to create Tezos FA1.2 tokens on Carthagenet and comfortably explore their different functionalities. TezosGigaNode team reported that over the last week, they served 1.7 mil requests per day on average, 1300+ unique connections, and 115 GiB in traffic volumes. Furthermore, EmailTezos, an email-based non-custodial wallet for Tezos, was introduced with an aim to extend the Tezos ecosystem to everyone with an email address. It is created by Tezos enthusiasts to showcase the unique capabilities of Tezos and its ecosystem to the whole world.
Beacon Extension & SDK was released for you to connect the Tezos wallet with an application seamlessly. Requests from a dApp can be signed on a mobile, desktop, hardware wallet, or browser extension. The Tezos Notify Bot has also undergone some changes and upgrades. The message with address information has been revised; an address card has been developed with detailed information about the address settings and the possibility of convenient and quick management; the ability to set the delegation amount threshold was added. Next, Tessellated Geometry, the company behind TezosKit, is proud to announce that TezosKit, a Swift SDK that enables Tezos applications to be developed on Apple products, has completed a security audit. The audit was conducted by Least Authority, a leading security company in the blockchain industry. Moreover, multiple development and educating guides to Tezos were published. Tezos Ukraine shared a detailed Tezos programming languages explanation in English, Russian, and Ukrainian to help people make the development on Tezos more accessible. Apart from that, Claude Barde created three amazing articles featuring the introduction to Michelson programming language to assist Tezos community in learning how to use it and write smart contracts.
Significant progress was also made on the community and the partnership side of Tezos. The Foundation recently caught up with Tulip Tools Founder Johann Tanzer to discuss updates to Tplus, what the Tulip Tools team is working on, and what to expect from them moving forward. Tezos Commons published a fresh June Community Update, highlighting the events and news of the past month and announcing a couple of upcoming.
Fortmatic team recently launched the new passwordless SDK — Magic, which received lots of love on Product Hunt. Recently, they shared that it now supports Tezos as its first live non-EVM blockchain integration. What’s more, after the release, the Foundation caught up with Magic CEO Sean Li to discuss Magic, the importance of passwordless authentication, and why he had chosen Tezos for his project.
Another thing to mention — Tezos India joins the T-Block journey as Official Platform Partners. In addition to providing developer expertise on building smart contracts on their platform, Tezos India will also play a vital role by joining the judging panel. By partnering with enablers like the Tezos India Foundation, T-Block can better achieve the shared objective of creating a collaborative environment that is conducive to the creation of innovative solutions using blockchain technology.
By the way, Coinbase, the San Francisco-based exchange, announced that users in the U.K., Spain, France, and the Netherlands would now be able to stake Tezos through its proprietary staking service.
The number of subscribers in social networks and active participants in chats is prone to grow! Keep yourself updated and safe!
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Development
For detailed GitLab developer activity click here.
The dapp allows people to create Tezos FA1.2 tokens on Carthagenet and easily explore their different functionalities. As the underlying smart-contract is deployed on Carthagenet, you are free to create and update your own token or use other people’s tokens to buy or transfer their tokens. Each functionality comes with a little description of what it does. If you are a beginner, it is recommend to create a zero-decimal token to see how FA1.2 tokens work. After that, you can mint new tokens, set a buy price, make tokens available for sale, approve third-party spenders, burn tokens and even customize your token information! The dapp is created for demo purposes with users who are less familiar with fungible tokens in mind, some functionalities have been (extremely) simplified.
An example token is here.
On this week they served:
- 12 000 000+ requests (1.7 mil per day on average);
- 1300+ unique connections;
- 115 GiB in traffic volumes;
- with 65.36 ms response time on average.
1. English
2. Ukrainian
3. Russian
Last year Baking Bad released Mystique API that mimics the TzScan API, which suddenly died, so they really needed a workaround while theTzKT API was under development. Now that it’s done, they’ll describe how to painlessly migrate from mystique.tzkt.io to api.tzkt.io, a more stable and much faster Tezos API. In this guide, they describe all Mystique API endpoints, used for the last month. Keep in mind, it’s just another TzScan mimic guide that helps you migrate from Mystique API. TzKT API, for sure, will work better, than Mystique API (a workaround, as described before), but it’s not necessary to use it exactly this way. TzKT API itself provides much more detailed and accurate data so you can create more complex apps and services. Don’t limit yourself to the outdated TzScan format.
Learn how to use the Michelson programming language and write smart contracts on Tezos. In this first article, they will dip the toes into Michelson language, understand what “stack-based” means and write some very simple smart contracts. This article is mainly written for beginners in programming and/or Tezos development, but intermediate programmers who want to know more about Michelson will also find useful information here. They are going to use the Jupyter kernel developed by Baking Bad to write Michelson code in the Jupyter notebook. You will find a link in each section if you want to see the code at work.
An Introduction to Michelson: The Scripting Language of Tezos (Part 2)
In this new installment, they’re introducing an amazing tool that’ll help to write, debug, and examine the Michelson code: the Jupyter notebook with the Michelson kernel developed by the Baking Bad team. They write a new smart contract in Michelson using a string passed in the parameter by the user that they’ll concatenate to the string already present in the storage before saving the new string into the storage.
An Introduction to Michelson: the Scripting Language of Tezos (Part 3)
In this article, they show how to write a smart contract that verifies that the sender of the transaction is allowed to modify the storage.
The new version of TzKT Indexer and API brings very detailed and accurate Tezos baking data and is already available for testing in staging environment. The new version will be deployed to production next week. If your services or applications use TzKT API, please pay attention to the breaking changes section.
Inter contract call is one of the most important and underused features of SmartPy. They can be very useful when Oracles come into the picture and hence it is important to learn how to implement them. In this article you will learn how to perform interact contract calling with SmartPy.
- Building your first DApp using SmartPy & React on Tezos — learn more in the article.
- New Michelson Opcodes
This document gives a succinct introduction to the Michelson language and proceeds to describe the semantics of the new types and instructions in the following features: elliptic curve construction support, more cryptographic hash algorithms among many other additions.
EmailTezos hopes to extend the Tezos ecosystem to everyone with an email address. It is created by Tezos enthusiasts to showcase the unique capabilities of Tezos and its ecosystem to the whole world. The team started out with a quest to bring the best of two worlds — Internet and Blockchain — to create a more seamless blockchain experience. So what makes EmailTezos different?
- The speed at which a new user can get started — with just an email address and password — without having to install apps or download key files. This makes a huge difference when onboarding new members to the Tezos community.
- Support for FA1.2 assets — to extend the power of Tezos to new use cases. tzBTC is supported today. More coming soon.
- Support for FA2 Assets — Coming soon.
- A new way to send Tezos to people — by entering just their email addresses — whether they have been previously onboarded or not.
- Bakers Marketplace — to help users find the right Baker and earn rewards by delegating their XTZ
- Finally, the ability to login directly in to Decentralized apps built on Tezos.
Beacon allows you to seamlessly connect your Tezos wallet with an application. Requests from a dApp can be signed on a mobile, desktop, hardware wallet or browser extension.
[Beacon in short]
- Extension that connects with compatible dApps to transport transaction requests to a wallet e.g. on a smartphone or as a development option sign the transactions locally
- Multiple possible signing methods mobile wallets, Ledger and local secret
[Beacon SDK in short]
- Library for dApp developers to integrate Beacon as a way to abstract the wallet handling and provide their users best-in-class usability
- Library for wallet developers to integrate Beacon, allowing users the interaction of Tezos dApps and their favorite wallet
Now you can set the delegation amount threshold in the new revised menu settings of delegate address. More about the update:
— The message with address information has been revised.
— an address card has been developed with detailed information about the address settings and the possibility of convenient and quick management
— added ability to set delegation amount threshold
— added ability to rename the address
Previously, they have published the following articles discussing ideas and design choices that they felt needed to be explored for a successful name service on Tezos:
- Part 1: Introduction
- Part 2: Namespace and Structure
- Part 3: Name Distribution and Pricing
- Part 4: Validation, Normalization, Encoding
- Part 5: Retaining Trademarks
Now they offer the first proposal for smart contract design and they give reasons for some of the design decisions. The current proposal is available at docs.tezos.domains. Please keep in mind it’s an early draft and it’s likely to change quite a bit.
Test client, operations and links to test oracle and test token contracts are available via the link: SmartPy Contract Explorer.
A more efficient option, for the quick development and unit testing, is to run Tezos in the sandbox mode. Sandbox mode completely runs offline with no Testnet connectivity and it is faster to create, destroy, and recreate as needed. For this option, Mohammad Nauman has built the code from source and running it in the manual sandbox mode on his iMac. He is also using iTerm2 to manage multiple sessions (1 Node session, 1 for manual baking, 1 for contract origination, and invocation).
Tessellated Geometry, the company behind TezosKit, is proud to announce that TezosKit has completed a security audit. TezosKit is a Swift SDK that enables Tezos applications to be developed on Apple products, including iOS, macOS, and iPadOS. The audit was conducted by Least Authority, a leading security company in the blockchain industry. A copy of the report can be found here. The audit’s completion fulfills the last requirement of the grant from the Tezos Foundation.
Social Encounters
Get a chance to represent Tezos in your campus. Emgage in the global community to build your network, win prizes, internships and access to Tezos exclusive events and programs.
[Key Highlights from May]
- Largest Private Investment Bank in Latin America Issues Real Estate Tokens on Tezos
- Personnel Updates for the New Tezos Foundation Structure
- First results of ENVITED ecosystem work group published — Why Tezos?
- Over 10,000 French shops now sell Tezos prepaid cards
- Magic Passwordless Authentication now on Tezos
- Since the US launch of staking rewards, customers have earned over $2 million in Tezos staking rewards.
- Bitcoin Suisse Vault Adds Support for Tezos Custody and Delegation
- AMA with Tezos Core Development teams on Agora
Tezos foundation caught up with Tulip Tools Founder Johann Tanzer to discuss updates to Tplus, what the Tulip Tools team is working on, and what to expect from them moving forward. Check out the Q&A in the article above. You can find the latest documentation for Tplus here.
Magic CEO Sean Li announced that they have launched a passwordless SDK, on Tezos, the firm’s first non-Ethereum Virtual Machine integration. The Foundation caught up with Sean to discuss Magic, the importance of passwordless authentication, and why he chose Tezos for Magic’s first non-EVM integration. Check out the Q&A in the link above.
They talk everything layer one with four key players and projects — Illia Polosukhin of NEARprotocol, Zaki Manian of Cosmos, Rob Habermeier of Polkadot, and Arthur Breitman of Tezos — to find out how these projects plan to compete with Ethereum and attract developers and users.
- Beacon Workshop — Tezos + CoinList Hackathon — developer workshop covering the Tezos wallet to dApp communication tool by Beacon.
- TezTalks Live #4 — Jonas Lamis on StakerDAO — watch it on YouTube and learn more!
Upcoming events
Visit Tezos Foundation Events page to learn more.
According to the recent Tezos Community Update, Tezos Commons is canceling community events except for third-party and remote sponsorship for March because of COVID-19. TQ Tezos has announced that TQuorum Paris will be rescheduled, follow TQ Tezos on Twitter for future updates.
- 12th June 2020 — TezTalks Radio featuring Rob Witoff (Polychain Capital)
- 15th June 2020 — TezTalks Live #5 — Mason Borda
- 30th June 2020 — TezTalks Live #6 — Alexander Eichhorn and Oliver Simon
Finance
Coinbase is expanding its Tezos staking service to select European countries. The San Francisco-based exchange announced that users in the U.K., Spain, France and the Netherlands would now be able to stake Tezos through its proprietary staking service.
“Coinbase is offering an easy, secure way for U.K. and certain [European Union] customers to actively participate in the Tezos network,” the exchange said in a press release. “While it’s possible to stake Tezos on your own or via a delegated staking service, it can be confusing, complicated and even risky with regard to the security of your staked Tezos.”
Partnerships, integrations and team members
Fortmatic recently launched the new passwordless SDK — Magic, which received lots of love on Product Hunt. Recently, they shared that it now supports Tezos as its first live non-EVM blockchain integration. With the Magic SDK, developers can easily build applications on top of the Tezos blockchain via Magic’s Tezos Extension. With this extension, every new user that signs up via Magic will be given a Tezos key pair managed by the blockchain-agnostic Delegated Key Management System.
In addition to providing developer expertise on building smart contracts on their platform, Tezos India will also play a vital role by joining the judging panel. Their blockchain experts will shortlist the startups that move on to the next level of the accelerator — the Bootcamp phase. Following the announcement of the first cohort for the T-block accelerator, they will also organize training workshops where Tezos India’s in-house experts will give a detailed platform workshop to selected startups. They believe that this will enable startups to implement technology efficiently and improve their offerings.
By partnering with enablers like the Tezos India Foundation, they can better achieve the shared objective of creating a collaborative environment that is conducive to the creation of innovative solutions using blockchain technology. Raghu Mohan — CEO & Co-founder, IBC Media, is excited about the partnership.
“The team at the Tezos India Foundation has been very active in powering the Indian blockchain ecosystem through their developer initiatives. We have had the pleasure of working with them on some of these initiatives too. Powering startups around blockchain products is a natural progression to the stellar work they’ve done so far and T-block is the perfect platform to do so.” said Raghu. “Apart from opportunities for grants and funding for the shortlisted cohort, the platform support that Tezos offers will be most exciting for startups looking to implement blockchain usecases.”
Social media metrics
Tezos community continues to grow. There is a constant increase in the number of subscribers of Tezos social media channels.
There is also Tezos Riot chat and YouTube channel.
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.
The Tezos Foundation is committed to supporting organizations which contribute to the growth of the Tezos community and ecosystem. They are especially interested in supporting regional organizations and university-based groups focused on Tezos and the larger blockchain ecosystem.
Check out some of the community organizations that compose the Tezos ecosystem:
- Tezos Ukraine: Website, Twitter
- Tezos Commons Foundation: Website, Twitter
- Tezos Korea: Website, Twitter
- Tezos Montreal: Website, Twitter
- Tezos OCaml Michelson Institute: Website, Twitter
- Tezos Detroit: Twitter
- MyTezosBaker: Website, Twitter
- Tezos Luxembourg: Website, Twitter
- Tezos Turkey: Twitter, Telegram
- Tezos Geneva: Twitter, Meetup
- Tezos Rio: Website, Twitter
Learn about key operational entities
- Nomadic Labs: Website, Twitter
- Tocqueville Group (“TQ”): Website, Twitter, Wiki
- Tezos Japan Foundation: Website, Twitter
- Tezos Korea Foundation: Website, Twitter
- Tezos Southeast Asia Association: Website, Twitter
Recent Paradigm Fund updates on tezos:
- Biweekly update 27th April — 11th May: A Critical Reliability Update For All Tezos Nodes, Bringing Chainlink Oracles To The Tezos Ecosystem, Galleon One, FA2 Specification And SmartPy Implementation Release
- Biweekly update 29th March — 10th April: Announcing Tokenized Bitcoin tzBTC, The TezEdge P2P Explorer and Chain Reaction Podcast with Kathleen Breitman
- Biweekly update 15th March — 29th March: The Second Biannual Update, Vertalo to Tokenize 22 Securities Worth $200M on Tezos Blockchain, Update On Civil Litigation Involving The Tezos Foundation
- Biweekly update 27th February — 15th March: Welcome To The Carthage, The Foundation Governance Structure And Future Nominees, Equisafe Launched STO Platform And Tokenized The First Asset On Tezos, Introducing FA2, March Community Update
- 15th February — 27th February: A New TzStats API Upgrade, TAPS — Automatic Payment System, Ryan Lackey On The Tokyo FinTech Podcast, LIGO, SCaml & SmartPy Progress, The Baking Sheet By Tezos Commons
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