It’s time for Tezos, guys! As always, Tezos teams, working entities, grantees and Foundation showed fantastic performance both on the development side and the community expansion. Cryptium Labs and Nomadic Labs combined forces to develop Carthage, a new Tezos protocol proposal. Carthagenet at the time of writing contains the same features as Tezos mainnet (005 or Babylon). Willing community bakers are currently operating it. AirGap announced that tezblock now supports a testnet for this proposal. Tulip Tools stated that TPlus sandboxes had also been updated to run it. Apart from this, significant progress was shown on the side projects of several Tezos-driven teams. Baking Bad announced a new Tezos rewards API, which features splitted baker rewards, actual payment schemes, and amounts to be paid in a specified cycle. They also released a Michelson syntax highlighter for VScode supporting macros and Morley extensions. Moreover, Cryptonomic launched Nautilus Cloud, a new self-service site to get access to the integrated development infrastructure of Tezos and Conseil nodes, which was intended to reduce friction for Tezos developers and clients running nodes or indexers. The team additionally updated its Galleon wallet with Babylon-related features, a private key export, and improved smart contract functionality.
Furthermore, Obsidian Systems published v2.2.1 of its Tezos wallet application for Ledger devices. Tarides released Irmin v2, a git-like data layer for MirageOS. Equisafe deployed its first smart contract on Tezos at Nomadic Labs’ Pitch Day. Fabrx announced another update to its “If This, Then That” project for Tezos, where users can set email notifications on endorsement operations from the bakers they delegate to. Additionally, Happy Tezos updated the documentation for Tezos-as-a-Service (TaaS) and added support for originations and delegations. SmartPy released a new dev version in SmartPy.io/dev featuring further optimizations and targets in the Michelson code generator, better test scenarios, a new UX, and more. The developers of Taquito, a TypeScript library suite for developing on Tezos, declared a new release, featuring more comfortable use of bigmaps. Tezsure published the latest version of Tezster-CLI (0.1.8), which supports interactions on both local nodes and babylonnet. Importantly, Tezos Commons originated the first version of a baker registry contract on the Tezos mainnet. Tezos Nodes issued an update to make it more convenient to monitor the efficiency and free space for new delegations on Tezos nodes for non-public bakers.
Not only development but also social life was vivid for Tezos. The incredible global reach of the Tezos ecosystem has been on display so far in November, with Tezos meetups and events hosted in Thailand, Singapore, India, Korea, Russia, Turkey, Monaco, France, and the United States in just the past two weeks. Worth paying attention that Tezos Southeast Asia (TSA) had a particularly busy week with the Thailand Digital Asset Forum and the Singapore FinTech Festival. TSA also kicked off its Tezos Blockchain Talkshow Series, covering the next wave of innovation for financial institutions on the first day, the myths surrounding STOs on the second day, and blockchain technology’s influence on the insurance industry on day three. Additionally, TSA announced partnerships with Tribe Accelerator and RF International Holdings. Besides, an effort was put on community and dev support. B9labs’ Tezos Blockstars Programme reached week 2, where students learn to run their first Tezos nodes. To make Tezos user-friendly, SimpleStaking published a guide to help user bootstrap Tezos Rust nodes; Nomadic Labs released a 2-minute explainer video to demonstrate its role within the Tezos ecosystem. Tezos.help is now available via its new website to help guide newcomers into the ecosystem. All in all, the community is incentivized and supportive; the number of subscribers in social networks was continually growing. Well, the Tezos community is worth joining — we know it on our own!
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Development
For detailed GitLab developer activity click here.
- On the Carthage Proposal and the Carthagenet Test Network. Carthagenet is a test network launched on the 7th of November. At the time of writing contains the same features as Tezos mainnet (005 or Babylon). It is currently being operated by willing community bakers from the baking Slack group.
The timeline:
- The carthagenet test network was launched on the 7th of November 2019
- The Carthage proposal to be injected to the carthagenet test network on the afternoon of 14th of November 2019, Paris/Zug time
- The Carthage proposal to be subject to a sped up governance process on the carthagenet test network and will be activated on the carthagenet test network in 2–3 days*
- The carthagenet test network, now containing all the new features of the Carthage proposal, will be maintained and dedicated to developers and the broader ecosystem that wishes to test and interact with it
The official testnets developer documentation has been updated with the carthagenet test network. To strengthen the habit of allowing developers to test properly and publishing the code and changelog before the injection, the following testnets timeline will be maintained:
- babylonnet (005), currently mirrors mainnet. Should the Carthage proposal be adopted on mainnet, babylonnet will cease to exist.
- The carthagenet test network, to undergo the timeline described above. If the Carthage proposal is adopted on mainnet, the carthagenet test network will be maintained until the following proposal Dxxxxx is adopted on mainnet. Should the Carthage proposal not succeed through mainnet governance, the carthagenet test network will cease to exist.
- HappyTezos team has updated documentation for TaaS and added support for originations and delegations.
- Fabrx announced another “If This, Then That” for the tezos blockchain. Set email notifications on endorsement operations from the Baker you delegate to.
- A tutorial on how to manage a tezos node from Windows — watch the demo here.
- Now you can bootstrap your Tezos Rust node with the illustrated guide on “How to sync with the Tezos network”.
- Tezos.help is now released to help guide newcomers into the Tezos ecosystem and its many projects. They’re excited to release a big update to this resource and hope the community will contribute to its evolution!
- A new dev version in https://SmartPy.io/dev was released. SmartPyBasic dev has been similarly updated. This is expected to become the official version in a few days.
- Cryptonomic now has a self-service site up here for getting access to their Tezos and Conseil nodes. If you are developing a Tezos app, integrating with Tezos or just taking a course, check the site out. Nautilus Cloud is a self-serve site for getting access to integrated development infrastructure of Tezos and Conseil nodes. The objective was to reduce friction in a quick and practical way for the many Tezos developers and clients who felt that running blockchain nodes and indexers can be full time jobs. Between their user-facing products like Galleon and Mininax, the analytics-oriented application, Arronax, and the numerous developer workshops they have been hosting over the recent months, service demand on the infrastructure has been steadily growing as the Tezos platform and their stack mature.
- An announcement of Irmin 2.0.0, a major release of the Git-like distributed branching and storage substrate that underpins MirageOS. They began the release process for all the components that make up Irmin back in May 2019, and there have been close to 1000 commits since Irmin 1.4.0 released back in June 2018. To celebrate this milestone, they have a new logo and opened a dedicated website: irmin.org. Their focus this year has been on ensuring the production success of their early adopters — such as the Tezos blockchain and the Datakit 9P stack — as well as spawning new research projects into the practical application of distributed and mergeable data stores.
- New Taquito release now with bigmaps. — 5.2.0-beta.1 Remote signer package, limits, bigmap abstraction and fixes
Features
- Introduction of the remote signer package, allowing Taquito to interact with the Tezos HTTP remote signer API
- gasLimit, storageLimit and fees are now surfaced on Orgination, Transaction and Delegation operations
- Their HTTP backend package now throws more useful errors, which extend javascript’s Error
- New bigmap abstraction (released in 5.1.0-beta.1 but not announced)
- Michelson encoder now supports injectable custom semantics (currently only for bigmap)
- RPC: Support for the /helpers/scripts/pack_data endpoint
- Utils: Now expose a function for expression encoding encodeExpr
Fixes
- Fixed issue with single value map storage not being decoded properly
- Fixed issue with encoding of collections as parameters and initial storage
- Fixed issue with their smart contract abstraction not picking up methods without annotations
{Grantees, Funded Entities, and Other News}
Below are some updates from the last week:
- AirGap announced that tezblock now supports Carthagenet, a testnet for a new Tezos protocol proposal (Carthage) developed by Nomadic and Cryptium.
- Baking Bad announced a new Tezos rewards API which features splitted baker rewards, actual payment schemes, and amounts to be paid in a specified cycle.
- Equisafe released its first smart contract on Tezos at Nomadic Labs’ Pitch Day.
- Tezos Nodes added new features to its rating service for Tezos public bakers.
- Tezsure published the latest version of Tezster-CLI (0.1.8), which supports interactions on both local nodes and babylonnet.
{Foundation Activities}
Grantmaking activities have significantly ramped up in the past few weeks. All of the proposals submitted to the latest ecosystem grants RFP, plus a few extras, are progressing through the review process. They expect to complete reviews for all grant proposals by mid-December, at which point they will contact all applicants and update them on the status of their proposals. The Foundation had a presence in Southeast Asia for two important summits. Tezos Foundation Chief Security Officer and Council Member, Ryan Lackey, gave a talk on the state of technical infrastructure for digital tokens at the Thailand Digital Asset Forum, and spoke on enabling the next generation of financial infrastructure at the Singapore FinTech Fest.
The Tezos Foundation will also release its second biannual update in early 2020 (view the first biannual update here).
Nomadic Labs and the French National Gendarmerie’s cybercrime division (C3N) announced that C3N has been recording judicial expenses on the Tezos blockchain since September. This marks a historic first time that a government entity has developed an operational smart contract and deployed it on a blockchain. Tezos continues to establish its reputation as the first choice for high-value, real-world applications.
The Cryptium Labs and Nomadic Labs teams have combined forces to introduce the latest Tezos protocol proposal, Carthage. Community members who want to learn more about the proposed amendment can read the introductory blog posts from both Cryptium and Nomadic which go through the proposed changes. All members of the ecosystem are encouraged to also join the discussion surrounding the proposal on Tezos Agora.
{Grantees, Funded Entities, and Other News}
Below are some updates from the last week:
- Baking Bad released a Michelson syntax highlighter for VScode supporting macros and Morley extensions.
- Cryptium Labs and Nomadic Labs combined forces to develop Carthage, a new Tezos protocol proposal. Nomadic and Cryptium each released a blog post explaining what’s new in the Carthage proposal.
- Cryptonomic released Nautilus Cloud, a new self-service site to get access to the integrated development infrastructure of Tezos and Conseil nodes, which is intended to reduce friction for Tezos developers and clients running nodes or indexers.
- Cryptonomic updated its Galleon wallet with Babylon-related features, private key export, and improved smart contract functionality.
- Obsidian Systems released v2.2.1 of its Tezos wallet application for Ledger devices.
- Tezos Commons originated the first version of a baker registry contract on the Tezos mainnet.
- Tezos Commons sent out the 15th issue of The Baking Sheet, its newsletter on all things Tezos.
- Tezos Nodes released an update to make it more convenient to monitor the efficiency and free space for new delegations on Tezos nodes for non-public bakers.
- Tulip Tools announced that TPlus sandboxes have been updated to run the Carthage proposed protocol.
{Foundation Activities}
The Foundation is in the middle of significant grantmaking activities, as they are in the process of reviewing over 90 proposals from the most recent ecosystem grants RFP. They will complete reviews for grant proposals and update all applicants on their status by mid-December. They are also thrilled to be creating the Foundation’s second biannual update (you can view the first biannual update here) to be released in early 2020.
Social encounters
Nomadic Labs’ call for startups earlier this month led to a very successful Pitch Day! The event brought together members of the French Tezos community as six startups presented to a five-person panel and over 50 attendees. During its presentation, Equisafe released its first ever smart contract on Tezos, one of four that will compose the core components of its Nyx standard planned for 2020. Over the following two days, Nomadic ran a booth focusing on Tezos adoption and enterprise use cases at Blockchain Paris, a conference with over 1500 participants.
- B9labs’ Tezos Blockstars Programme reached week 2, where students learn to run their first Tezos nodes.
- Baking Bad released an article with some examples of Netezos use cases.
- Nomadic Labs’ Sajida Zouarhi was a featured engineer in Labs of Latvia, which provides information on Latvian startups and technology.
- Tezos Southeast Asia announced a partnership with RF International Holdings to promote cooperation in exploring Tezos applications to encourage adoption.
- With support from Tezos Commons, Tezos Ukraine launched and hosted a meetup in Kyiv.
- Nomadic Labs offered a video stream for its workshop on Tezos smart contract languages and formal verification.
- Everstake published a Twitter thread highlighting recent accomplishments in the Tezos ecosystem, including partnerships, STOs, and other announcements.
- Nomadic Labs released an internship catalog with some topics for prospective internships.
- Tezonomics has two new podcast episodes with Adrian Brink of Cryptium Labs: the first introduces the Carthage protocol proposal, while the second features a discussion on community DAOs on Tezos.
- Tezos Commons released a new blog post explaining why Tezos is the best smart contract platform for security tokenization and other high-value, high-complexity use cases.
- Tezos Korea hosted a technology seminar at Hyundai Motors HQ to discuss how Tezos is well-suited for autonomous vehicle applications.
- Bloomberg Live had an in-depth conversation on what comes next in the world of digital assets with senior executives from blockchain, CoinShares and tezos at TheFutureOf.
- Blockchain, from a buzzword to reality! With Kathleen Breitman tezos and Lily Liu from Earn.com. See post.
- Tezos Korea had a technology seminar at Hyundai Motors HQ. Shared Tezos case studies and what it can do well. Further discussions followed. One step closer to Blockchain application in an autonomous vehicle!
- Pietro from Nomadic labs presenting tezos to the hackers. See post.
- The 1st day of the Talkshow Series. The Next Wave of Innovation for Financial Institution — the live stream is here.
- Discover Nomadic Labs in 2 min! (English subtitles available.) Nomadic Labs houses a team focused on Research and Development. The core competencies are in programming language theory and practice, distributed systems, and formal verification. They believe the strength lies in a unique mix of skills and experience, allowing them to transfer the best of academic research into real-world applications. They currently focus on contributing to the development of the Tezos core software, including the smart-contract language, Michelson. They also have a mobile team working on the Cortez wallet. As a member of the Tezos community, they are fortunate to collaborate daily with academic institutions and many other contributors to the ecosystem.
- Nomadic Labs were live-streaming the Tezos workshop about smart contract languages and formal verification. Raphael Cauderlier gave an introduction to Michelson and Julien Tesson talked about Albert, an intermediate language for Tezos Smart Contracts.
- Tezos Southeast Asia had an enriching and fruitful day on STOs — from busting myths to real-life use cases, to the procedures on launching an STO and finally, the regulatory landscape. It’s so exciting to see this revolutionizing industry becoming concrete. More pictures in the post.
- First time presenting killer features of Tezos under Tezos Ukraine, feeling a big responsibility, a bit nervous… The majority was asking about applied issues: formal verification, decentralization, real use case, DeFi, dev & business support.
- Have you ever heard about Netezos, a .NET Standard 2.0 libraries pack for working with Tezos? Find out some examples in the article. Netezos is a package of .NET Standard 2.0 libraries for working with Tezos. At this stage, Netezos.Rpc and Netezos.Keys are implemented.
- Full house for tonight’s Cross-chain group event — TQTezos, cosmos, Keep, UMA protocol. “DeFi is the New Testament. Bitcoin is the Old Testament.” — Allison Lu
Upcoming events:
- November 28th: Perth — Tezos: Learn the benefits
- November 28th: Geneva, Switzerland
- November 29th: Nice, France
- December 5th: Barcelona Tezos Meetup — Nomadic Labs and TezosCommons are sponsoring!
Partnerships and team members
- Tezos Southeast Asia Partners With Tribe, The Singapore Government-Supported Blockchain Ecosystem Platform, To Launch Its First-Ever Official Training Programme. As Singapore’s first government-backed blockchain ecosystem platform, Tribe is a strategic partner for TSA in achieving the non-profit organization’s goals to develop the Tezos blockchain ecosystem in Southeast Asia. This partnership aims to equip more developers with the necessary competencies to develop on Tezos, and subsequently enabling them to build blockchain solutions for real-world applications. The training will commence in the first quarter of 2020.
“By enabling trainers with a good knowledge of Tezos blockchain technology, they will be able to amplify the impact in their respective teams through the continual transfer and sharing of knowledge to new learners”, said Caleb Kow, President of TSA. The training program will be rounded up by practical applications due to a final capstone to be delivered.
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 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
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