TezTalks Live

ICYMI - We relaunched TezTalks as new form of content for the Tezos Ecosystem. TezTalks Live is our livestreamed virtual meetups that features contributors working on Tezos. This past month we featured Baking Bad and discussing their new update of 'Better Call Dev' and 'The State of Ecosystem' featuring Tezos Commons and TQ Tezos discussing all things happening in Tezos. Stay tuned for for live streams in the coming months.

TezTalks Radio

In addition to TezTalks Live, we launched our new podcast co-hosted by William McKenzie and Brian Li. TezTalks Radio is a video podcast that finds the 'why' in the latest news for Tezos and discover the people behind Tezos. Check out our introductory episode and stay tuned for more episodes coming in May featuring key guests.

Featured Tezos Agora Posts

Why the Tezos Amendment Process Needs an Adoption Period — forum.tezosagora.org

TL;DR Amendments to the Tezos protocol brought about by the on-chain governance are activated immediately after their promotion.

Oracles on Tezos — forum.tezosagora.org

What Can We Learn From Oracles on Ethereum? What kind of oracle solution would support the Tezos ecosystem in the best way?

Who Owns Our Smart Contract Code? - The problem of data ownership on a blockchain — forum.tezosagora.org

TL;DR Data ownership in the sense of liability as well as in the sense of intellectual property remain unresolved. The potential of multiple applying jurisdictions complicates the matter.

Tezos x Chainlink Breakdown

Tezos Becomes Latest Blockchain to Tap Chainlink for Oracle Services — www.coindesk.com

Chainlink will now provide pricing oracle solutions for the Tezos community through a partnership with Cryptonomic and Smart Chain Arena.

Bringing Chainlink Oracles to the Tezos Ecosystem - SmartPy.io — medium.com

We’re excited to announce that we, in collaboration with Cryptonomic, are making Chainlink natively available to all developers building on Tezos. …

Bringing Secure Chainlink Oracles to Tezos - Cryptonomic — medium.com

Cryptonomic is delighted to team up with Smart Chain Arena (the team behind SmartPy) to deliver Chainlink integration for the Tezos blockchain. As part of our commitment to broadening adoption of…

Tezos Ecosystem News

Vertalo, tZERO Are Bringing $300M in Real Estate to the Tezos Blockchain — www.coindesk.com

Digital transfer agent Vertalo is teaming up with tZERO and a Pennsylvania investment firm to tokenize $300 million in real estate on the Tezos blockchain.

Tezos Academy launches in Beta — tezosacademy.io

Tezos Academy is a fun interactive tutorial developed by OCTO Technology on how to code smart contracts for Tezos. OCTO has completed the first 20 chapters and is opening the course as a public beta today.

‎Chain Reaction: Arthur Breitman: A Deep Dive With One Of The Industry's Great Minds — podcasts.apple.com

‎Host Tom Shaughnessy talks to Arthur Breitman, Co-Founder of Tezos. In an all encompassing conversation, they discuss the pros and cons of proof of stake and proof of work networks; innovation vs competition; supply dynamics, thought experiments and more.

The Tezos project, an interview with foundation board member Hubertus Thonhauser — cvj.ch

An overview of the Tezos Blockchain project, including an exclusive interview with foundation board member Hubertus Thonhauser.

Upbit Global announced they will be listing Tezos (XTZ) today — upbit.com

Starting 4/28, Tezos will be listed on Upbit Exhange

Binance.US adds Tezos (XTZ) to their fiat instant buy — www.binance.us

Buying your favorite cryptocurrencies is now easier than ever! Whether you’re a first-time buyer or a crypto-natives, Binance.US enables customers to buy digital assets like Bitcoin, Ether, and more at the click of a button.

Tezos Development Updates

Branching Out: Announcing Tezos Support in Truffle — www.trufflesuite.com

The Truffle suite of tools make dapp development easier and more consistent.

The Tezos Developers' Handbook

In this tutorial, we are going to get a quick taste of the Cryptonomic stack by deploying and examining a simple Tezos smart contract.

tzBTC and improved FA 1.2 support — tezblock Update #19 — medium.com

This update bring many new features and improvements, mainly to the handling of FA 1.2 and tzBTC.

Teztracker update #8 — medium.com

As promised in the previous update for the past several weeks we’ve been mostly working on extending the functionality on baker pages.

How To Build a BTC/USD Oracle on Tezos with OrO — medium.com

In this article we develop a BTC/USD Oracle that can be leveraged by smart contracts. The data that an oracle provides can be used to power specific business use-cases.

Tezster Bundles: Boilerplates for Dapp Development on Tezos — medium.com

Compile SmartPy code on your local machine, deploy on a testnet or local sandbox using Tezster (Comparable to Ganache on Ethereum) and interact with your Dapps using front-end boilerplates.

ThanosWallet — the first BETA release — medium.com

After several months of continuous development and design work, it’s a very important milestone for us and the whole Tezos community.

Catching sneaky regressions with pytest-regtest

An in-depth look on how we use regression testing to catch bugs in Tezos.

The TezEdge Debugger —view all messages from the P2P and RPC layers

Whenever you are developing a node in OCaml or Rust and your software runs into a bug, an error or an otherwise undesired state, you want to be able to identify and locate the instance.