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The Baking Sheet - Issue #30
Happy New Years Tezos Community-- Let's get 2021 underway
On behalf of the Tezos Commons team -- We hope the Tezos Community had a great holiday to cap off an unprecedented year. We are looking forward to working with everyone in the ecosystem to build an awesome 2021 for Tezos. For starters, the Baking Sheet will now be a weekly newsletter to keep up with the latest news and inform the community at a better pace.
Arthur and Kathleen - Retrospective on 2020
Year in Review from the Tezos Ecosystem
For our last Weekly Update of the year, we’re diving into some of the biggest accomplishments in the Tezos ecosystem throughout 2020.
Featured Tezos Agora Posts
Liquidity mining was developed for a lot of defi token but it could be used for xtz itself.
Request for comments on the virtual baker proposal.
Introduction This is an idea that’s been going around for a while, but I’m not sure if there’s been a proper discussion thread on it, so here it is.
Tezos Ecosystem News
In late 2020, we set out to build Kolibri, a set of smart contracts on Tezos which can be used to issue kUSD, a trustless, algorithmic stablecoin.
Taibah Valley aims to provide the tools and solutions to create the biggest blockchain community in the MENA region.
The Edo upgrade is just around the corner, bringing new features to the Tezos protocol such as Sapling, a new “adoption period,” and tickets.
Stablecoin development project Stably said in a release that its USD-pegged stablecoin, USDS, will be issued and deployed on Tezos.
Lately, there’s been so much exciting news and developments around Tezos, its beginning to become difficult to keep up with all of it.
Innovation hub Tezos Israel has built a hardware security device it says will better secure the staked assets of Tezos' network validators.
Tezos Development Updates
Version 8.1 of gitlab.com/tezos/tezos has just been released. It is a bugfix release correcting a performance regression related to operations involving tz3 addresses and several compilation problems in some contexts.
In a distributed network like blockchain, we want to be able to quickly verify that the data distributed from node to node remains the same.
This is a quite low-level step-by-step example of calling a contract with
arguments from a generic-multisig contract — hence building a Michelson lambda,
serializing it, and signing it. All of it in pure (POSIX) shell with
tezos-client.
As we wrote earlier, we have not disappeared anywhere. It’s just that we did a really great job — a huge number of improvements to our bot that need to be released in one big release.
Reviewing changes and new features in the latest version of TzKT, free and open-source Tezos indexer, Tezos API and Tezos explorer
Now supports BLS12-381, Tickets, Sapling (with a custom test engine), and minor instructions: LEVEL, NEVER, VOTING_POWER.
The Nomadic Labs Research Seminars series is dedicated to promoting and discussing the extensive list of Tezos research and development projects.
We have been seeing the Tezos ecosystem evolving rapidly over the last couple of months. Delphinet activated, Edonet upcoming, rise in exciting projects being built on Tezos and a lot of things..