The Baking Sheet - Issue #102

June 03, 2022

Now is the time to build

Welcome to this week’s issue of The Baking Sheet!

Protocol Jakarta has entered the promotion period for token holder voting! In this week’s issue, we’ll highlight what to expect.

Onwards, Jakarta

Protocol Jakarta has entered one of the final phases of token holder voting, with 10 days remaining at the time of publication for the promotion period.

2022 has very much been the year of scaling for the Tezos ecosystem. With Ithaca, we witnessed the introduction of the fast deterministic finality capability via Tenderbake.

Jakarta takes us further along the scaling trajectory and focuses on Layer-2 applications.

That said, protocol Jakarta will introduce the following feature sets to the Tezos network.

  • Transaction Optimistic Rollups (TORUs)

  • Liquidity Baking Changes

  • Tickets Improvements/Hardening

  • Elimination of “Rolls”

  • Bug fixes and other

In terms of scaling, there is no doubt TORUs are the talk of the town. These will allow for the exchange of assets, but will not be used in the execution of smart contracts. If you want to learn a bit more about optimistic rollups, check out Arthur Breitman’s chat with Cointelegraph or this blog article by Nomadic Labs.

Plenty DeFi Launches an Ethereum Bridge

The Plenty Bridge is a bridge between Ethereum + Ethereum based tokens and Tezos. The Plenty team was able to reach an agreement with the original Wrap team from Bender’s Lab, and is going to completely rehaul the wrapped assets bridge. Through usage of the bridge, users will be able to transfer their ERC-20 assets over to the Tezos network in a decentralized manner.

The decentralized manner is enabled by a “Signers Quorum”. The Signers Quorum is referred to as an “off-chain federation”, which oversees and makes sure that at any given time the amount of bridged tokens on Tezos that are issued via wrapped ERC-20 assets, will always correspond to the original tokens locked (ERC-20).

Moonfire Ventures x Tezos

Attention Tezos ecosystem -- apply today for the Moonfire pitch day!

Moonfire VC is a next-generation venture capital firm supporting the most innovative early-stage founders focused on global technological disruption.

Apply today! Deadline to apply June 15. Pitch day will be held on Thursday, July 14 3-5pm BST.

Tez/Dev Registration is now open

Registration for TezDev Paris 2022 is now OPEN!

Join builders, creators, and innovators from across the Tezos ecosystem from July 21-23 in Paris for developer workshops, networking, and more!

Tezos x We Are Developers Congress

The Tezos Ecosystem will be represented at the WAC World Congress Event in Berlin, June 14-15.

Some amazing teams from around the world will host workshops for developers exploring Web3 careers.

This Week in the Tezos Ecosystem

Versum was built with a strong commitment to art and creators by a team of Hic Et Nunc-alumni from across the world

On today’s episode of the ‘Floor Is Rising’, hosts Sabre Tooth (Professional NFT Collector) and Kizu (A Professional Art Critic) talk with guest Mark Soares, CMO/Founder at Blokhaus, a Marketing Agency, associated with the Tezos Blockchain, discusses NFTs and Tezos.

STO exchange ERX has delivered on its first promise. Over 7,000 holders of the real-estate-backed token SIRIHUB have received revenue generated by rental income of the underlying asset.

In February, the Plenty team revealed their plans to merge with Wrap Protocol and launch their own cross-chain bridges. And so, on June 1, Plenty launched the bridge, exchanging old tokens and farms for new tokens.

Sónar Festival and the SonarMàtica exhibition will be part of Tezos Art Week, a week dedicated to celebrating art minted on Tezos around the globe. From June 13-19

This Week in Tezos Development

If you have been developing on Tezos, you may already be familiar with a REST API like the TzKT API to fetch different kinds of data from the blockchain.

We just launched Tezos RPC service, a self-service platform for creating Tezos RPC endpoints. The first 100,000 requests are free, then the price is US$7 per million requests.

Over the last year Opsian have been implementing Continuous Profiling for the Tezos platform, in this post we’ll explain first what problem it solves and then what it is.

What problem are we trying to solve?

In order t…

A visual programming tool for writing smart contracts VisualTez Website Introduction Video The VisualTez project brings visual programming to smart-contract development in the Tezos ecosystem

Now Streaming

Tune into our next TezTalks Radio episode featuring Roman Schnider, President of the Tezos Foundation.

The TezTalks teams sits down with Roman, for a peek behind the curtain at Tezos Foundation.

If you’ve ever been curious about exactly how the Tezos Foundation is moving the Tezos ecosystem forward in 2022, what it’s doing to attract developers and brands to the Tezos chain, or how projects are evaluated during the TF granting process, then Roman’s insights into the Foundation’s role in the Tezos-powered present (and future) are an absolute must-listen.

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