The Baking Sheet - Issue #107

July 10, 2022

2 weeks until Tez/Dev!

Welcome to this week's issue of The Baking Sheet! We are ~2 weeks way until the first Tezos-centric event since 2019!

Join builders, creators, and innovators from across the Tezos ecosystem. TezDev Paris is a hub for ideas, connecting a community of Tezos blockchain enthusiasts committed to building the future of Web3.

Special keynote by Arthur Breitman, co-founder and early architect of Tezos and talks by various teams from the Tezos Ecosystem.

Algae Biomass Protein Farms on Tezos

The world's first blockchain-based algae biomass project, built on the energy-efficient Tezos blockchain, was announced today by leading capital markets technology firm, Globacap. Developed and operated by Sustainable Impact Token (SIT), the project will support the development, construction, and operation of algae biomass farms. The initiative will use blockchain technology to bridge the gap between two of the fastest growing investor markets in the world – asset-backed finance and crypto.

The $5 billion algae biomass sector is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 6.3% during the next 5 years (Quince Market Insights) and the success of the project will provide the basis to expand globally. SIT provides investors with tokens issued via smart contracts deployed on the proof-of-stake Tezos blockchain, representing their preferred shares in the project. Carbon credits generated from the algae production will also be tokenized into Algaecoin, a tokenized asset representing tradable carbon credits.

"As solutions to the macro challenges of food scarcity and sustainable energy production continue to be a global priority, demand for investment vehicles that can also support these objectives are increasing. We are thrilled to see Globacap choose Tezos to power this unique blockchain based, asset-backed offering," says Mason Edwards from Tezos Foundation.

"By bringing agri-tech solutions and carbon credit-backed assets into private markets and beyond, we can make significant, impactful steps towards sustaining our planet for future generations," adds Milston.

Learn more about Sustainable Impact Token

New Tezos Developer Portal

A new and improved Tezos Developer Portal is here!

Learn how to build your own dApp, discover the languages of Tezos, or join the Tezos developer community.

TezAsia Hackathon: 10000+ Registrants

TezAsia Hackathon is a month-long hackathon organized by Tezos India and Tezos APAC with the goal of promoting and making Tezos blockchain more accessible to the general public. This Hackathon will help developers from various colleges and universities to learn and build in the Tezos Blockchain, as well as introduce them to the Tezos ecosystem. 

This is a chance for all Dev-Heads who are with a competitive streak to showcase their tier one game and also get a chance to win hefty cash prizes. TezAsia Hackathon aims to build an innovation-driven culture by solving real-world challenges. Showcase your skills at our hackathon and win amazing prizes worth $100k+, grants up to $100k+, and an opportunity to get hired and work with the best-existing dapps & Tezos entities in the ecosystem.

This Week in the Tezos Ecosystem

Team Vitality launches a utility NFT on Tezos named V.Hive Pass that unlocks new experiences for the V.Hive Journey. V.Hive aims to the first support-to-earn system in eSports that enables anyone to participate on a free and easy platform

Welcome to our latest issue of Month at a Glance where we breakdown most of the latest happenings and significant milestones taking place within the Tezos ecosystem on a monthly cadence.

We're happy to show the latest iteration of the DNS homepage and all the new features we've added.

Lugh is thrilled to integrate its euro stablecoin on one of the leading NFT marketplace, Rarible.

The 6th Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB 2022) launches the platform that will allow users to take part in the design process of the 'Fungible Non-Fungible Pavilion' conceived by iheartblob

There was a time when monitors were bulky, the Internet worked over a landline, and instead of memes, we exchanged ASCII art—pictures composed of typed characters. Let's get nostalgic for those times at the Typed Marketplace.

This Week in Tezos Development

In order to assess the overall Jakarta protocol migration experience, and the release of Transaction Optimistic Rollups on Tezos mainner, we are reaching out to the Tezos community -- specifically bakers, indexers, and wallet developers -- with this survey.

How to scale a blockchain is a huge topic and Tezos core devs teams are exploring several designs. At Marigold, we want to share our R&D work with Tezos builders as soon as possible to get their feedback and improve our proposal. Since scaling blockchains is still an experimental field we're developing different solutions with different benefits.

GRAT is a full-featured IDE where you make Tezos Smart Contracts using visual blocks.

Announcing DEKU Chain -- Deku is a sidechain (Layer 2) solution for Tezos: both a public network run by Tezos core devs & a framework to build your permissioned blockchain.

Taquito is a TypeScript library that is now present in the vast majority of the web-based dapps of the Tezos ecosystem.

improved UX, reworked token interface view.

The VisualTez visual programming service appeared on Tezos as early as May. It leaves it to the developer to select the blocks they need with the mouse, combine them and set arguments, while the service does the rest.

Now Streaming

Tune in to our latest TezTalks Radio episode featuring Professor Groff

The TezTalks team sits down with Dr Jeff Groff - Physics Professor, Tezos Commons Grantee, and creator of the Tezio Wallet, the new Tezos wallet built using Arduino hardware. 

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