The Baking Sheet - Issue #18

March 25, 2020

In the midst of the Global Coronavirus Pandemic, we urge people the community to stay home, prepare diligently, and learn to bake!

Coronavirus Update for Community Events

By now, many of you are aware of the growing concern regarding the outbreak of Coronavirus, COVID-2019, in Europe, and on-going monitoring worldwide. Due to our inability to accurately gauge risk at this time, Tezos Commons is canceling community events except for third-party and remote sponsorship for March. TQ Tezos has announced that TQuorum Paris will be rescheduled, follow TQ Tezos on Twitter for future updates. For more information about the disease, situation updates, and information for institutions, please visit the CDC’s informational site.

Help fight Coronavirus with Folding@Home

Johann Tanzer of Tulip Tools made a call to action for the Tezos and broader crypto community to form teams and donate the most substantial amount of computation power by March 30. The winner will receive donated Tez, which is currently at 340 Tez or just under $1,000. Folding@Home performs biomedical research using the computing power of volunteers at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. Check out his full Medium article Help Fight Covid-19 and earn some Tezos!

Featured Tezos Agora Posts

Like the title suggests, Nomadic Labs will be hosting a AMA on Agora on the 26th of March between 7-8pm (GMT+1). Come join the discussion next Thursday and ask questions regarding the integration of Sapling in Tezos.

Metadata

Introduction

Description

The basic idea of metadata is to add data to smart-contracts about the smart-contracts themselves. That data can then be used off chain for a variety of purposes:

LIGO (or any other hi…

Overview of FA2

This post introduces FA2 (TZIP-12), a proposal for a unified token contract interface, supporting both a wide range of token types (e.g. fungible, non-fungible, non-transferrable, etc.) as well as multi-a…

Tezos Ecosystem News

The governance structure of the Foundation is changing to allow the Council to step back from day-to-day management duties and to put an executive team in place.

Own a share of history, The Music Pavilion of Versailles was built in 1784 is being tokenized on Tezos.

Investors included Moonshots Capital, Blockchange Ventures, Castle Island Ventures, Digital Currency Group, CoinShares, Tezos Foundation and Capital Factory

Coase, a startup launched by Tezos co-founder Kathleen Breitman, is pushing a new way to make digital card games more fun.

We are joined by founder of TQ Tezos, Jacob Arluck. TQ Tezos is a company that works to advance the Tezos ecosystem by creating open source software and other public goods. 

3 months ago, a game developer announced on Reddit that he is making a game about blockchain and crypto. Crypto Against All Odds (CAAO)is a humorous take on blockchain technology and crypto culture…

It is my pleasure to announce two new projects we have been working on for the last few months: proof of concept iOS app that interacts with a Tezos smart contract.

Dive into the Tezos Foundation's biannual update.

Ecosystem Development Updates

This post introduces FA2 (TZIP-12), a proposal for a unified token contract interface.

This article is a “fork” of my series of tutorials about smart contract development with Ligo (Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3).

We have already written about the translation challenges that we faced, so now it’s time to think how to overcome them.

Kiln v0.8.0 is here! This release adds support for the Carthage protocol and upgrades the Kiln Node’s storage backend.

Proposals, sorting & fiat value at time of transaction were introduced in the last update.

Tezos Community Updates