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Tezos Community Update - April

As we continue to march on through the year in these unprecedented times, we urge people to stay home and do our best to flatten the curve. With that being said, we are starting to see the Tezos community is evolving just like the protocol as contributors in the ecosystem are pivoting to online events and working remotely such as the virtual meetup hosted by Tezos Berlin. We strongly support these initiatives and will be launching our online programs this month in efforts to grow the Tezos ecosystem and community.

TezTalks is back and now virtual!

Just last year around this time we hosted our first TezTalks at Draper Universty in San Mateo. We hosted featured speakers from the Tezos Ecosystem such as Kathleen, Meltem, and Alison discussing on how Tezos can evolve in the future.

This year we are extending TezTalks to the digital space with TezTalks Live, which will be our live stream meetups and TezTalks Radio, a conversational-style video podcast that features discussion and guests from the Tezos ecosystem.

Featured Tezos Agora Posts

Gas limits are prohibitive for contract interaction — forum.tezosagora.org

I know that the gas limit was recently raised to 1,000,000 in the Carthage protocol upgrade, but I feel it still isn’t enough to do some basic things.

Demystifying Fractal — forum.tezosagora.org

Background of Demystification Series In the past years, there have been many academic publications on zero-knowledge proofs of argument schemes (zkPoKs, aka “ZKPs”).

Tezos Ecosystem News

OrO : A Decentralized Oracle network, without a token — medium.com

At Tezsure we are missing a crucial piece of the puzzle for our insurance platform: a decentralized oracle network.

The Nature of the Firm — medium.com

Tl;dr, I have a new company called Coase and we’re releasing a game into alpha. You can sign up here to learn more.

Ready Layer One: Base Layer Protocols Team for Virtual Developer Event — www.coindesk.com

A virtual conference is being organized by a bevy of base-layer protocols – the Web3 Foundation, Near, Cosmos, Tezos, Protocol Labs and Polkadot.

Wrapped Bitcoin Aims to Kick-Start DeFi on Tezos Blockchain — www.coindesk.com

Bitcoin Association Switzerland is partnering with the Tezos Foundation to create tzBTC, a bitcoin-pegged token meant to power DeFi applications on Tezos.

ACCA to Explore Potential Applications of Blockchain Technology in the Accounting Industry Together with Tezos Southeast Asia — www.tezos.org.sg

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and Tezos Southeast Asia (TSA) have announced today that they have signed a Memorandum.

tZERO’s Digital Securities Protocol Now Supports Tezos Blockchain | Business Wire — www.businesswire.com

tZERO, the global leader in blockchain innovation for capital markets, announced today that its digital securities protocol now supports Tezos.

Ecosystem Development Updates

Meanwhile at Nomadic Labs #7

It’s time to talk about what has been going on at Nomadic Labs for the past two months.

Better Call Dev 2: what’s new — medium.com

A few weeks ago we released the beta version of Better Call Dev 2 — a successor of our Tezos smart contract explorer.

Tezos SmartPy Developer Course | Blockmatics — training.blockmatics.io

Write secure smart contracts with ease on SmartPy!

Introduction to Taquito for Tezos Dapp Development - Crowdcast — www.crowdcast.io

In this session we are going to show you how to get up and running with a Tezos dapp in 30min.

Teztracker Update # 7 — medium.com

We’ve added more information to the block page which now displays baker priority, block time & fitness, volume and fees and the cycle information.

Tezos Community Events

April 20th: TezTalks Radio #1: Introductory to a new Tezos podcast

April 23rd: Tezos Ukraine Online Meetup

April 27th: TezTalks Live #2 featuring Alex Liu and Shaun Belcher

April 30th: Building DAOs