The Baking Sheet - Issue #21

May 22, 2020

News and Insights from across the Tezos Ecosystem

TezTalks Live #3 - Featuring the Vertalo Team

TezTalks Live is our monthly live streamed virtual meetups featuring key contributors from the Tezos Ecosystem. This episode features the CEO, Dave Hendricks and the CTO, William Baxter of Vertalo discussing STOs, asset tokenization on the Vertalo platform and the future outlook of digitizing assets.

TezTalks Radio #2

TezTalks Radio is our video podcast co-hosted by Brian Li and William Mckenzie. We breakdown the latest news in the Tezos Ecosystem and feature the people behind the Tezos Ecosystem. TezTalks Radio is Available on YouTube, Spotify (audio), and Apple Podcasts (audio),

Featured Tezos Agora Posts

In this article we will describe the specific implementation of Stateful Baking Accounts

Reading and writing to the context is one of the most gas-expensive thing a contract can do.

Designing a Name Service - Part 1: Introduction This article is also available as part of our Tezos Name Service publication on Medium.

Tezos Ecosystem News

Banco BTG Pactual, the largest private investment bank in Latin America is moving some of its real estate-backed security tokens over to the Tezos blockchain.

The Tezos Foundation recently held its quarterly Council meeting to discuss the progress of its mission to foster the growth and evolution of the Tezos project and ecosystem and finalize personnel updates following the changes to the Foundation’s governance structure announced in March.

The Automotive Solution Center for Simulation e.V. published first results of the ENVITED ecosystem work group.

Wonder how you could get a development grant in the crypto-industry, no strings attached? Founder of a startup that monitors and rates Tezos validators shares his experience of getting a grant from the Tezos Foundation.

The Bitcoin Suisse Vault now supports XTZ and delegatoin of XTZ to Tezos bakers.

Crypto startup Digycode has added Tezos (XTZ) to the assortment of cryptocurrencies sold as gift vouchers in retail shops.

In this week's episode, Anna interviews three people from the Tezos community: Jacob Arluck (co-founders TQ ), Marc Beunardeau and Marco Stronati (both from Nomadic Lab).

Tezos Development Updates

Launched in May 06th 2020 to supply a Tezos community high demand for wallets, Tezzet Desktop is now available for Windows 64 bit operating system, Linux and MacOS.

In a joint effort, Everstake and Bake’n’Rolls created the organization Tezos Ukraine which is deeply committed to supporting the Tezos network.

Plebeia is a functional storage system using Merkle Patricia tree implemented purely in OCaml. It is meant to be used for Tezos blockchain.

Here are our updates since the last article:

Optimized the storage size down to 80% since the last version, using its refactored path conversion scheme and hash-consing.

Less than 70% of the current Tezos storage size by Irmin2.

The code of Plebeia is available in GitLab. Plebeia integrated Tezos node is also available.

We are very glad to announce that Tarides has been awarded two new grants from the Tezos Foundation. …

Kiln v0.8.1 is now available on the Obsidian Systems GitLab. This release bumps the version of Tezos to include recent updates to the node and mempool

Deployments of Cryptonomic Projects. Contribute to Cryptonomic/Deployments development by creating an account on GitHub.

Our devs never stop working on the Tezos explorer Teztracker.

Community Events

May 26th: TezTalks Live #4