The Baking Sheet - Issue #65

September 17, 2021

Tezos surpasses last months contract calls in just 15 days

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

The Tezos network continues to grow with contract calls already breaking last month’s ATH! Over the week, we’ve been treated to some interesting developments, however. 

For this week’s issue, I think it's important to outline why decentralization is a critical component for success in the long term in lieu of recent events.

Tezos Ecosystem Insights: Decentralization

Tezos is a decentralized and permissionless public blockchain. To this date, it has been battle-tested through multiple on-chain upgrades and utilizing a feature native to Tezos, the ability to self-amend. 

This particular feature is pretty useful and important when we consider other public blockchains which must undergo a fork to incorporate even the smallest of changes. 

The exact opposite of this happened earlier this week with Solana and Arbitrum. 

According to the Solana team, a large transaction overload occurred and caused the network to fork. This downtime resulted in the network being offline for nearly 24 hours. 

Arbitrum was also offline for a brief period of time as well. 

These instances provide us with prime examples of why decentralization and on-chain governance is important. It’s easy to discard this particular aspect as it's easier on the user side with centralization, or having a singular/central authority overseeing. But, that “easiness” can come with it’s negative effects. 

I encourage you to read this great article by Chris Dixon to get a better idea of what those might be. 

The very ethos of blockchain hinges on decentralization. As Tezos continues to evolve and grow, we should not become surprised as more concern begins to be placed on centralization. 

With protocol H on the upcoming horizon and network usage growing by the day, it will be exciting to see what features will be presented in the upcoming protocol upgrade!

This Week in the Tezos Ecosystem

Announcing winners of CRP, up to 5000 tez is distributed monthly to community members.

On September 8, Ukraine’s parliament passed the law on virtual assets. We have analyzed it and translated its most important provisions from legal into human-readable and from Ukrainian into English.

This collaboration kicks off with the launch of a PLENTY/uUSD liquidity pool on Plenty, where users can provide liquidity in uUSD and PLENTY tokens.

The startup will use the Tezos blockchain to develop the infrastructure of the platform, backed by the regulatory sandbox program of the Bahraini central bank

Toulouse FC has become the second professional football club to use Golden Goals to distribute Tezos-based NFT tokens to their fans, this time via an airdrop.

This Week in Tezos Development

HUGE Needs you! 

Huge Inc, a marketing agency working within the Tezos ecosystem, is doing a study on the user experience of Tezos devs. Have you wondered how else you could help make Tezos the best blockchain possible? Well, now is your opportunity. With insight into, and appreciation for the role of developers and their experience, we can help make Tezos a better home to develop on. This would be a self paced study over three days totaling 2 hours at most, altogether ( unless of course you wanted more time ). 

If you know someone in the Tezos community that would be a great fit for this initiative please encourage them to participate. 

If you are a Tezos dev and would like to help you can get in touch in the Tezos telegram channel or email [email protected] directly.

Kukai has become one of the most popular wallets in the Tezos ecosystem, and as Tezos evolves so does Kukai. Today, we are excited to announce a completely redesigned wallet — meet Kukai 2.0.

The protocol in Tezos is made to be future proof by updating on chain. To help with the burden of making sure the protocol operations are safe Octez provides a environment that the protocol can execute functions from. The general idea looks something like this the figure below.

DipDup, a full-stack Tezos DApps developing framework, reaches another significant milestone.

Now Streaming

Trending on Tezos Agora

Hi all,

Here is an FA 1.2 coded in isomorphic Python, it relies on Python’s native AST module and the excellent PyTezos:

What do you think?

Homebase has just been released, one of its main use case is a community treasury :star_struck: :star_struck:!

(https://tezos-homebase.io/)

What is the best/fastest way to get a community fund running and funded by @te…