The Baking Sheet - Issue #68

October 08, 2021

Tezos is taking its talents to Miami

Welcome to this week's issue of the Baking Sheet! Tezos is heading to South Beach with Tezos NFTs being showcased at Art Basel Miami Beach. Let's dive in!

Tezos Ecosystem Insights: Art Basel

Miami, Florida - October 7, 2021 -- Today, Art Basel announced Tezos, an energy-efficient open-source blockchain and an official partner of Art Basel Miami Beach 2021, will present a curated NFT art experience designed to explore a new frontier of art, technology, and culture. The global, diverse Tezos NFT art community will showcase what NFTs mean to the art world through interactive exhibits, inspiring speakers, and collaborative panel discussions.

Art Basel Miami Beach ranks as the premier art show of the Americas, attracting emerging young talent, renowned artists and galleries, and experienced collectors of modern and contemporary art. Gallerists, curators, collectors, architects, critics, and many other cultural figures gather at Art Basel Miami Beach to offer their unique perspectives on producing, collecting, and exhibiting art. This year, they will come together to discuss the fastest growing and most vibrant art category: NFTs.

NFTs represent the technology layer for artistic expression with digital provenance. The Tezos art community, consisting of three of the top 20 NFT marketplaces and a thriving grassroots community of global artists, will be an ambassador for the larger NFT ecosystem to the traditional art world. The global Tezos community will foster discussion through engaging exhibits and thought-provoking concepts.

2021 Art Basel Miami Beach

Private Days (by invitation only)

Tuesday, November 30, 2021, 11am to 8pm

Wednesday, December 1, 2021, 11am to 8pm

Vernissage (by invitation only)

Wednesday, December 1, 2021, 4pm to 8pm

Public Days

Thursday, December 2, 2021, 11am to 7pm

Friday, December 3, 2021, 11am to 7pm

Saturday, December 4, 2021, 11am to 6pm

This Week in the Tezos Ecosystem

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

The banking institution were granted approval from the Swiss Financial Market Authority (FINMA) in 2019 to provide digital asset services.

Meet the new Temple update which include top-up features for accounts as well as the long-awaited "NFT tab" in the assets menu

A few days ago, Plenty DeFi have announced the listing of their token PLENTY on CoinMarketCap. This made us wonder, what other DeFi projects on Tezos are listed on crypto aggregators and centralised exchanges. Spoiler alert: not so many yet.

The center will feature a multi-purpose Tezos-centric development hub that will help Tezos developers connect and network through technology consulting and development support.

The adoption of cryptocurrency in Africa varies regionally. While countries with currently unstable currencies like the naira are seeing immense usage, other regions using the CFA franc have sparse adoption.

Alesso is slated to perform Dreamverse, the first combined NFT art gallery and music festival event, where several of his exclusive audiovisual experiences will debut for the first time.

Andrew Ross Sorkin and the DealBook team explored the environmental impact of digital currency and efforts to make it more sustainable.

This Week in Tezos Development

Interns wanted! 13 new open positions in the NL RnD team to join the Tezos adventure & help our blockchain progress!

Just two months ago, Tezos welcomed the new update titled Granada. But things never stay still, so in late September the devs rolled out a new proposal, Hangzhou, named after the heartland of China’s IT industry.

As mentioned in our Tezos Storage / Irmin Summer 2021 Update on the Tezos Agora forum, the Irmin team's goal has been to improve Irmin's…

Test your grasp of Tezos development — take our quiz about smart contracts, tokens, and blockchain. Unboringed questions and tricky answers.

TL;DR Initial open source release of zkChannels and zeekoe node available for Tezos on testnet! We are proud to announce the open source release of our zkChannels protocol library and the zeekoe node.

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In this month’s Market Outlook event we discussed market trends, as well as the rise of the “Alt Layer 1 trade”. We were also joined by Kathleen Breitman, Co-founder of the decentralized proof of stake blockchain network Tezos, and discussed how her experience in traditional finance shaped her outlook on the future of finance and blockchain technology. If you enjoyed the show, don't forget to subscribe and leave a review