The Baking Sheet - Issue #70

October 22, 2021

Keep your friends close, and your NFTs even closer

Welcome to this week's issue of 'The Baking Sheet', this week kicked off three big announcements for NFTs on Tezos so let's get right into it!

Tezos x McLaren

McLaren Racing launches the ‘McLaren Racing Collective’ platform built on Tezos as part of a digital collectible program.

McLaren Racing today announced the launch of ‘McLaren Racing Collective,’ an innovative platform where fans and collectors can purchase McLaren Racing digital collectibles or non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The platform will serve as McLaren Racing’s official location for numerous opportunities to own a piece of McLaren Racing for the long term. The first drop will allow fans and blockchain enthusiasts alike to purchase different components of the MCL35M 2021 Formula 1 race car built from official McLaren Racing CAD.

The first person to complete a full MCL35M will win a VIP trip to a 2022 Formula 1 grand prix. This will be the first of many drops and campaigns, as the team looks to integrate this marketplace into McLaren Racing’s long-term fan engagement strategy.

Lindsey Eckhouse, Director, Licensing, ecommerce and esports, McLaren Racing, said: 

“We are excited to launch McLaren Racing Collective, which allows us to engage our fans in an innovative new space. Through NFTs built on the energy-efficient Tezos blockchain, we are creating new ways to evolve our fan experience, and a bespoke McLaren Racing digital collectible marketplace provides people with a brand new way to connect with our team.

“The first NFT drop heroes our papaya-liveried MCL35M F1 car, and gives our fans a fantastic opportunity to own their own piece of McLaren Racing, seeing each component from all angles, while also allowing them to win incredible prizes.”

Tezos x Sweet

Sweet, a leading enterprise NFT solutions provider, announced the integration of Tezos, a leading energy-efficient Proof of Stake  blockchain network, to the Sweet NFT platform. The inaugural Tezos collection on the Sweet NFT Platform unveils an extensive and highly-gamified McLaren Racing Collective NFT fan experience. McLaren Racing fans will be able to collect unique McLaren F1 car parts to build their own NFT McLaren F1 car, all on Sweet and powered by Tezos.

unprecedented views of the MCL35M car parts as true 3D NFTs that can be spun around, fidgeted with, and viewed from all angles. Additionally McLaren Racing has gamified the entire collectors experience as their fans race to collect all the individual 3D car components to unlock the interactive 3D MCL35M Formula One car and access unique fan experiences.

Tom Mizzone, CEO of Sweet, said:

"We built the entire McLaren Racing Collective on Tezos for its ecofriendliness, and its compatibility with broad scale use cases and applications for NFTs. Tezos allows us to continue to prioritize and maintain a seamless, user-friendly digital collecting experience. We expect to see a large move into Tezos NFTs across many IP holder verticals and marketplaces.”

With the release of this first round series of McLaren Racing collectibles, McLaren joins Sweet’s roster of partners across the National Hockey League, the National Basketball Association, Burger King, Estee Lauder Corporation, Dave & Buster’s, Keb Mo, Lil Pump, Pentatonix, and many more to be announced in the coming weeks.

Tezos x House Guerlain

House Guerlain and MNSTR announced the ‘When matter becomes art’ exhibition at the International Contemporary Art Fair (Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain - FICA) featuring four groundbreaking NFTs built on the energy-efficient Tezos blockchain.

The NFTs will be displayed in the multi-level House Guerlin exhibition at FICA. FICA is an annual event hosted in Paris, France focused on contemporary art that attracts artists, collectors, and gallerists from all over the world.

For 190 years, Guerlain has explored, innovated and perfected in fragrances, skincare, and makeup. Guerlain creations are legendary in the worlds of fragrances, skincare and makeup, all signed by a distinctive culture of beauty, an unwavering attachment to “Made in France” and with total respect for the craft of artists and artisans alike.

This Week in the Tezos Ecosystem

AOI s.a., becomes the first Luxembourg company to participate in the Tezos ecosystem as a corporate baker. By officially becoming a baker, AOI will now validate transactions (blocks) and add them to the Tezos blockchain.

The team behind Genius Contracts has launched a decentralised exchange SpicySwap on the mainnet on October 10th, and on the very first day of its operation, users have pooled over $1m, and the weekly trading volume reached $420k. Not bad for a Tezos-based exchange that does not support tez! So, who needs its services and how to use them? Let’s find out.

This Week in Tezos Development

Tezos India Fellowship 2.0 demo day.

With 10+ project submissions, we're looking forward to seeing the innovative solutions developed on the #Tezos. Stay tuned and join us for our demo day to find out more.

Date: 20 and 22 Oct 2021

Time: 3 PM - 5 PM IST

Streaming Link:

Follow Tezos India Twitter for the latest updates on each project!

Welcome Tezos Developers! Explore the technical and economic concepts behind the Tezos Network, experiment with our tutorials, or start building your own Tezos Dapp. Each module will teach you a full concept of Tezos, ending with a quiz that will get you an official completion certification if you succeed.

Version 10.3 of Octez has just been released. This version prevents several corruptions of the store, and fixes the reconstruction of archive nodes.

Netezos is a cross-platform Tezos SDK for .NET developers, simplifying interaction with the Tezos blockchain

Blockchain security is built on the openness of all data. Tezos devs now plan to introduce Timelock, a primitive enabling users to conceal transactions until a certain time. Quite paradoxically, it is likely to increase the security of the network.

Now Streaming

Keefer and Ryan of Hover Labs will dive into the latest of the popular Tezos DeFi platform, Kolibri FInance and demo Kolibri DAO

Trending on Tezos Agora

Hello! Tenderbake has as we know a lot of similarities to Tendermint. Once it is implemented, how hard is it to include the IBC (inter blockchain communication) module?

I think it’s time we have an open thread, collecting everything from developers in terms of needs and gripes regarding the current FA2 standard to devise a FA2.1 or FA3 token standard for Tezos

Tezos NFT Project: Distributed Consciousness

Distributed Consciousness is a collection of 256 (2^8) unique Tentacular Critters 🐙 created in collaboration with Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning, spawned on the Tezos blockchain (and hiding a surprise secret!).

"I see octopuses quite often when I go snorkeling in the Mediterranean, but usually at depths greater than 3m, where only a very narrow bandwidth of sunlight can reach, removing all color. The other day I saw one on a rock just a few cm from the surface, under a full spectrum of sunlight. It flashed at me the most intense colors. It blew my mind." - Memo Akten