The Baking Sheet - Issue #75

November 26, 2021

See you in Miami!

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

As we’re about to enter the new Hangzhou era, the highly anticipated Art Basel event in Miami is approaching. Dozens of speakers are lined up to discuss their journey through NFTs and Tezos, for that matter.

This week’s issue will focus on that event and what to look out for.

Tezos x Art Basel Miami

It should be no surprise that Tezos is beginning to become highly resonated and ingrained within today’s NFT movement. As this new digital frontier has begun to evolve, there’s no greater platform than one that is quite literally designed to evolve alongside it.

Hangzhou, the latest Tezos protocol upgrade has been accepted by the Tezos community and will activate at the end of cycle 427, on block 1,916,929, at approximately 16:20:22 UTC on December 3rd, 2021.

Art Basel Miami is slated to take place December 2-4, with a long list of speaker lineups from artists, creators, and collectors across the globe using Tezos. You’ll even be able to tune in to see it live!

Attendees will be able to mint an AI generative self-portrait which they can mint as a takeaway NFT.

A few highlights of guests are as follows:

  • Mumu the Stan

  • Mike Shinoda (Linkin Park/Fort Minor)

  • Kevin Abosch

  • George Goodwin (OMGiDrawedit)

  • Mario Klingemann (Quasimondo)

  • And many more

So, we’re actually going to see a few great things happen over Art Basel week. Apart from all the artists and creators alike showcasing their work and Tezos, it will coincide with the latest Tezos upgrade getting activated.

This unique feature exclusive to Tezos allows the core protocol to implement the latest and greatest feature sets and activate them autonomously with community consensus. Hangzhou will embark on the 8th time the Tezos protocol has implemented a new upgrade without causing a network fork.

Be sure to tune in for Art Basel and if you’re in attendance, stop by and try a “sip et nunc”!

This Week in the Tezos Ecosystem

Art Basel Miami is just around the corner! Hundreds of Tezos NFT creators are attending. Airbnb hosts are having a field day, up to $300/night per head. We decided to step in and rent a big house and help as many people as possible! Introducing the DNS House for

We launched a Tezos baking survey in the beginning of November. We deeply appreciate everyone’s participation — it is extremely helpful to have this kind of insight.

Baloti has been developed that will be used to engage the large group of Swiss residents that have not acquired voting rights yet. Baloti will be used by residents that have not acquired their citizenship yet.

Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda announced that he will publish a new music project as a generative NFT series called Ziggurats on Tezos.

The NFT industry is a reliable source of irritation for many crypto enthusiasts. Some don’t understand why a mash of pixels costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. Others are angry because they found out about the mash well after traders got their hands on it.

This Week in Tezos Development

The DEX page for QuipuSwap and Liquidity Baking on tzkt.io is evolving!

  • - additional chart periods

  • - TVL and share's price charts

  • - personal statistics for liquidity providers

  • - trade history

Other features are coming!

In order to minimise the downtime during activation of Hangzhou, we recommend that full nodes import a snapshot within a 24 hours window from the activation block.

Welcome to Nomadic Labs knowledge center. Here you will find all the necessary documentation to help you understand the main concepts and tools to build successfully on Tezos. Enjoy the read!

We start with the basics: smart contract structure and LIGO syntax. Then you will learn to write contracts and interact with the blockchain. In the end, you will be able to create a test token and NFT on the Tezos network.

InterPop

The latest issue of The Nine, our flagship series that uses NFTs on Tezos to bring unparalleled creative control to readers.

The NFT model has already allowed readers to vote on outcomes ranging from what character appears next to whether or not our time-jumping protagonist visits D-Day of the sinking of the Titanic... but the vote tied to today’s release will have the greatest ramifications to date!

See how Interpop is using NFTs on Tezos to empower fans, and discover how their voices have already helped shape an all-new comics universe. See for yourself.

Only 500 editions of The Nine #3 have been minted. Get yours today