The Baking Sheet - Issue #99

May 13, 2022

Tezos is built to last

Welcome to this week's issue of The Baking Sheet! As we embark on the 10th protocol upgrade for Tezos, Jakarta, let's remind the Baking Community to vote for the protocol. There are 2 days remaining and at this time ~1% for the proposal to reach quorum. Lots of announcements and developments have happened this past from across the Tezos Ecosystem -- Let's dive in!

Ecosystem Insights: Permanent Art Collection

Let's start off this week with the Financial Times reporting on the newly formed Tezos Foundation Permanent Art Collection

The Tezos Foundation, the Swiss non-profit arm of the Tezos blockchain network, has committed £1mn to create a non-fungible token art collection. The funds have been entrusted first to Misan Harriman, a photographer, NFT collector and social activist who is chair of the board at London’s Southbank Centre.

His plan is to focus on emerging artists from Africa and Asia. “As a black man, at the top of my game in photography, I know how lucky I have been and think every day about people who have lost in the lottery of life because of the social economics of their situation. Smart contract technology gives a fighting chance to the democratisation of merit-based opportunity,” Harriman says. Works in the Tezos Foundation Permanent Art Collection will be shown on its website and will be displayed physically “sooner rather than later”, says Arthur Breitman, co-founder of Tezos. The Foundation holds about $1bn of funds, he says.

Tezos Global Job Fair on /r/Cryptocurrency!

One of the largest cryptocurrency communities on the internet with over 2 million subscribers, r/CryptoCurrency, is hosting the Tezos Ecosystem Career Fair on Friday, May 20!

Explore jobs from teams throughout the Tezos ecosystem for your chance to join a fast-growing community. Several organizations from the Tezos Ecosystem will be participating and helping answer any questions from the broad community, come join us and welcome newcomers looking to join the ecosystem.

This Week in the Tezos Ecosystem

TZ APAC is appointing a new CEO, Colin Miles, who will be leading regional operations in Asia. A seasoned entrepreneur who has built companies across Southeast Asia and Europe, Colin is a technology, media, and telecom (TMT) veteran. Previously, Colin was the Chief Commercial Officer at Zilliqa. Today, Colin continues to serve as a Board Director of NextID, a blockchain-powered certificate issuance service, and a Board Director of AdStamp, a Singapore-based mobile advertising and branding agency.

A new Centre for Computing Excellence at NUS, in partnership with TZ APAC and the Tezos blockchain. Find out more.

This is the third iteration of the program and we will continue to make changes based on community feedback. Just like the Tezos blockchain, we will continually be evolving this program.

Ctez is a synthetic XTZ that accumulates rewards from delegating XTZ. Literally: 1 ctez can be worth 1 XTZ today, and a year from now it will be worth 1.06 XTZ or even more.

Tezos has upgraded 9 times with its 10th underway -- here's an overview of how Tezos has evolved since the launch of mainnet

On this episode we talk about the journey of Tezos and building the Tezos ecosystem with its co-founder Arthur Breitman

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This Week in Tezos Development

A dive into the nature and significance of the latest proposed Tezos protocol upgrade — Jakarta.

Developed by Smartchain, this interactive coding game will help you learn to code Tezos smart-contracts with LIGO

How does the notion of technical debt apply to a programming language?

important fixes related to chain reorg handling. New stuff: token transfer index, per-index rollback hooks

Now Streaming

A conversation with Jev Björsell of ECAD Labs

ECAD Labs builds developer tools for the Tezos blockchain, in this episode, Jev details the latest launch of Taqueria, a new way to build on Tezos.

Trending on Tezos Agora

Hello, I developed a one-click faucet for Tezos testnet: It was a first try to develop something with Tezos, but I think some people could be interested to use it, so I released it.

@G_B_Fefe and myself have been working on a protocol proposal called consensus key and would like to suggest it for inclusion in protocol K.

You follow a link to a website on an influencer’s social media channel. The site promises to airdrop some tokens if you own a certain NFT.