12 Days of Tezmas Brings Art, Play, and Daily Rituals to December on Tezos

As the holiday season is upon us, the Tezos art community is leaning into the season with something that feels playful, generous, and very on brand. 12 Days of Tezmas is now live, turning the days between December 12 and 23 into a daily rhythm of discovery, light interaction, and the chance to receive original artworks from some of the most recognizable artists building on Tezos.

Each morning at 10:00 CET, a new door opens on the Tezmas site. Behind it is a simple set of quests and a raffle tied to that day’s artwork. The format is intentionally approachable and designed to feel more like a daily check-in than a competition.

How it works

• 12 days, 12 artists, 12 original artworks
• From December 12 to December 23, one new door opens each morning at 10:00 CET
• Each day includes a short set of simple quests
• Completing the quests enters your wallet into that day’s artwork raffle
• Up to 100 wallets are selected at random per day
• Winning wallets receive the artwork by airdrop within 24 hours

The quests themselves are meant to be fair and lightweight. You might visit an ecosystem hub, explore a Tezos app or game, watch a short clip, or shout out a creator you already enjoy. Nothing heavy, nothing extractive, just small prompts that reward curiosity and participation.

At the center of Tezmas is the art. Each daily artwork is released as a limited edition of 100, making every piece feel special without being out of reach. The focus stays on discovery and celebration rather than speed or speculation.

This year’s lineup spans a wide range of styles and voices, featuring commissioned works by Skomra, Ilya Bliznets, Could Be You, LN0ir, Oblique Head, Edoardo Politzer, Natalie Shau, Nuv, Esra Eslen, Salawaki, KX, Tuukzs, and Nikita Diakur. It is a reminder of how broad the Tezos art scene has become, and how naturally artists here experiment without being boxed into a single aesthetic.

There is also a finale waiting at the end. Every Tezmas artwork you collect counts as a ticket for the final raffle, featuring a special piece by Nikita Diakur. A snapshot of eligible wallets will be taken on December 30 at 19:00 CET, with the final artwork airdropped shortly after.

Tezmas runs from December 12 through December 23, with doors unlocking daily at 10:00 CET. The final snapshot takes place on December 30 at 19:00 CET. Participation starts at tezmas.com, and the rest unfolds one day at a time.

Tezos Wrapped Turns a Year on Chain Into a Story You Can Look Back On

After days filled with small rituals like Tezmas, it feels natural to pause for a moment and look back at the bigger picture. The end of the year has a way of inviting reflection, and on Tezos, that reflection now comes with a visual recap of everything you explored along the way.

Tezos Wrapped is live, turning your 2025 activity into a personalized snapshot of your on chain journey. Instead of charts or raw data, it focuses on moments. The apps you interacted with, the parts of the ecosystem you spent time in, and the patterns that quietly shaped your year.

It is a reminder that on chain activity is not just transactions and blocks. It is habits, curiosity, and the paths you choose to follow. Some wallets leaned into art and collecting, others into gaming, DeFi, or experimenting with new tools as they launched. Tezos Wrapped brings those threads together and presents them as a single story.

What makes it especially fitting right now is the timing. After a year marked by steady growth, new layers like Etherlink maturing, and creative communities continuing to expand, Tezos Wrapped gives each participant a chance to see where they personally fit into that broader picture.

If you spent time building, exploring, collecting, or just quietly observing from the sidelines, your year is in there. Tezos Wrapped does not rank or judge. It simply reflects.

You can view your personalized recap at tezoswrapped.com and take a moment to see what your 2025 on Tezos looked like, one interaction at a time.

This Week in the Tezos Ecosystem

Etherlink Wrapped 2025 Shows How Far the Layer Has Come

Zooming out from individual journeys on Tezos, the picture widens even further when you look at what unfolded on Etherlink this year. What started as a fast, EVM compatible extension of Tezos has grown into a living ecosystem with its own rhythm, communities, and momentum. Etherlink Wrapped 2025 pulls all of that into focus.

At a glance, the scale of activity tells its own story. More than six hundred sixty million dollars moved through the EVM bridge over the year. Six million dollars in rewards were distributed across the ecosystem. Over twenty six thousand users crossed the bridge, and Apple Farm alone saw more than six thousand wallets actively claiming rewards. These are not isolated experiments anymore. They are signs of real usage taking hold.

2025 at a glance on Etherlink

• $661 million in EVM bridge volume
• $6 million in rewards distributed
• 26,000 plus bridge users
• Over 6,000 Apple Farm reward claimants
• 76 percent of all mBASIS minted on Etherlink

DeFi, in particular, had a defining year. Etherlink climbed to become the third largest chain on Curve Finance, reaching nearly thirty four million dollars in total value locked. That shift brought deeper liquidity, tighter spreads, and a more resilient trading environment, all while staying anchored to Tezos Layer 1.

The broader ecosystem momentum showed up clearly across the tooling and data as well.

DeFi milestones that stood out

• Third largest chain on Curve Finance by TVL
• Nearly $34 million in Curve liquidity
• DefiLlama recorded an Etherlink TVL all time high of $83 million

Under the surface, adoption spread across a wide mix of protocols and use cases. Curve, Superlend, Gearbox, Spiko, and Uranium.io emerged as core DeFi pillars. On the gaming side, titles like Sugarverse and Appleville drew consistent activity, alongside newer experiments that tested different mechanics and audiences.

Community favorites in 2025

• Top DeFi protocols: Curve, Superlend, Gearbox, Spiko, Uranium.io
• Top games: Sugarverse, Appleville, Cricket Champions, BetMode

What makes Etherlink Wrapped especially satisfying is that it does not feel like a single spike or short lived trend. It reads more like a year of steady construction. Builders shipped. Users showed up. Incentives brought attention. Infrastructure matured quietly in the background.

As 2025 comes to a close, Etherlink Wrapped feels less like a victory lap and more like a checkpoint. A clear snapshot of what worked, what stuck, and what the ecosystem is now capable of supporting. With that foundation in place, the path into 2026 feels wide open.

Farfadet Goes Live and Etherlink Moves Quickly With a 6.1 Fix

The Farfadet upgrade is officially live.

Etherlink 6.0 activated successfully on mainnet at block 34,089,273, marking another major step forward for the EVM layer built on Tezos. The vote passed cleanly, and the upgrade landed exactly as planned. Thanks are due to Tezos bakers and the wider community for showing up, reviewing the proposal, and pushing it over the line.

As is often the case with meaningful upgrades, Farfadet immediately began doing real work in the wild. And within hours of activation, that real world usage surfaced an edge case that needed attention.

Later the same day Farfadet went live, a user deposited FA tokens from Tezos Layer 1 to Etherlink using the Tezos Bridge. While the transaction was correctly included on chain, the tokens were not minted on Etherlink as expected. It quickly became clear that this was not isolated to a single token. All FA token deposits were affected by the same regression.

Out of caution, FA token deposits were temporarily disabled in the bridge interface. Tez transfers and withdrawals continued to function normally, as did other bridges and wrapped assets. Importantly, no funds were lost. The affected tokens remain safely locked on Tezos Layer 1 under the control of the Etherlink smart rollup.

What followed is a good example of how Etherlink governance is designed to work.

The issue was traced back to a change introduced in Farfadet that modified how the FA bridge contract is initialized. The testing environment had assumed a clean deployment, while mainnet already had a previous version of the contract in place. That mismatch allowed the regression to slip through.

To address this, Nomadic Labs, Trilitech, and Functori have proposed Etherlink 6.1, a targeted bugfix upgrade designed to do two things.

First, it corrects the bridge logic so FA token deposits work as expected going forward. Second, it includes a one time migration that re-injects the affected Lyzi deposit so the tokens are delivered to their intended recipient exactly as originally intended.

Because the Tezos Bridge is a critical piece of Etherlink infrastructure and user funds are currently waiting to complete their journey, the teams are proposing to deploy Etherlink 6.1 using the fast governance process. This allows the fix to move quickly while remaining fully on chain and baker governed.

If approved, Etherlink 6.1 is expected to activate shortly after the vote, restoring FA token deposits and unblocking the affected funds. Once the fix is live and confirmed, FA transfers will be re-enabled in the bridge frontend.

Farfadet showed what Etherlink is capable of. Etherlink 6.1 now shows how the ecosystem responds when something needs tightening. Fast detection, transparent explanation, on chain governance, and a clear path to resolution.

Important dates for Etherlink 6.1

Etherlink 6.1 is scheduled to enter the fast governance process on Friday, December 19.

Proposal period

• Fast governance period 689

• L1 levels #11,247,889 to #11,251,488

• Friday, December 19, 2025 from 03:22 UTC to 11:22 UTC

Promotion period

• Fast governance period 690

• L1 levels #11,251,489 to #11,255,088

• Friday, December 19, 2025 from 11:22 UTC to 19:22 UTC

Block timing may shift slightly depending on network conditions. For the most accurate and up to date information, bakers and operators should follow the Etherlink mainnet governance portal.

If the governance process is successful, Etherlink 6.1 is expected to go live on mainnet between December 20 at 8:00 PM UTC and December 21 at 7:00 AM UTC.

🔴 Now Streaming: Beyond the Circle | How Sogni and Tezos Are Giving Creativity Back to People

This week on TezTalks Live, host Stu welcomes Kyle Flemmer, writer, publisher, and digital media artist, for a wide-ranging conversation about making art and documenting culture inside the Tezos ecosystem. Kyle joins us to reflect on his path into Tezos, the work he has created, and the stories he has chosen to record along the way.

Our guest is Kyle Flemmer, a Tezos-based artist and writer who has minted more than 500 works, publishes the Tezos Art Review, and documents the evolution of blockchain art through essays, interviews, and long-form writing.

🔍 In this episode, we explore:

• Kyle first discovered Tezos and what drew him into the art ecosystem

• His artistic practice and where his work lives today

• The release of destill, a blind mint collection on drop.art, and what blind mints offer artists and collectors

• Why writing became a natural extension of his role in the Tezos art scene

• The focus of his work on Tezos Art Review and ElectricChronicles.com

• The creation of TzAR, a published anthology of pixel art, and what inspired it

• Entering the space during a quieter period and continuing to build regardless

• What has allowed the Tezos art community to endure beyond hype cycles

• Why provenance and ownership still matter in an increasingly digital world

• What it means to be an artist and collector in the Tezos ecosystem today

• What’s next for Kyle Flemmer and the ongoing documentation of Tezos art

Watch the full episode on YouTube.