Lots of things happening in XTZ land, so time to catch up on a few recent notable pieces of data and information.
Comparing Transaction Volumes of Tezos and Ethereum
Kathmandu
Tezos pulls off another essentially flawless upgrade without contentious forks or any acrimony and drama. This particular upgrade is important for many reasons, but one that really caught our eye is the impact on the timeline for devs. Prior to this, devs would spend a lot of time moving projects from one testnet to another, roughly every three months. This upgrade creates a permanent testnet so that devs can test, implement, and optimize smart contracts right on the permanent testnet. Time savings and more new deployments - bullish.
New Deployments
Speaking of new deployments, with 8 days or so left in the month Tezos has hit a new all time monthly high in number of deployments:
Tether
USDT launches on Tezos. More access to the Tezos blockchain particularly for NFT projects and GameFi such as Tezotopia. Say what you want about Tether, but this is big news and bullish for XTZ. This could help in game assets maintain and enhance value as well.
tzBTC on Bittrex
Bittrex, an old stalwart from the early days and still relevant, now lists tzBTC and will soon list Kolibri, Youves, and Sirius - three other tokens with prominent roles in the Tezos ecosystem.
