On-chain metrics:
- Last months new Tezos account growth was an amazing 8%
- Tezos smartcontract adoption growth, 26 mill XTZ held in smartcontracts at this point
- Tezos now has over 50,000 active delegators!
- In the past two years Tezos has had an average of 31 smart contract deployments a day
- Tezos' smart contract activity is showing huge growth. (On average 225 deployments a day in last month)
- Tezos smartcontract usage shows continuing growth: XTZ gas consumption for this month already surpassed last months total
- Tezos smart contract usage continues to grow: 183% compared to last month
- The last upgrade on Tezos decreased transaction fees: 3,215 transactions on Tezos now cost the same as 1 transaction on Ethereum
- In the past six months, Tezos contract calls are up 1,000% (And other stats and prospects for 2021)
Smart contract development:
- Live
- The French Gendarmerie’s cybercrime division (C3N) deployed their first smart contract on Tezos blockchain in November 2019.
- StakerDAO
- NyX Standard (Smartcontract package for STO issuance)
- First classical piece of real estate tokenized on Tezos
- Bitcoin Association Switzerland has launched a Bitcoin stablecoin on Tezos
- Atomex, the Hybrid DEX and HD Wallet enabeling atomic swaps on Tezos, is now available for Windows, Linux and Web Platforms
- Avis Clients Blockchain provides authentication of customer reviews and secures them on the Tezos blockchain
- The first price oracle on Tezos
- STO "Aspen Coin", has been tokenized on Tezos and is trading on tZERO
- Payzos: enabling Tezos payments for webshops
- Tezos Dapp Ejara: your mobile investment partner
- TZButton
- Second Tezos-based oracle: Harbinger
- The first DEX on Tezos has just launched: DEXter
- Avosvotes has developed an application to enable digital voting for local authorities.
- Taurus enables secure Tezos staking infrastructure for institutional use-cases
- The newest version of Tezos' Kukai wallet enables you to send XTZ to any Google, Reddit and Twitter account
- The Swiss city Wetzikon issues Tezos-based tokens "Wetzikoins" to support local businesses
- Vertalo and MountX just tokenized two real estate assets on Tezos: first of 15+ digital real estate projects
- Equisafe has tokenized over 30 private assets on Tezos this year and will launch an art portfolio and a Real Estate portfolio on Tezos soon
- You can now use DEXter on your mobile phone
- Dealbox just migrated two STO's from Stellar to Tezos
- Tezos App wins 3 awards in the "Best of Swiss Apps Awards"
- Second round of TzButton has started
- DeFi components on Tezos: USDtz
- The first 100 ETHtz has been minted and is ready to enter Tezos DeFi
- In development
- Tezsure, insurance simplified
- Electeez: the first Tezos-based voting application for communities will soon be ready to use
- The ENVITED work group (Including Audi, BMW, Daimler and Porsche) is working on an automotive use case build on Tezos
- USDtz stablecoin
- Chorus Mobility is working since 2018 on a Tezos-Based concept for vehicle to vehicle payments.
- Ethereum DaPP Radion.fm migrated to Tezos
- With “Emergents,” Zvi Mowshowitz aims to bring collectible card games into the 21st century. Emergents is developed on Tezos.
- Tezos is working on two CBDC application proposals: for both the Banque de France and the National Bank of Ukraine.
- Tezsure released the pre-alpha open source code for OrO Nodes
- Elevated Returns is building a digital exchange on Tezos
- QR Capital is building a digital exchange on Tezos
- SureDAO by BakingBad
- Decentralized Identity on Tezos
- Yield Baker : 25% APY on dXTZ
- Spark – A Deflationary Token On Tezos
- DEX: Quipuswap
- Werenode – An Electric Vehicle Charging Solution Built On Tezos, With Links To Renault, Nissan & Mitsubishi
- Tezos Domains Alpha Release. Transform your Tezos address into a domain name.
- Sustain.Exchange To Develop A Primary Issuance Platform For Digital Securities Built On Tezos
- Official: Tezos is part of one of the eight selected parties for further development of the CBDC experiment for Banque de France
- Spruce Systems is building Digital Decentralized Identities on Tezos
- Werenode uses Tezos to create a sharing network for electrical vehicle charging points.
- Stable Tech announces Trustee Network: a governance network for all Stable Tech DeFi applications
- OroPocket will tokenize Gold and Silver on Tezos
- Exaion EDF Group will become a corporate baker in the Tezos LPoS ecosystem and wants to develop a whole ecosystem of "smart" applications on Tezos
- DealBox will launch a $25 mill STO on Tezos for Total Network Service (TNS) this November
- Aqar Chain is building a real estate investment platform on Tezos to issue and trade STO's
- Another big Digital Bank Currency project selects Tezos and Ethereum: the DIBC
- Baanx to bring its entire Fintech product suite to Tezos in Q1 2021
- The next step for DeFi on Tezos: Wrapped ERC20 tokens
- The first NFT platform on Tezos is announced to be launched next month: Kalamint
- DeFi components on Tezos: ETHtz brings ETH to Tezos DeFi
- DeFi components on Tezos: TEZEX, a cross-chain gateway
Expanding the developers community:
- Tezos Blockstar Programme (trained 500 developers)
- In December last year, 1,338 developers were either still in training or had completed a Tezos training course
- Tezos has joined the T-Block accelerator project as official platform partner
- TZ Ventures "helps startups to achieve technical, business, and organisational milestones during an intensive mentoring program."
- The T-Block Accelerator "Tezos product development workshop."
- The Tezos - Coinlist Hackathon
- Cryptocodeschool: an interactive game where you write your first smart contract on Tezos. (Beginner-friendly)
- More than 1,000 developers signed up for the Tezos India Fellowship program
- Singapore’s first government-supported blockchain accelerator platform, starts Tezos scholarship course this August
Tooling:
- Truffle Suite launched its first support tools for Tezos
- Tezsure released a building toolbox for Tezos: Tezster
- Magic SDK, an Ethereum development tool, added for Tezos
- Ganache-CLI now available for Tezos development
- AirGap wallet integrates with Beacon
- Cryptocodeschool: an interactive game where you write your first smart contract on Tezos. (Beginner-friendly)
STO's announced:
- BTG Pactual and Dalma Capital adopt Tezos for STOs worth $1 billion
- Bonda Vinci Signs Business Agreement with Tezos Korea for Joint Venture of Art and Real Estate Securities Token (STO)
- Elevated Returns sets to Tokenize Thai Real Estate with a Target of US$100m This Year
- The Fundament Group has developed Germans first real estate crypto token and has just formed a strategic partnership with Tezos.
- The Security Token platform tZERO will Tokenize about $640 million in UK Real Estate.
- TokenSoft is "projecting that within the next year, 25–35% of the amount processed through our platform will be on the Tezos blockchain. Currently our clients have processed half a billion through our platform, and they are currently seeking to issue $3 Billion+ onto the blockchain." Which comes down to about $1 Billion.
- Andra Capital just announced to launch their new STO (SVC) on Tezos
- Transfer agent Vertalo wants its customers to issue securities on the Tezos blockchain.
- Brazilian investment bank BTG Pactual moves half of ReitBZ security tokens from Ethereum to Tezos
- tZERO and Tynton Capital announced to tokenize $300 million worth of STO's on Tezos
- Logical Pictures launches a $ 121 million STO on Tezos: "21 Content Ventures"
Other:
- The Taurus Group and the Tezos Foundation have started a strategic cooperation to realize capital market use cases and transactions on Tezos
- Securitize integrated Tezos to issue and manage STO’s
- The Tezos Foundation partners with STO platform Liquefy
- Tezos Southeast Asia and The ACCA have committed themselves to explore accounting applications on Tezos
- Tezos Japan has joined the Japan Security Token Association
- DIGYCODE makes it possible to buy Tezos (XTZ) with cash in 10,000 stores in France
- The IMDEA Software Institute starts to contribute to the Tezos ecosystem
- WhylSon: automating formal verification on Tezos smartcontracts
- One of the largest AML tooling services is now available for Tezos
- Custody providers Hex Trust and BitGo announce they have added support for Tezos.
- Tezos Foundation signs MoU with Taibah Valley in Saudi Arabia to increase investment on decentralized technologies
- The Tezos Foundation Partners With OpenVASP Association To Implement FATF’s Crypto Travel Rule
- The newest Tezos wallet "MailTezos", is ready to go in under a minute
- Tezos legal settlement is now final: this closes the road for any further attempts. Great news for Tezos
- Venture Studio Draper-Goren-Holm (Yes that's Tim Draper) has invested in "Tezos Stable Technologies, Ltd."
- Tezos India joins forces with Tech Mahindra and Skoda Auto Digilab India in the Century Program, supported by Lumos Labs and Microsoft India.
- DeFi on Tezos: earn through DeFi, while continuing to earn stakingrewards. Have your cake and eat it too
- Sword Group will become a corporate baker in the Tezos LPoS ecosystem
- Exaion EDF Group will become a corporate baker in the Tezos LPoS ecosystem
- Swiss regulated bank Sygnum now offers XTZ and staking rewards to its clients
- Elevated Returns and BlockFi will enable you to use Tezos-based Tokenized Assets as collateral for lending
- XTZ is now added to bitFlyer, the largest exchange in the exclusive market of Japan
- "The Blockchain Group" launches tokenization platform on Tezos, partner BNP Paribas facilitates the onboarding process of investors
- Institutional liquidity provider Woorton will increasingly provide liquidity on DEXter, the first Tezos-based DEX
- Second Japanese exchange lists Tezos: GMO
- Xtz.news has launched
Tezos fundamentals:
- Full introduction to Tezos.
- Hard forks can be a risks for DeFI, NFT's and STO's. Here's how Tezos avoids this issue.
- Overview of the Tezos governance mechanism
- Tezos funding (Over $600 million and on-chain invoicing)
- List of multiple smart contract languages (1)
- List of multiple smart contract languages (2)
- Ethereum's accidental hard fork: how Tezos' on-chain governance protocol prevents this from happening on Tezos
- The last upgrade on Tezos decreased transaction fees: 3,215 transactions on Tezos now cost the same as 1 transaction on Ethereum
Protocol upgrades:
- Tomorrow the fourth upgrade for Tezos mainnet will go live: Delphi
- Privacy features on Tezos are injected and will be live on mainnet in February
Future protocol development:
- Tezos Dalphanet is up: the testnet for the next upgrade, including privacy features (Said to be proposal 007)
- Nomadic Labs is working on Tenderbake, a Classical BFT Style Consensus for Public Blockchains. (Collaboration with CEA-LIST)
- More info on Tenderbake here on TezosAgora.
- Next upgrade for Tezos has been injected and it will be an interim protocol proposal.
- Tezos Tenderbak testnet is up, improving scalability and the amount of transactions per second
Usefull links:
- Agora, Tezos' discussion forum
- Status of current on-chain governance proposal
- Tezos block explorers
- Tezos wallets
News sources focused on Tezos:
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