Update: Week Of 13 January 2020
Dear Tezos community, Nomadic Labs has been busy this week, as researchers Bruno Bernardo, Raphaël Cauderlier, Julien Tesson, and Basile Pesin combined forces to publish a research paper, “Albert, an intermediate smart-contract language for the Tezos blockchain.” In addition to the paper, Raphaël Cauderlier will present on Albert at the Financial Cryptography and Data Security Conference 2020 in Malaysia. Finally, Nomadic announced that it partnered with Inria to develop a research program dedicated to Tezos and blockchain technology in general. The collaboration has funded 4 projects and 11 researchers in France so far.
I would also like to highlight that the Foundation’s Tezos mainnet faucet is now live. The faucet allows developers and users to request Tezos tokens (tez) for development and testing purposes. Check out the Tezos faucet here.
Finally, I would like to remind the community that the exploration vote period for the Carthage 2.0 proposal will end on 18 January. We hope to see high levels of participation as Tezos’ evolution is determined by the community.
Grantees, Funded Entities, and Other News
Below are some updates from the last week:
- Airgap released an update to tezblock with additional features and small changes.
- Baking Bad provided more information on its TzKT block explorer.
- camlCase is nearing completion on Dexter, a decentralized exchange for Tezos.
- Cryptonomic released an update of Conseil, its query API for Tezos.
- IMDEA Software Institute and Nomadic Labs organized the first IMDEA-Tezos Workshop on January 16.
- The LIGO team published the first in a series of posts on Tezos smart contract languages.
- The LIGO team published part 2 of R&D analysis on Tezos address naming schemes, focused on choosing a name format.
- Nomadic Labs and Inria partnered to develop a new research program dedicated to Tezos and blockchain technology.
- Nomadic Labs published a paper on Albert, an intermediate smart-contract language for Tezos.
- Nomadics Labs’ Raphaël Cauderlier will present on Albert at the Financial Cryptography and Data Security Conference 2020 in Malaysia on February 14th.
- Obsidian Systems released a new version of Kiln that fixes logging issues and turns off Ledger connectivity checks by default.
- SmartPy announced a new release, which is its first open-source release.
- Tezos Cameroun will host a meetup on February 29.
- Tezos Israel will host a meetup on January 23 on the present & future of Tezos business solutions.
- Tezos Rio released TezosJ_plainJava v1.1.0 which allows developers to easily call Tezos smart contracts.
- Tezsure published a Tezos Developer Guide.
Marco Schurtenberger presenting in Zurich
Our Activities
The Foundation will announce the grant recipients from its most recent ecosystem grants RFP early next week. We will also issue our next request for proposals (RFP) in the middle of next week, and encourage all teams eager to contribute to the Tezos ecosystem to apply.
In addition to our grantmaking activities, Tezos Foundation Technology Officer Marco Schurtenberger recently contributed an article on “Public vs Private Blockchains” to Bitcoin Suisse’s “Crypto Outlook Report 2020” and gave a speech on the topics at launch events in Zurich and Vaduz.
Additionally, this week Tezos Foundation General Counsel Ulrich Sauter is discussing 2020 Market Outlook in a panel at the Protos Blockchain Summit hosted by DLT Capital and Protos Asset Management in Zurich.
FAQs: I contributed to the Tezos Foundation’s fundraiser but I cannot figure out how to activate my recommended allocation – what do I do?
This is a question that we have answered here before but is worth repeating as we still see it come up in the community. In order to activate a recommended allocation, start by checking a contribution to the Foundation’s fundraiser. After checking, you can then begin the Foundation’s verification process to obtain an activation code corresponding to a public key hash from the fundraiser. Finally, activate a recommended allocation. Follow the steps at the bottom of this page, and if you run into any issue along the way, please email [email protected].