Update: Week of 23 March 2020
Dear Tezos community, We hope you are all staying safe and healthy in these difficult times. In case you missed it, last week the Tezos Foundation released its second Biannual Update, with updated facts and figures and updates on what the community has accomplished in the last 6 months. You can find the report here. Happy reading!
With the COVID-19 pandemic restricting in-person gatherings all over the world, we were encouraged to see Tezos Berlin’s plans for a virtual meetup this Saturday, March 28. The meetup will cover the latest developments in Tezos core protocol engineering, and features speakers from Cryptium Labs and Nomadic Labs. If you’d like to participate, you can register here.
Best regards,
Ryan
Grantees, Funded Entities, and Other News
Below are some updates from the last week:
- Blockmatics held a developer webinar to teach unit testing in SmartPy.
- Adrian Brink from Cryptium Labs appeared on the Unforkable podcast to discuss Tezos, liquid proof-of-stake, and on-chain governance.
- Cryptonomic released an update to its Tezos indexer and API, Conseil.
- Nomadic Labs held an AMA on Tezos Agora to discuss its upcoming sapling integration proposal.
- Tezos Berlin will host a virtual meetup on the latest developments in Tezos core protocol engineering tomorrow (March 28).
- Tezos Commons released Issue #18 of the Baking Sheet newsletter with updates on the Tezos ecosystem.
- Tezos Nodes published a Tezos reward calculator to more effectively evaluate Tezos bakers.
Our Activities
The Foundation released the second edition of its Biannual Update last week. You can find it here.
Additionally, the Tezos Foundation announced last week that it has entered into a settlement, subject to court approval, of all putative class action lawsuits, all of which are pending in California state and federal courts. The Foundation continues to believe the lawsuits were meritless and continues to deny any wrongdoing, but the one-time cost of a financial settlement is preferable to the distractions and legal costs associated with continuing to fight in the courts.
FAQs: Regarding the civil litigation update – who is entitled to receive the settlement funds and how will they be distributed?
Settlement funds will be distributed to those in the settlement class who file valid claim forms. The settlement class would consist of those who participated in the Foundation’s fundraiser in 2017, but would exclude the defendants and certain of their affiliates. The federal courts in the United States have not yet determined how to allocate funds among class members.