Update: Week Of 24 February 2020
Dear Tezos community, This week, Madrid-based IMDEA Software Institute highlighted its partnership with Nomadic Labs and the Tezos Foundation to contribute to the advancement of Tezos and blockchain technology in general. The collaboration between IMDEA and Nomadic Labs will focus on program analysis and verification for safety, distributed consensus, resource consumption and performance, and security and privacy.
We are thrilled to have another world-class research institute join the Tezos community to help advance the Tezos project. This collaboration further validates Tezos as a leading blockchain in the industry, and we can’t wait to see the results.
Lastly, the Carthage amendment proposal reached the quorum in the Promotion Vote Period, the final stage in the Tezos governance process. There are five days remaining in the Promotion Vote Period. Congratulations to the Tezos community for continuing to show the effectiveness of the Tezos governance process.
Best regards,
Ryan
Grantees, Funded Entities, and Other News
Below are some updates from the last week:
- AirGap published an update on Beacon, a tool that allows users to connect Tezos wallets with applications.
- Baking Bad announced zeronet (a Tezos test network) support for its TzKT indexer.
- Baking Bad released a tutorial video on making an atomic swap using its Atomex wallet.
- Cryptonomic’s Mike Radin presented about Tezos on-chain finance in the UK.
- Everstake released an update to TezTracker, its Tezos block explorer.
- Nomadic Labs and Cryptium Labs will both present on Tezos development at EthCC in Paris next week.
- Nomadic Labs hosted a Tezos meetup in Barcelona on February 26th to teach attendees how to run a Tezos node.
- Nomadic Labs will host a Tezos Developers Day on March 6th in Paris. Be sure to register if you plan to attend!
- Nomadic Labs is giving away 100 developer passes for the Paris Blockchain Week Summit from March 31 – April 1.
- Tezos Berlin hosted a Tezos development workshop in Berlin last weekend.
- Tezos Commons released the 17th issue of “The Baking Sheet” featuring updates on the Tezos ecosystem.
- Tezos Commons Boston Chapter, led by Ken Garofalo, hosted the Tezos Boston Pitch Competition, showcasing a number of projects built on Tezos.
- Tezos India Foundation opened registrations to participate in TezIndia v. Harappa, India’s first online Tezos hackathon.
- Tezos Southeast Asia is joining Infinity Blockchain Ventures on March 5th to discuss the blockchain landscape in Malaysia and opportunities for blockchain developers in the region.
- TzStats announced an API upgrade with new features including implicit on-chain events, contract interface hashes, and entrypoint filters & statistics.
Our Activities
The latest RFP for ecosystem grants closed last week, collecting 118 new grant applications. The Foundation has now begun its grantmaking review process to evaluate all submitted proposals. If an applicant has any questions regarding the status of its proposal, please contact [email protected].
We are also nearly ready to release the second Biannual Update, which will highlight major accomplishments of the Tezos community and provide insights into the Foundation’s finances and operations since the first Biannual Update in August 2019. If you haven’t yet viewed the first Biannual Update, you can do so here.
FAQs: When will PwC Switzerland’s 2018 audit of the Foundation be completed?
The Tezos Foundation is the only large-scale public blockchain foundation that has a “Big4” audit firm as its independent statutory auditor. The 2018 audit was recently completed and, as customary and mandated by Swiss law, the audit report has been filed with the Swiss Federal Supervisory Authority for Foundations. The audit took longer than planned due to the complexity and novelty of auditing cryptocurrency assets. The 2018 audit report is not a public document and the Foundation has committed to proactively publishing Biannual Updates to provide public accountability and transparency. The next Biannual Update is in its final stages and will be released soon. There will be a section in the update that speaks more about the nature of the completed 2018 audit and also the 2019 audit which is now underway.