Month At A Glance — March 2025
A quick rundown of the latest happenings and significant milestones within the Tezos ecosystem for March 2025.
Welcome to our latest issue, Month At A Glance (March 2025), where we give a quick rundown of the latest happenings and significant milestones in the Tezos ecosystem on a monthly cadence.
Like a repeating record, March 2025 was an exciting month. It brought a fresh wave of energy to the Tezos ecosystem, with new projects launching across DeFi, social platforms, and infrastructure. From a new ambassadors program empowering contributors, to Hanji and Applefarm kicking off on Etherlink, and Skurpy blending NFTs with social media, this month was all about building momentum. Add in new integrations, smoother onboarding, and a growing dev stack, and things are moving fast.
Let’s break it all down.
Ecosystem Insights
Tezos Trailblazers Launch 
In March 2025, the Tezos Trailblazers program was introduced, a dynamic initiative designed to recognize and reward contributors across various sectors of the ecosystem. More than just an ambassador program, it’s a movement aimed at empowering builders, creators, and changemakers passionate about advancing the Tezos ecosystem.
Participants, known as Trailblazers, engage in task-based missions tailored to their skills, ranging from storytelling and community engagement to technical testing and event organization. This flexible approach ensures that every contributor can make a meaningful impact, and it’s open to both longtime community members and new faces ready to shape the future of Tezos. To learn more, visit the announcement blog post.
Hanji Goes Live on Etherlink
Hanji, a fully on-chain Central Limit Order Book (CLOB) exchange, officially launched on Etherlink this month. Built for traders, Hanji offers a decentralized order book model where all orders are placed and matched directly on-chain. This setup ensures transparency, composability, and tight spreads, something traditional AMMs often struggle with.
Hanji is also one of the protocols featured in the Applefarm initiative, where users earn “Apples” by participating in its on-chain trading ecosystem. With plans to introduce perpetual and LP tokens in the future, Hanji can quickly become a key player in the DeFi scene on Etherlink.
Applefarm Launch on Etherlink
On March 26th, Etherlink unveiled Apple Farm Season 1, a liquidity incentive program allocating $3 million in rewards to bootstrap the DeFi ecosystem on the platform. Participants can earn “Apples” by providing liquidity, lending, or trading across participating protocols such as Superlend, IguanaDEX, Hanji, and Uranium.io.
Apples accrue every 8 hours and can be claimed anytime, with rewards paid out in tez (XTZ) at the end of the season. This initiative aims to encourage user engagement and liquidity provision, vital components for a healthy DeFi ecosystem.
Skurpy Launches a Brand New Social Media/NFT Marketplace on Tezos
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Skurpy, a newly launched platform on Tezos, brings together social media functionality with an NFT marketplace. Users can post content (called “Skurps”), message each other, participate in group chats, and directly mint, collect, and trade NFTs in one unified experience.
The platform honors on-chain royalties, supports custom contract deployments, and adds gamified rewards for active users. With a clean UI and creator-friendly tools, Skurpy blends fun and functionality, offering a space for casual social interaction while also catering to serious NFT creators and collectors through its versatile marketplace tools. For this early stage, the platform is invite-only, but since this is the Tezos community we are talking about, getting an invite is pretty easy, just ask on twitter, and one of the users will get you covered.
News From The Tezos Ecosystem: Quick Bits
Beyond major launches, the ecosystem saw plenty of other noteworthy developments worth a quick look:
Gate.io Adds Support for EtherlinkThis integration makes it significantly easier for users to on-ramp and off-ramp assets directly into the Etherlink ecosystem. Not only does it boost liquidity and accessibility through a major centralized exchange, but it also reduces friction for new users and traders looking to explore the growing suite of DeFi apps on Etherlink.
The “Rio” Upgrade Proposal Went Through the Exploration PhaseTezos’ 18th upgrade proposal, Rio, got enough votes during the exploration phase of the Tezos governance process, hitting both the quorum and supermajority thresholds to advance into the next phases. With the cooldown period almost finished as well, Tezos bakers will need to cast their final votes for the proposal in the promotion period that starts on ~April 2nd.
TZ Apex Season 5!Running from March 26 to April 9, 2025, showcasing the innovative projects of the 2025 Fortify Labs cohort. Participants are invited to engage with these projects, explore new developments within the Tezos ecosystem, and have the opportunity to win rewards of up to $3,000.
Messari Publishes Their Etherlink Ecosystem ReportIn late March, Messari released “The Etherlink Framework: Expanding Tezos’ Ecosystem,” a report highlighting Etherlink’s rapid growth and technical roadmap. It notes a 15.48% rise in transactions this year and outlines integrations with top data providers like Pyth, RedStone, and The Graph. The report also details upcoming advancements like DAL integration and a canonical rollup, all aimed at boosting scalability and developer adoption.
Sugarverse Secures $1 Million in FundingSugarverse, a Web3 gaming studio, has secured $1 million in funding to develop “Sugar Match,” a mobile game set to launch on Etherlink, Tezos’ Layer-2 scaling solution, in summer 2025. Leveraging experience from over 10 successful Web2 games with a combined player base exceeding 60 million, Sugarverse aims to create a sustainable in-game economy that offers long-term value to all players, not just early adopters.
Uranium.io User Experience UpgradedUranium.io rolled out a smoother onboarding experience by removing the upfront KYC requirement. Now, users can go from signup to uranium ownership in just three steps: sign up, add funds, and buy. The are also no minimums, letting anyone get started with any amount, making access to tokenized uranium simpler and more flexible than ever.
Sequence Integrates EtherlinkSequence, one of the leading Web3 development platforms, is now live on Etherlink. This integration brings powerful tools like embedded smart wallets and seamless on/off-ramping directly to builders, unlocking smoother onboarding and more intuitive game design for Web3 developers. With Etherlink’s speed and scalability and Sequence’s full-stack toolkit, creating player-first blockchain games just got a whole lot easier.
Events
Tuesday🎙Tezday w Fendel — March 4th
Tezos Town Hall #7: Protocol Upgrades and Latest Developments — March 7th
Artz Fridays w Sutanz — March 7th
Tuesday🎙Tezday Community Call — March 11th
Artz Fridays w United Saints — March 14th
Tuesday🎙Tezday w Flexasaurus Rex — March 18th
Artz Fridays w Skllzarmy — March 21st
Tezos Town Hall #8: RWA & Tokenization — March 24th
Tuesday🎙Tezday Community Call — March 25th (Part 1, Part 2)
Artz Fridays Community Call — March 28th
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