Tezos

Questa settimana riunisce alcuni dei temi che si sono sviluppati nell'ecosistema per un po' di tempo.
Mentre entriamo nella fase di cooldown per il prossimo aggiornamento del protocollo Tezos, stiamo focalizzando l'attenzione sui fantastici membri della community che contribuiscono a modo loro attraverso strumenti che aiutano a preservare l'archivio in crescita di arte, collezioni e storia culturale che si sta creando su Tezos.
Questa attenzione alla permanenza e alla preservazione si estende anche oltre il software. A New York, artisti, curatori e collezionisti si sono recentemente radunati per Open Worlds al Museum of the Moving Image, mentre una nuova commissione di Linda Dounia e Rhea Myers è ora in mostra come parte della partnership in corso tra MoMI e la Fondazione Tezos.

A quick rundown of the latest happenings and significant milestones within the Tezos ecosystem for April 2026.
Welcome to our latest issue, Month At A Glance (April 2026), where we give a quick rundown of the latest happenings and significant milestones in the Tezos ecosystem on a monthly cadence.
April was a month of building and expanding, with protocol upgrades progressing, new projects launching, and ecosystem infrastructure continuing to grow across regions and use cases. From governance milestones to developer tools, asset access, and community initiatives, the network kept moving on many fronts at once.
Let’s break it all down.
Ecosystem Insights
Ushuaia: Tezos 21st Protocol Upgrade Enters Governance
April marked a key milestone for the next Tezos protocol upgrade, Ushuaia, as it entered the governance process. With the injection complete, bakers can now actively review and vote on the upgrade, moving it closer to adoption.
The upgrade continues to highlight notable improvements, from expanded DAL bandwidth and optimized attestation timings to enhanced groundwork for Etherlink via WASM PVM upgrades. Ushuaia also carries forward the liquid staking (sTEZ) feature flag and maintains early support for quantum-resistant accounts, showing the ecosystem’s ongoing focus on security, scalability, and future-ready tooling.
Being mid-way through governance at the time of writing, Ushuaia provides the community with its first real chance to weigh in on the upcoming changes. It’s a strong example of how Tezos’ iterative, consensus-driven model guides upgrades from proposal to adoption, keeping both development and community input tightly aligned.
Metals.io Announcement at TezDev 2026
Right before April started, there was another big announcement. Metals.io was unveiled at TezDev 2026 as the evolution of Uranium.io, expanding Tezos-powered access from uranium to a broader range of physical metals. The platform now covers gold, uranium, and niche materials such as hafnium, rhenium, indium, neodymium, and praseodymium, all fully backed with secure custody and transparent pricing.
Metals.io enables fractional ownership, on-chain settlement, and continuous market access, making metals markets faster, more accessible, and easier to interact with than traditional channels. Upcoming expansions include silver, palladium, nickel, and cobalt, extending the protocol’s reach for both institutional and retail participants.
This launch underscores Tezos’ growing role in real-world asset infrastructure, bringing previously hard-to-access markets on-chain and standardizing pricing and exposure across a diverse set of commodities.
Tezos X roadmap update
In late April, a joint post by the Tezos core development teams (Nomadic Labs, Trilitech, and Functori) detailed a major update on the Tezos X roadmap, moving the project from broad vision toward concrete execution. The post lays out how the unified execution layer, where EVM and Michelson share a single ledger, is progressing, with a public testnet already out, and a clear path to mainnet activation.
The update explains that the execution layer will initially support two interfaces: EVM via Etherlink, and Michelson via the Shadownet testnet, both designed to work together seamlessly. Developers are encouraged to start deploying and testing on the previewnet now, with a governance vote on the Etherlink upgrade expected in June to bring Tezos X live on mainnet.
Alongside the timeline, the roadmap update highlights the milestones that have already been achieved, such as Layer 1 optimizations, DAL activation, and Etherlink’s evolution, and clarifies how priorities have shifted in response to real‑world signals. It gives builders and stakeholders a more concrete sense of what to expect and when, anchoring Tezos X’s long‑term vision in a near‑term rollout plan.
News From The Tezos Ecosystem: Quick Bits
Beyond those insights, the ecosystem saw plenty of other noteworthy developments worth a quick look:
Tezos Intents AnnouncedIn April, Tezos Intents was announced as a new standard for on-chain instructions. It lets users express actions like swaps, trades, or other interactions in a way that different protocols can read and execute, making cross-protocol operations smoother. Developers can explore it at tezosintents.com
Tezos Patronage Association Launched The Tezos Foundation announced the launch of the Tezos Patronage Association (TPA), a Swiss industry association created to ensure strategic alignment across new independent regional entities. Alongside TPA, Tezos Middle East (Dubai) and Tezos Southeast Asia (Singapore) were established to focus on ecosystem development in gaming, capital markets, DeFi, and art, helping the Tezos ecosystem expand globally.
Tezos EVM Hackathon Winners Announced The Tezos EVM (Etherlink) AI Hackathon concluded with winners recognized for their innovative projects. Arbiter automated escrow agreements using AI to deploy and settle locked contracts. No-Code Agent Builder offered a visual, drag-and-drop workflow for creating AI-powered blockchain agents without writing code. SlashMarket split staked XTZ into principal and yield tokens, letting AI agents compete on-chain to optimize delegation strategies.
TezDev 2026 recap TezDev 2026 took place at the very end of March, so it didn’t make last month’s edition, but the event and its announcements dominated discussions throughout April. The conference brought together builders, developers, and ecosystem enthusiasts, with key highlights including the unveiling of Metals.io, updates on Tezos X, and talks covering gaming, DeFi, and infrastructure innovations. For a full look at the sessions, demos, and major takeaways, see the detailed recap here.
Tezos (XTZ) Now Available on Bitstamp Bitstamp added Tezos (XTZ) to its platform in April, giving US users another major exchange to buy, sell, and trade XTZ. This expands access and liquidity for Tezos in the US market.
chart.win Waitlist Opens for First Userschart.win began granting access to users off its waitlist, letting the first participants try out the platform’s prediction grid and multiplier mechanics powered by Etherlink. The waitlist remains open for others to join and get access as it rolls out to more users.
Events
Artz Fridays w Altgon — April 3rd
Tuesday🎙Tezday Community Call — April 7th
Artz Fridays w Aether Cavendish — April 10th
Tuesday🎙Tezday w Ben Elvidge — April 14th
Stakehouse #3 “Revenge of the Stake” — April 15th
Artz Fridays w Malicious Sheep — April 17th
Tuesday🎙Tezday w Efe Kucuk — April 21st
Artz Fridays April’s Community Call — April 24th
Tuesday🎙Tezday Community Call — April 28th
Stay in the Conversation, Stay in the Know
Tezos Commons hosts a variety of community-oriented events and content. From podcasts, X-spaces, and long-form content, there’s something for everyone.
TezTalks Live
TezTalks Radio
X Spaces
X Shorts
Baking Sheet Newsletter
In-Depth Articles
You can also contact us on X or via email at social@tezoscommons.org.
Month At A Glance — April 2026 was originally published in Tezos Commons on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Announcing the CRP Winners for April 2026!
Greetings Tezos Community,
We are pleased to announce the winners of the “Community Rewards Program” CRP for the month of April 2026!
For more details about the various categories, please refer to the rewards page on the Tezos Commons website.
The Community Rewards Program is a Tezos Commons Foundation initiative aimed at fostering adoption and supporting the Tezos ecosystem. Every month, tez rewards are distributed to individuals and teams who stand out in merit and act in the interest of the Tezos ecosystem as a whole. For this round, a total of 10,000 tez has been awarded.
In an endeavor to make it easier for community members to nominate their favorite contributors to the ecosystem, the nomination form has been drastically streamlined. Now containing only three questions, it takes less than 30 seconds to submit a nomination.
Don’t have 30 seconds? You can tag any Discord message, Reddit post or tweet with #TezosCRP and we will collect them as well!
This is the fifth iteration of the program, and we will continue to make changes based on community feedback. Just like the Tezos blockchain, we will be continually evolving this program.
Numerous factors are used when evaluating submissions, such as quality of submissions, quality of activity, number of submissions, and verifiable proof of activity done by the nominee (no single factor is determinative of a winner, as all factors were weighed to select winners). The judges would like to note that for each category, they are looking for the respective monthly related activity, meaning submissions should reflect activities done for that current month, i.e.; month of May activities.
Without further delay, here are the results of the winners, below.
Drill Sergeant Award
@skllzarmy
Helping Hand Award
@siftcroix
@AuRo404
@spike_0124
@TechMental_
@TheTezos
@paraxenod
Influencer Award
@UnknownCo123
@001failure
@_TransparentArt
@sansfomo
@ryangtanaka
@UnitedSaints
Tez Dev Award
@maxcapacity
@retro_manni
@JackTezos
@flexasaurusrex
@_joesimon
@JestemZero
Assimilation Award
@0xwiU
@SkullDegenClub_
@StrokeDriven
@ZeroUnboundArt
@ODemerge
@mederu_art
@uzzy_arts
Patissier Award
@libertez_baker
@Zir0h
@riseuptez
@blockbakery
@fafo_lab
Tezos Tutor Award
@cletusEllijah
@TozartWeb3
@malsheep56
@FirstRainArt
Formal Verification Award
@webidente
@BakingBenjamins
TEO Award
@NftyTrap
@MiRetratito
@WX8BK
Nominations Are Open For May
With May underway, we have begun accepting nominations for this month. If you know someone who deserves a reward for their contributions to the community or have ideas about other categories that should be recognized, then please fill out a nomination form located here, or you can tag a post (or discord message) with #TezosCRP.
As mentioned previously, we are still working on long-term improvements to this program. We know this program is far from perfect, so please bear with us while we strive to improve this program based on community feedback. Stay tuned, stay creative, and keep nominating!
As a reminder to the reward winners, the awards are all distributed through Kukai and DirectAuth. If you have issues claiming your awards, please message us here.
Tezos Community Rewards — April 2026 was originally published in Tezos Commons on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

May 2026 Spotlight of Art On Tezos
What does the word “artsy” actually mean? The definition of the word artsy is something that showcases artistry or talent. Sometimes we assign our own meaning to words, and the more those alternatives get spoken, the stronger the association becomes, eventually replacing the definition. This phenomenon, however, where words get skewed from defined to abstract, is ironically an important feature of symbolism, when used in moderation.
That’s what this series aims to provide, an intentional spotlight on the people who express themselves by being artsy. The spotlighted artists are also expanding how they share their art through technology. Through the use of new mediums like NFTs, and through growing online communities forming around the appreciation of digital art, we can discover new paradigms as they unravel.
This month I am curating the spotlight myself, following the same approach the series has settled into when lacking nominations. Just me and my attempt to showcase art that moved me. Art I came across while collecting on Tezos. Each piece earned its place here for being expressive and daringly artsy. I will focus on the art itself, while making sure every artist is properly credited.
“Full Time Artist” by Ozge Gulbakan “Full Time Artist” by Ozge Gulbakan
One of the reasons I selected the artwork “Full Time Artist” was the sheer relatability. Most of my life I’ve been a full-time artist with an empty wallet. It’s because of knowing that feeling so well that I collect from fellow artists today. I like that Ozge chose a green wallet, and I read it as the persistence to keep paying the bills doing what she loves, but this comes at a trade off.
The frustration of perpetually emerging can either fuel the timeline with rants, or the fire within can be turned into art that speaks for us. I admire the art Ozge creates and posts because she expresses genuine emotion through a style that is unmistakably hers, yet shaped by today’s meme culture and relatably to human struggles. Follow Ozge to enjoy more of her art here.
“Artistry” by JMAC “Artistry” by JMAC
I had to go on an investigative journey to properly spotlight “Artistry” by JMAC. On first impression I could feel there was a lot more going on in the workflow than what was being described in the context on OBJKT. Further exploration of this artist’s account led me to their X profile, followed by a joyful dive into the making of “Artistry” on YouTube. This artwork started as a portrait, then was composed through a series of mixed media steps you can view for yourself here.
I fell in love with the abstract and surreal world crafted from such a simple yet original foundation. The result depicts, to me, a performing singer-songwriter capturing the attention of entities from multiple dimensions, through the universal language of sound. JMAC is a surrealist painter with more work on Tezos, here.
“Balloon Meow G.O.A.T.” by Choen Lee “Balloon Meow G.O.A.T.” by Choen Lee
A cat ascends into the blue sky, propelled by a helium balloon, gazing into a smartphone. The animation is simple and charming, hand-drawn in a way that feels personal. On closer look it reveals itself as a tribute to Nyan Cat, the iconic animation Christopher Torres uploaded in 2011 that became one of the defining works of early internet meme culture.
The artists who keep succeeding tend to be the ones who honor the people who inspired them along their journey. Choen Lee has been a consistent and recognized figure in Web3 art, with a range of work that spans years of platforms, communities, and creative shifts. Her art tells a story that expands beyond her own timeline, picking up threads from the broader history of digital art and carrying them forward. Visit her linktree here.
https://objkt.com/tokens/hicetnunc/880151 “Toxic Melt” by Theo Laurent
While exploring earlier artworks minted on Tezos, “Toxic Melt” stopped me from scrolling. A reminder that what once felt like a cultural melting pot of shared ideas has devolved into a toxic soup where characters have lost their solid form, replaced by plastic and digital waste. The static broadcast on the TV represents the noise now void of any significant signal.
According to Theo, the piece is intended as a group portrait of civilization as it wastes away. The work shows how art can carry real frustration and how those expressions find a home and an audience in the rebellious corners of the Tezos art community. Find hundreds of artworks by Theo here.
Until Next Month’s ‘ART’icle
To close this month’s spotlight, I want to remind the community that nominations for the next #tezARTicle are always open. Every suggestion matters and can help highlight an artist who deserves to be seen.
The artists spotlighted this month found me organically, reminding me that impeccable craft and unfiltered expression are not opposing forces. They feed each other, and the work that lasts tends to come from artists who hold both at once.
The pieces featured here show why I keep coming back to collect, create and explore on Tezos, where artists are telling a story and showing what is possible through creating and sharing digitally.
Thank you for reading. Keep exploring art on Tezos, keep nominating, and stay tuned for more spotlights soon.
The ‘ART’icle of The Month was originally published in Tezos Commons on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Bentornato. L'edizione di questa settimana si concentra su uno degli esperimenti più avanguardistici che abbiamo visto emergere dall'ecosistema Tezos da un po'.
TzEL porta pagamenti privati post-quantum in un ambiente di testnet live, trasformando un problema che solitamente vive in articoli di ricerca e discussioni sulla sicurezza a lungo termine in qualcosa con cui gli sviluppatori possono effettivamente interagire oggi. Tocca una questione che sta diventando sempre più difficile da ignorare nell'industria più ampia: cosa succede alla privacy della blockchain quando la crittografia che protegge le transazioni di oggi diventa vulnerabile domani?

Dietro gli strumenti, le battute e gli esperimenti, ecco uno sguardo su come uno dei costruttori più prolifici di Tezos pensa e crea.
Probabilmente hai visto che, molto spesso, scrivo articoli su strumenti costruiti dalla comunità che rendono più facile per gli utenti di Tezos navigare nello spazio. E se hai prestato attenzione, c'è un nome che continua a ripetersi. Ovviamente, sto parlando di Jack Tezos.
È uno dei costruttori più capaci e amati della comunità, un vincitore di più premi Tezos CRP, e il creatore di molti strumenti che rendono l'ecosistema più divertente e accessibile. Pensavo fosse ora di dargli un po' di spotlight extra, quindi ecco la mia Q&A con Jack, dove approfondiamo il suo percorso e la sua visione sulla costruzione in Tezos.

Il Tezos X Previewnet è ora attivo, offrendo agli sviluppatori il loro primo vero ambiente per sperimentare con EVM e Michelson che operano insieme su un libro mastro condiviso. Per una roadmap che è stata discussa in post sul blog, interventi a conferenze e aggiornamenti del protocollo negli ultimi due anni, questo è un passo significativo in avanti. Gli sviluppatori possono ora testare effettivamente l'architettura, esplorare come si comportano le applicazioni cross-environment e iniziare a pensare a nuovi pattern di design.
Allo stesso tempo, il lato comunitario dell'ecosistema continua a muoversi di pari passo. Eventi come il Tezos Breakfast Club Miami ti ricordano che dietro ogni aggiornamento del protocollo e traguardo tecnico c'è sempre una rete di persone che condividono idee, costruiscono progetti e plasmano il futuro delle cose.

Bentornata, comunità Tezos. L'edizione di questa settimana si concentra su uno degli aggiornamenti più chiari che abbiamo visto quest'anno.
Tezos X sta passando dalla roadmap a qualcosa con cui gli sviluppatori possono davvero lavorare. L'architettura che unisce EVM e Michelson su un unico libro mastro sta ora avvicinandosi al testnet, e il percorso verso il mainnet è già tracciato. È un momento che lega insieme gran parte del lavoro di base che è stato costruito negli ultimi due anni.
Con l'arrivo dell'estate, inizia la stagione delle conferenze e abbiamo un nuovo evento da mettere in evidenza. Parliamo di tutto questo qui sotto nel Baking Sheet di questa settimana.

April 2026 Community Spotlight of Art on Tezos
Last month, I went off script, letting the spotlight follow personal discovery rather than waiting on nominations. However, I am happy to say that some nominations came onto my feed shortly after publishing the ‘ART’icle of March. This month, three artists rose to the surface through community nominations on X. I’ve added a fourth and think everyone will understand why.
What follows is a spotlight of art curated from those nominations. I will focus on the art itself while making sure each artist is properly credited. None of these artworks is listed by me for secondary sale, and nothing here should be interpreted as financial advice.
https://objkt.com/tokens/KT1NFqvjCyJDoXM1M1TvRK7NhzUgAjEfrEVk/10 The Raven and The Fossilized Giant by @AriniNathalie
This acrylic painting on paper by Nathalie Arini is abstract and monotype yet feels defined and vibrant once sitting with it. Through varying textures, compositional suggestions and applied imagination, the viewer can discover many different meanings on their own. The brush strokes speak for the artist first, but then for those who wish to dive deeper into the artist’s mind, they can find a more defined interpretation in the metadata: “A raven guards the fossilized head of a blind giant, the giant’s soul still lives on through the immortal raven’s eye…”
Although there are hundreds of abstract gems to discover by @AriniNathalie on Tezos, this specific artwork stood out to me and continues to pull me in for its balance of abstraction and intention. At some point in the workflow the plan became clear and the improv was replaced by intent. Discover more incredible abstract art by Nathalie Arini, here.
https://objkt.com/tokens/KT1Vu5W4R7NzTGRKssL21RhdoDNyRRQZ9Xyc/0 Lost In Vestiges #1 by paldipaldi
First of all, I would like to confess a major bias in my admiration towards the next spotlighted artist, I was not the one who nominated @paldipaldi this time. I enjoy a physical painting by Paldipaldi every day. I can see it in the corner of my eye even as I type.
Recently releasing “Lost in Vestiges”, it’s a great pleasure to share my thoughts on this new direction. Traditionally, Paldipaldi’s art is character-centric, with recurring subjects dominating the composition. In this new series the adventure becomes more about the surroundings and exploring the architecture within a shattered reality.
Described as, “A visual inventory of a world that refused to stay whole”, we are first introduced to the series with a house layout that is more structured than not. However, as you explore the details you find bizarre portals, doorways, and hints towards the fact that this world is not by any means normal. You can see Ghostie in the empty back-rooms-like pool. Reaper has climbed a ladder through the ceiling of the main home. The more you look, the more you can write your own story.
Once you have fully taken in the first edition of this series, be sure to enjoy the rest of them. There are four releases so far as of this writing, and with each iteration the world seems to grow more shattered and unpredictable. Only anchored to what’s known by recurring subjects Ghostie and Reaper, with placement seemingly inspired by “Where’s Waldo.”
Find all that @paldipaldi has to offer by visiting his linktree here.
https://objkt.com/tokens/KT1KzPoo3ckkAAzRfipE7r1q5DcogdpbDobk/27 MM Neon Dreams #020 by MeterMan @TobyInTheMiddle
This next spotlighted artwork is by a photographer and gas meter enthusiast who uses mixed media with AI in post editing to make gas meters fun for everyone else. In this original photograph, @TobyInTheMiddle illuminated elements with Grok AI. This entire series is highly enjoyable to me, as it doesn’t take itself too seriously, while also elevating multiple things at once.
The scene, which could be literally any building around the world, is now a rave. I can imagine just off screen a group of young partygoers getting a breath of fresh air before heading back into the disco. The gas meter, transposed into what almost looks like an outdoor tap with beer flowing from the bar inside. Although silly, I must admit I also imagined the guard posts as little barstools that would be very uncomfortable.
Jokes aside, the point is that I appreciate how MeterMan has taken an ordinary object to most, and used art to represent it in the light of how an enthusiast sees it instead. Essentially, it represents how artists see the world, and how we feel called to create that beauty for others to experience. Experience all of MeterMan’s photography here.
Special Mention: Stroke Driven & @tezosartnetwork
This month’s featured artists were nominated by a fellow artist and celebrated community builder of the Tezos Artist Network. With recent announcements from X/Twitter that communities as a feature will be discontinued, I couldn’t think of a better reason to add a spotlight on Stroke Driven and her art, with a reminder to follow @tezosartnetwork so you can be part of what comes next for the community.
Link to response to changes happening with X Communities here.
https://objkt.com/tokens/KT1TveAQDnsE99vni2kmxXWPJXmH5NajpGRj/43
“BoopTz Outta Pocket” by StrokeDriven
No mouths, no words to clutter the air.
Colors do the talking, Spatters hold the silence.
The BoopTz don’t explain themselves,
WTF for?! They don’t need to.
What’s felt is already here,
and it’s waiting for YOU to carry it. — Stroke Driven
In this vibrant work, “BoopTz Outta Pocket” by StrokeDriven, I was greeted instantly with a dose of Nickelodeon nostalgia, yet this slime has evolved into a digital brush stroke that stands on its own within the unique composition. Which I will no longer try to explain per order of the BoopTz. Discover more here.
This month’s ‘ART’icle was actually made possible in this form thanks to @strokedriven. A big thanks for nominating such wonderful artists and I look forward to seeing what comes from Tezos Artist Network in its soon to be evolved form.
Until Next Month’s ‘ART’icle
Nominations for the next #tezARTicle are open. A single comment or tag on X is enough to put an artist in front of the community. Keep exploring, keep nominating, and stay tuned. Who knows, if an artist were to be the only one who nominates others again, I might even add their art to the spotlight as a thank you. Thanks for reading and see you next month!
The ‘ART’icle Of The Month was originally published in Tezos Commons on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

This week in The Baking Sheet the focus returns to the core of how Tezos runs day to day.
A new protocol proposal is now on the table with Ushuaia, continuing the push toward higher throughput, faster confirmation, and more flexible infrastructure across layers. At the same time, changes already in motion are starting to show up in how bakers operate, especially as the network moves deeper into BLS-based consensus with a growing set of signing tools.
If you love to see how Tezos operates at the protocol and technical level, then you’re going to love this week’s update.
Let’s get into it.
Ushuaia: The Next Tezos Protocol Upgrade
This week brings us back to the protocol layer, where the next upgrade proposal has officially been introduced.
Following the activation of Tallinn, Nomadic Labs, Trilitech, and Functori have put forward the 21st Tezos upgrade: Ushuaia.
This proposal continues the direction we’ve been seeing over the past few cycles, building toward higher throughput, more flexible staking, and long-term security, while giving the ecosystem time to adapt along the way.
At a high level, Ushuaia focuses on three main areas:
• Scaling the network’s data layer • Improving how quickly data is confirmed • Giving rollup infrastructure more room to evolve independently
The most immediate change is the upgrade to the Data Availability Layer. Bandwidth increases from roughly 0.66 MB/s to 10 MB/s, a 15× jump that allows significantly more data to be published onchain. That opens the door for applications that rely on higher throughput, including games, high-frequency DeFi systems, and more data-heavy use cases.
Alongside that, Ushuaia introduces dynamic DAL attestation. Instead of waiting through a fixed delay, data is confirmed as soon as enough of the network has observed it. In practice, this reduces confirmation time from around a minute to closer to 12 to 18 seconds under normal conditions.
There is also an important shift in how rollup infrastructure evolves. Ushuaia allows certain PVM features to be activated through rollup governance, rather than waiting on full Layer 1 upgrade cycles. That gives builders working on Etherlink and future Tezos X environments more flexibility to iterate as features become ready.
Beyond those core changes, Ushuaia introduces a few features behind testnet flags, giving the community space to explore what may come next:
• A protocol-native approach to liquid staking through sTEZ • Early support for quantum-resistant tz5 accounts • Groundwork for faster rollup storage and future RISC-V integration
Each of these is being introduced gradually, with a focus on testing, feedback, and iteration before any wider activation.
Taken together, Ushuaia builds directly on the momentum of recent upgrades. It pushes scalability forward, improves responsiveness across layers, and lays down early pieces for what comes next, all while keeping the network stable and familiar for users and operators.
The proposal period is now underway, with voting open through early May and a potential activation window later this summer. We encourage developers, bakers, and ecosystem teams to test their applications and tools on the dedicated test network, Ushuaianet, which will be announced soon. A release candidate for Octez v25.0, which contains the Ushuaia protocol as well as general improvements, will also be published shortly.
Bakers, it’s your time to shine in the Tezos ecosystem and start voting! As always, you can follow the governance process in real-time at Tezos Agora.
This Week in the Tezos Ecosystem
Stronger Infrastructure: BLS Signers Multiply Across Tezos
From protocol upgrades to day-to-day operations, this week also highlights something happening a bit closer to the ground.
As Tezos moves further into its BLS-powered consensus era, bakers are starting to see more choice in how they run their infrastructure, especially when it comes to signing.
With tz4 consensus keys and aggregated attestations now part of the flow, signing plays a bigger role in performance and reliability. Faster and more efficient attestations reduce network traffic, lower node load, and contribute to quicker finality and more predictable rewards.
What stands out is how the ecosystem is responding, instead of a single standard approach, multiple signer solutions are now available, each designed with different operational setups in mind:
• Tezos RPI BLS Signer by Nomadic Labs • TezSign by Tez Capital • Russignol by Rich Ayotte • Signatory by ECAD Labs
These range from lightweight setups like Raspberry Pi devices to more advanced configurations using trusted execution environments in the cloud. Different bakers operate at different scales, with different requirements around cost, security, and performance. Having multiple options allows each operator to choose what fits best, rather than adapting to a single model.
It also strengthens the network as a whole with a broader set of tools reduces the risk of infrastructure becoming too uniform, which helps maintain decentralization and resilience over time.
As more bakers adopt these setups, this becomes another layer of progress that doesn’t always get headline attention, though it plays a key role in how the network performs day to day.
Tezos Spring Events
Tezos Breakfast Club: Miami
As the ecosystem heads into another busy stretch of events, there’s a chance to connect in a more relaxed setting during Consensus week.
If you’re in Miami, the Tezos Breakfast Club is hosting a morning meetup on May 7, bringing the community together over coffee, breakfast, and conversation.
There’s no formal agenda here. It’s a simple setup that works well. People gathering, catching up, and exchanging ideas before the day gets underway.
Here’s what to expect:
• Coffee, breakfast, and a casual atmosphere • Conversations with builders, operators, and community members • A chance to connect before the main conference schedule begins
Register here.
🔴 Now Streaming: The Story Behind Tezzardz and Everything Around It
This week on TezTalks Radio, we sit down with George Goodwin, better known as OMGiDRAWEDit, one of the most recognizable artists in the Tezos ecosystem.
If you’ve spent time in Tezos art, you’ve likely seen his work with bold colors, strange characters, and chaotic scenes that somehow hold together the longer you look.
It starts before Tezzardz, before Tezos, back when George was still trying to figure out what kind of artist he wanted to be, and what was missing from his work.
Now streaming on YouTube.
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A New Age Art Ecosystem on Tezos
An identity crisis is happening around NFTs, and a lot of people are trying to build the next big thing, but where are the pioneers building the next SPECIAL thing? How can we transition from crisis back to creativity?
From what I am seeing, there is something special happening at mederu.art. The name is strange, the marketing is raw, and none of it seems designed to make an American like me feel immediately at home. A foreign yet somehow familiar energy comes over me when I am scrolling the mederu art feed. This is not the polished AAA game of art marketplaces. It is more like an indie game baked with love and passion.
The name comes from Japanese and means to look at something beautiful and genuinely feel something from the heart. Mederu is to be cherished and admired with deep affection. The kind of attention we give to nature, to people we love, and to our passion projects. Mederu is like a sprout emerging from the ground, symbolizing new beginnings.
That meaning vibrates outwards from the platform’s DNA. Mederu offers a fresh look into the Tezos art ecosystem, with some intriguing functionality worth exploring together here and now.
Familiar Roots
Spending several days navigating the mederu rabbit hole, I kept returning to a feeling I had not experienced since the early days of the Tezos art scene. Not nostalgia necessarily, but definitely some recognizable moments of joy. From the terminal-green monospace interface, and the BBS social hub, to the GACHA system rooted in a distinctly non-Western collecting tradition. None of it is designed to hype or create FOMO, and that is part of what makes it stand out in today’s NFT climate. Instead of pressure, it was curiosity.
The platform is shaped by the culture it comes from, and the community forming around it seems curious, globally minded, and invested in art as a practice rather than a speculation. Those are values the Tezos ecosystem has always carried.
Everything Is There
The feed is one of mederu’s most immediately useful features. It aggregates the entire Tezos NFT ecosystem into a single view, and it does so without requiring that anything be minted natively to appear there. You can discover and collect works listed elsewhere without ever leaving.
The feed is organized into tabs that shape the experience meaningfully. Art minted on mederu, a dedicated GACHA section, and dedicated event tabs for community moments like #objkt4objkt 2026. Navigating the art feed feels easy, with customization tools we are familiar with but also some new touches like grid size, enabling refined viewing options.
For the first time in years, mederu changed how I participated in a Tezos art event. Having a curated context for a community event built directly into the interface, I found myself returning to that tab throughout the event as my preferred way to collect, which I did not anticipate.
Create and Mint
For artists, the Atelier is where mederu makes its clearest statement, with a modular creative studio built directly into the platform. Draw mode, collage tools, a generative art engine, pixel art with GIF support, glitch effects, an audio visualizer, video upload and minting are all accessible from the same interface where you publish your work. You do not even have to leave to make the art, and might even discover new and useful workflows with the tools available.
Artists can upload and manage their own presets as personal Atelier signatures, with a royalty structure that enables you to earn from other artists who utilize your uploads. It is a small creative economy looping within the larger one, rewarding contribution in a way that goes beyond primary sales. Access to the full studio suite comes through the mederu Artist Pass. I have not yet experienced any pressure or paywalls prompting me to upgrade.
Communication
The BBS deserves its own moment of appreciation. A bulletin board system embedded directly into the platform. I see a lot of Tezos friends already chatting there. Artists and collectors checking in, sharing links, reacting to each other’s work in real time. The social layer lives inside the creative space, but the project is not branding itself as an alternative social media. It is simply one of many thoughtful tools built in for the art lovers to discover.
GACHA
There is also a GACHA studio. Blind minting has deep cultural roots in Japan, where capsule toy machines have been a part of everyday life for decades. The randomness is not a gimmick, it is the mechanic. You are not selecting. You are receiving. There is a different relationship to the object, and mederu’s integration goes deep. Gacha.mederu.art functions almost as its own sub-platform, including the mechanics artists need to properly release blind drops.
What makes the discovery of it so fitting is that I find it the way most find a gacha item. I encountered the art first, noticed a small clickable note about where it came from, and only then arrived at the site that produced it. The navigation mirrors the experience. It is not due to clumsy UI or missing documentation. It is an easter egg in the most honest sense, from a design choice that trusts the curious to follow the thread. For collectors willing to surrender a little control, GACHA offers a genuine moment of discovery.
A Useful Token
Every meaningful action on mederu earns $MDRU tokens. Minting earns them. Collecting earns them. The token is described explicitly as a measure of creative participation rather than a financial instrument, and so far the platform is honoring that framing in practice.
The most compelling example is the re:media section, which I discovered a few days into my mederu journey. It is a full toolkit for file conversion, compression, image resizing, and AI upscaling, embedded directly into the site. The AI upscaling is powered by Google Gemini and costs 10 $MDRU to use. I earned from collecting just a few artworks on the platform. The design gives the token it’s first real reason to exist, prices it sensibly, and lets the community earn it through the actions the platform already encourages.
Vibe-Coded
Much of mederu was vibe-coded into existence. The platform was built close to instinct, iterated in public, shaped by feel rather than blueprint. That mode of building is a relatively new possibility.
The current generation of AI tooling has changed what a solo developers like guruguruhyena can accomplish, and it is starting to show in the kinds of projects reaching the surface. When the developer can spend less time wrestling with the code base and more time thinking about how something should feel, the work often comes out more artsy, and mederu reads as artsy. The interface has aesthetic intention. The features fit together in a way that suggests someone was designing for fun. Mederu is a passion project.
The platform currently consists of three interconnected sites: mederu.art, gacha.mederu.art, and ai.mederu.art, which is still in development. The developer describes the AI work in progress that “goes haywire regularly”. An autonomous system that generates its own artworks and posts its thoughts directly to the feed is the goal for that particular experiment.
The roadmap extends further, with 3D gallery spaces, on-chain pixel minting, Farcaster integration, a physical marketplace, and a music NFT player all in the queue. What is live right now feels cohesive in a way that is genuinely rare at this stage, and the method behind it is part of why it’s possible. I plan to vibe with the mederu community as everything evolves, and the music NFT player has me personally invested more than usual.
A Global POV
Mederu was built for people who love art and to give people a place to cherish the art they care about, together. When spending real time using the platform, I can feel the vibe. I think it has the potential to empower the people within this art movement, and therefore further enrich the Tezos ecosystem.
The point of view is global, culturally specific without being exclusionary, and built for people who want to make and appreciate art. These are the values that drew many of us to Tezos in the first place, and mederu adds its own texture to that culture. I am looking forward to watching this passion project expand as more artists discover it. When you make your way there, come say hi in the BBS. It’s a great vibe.
Vibing At Mederu.art was originally published in Tezos Commons on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Announcing the CRP Winners for March 2026!
Greetings Tezos Community,
We are pleased to announce the winners of the “Community Rewards Program” CRP for the month of March 2026!
For more details about the various categories, please refer to the rewards page on the Tezos Commons website.
The Community Rewards Program is a Tezos Commons Foundation initiative aimed at fostering adoption and supporting the Tezos ecosystem. Every month, tez rewards are distributed to individuals and teams who stand out in merit and act in the interest of the Tezos ecosystem as a whole. For this round, a total of 9,500 tez has been awarded.
In an endeavor to make it easier for community members to nominate their favorite contributors to the ecosystem, the nomination form has been drastically streamlined. Now containing only three questions, it takes less than 30 seconds to submit a nomination.
Don’t have 30 seconds? You can tag any Discord message, Reddit post or tweet with #TezosCRP and we will collect them as well!
This is the fifth iteration of the program, and we will continue to make changes based on community feedback. Just like the Tezos blockchain, we will be continually evolving this program.
Numerous factors are used when evaluating submissions, such as quality of submissions, quality of activity, number of submissions, and verifiable proof of activity done by the nominee (no single factor is determinative of a winner, as all factors were weighed to select winners). The judges would like to note that for each category, they are looking for the respective monthly related activity, meaning submissions should reflect activities done for that current month, i.e.; month of January activities.
Without further delay, here are the results of the winners, below.
Drill Sergeant Award
@skllzarmy
Helping Hand Award
@AuRo404
@ZerorezeroA
@malsheep56
@spike_0124
@idjasaund
Influencer Award
@August35750182
@UnitedSaints
@numadessas
@_TransparentArt
@absurdeity
@NftyTrap
@WX8BK
Tez Dev Award
@JestemZero
@guruguruhyena
@webidente
@JackTezos
@AndrewKishino
@_joesimon
Assimilation Award
@ZeroUnboundArt
@HashSosaHash
@SkullDegenClub_
@StrokeDriven
@dexp0nential
@sansfomo
@WildMissingNos
Patissier Award
@fafo_lab
@riseuptez
@Zir0h
@blockbakery
Tezos Tutor Award
@TheTezos
@cletusEllijah
@TozartWeb3
@ate8a_nft
Formal Verification Award
@BakingBenjamins
@ryangtanaka
TEO Award
@paraxenod
@TheGOATofTezos (ex @marco_port)
Nominations Are Open For April
With April underway, we have begun accepting nominations for this month. If you know someone who deserves a reward for their contributions to the community or have ideas about other categories that should be recognized, then please fill out a nomination form located here, or you can tag a post (or discord message) with #TezosCRP.
As mentioned previously, we are still working on long-term improvements to this program. We know this program is far from perfect, so please bear with us while we strive to improve this program based on community feedback. Stay tuned, stay creative, and keep nominating!
As a reminder to the reward winners, the awards are all distributed through Kukai and DirectAuth. If you have issues claiming your awards, please message us here.
Tezos Community Rewards — March 2026 was originally published in Tezos Commons on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Welcome back, Tezos community. This week builds directly on what came out of Cannes, and the focus is starting to narrow in on one theme: Metals.
At Tez/Dev, metals.io stood out as one of the clearest examples of real-world assets moving into a system people can actually use. That conversation has carried forward, with deeper breakdowns and a closer look at how access to these markets is starting to change.
We also spent some time this week focusing on the foundation of Tezos, good infrastructure. Arthur’s keynote on Tezos X brought the roadmap into sharper view, showing how the infrastructure now supports more complex applications across environments, new tools that are making it easier to build, experiment, and push ideas forward without friction.
Come and get it all on this week’s edition of The Baking Sheet.
metals.io: Opening the Door to Markets That Were Never Built for You
This week, we’re spending some time with one of the most interesting launches to come out of Tez/Dev.
A lot of markets have evolved quickly over the past decade, however, rare metals have moved at a very different pace. These are assets tied to energy, infrastructure, and manufacturing, yet access still runs through systems that feel outdated and difficult to navigate unless you already operate inside them.
That is where metals.io comes in.
In a strong piece this week, Cryptonio walks through the bigger idea behind the platform and why it matters. What started with uranium.io has now expanded into a broader system, bringing gold, uranium, and a growing set of strategic metals into a single onchain environment.
The experience itself is straightforward, though there is a lot happening underneath. Access is continuous, ownership is fractional, and settlement happens on-chain instead of over long clearing cycles. Behind that, the system handles custody, compliance, pricing, and verification of physical backing.
A few details help make the shift clearer:
• Access to gold, uranium, and a range of strategic metals within one system • Continuous markets with fractional ownership instead of large entry barriers • Onchain settlement that replaces slow, multi-day processes • Direct exposure to physically backed assets rather than indirect proxies
The newer additions are where things become especially interesting. Metals like hafnium, rhenium, indium, neodymium, and praseodymium rarely come up unless you are deep inside specific industries. At the same time, they play a role in semiconductors, EVs, advanced manufacturing, and defense systems. Demand exists, but access has always been limited.
That is the epiphany that metals.io is introducing. The metals themselves remain the same but the way people access them is changing.
Pricing these assets also becomes easier to see, participation to owning these metals becomes more direct, and settlement happens immediately thanks to Tezos. In markets that have historically been opaque and restricted, those changes begin to compound and benefit the casual user.
With additional metals already on the way, including silver, palladium, nickel, and cobalt, this starts to look less like a single product and more like a growing layer for accessing metals markets more broadly.
If you want a deeper look at the thinking behind it, Cryptonio’s full article is well worth the read.
That same direction carried into a dedicated livestream this week, where the team and partners walked through what metals.io represents in practice.
The session brought together Ben Elvidge from metals.io, Crispin Clarke from Curzon Uranium, Dimitrios from Noemon Tech, Alexander from VNX, and host ActionCEO from Genzio. The discussion focused on why these metals matter right now and how access to these markets has evolved.
The livestream also included a live walkthrough of the platform, which helped connect the concept to something tangible. Seeing how access, pricing, and settlement come together makes the model easier to understand.
Taken together, the article and the livestream point in the same direction. metals.io is building a more direct path into some of the world’s most important commodities, supported by infrastructure that makes access faster, clearer, and easier to navigate.
This Week in the Tezos Ecosystem
Tezos X: Building Across EVM and Michelson, Together
From metals and real-world markets opening up, the conversation this week also loops back to the foundation that makes all of this possible, good infrastructure.
At Tez/Dev, Arthur Breitman’s keynote gave one of the clearest looks yet at where Tezos is heading next, and more importantly, how the pieces already in place start to connect.
Framed around “Tezos in 2026: Good infrastructure is just the beginning,” the focus moved beyond upgrades and into what those upgrades enable.
A few ideas stood out and carried through the rest of the week:
• A unified execution layer through Tezos X • A shift toward products, revenue, and real usage • Native interaction between EVM and Michelson environments
What this points to is a system where developers are no longer choosing between environments. Instead, they can build across them, access different user bases, and move assets natively without introducing additional layers or friction.
Developers will be able to deploy using Solidity or Michelson, work with their existing stacks, and extend applications across both environments without rewriting core logic. Assets and calls can move natively between EVM and Michelson, which changes how applications are designed and how liquidity flows.
There is also a strong focus on performance with ultra-low latency, combined with Tezos L1 security, there is no duo that can match this offering.
Beyond the features, there is now a roadmap that gives a clearer sense of how this rolls out over the rest of the year.
April 2026: Tezos X testnet goes live, allowing developers to deploy and experiment across both environments
June 2026: Mainnet activation as an upgrade to Etherlink, with full composability between EVM and Michelson
Later in 2026: Expansion into broader programming environments through a transition toward RISC-V
That last step opens the door to more familiar languages and faster iteration, making it easier for developers to build without being limited to a single stack.
Taken together, this builds on what we were presented with at Tez/Dev. Infrastructure is reaching a point where it supports more complex systems. The focus is shifting toward what gets built on top of it, how users interact with it, and how applications scale across environments.
If you want to watch the full keynote, you can find it here.
Build on Etherlink With Just a Prompt
As the week moves from infrastructure and real-world assets into how people actually build, there’s another shift worth paying attention to.
A new tool created by 0xYpsono is making it possible to build directly on Etherlink using nothing more than a prompt.
Instead of writing code line by line, you describe what you want in plain English, and the system handles the rest. Using a dedicated Claude Skills setup, it can generate, structure, and deploy dApps and smart contracts in one flow.
The experience is simple on the surface, though it changes how people approach building:
• Describe your idea in plain language • Generate contracts and app logic automatically • Deploy directly onto Etherlink
What stands out here is how quickly the barrier to entry shifts. You move from needing a full development setup to being able to test an idea almost immediately.
It also ties back to everything else happening across the ecosystem. Faster execution, unified environments, and now tools that reduce the gap between idea and execution.
If you want to try it yourself, you can jump in here.
🔴 Now Streaming: Community Spotlight | How LMDesigns8 Is Blending Art, Wellness, and Tezos
This week on TezTalks Live, host Stu is joined by Leah Michelle, also known as LMDesigns8, a multidisciplinary artist creating immersive XR experiences, AR play spaces, and meditative virtual worlds.
In this conversation, Leah shares how her personal journey, including health challenges, has shaped her creative direction and how that perspective has led her to build work focused on healing, presence, and connection.
Now streaming on YouTube.
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Tezos Community Returns to Seattle To Celebrate The Arts
It’s time to plan your journey to TezCon. What started as a simple idea born from the bonds formed through TezTones is evolving into a broader Tezos community tradition. Seattle is already celebrated as a perfect place for artists, innovators, and curious minds to come together and celebrate art. Three years of this Seattle influence, TezCon has developed its own rhythm and character, enabled by the people who continue to connect through Tezos but also want to bring that friendship and collaboration into the physical world.
TezCon 2026 returns to Seattle on Saturday, July 11th, 2026, this time at the Artspace Hiawatha Lofts Common Space in the Hillman City neighborhood. There will also be a Tezos Music Showcase on Sunday, July 12th. The event organizers have been planning since the moment TezCon 2025 ended, and it’s shaping up to be the best event yet, so let’s take a look at the details available so far.
New Venue
So far, TezCon has moved locations each year, and each venue has enabled uniquely wonderful meetups to occur. The inaugural gathering took place at the Seattle NFT Museum, a fitting home that unfortunately closed its doors not long after.
Last year’s event moved into Kenyon Hall, providing a more suitable venue for the music performances and a better location. For 2026, the shift to Artspace Hiawatha Lofts also comes with new benefits. The building is not a rented event space at all, it is an active artist loft community. A place where creative work is the daily practice of the people who live and work there. The common space will host the main event, giving TezCon an intimate, grounded atmosphere where the art and company can be fully appreciated.
The venue sits at 843 Hiawatha Place South in Hillman City, near Capitol Hill. It comes equipped with a grand piano and an upright piano, details that matter given how central live music has become to TezCon’s identity. Programming is set to kick off at 4:04 PM.
The Panel
The main event on Saturday will include a 60(ish)-minute panel discussion, available both in person and virtually, built around a question that has been gaining traction across creative and tech communities: when the platforms and systems we use most no longer serve us, how do we change that?
That question inspired the theme of the event, “Beyond Enshittification,” which is based on a term coined by author Cory Doctorow, used to describe the process by which platforms degrade the user experience over time in pursuit of extracting the most value. With the organizers planning to reach out to Doctorow directly, along with architect Rem Koolhaas, whose essay “Junkspace” explores related ideas, there is potential for some very insightful special guests to attend.
The confirmed panelists will bring diverse perspectives to the discussion. Erika (NormalityIsToxic) will speak from their work on Voices of Iran, a collaborative mutual aid zine raising funds and awareness for struggles in Iran. Flexasaurus, a consistent contributor to the Tezos community and the arts as a whole, will also be on stage. Plus, Ryan Tanaka, one of TezCon’s core organizers and a developer at Teia.art and teia.cafe.
The panel will explore what people are choosing to build in response to the web’s ongoing decay, and how technology like Tezos can provide solutions. Community governance, artist-first platforms like TEIA, and events like TezCon itself are all expressions of the passion for art, tech, and community that’s needed to make impactful change.
The Music
Music has been part of TezCon since the beginning. I had the pleasure of performing a set of my original songs at TezCon 2024, and it’s a highlight of my Tezos journey that I’ll never forget. This year, the Saturday lineup is being curated with support from Sustainable Music Northwest, a nonprofit co-founded by Marc Fendel with a mission to bring music into public spaces while offering sustainable wages for the artists. Musicians performing at TezCon will be compensated through the nonprofit.
The organizers are in conversation with talent from Seattle’s music scene, and a Sunday Tezos Music Showcase is also being planned with additional details still taking shape.
The venue’s pianos will see use as well. Ryan Tanaka has offered classical and ambient performances at past TezCon events, providing a musical experience that tends to reset and ground the room between higher energy performances.
The Art
In 2024 TezCon filled an entire NFT gallery with art by Tezos artists. In 2025 giant projectors surrounded Kenyon Hall displaying Tezos art curations. There’s no question that art will be prominently on display again this year.
There will be an open call for art at TezCon 2026, continuing the tradition of community-curated digital art being prominently featured. TEIA will serve as a sponsor and supporter this year, connected through a grant from the Tezos Foundation that aligns with TezCon’s programming. Details on the open call are still being finalized.
Erika (NormalityIsToxic), is creating the art for event marketing. The visual identity of an event like this carries real information about who is welcome and what kind of experience to expect. Marc Fendel is working to bridge Seattle’s local creative network with the global Tezos community, drawing in new faces alongside the returning regulars.
The Organizers
TezCon has always been organized by community members. This year’s core team includes Ryan Tanaka, Marc Fendel, Kevin Nortness, and Erika. Supporters contributing to the event include TEIA, DopeAIMama, Blangs, and Flexasaurus. These are people who create, collect, and build within the Tezos ecosystem on a regular basis, and many of them built those relationships entirely online before ever meeting in person. TezCon is where bonds strengthen, and where the doors open wider to bring new people into a community that has spent years proving what a different approach to art and technology can look like.
Voices of Iran
One of many meaningful projects connected to TezCon 2026 is Voices of Iran, also led by Erika. The project is a collaborative mutual aid zine designed to raise funds and bring sustained attention to the struggles faced by people in Iran. Thoughtful curations are being planned to support this initiative made possible thanks to the permissionless peer to peer nature of Tezos.
Recap of The Plans
Saturday, July 11th is the main event at Artspace Hiawatha Lofts Common Space, 843 Hiawatha Place South, Seattle, WA 98144. Programming begins at 4:04 PM and includes the panel discussion, art displays, live music, food, and drinks. Ryan is handling snacks, including Yellow Cake. Fendel is covering beverages.
Sunday, July 12th extends the weekend with the Tezos Music Showcase. Additional programming details are still being confirmed.
The organizers are exploring livestreaming options and virtual participation for those who cannot make the trip. Arrangements are being made to handle both the in-room experience and any internet-connected audio environments, including potential Twitter Spaces.
For updates on the open call for art, the full music lineup, and virtual participation options, follow the TezCon organizers mentioned above and Tezos Commons, as announcements continue to come out.
TezCon 2026: Beyond Enshittification was originally published in Tezos Commons on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Il problema #302 arriva in una settimana in cui l'attenzione si sposta dalla fase di brainstorming a quella di esecuzione per Tezos.
Tez/Dev ha fornito una chiara lettura su dove si trovano le cose. Gli sviluppatori stanno lavorando con infrastrutture live, i prodotti vengono progettati attorno a un'esecuzione più rapida e nuovi sistemi stanno iniziando a connettersi tra i vari strati. Quella spinta continua, e questa settimana inizia a mostrare come viene applicata.
Questa settimana, Tezos Intents punta verso un modo diverso di muoversi tra le catene, dove gli utenti definiscono ciò che vogliono e lasciano che il sistema gestisca l'esecuzione. Metals continua a progredire, entrando in conversazioni che raggiungono al di fuori dell'ecosistema e nelle industrie del mondo reale.

Tutto ha bisogno di equilibrio
“Tutto con moderazione. Troppo di qualsiasi cosa è una cosa negativa.”
È un mantra che mia madre ripeteva spesso mentre crescevo, uno che continua a rivelare la sua profondità nel tempo. Il suo significato si estende ben oltre i riferimenti ovvi come sesso, droga e rock’n’roll. La sua rilevanza è incorporata nella vita quotidiana, in come gestiamo il nostro tempo, navighiamo nelle relazioni e contribuiamo a una comunità mentre ci prendiamo cura di noi stessi.
La moderazione ha assunto un ruolo più letterale per me. Moderò attivamente diversi canali e comunità Telegram basati su Tezos focalizzati sull'arte. Gli stessi spazi in cui ho trascorso anni a promuovere il mio lavoro come artista di media misti e musicista. Quel cambiamento mi ha dato una posizione unica. Ho vissuto entrambi i lati delle interazioni.

Bentornati, riprendiamo subito dopo una settimana intensa a Cannes, e c'è molto da trattare.
Tez/Dev ha riunito l'ecosistema in una stanza e ha reso chiare alcune cose. I team stanno costruendo sopra infrastrutture live. Etherlink sta già influenzando come vengono progettati i prodotti. Abbiamo avuto un grande annuncio riguardo agli asset del mondo reale, con il lancio di 'metalli' a cui puoi accedere oggi.
Quell'inerzia è proseguita dritta nel resto della settimana. Le conversazioni di Arthur a EthCC hanno spostato il focus verso la prontezza a lungo termine, Bitstamp ha aperto un'altra porta per l'accesso tramite Robinhood, e nuovi progetti su Etherlink hanno continuato a mostrare come l'esperimentazione e la creatività si stiano evolvendo on-chain.

Un rapido riepilogo degli ultimi eventi e delle tappe significative all'interno dell'ecosistema Tezos per Marzo 2026.
Benvenuti al nostro ultimo numero, Month At A Glance (Febbraio 2026), dove forniamo un rapido riepilogo degli ultimi eventi e delle tappe significative nell'ecosistema Tezos con cadenza mensile.
Marzo ha portato una forte miscela di progressi in tutto l'ecosistema. Dalle prime anteprime dell'imminente aggiornamento del protocollo Ushuaia a un'iterazione continua su Etherlink, nuove aggiunte infrastrutturali e segnali crescenti dall'esterno dell'ecosistema, le cose sono avanzate su più fronti contemporaneamente. È il genere di mese in cui sia le fondamenta che l'attività a livello superficiale stanno evolvendo in parallelo.

Marzo 2026 Spotlight Of Art Found On Tezos
C'è stato un momento in cui mi sono trovato a fare unintenzionalmente gatekeeping della stessa cosa che ho creato per espandere il spotlight sull'arte di Tezos.
Nel tentativo di mantenere la serie ‘ART’icle del Mese allineata con il coinvolgimento della comunità, ho permesso a una semplice mancanza di nomination di fermarsi silenziosamente. L'intenzione era equità. Il risultato è stato assenza.
Quella realizzazione ha riformulato l'intera premessa. Le persone sono occupate. Stanno costruendo, creando, navigando nella vita e, in molti casi, semplicemente cercando di rimanere a galla. Aspettarsi nomination costanti come prerequisito per evidenziare opere significative ha introdotto attrito dove avrebbe dovuto esserci flessibilità. L'assenza di nomination non è mai stata una riflessione dell'assenza di grande arte su Tezos.

La settimana di TezDev sta iniziando a prendere forma.
Con l'agenda completa ora disponibile, puoi cominciare a vedere come tutto si sta allineando a Cannes. Le conversazioni, le persone, le idee che si sono accumulate negli ultimi mesi stanno per confluire in un unico posto. Allo stesso tempo, il panorama più ampio attorno a Tezos si sta spostando a modo suo, con una nuova chiarezza che inizia a emergere su come la rete viene vista e discussa a livello normativo.
E insieme a ciò, il livello delle politiche sta entrando ulteriormente in evidenza, con i contributori di Tezos che aiutano a plasmare le conversazioni su come gli asset decentralizzati e lo staking si inseriscano in quadri in evoluzione come il MiCA.