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Spotlighting Tezos Art In NYC With STELLAR
Highlighting the STELLAR art event hosted by Victoria West on April 2nd, 2024, in NYC. The STELLAR exhibition hosted at LUME Studios, an event venue in New York City, brought over 500 artists and enthusiasts to witness an immersive art experience. This was the second consecutive year that Victoria West organized a world-class art event in NYC, powered by Tezos, and it did not disappoint.
Month At A Glance - February 2024
A breakdown of the latest happenings and significant milestones within the Tezos ecosystem for February 2024. Welcome to our latest issue of Month At A Glance, where we give a quick breakdown of the latest happenings and significant milestones in the Tezos ecosystem on a monthly cadence.
Bringing Classical RPG Gameplay to Tezos
Here's a closer look at BattleRise: Kingdom of Champions, a new role-playing game (RPG) taking place in the mythical world of EOS. The Tezos ecosystem continues to witness new games being launched and increased users in games like CoinBlast. With daily active users rising on these fronts, it makes sense to see newer games like BattleRise launch on Tezos. For those who may not be aware, the team behind BattleRise recently secured a grant from the Tezos Foundation to support their game.
KAP Games Now Supports Tezos Gaming Projects
A closer look at KAP Games’ co-grant program adding support for Tezos-focused web3 game developers. Blockchain gaming is slowly catching on. It should come as no surprise that we’re continuing to see new strides being made to accelerate that front on Tezos. Recently, KAP Games announced support for Tezos in its ‘co-grant program’. As a web3 gaming distributor, publisher, and studio for mobile and browser-based web3 games, KAP Games brings a wealth of resources for blockchains like Tezos to tap into.
Highlighting Coin Blast: A Competitive Gaming Platform on Tezos
A closer look at Coin Blast and its friendly competitive games like Trivia Cash, enabling users to compete and win prizes by answering trivia questions. Lately, we’ve seen a continued trend on those building games on Tezos. To that end, it’s clear that gaming is becoming an increasingly focal component within the Tezos ecosystem and also the broader web3 space.
How WAC Lab Onboarded Several Institutions to Tezos
A closer look at notable participants in WAC Lab’s season 2 fellowship program and its plans for starting a third season next year (2024). There still exists a lot of confusion around blockchain technology, especially when it comes to institutions and NGOs who have not been exposed to Web3. In order to satiate this dilemma, WAC Lab helps lessen the burden of exploring blockchain through their fellowship program.
Month at a Glance | September 2023
by William McKenzie Welcome to our latest issue of Month at a Glance where we give a quick breakdown of the latest happenings and significant milestones taking place within the Tezos ecosystem on a monthly cadence.
Homebase Integrates Off-Chain 'Snapshot' Polls From Homebase Lite & Adds a Governance Token...
For quite some time now there have been two apps for Homebase. There is Homebase Lite and the main Homebase application featuring Lambda DAOs. In recent discussions and polling from different communities, it's become clear that both on-chain and off-chain voting are needed. Since Homebase Lite enables off-chain voting similar to Snapshot, it makes sense to bring the same functionality over to the main application.
Beyond Spotify- An Insider's Look at DNS' Next Generation Music and Social Platform
The new platform from DNS will be launching as a Lens competitor on Tezos. This means that the platform will include a timeline where you can come in and follow people, like posts, and comment. All of this activity is done on-chain via Tezos. Basically, each post will be an NFT. Likes and comments will end up on a rollup that the DNS team has developed. They have developed what they dubbed 'a new Layer 3 rollup'.
A New Platform for Creators on Tezos
CodeCrafting has been hard at work as a developer as a former developer at InterPop. He's also one of the team members behind Crunchy.Network which recently deployed a new Tezos token tracker for DeFi assets on Tezos and is preparing a release of sliced.art, a new specialty purpose platform for fractionalizing NFTs on Tezos. His latest project called focused.art will be a new creator-centric platform with a focus on catering to creators within the Tezos NFT space.
Some Key Gaming Players on Tezos
As many of you know, the Tezos ecosystem is abundant with talent. Some of that talent has been focusing on a critical area: gaming. The gaming scene on Tezos has been in overdrive with more and more games being built on Tezos. In this article, we're going to highlight a few of those building games on Tezos and why they've chosen Tezos as their blockchain of choice. It seems like slapping blockchain across anything has become an undeniable trend and buzzword.
Trading Card Gaming on Tezos
In case you haven't heard, Tezos is quickly becoming a home for gaming. With key players like Ubisoft and more recently Unity offering an SDK for game developers on Tezos, the scenery could not be any more appealing for those looking for a place to launch or create their blockchain-based game. One could say it's almost perfect timing as we have just witnessed the public launch of Emergents TCG by InterPop. After the long-awaited launch, the game is ready and playable today.
A Closer Look at ArtDEX
ArtDEX is a mix between a normal NFT marketplace and a DEX (Decentralized Exchange). Simply stated, the marketplace allows trading NFTs for tez. The underlying marketplace contract behind it however is more like a DEX. There's a pool that holds two separate assets and users can come in and trade NFTs for tez or they can trade tez for NFTs. In the underlying technology, it's a little bit different in terms of how the pools are set up.
How Charitable Giving Takes a New Turn with NFTs
There’s a pretty apparent trend that’s shown up in the recent years. The most relevant example we can take on is the rise in popularity of NFTs. These past few years have brought an obscene amount of traffic towards digital collectibles, with recording setting sales on single pieces such as Pak’s “Clock” for $53.7M or Beeple’s “Everydays — The First 5000 Days” for $69M to name a few.
Some Major Companies Using NFTs on Tezos
Cleveland Cavaliers If you’re an NBA fan, you’d probably be shocked to know what the Cleveland Cavaliers team has used Tezos for NFTs. When the NBA team Cleveland Cavaliers launched their “My Cavs Locker NFT Experience”, they used the Sweet NFT platform. On the platform, the numerous Cleveland Cavaliers NFTs are Tezos based tradable collectibles.
Enter Mumbai - Why It’s Significant
Shorter block times! A little while back, we were first introduced to validation pipelining in the Kathmandu upgrade. Gabriel Alfour shared some insight in our blog post. Protocol Lima took this a step further, per Nomadic Labs . With Mumbai, the final installment of these efforts towards pipelining is being made. This will allow block times to get reduced in half from 30 seconds to 15. Nomadic Labs detailed this in further length on their blog post.
Artists on Tezos - Flygohr
Artists and creators alike are embracing Tezos while entering the Web3 space. With a wide array of marketplaces and communities to choose from, there's never been a better time to start your Tezos journey. In light of that, let's highlight a well-known artist on Tezos and their journey into NFTs. You may have heard of Flygohr if you've been in the Tezos NFT world. Most notably, Flygohr was the artist behind a popular PFP collection called PRJKTNEON.
Laurence Fuller’s Outlook Towards NFTs on Tezos
Looking through the lens of select artists using Tezos as their platform of choice for minting and distributing various artworks. We’ve seen heaps of artists from diverse backgrounds beginning to flock towards Tezos with many even going as far as calling it “the art chain”. I had the chance to sit and chat with Laurence and discuss what drew him to Tezos and some of his views on NFTs as a whole.
Month at a Glance - October
October closed the month off with just shy of 5M contract calls. As clear to the casual observer as it can be, the Tezos network is continuing to evolve and grow. These areas that are attributing the majority of growth witnessed are within the realms of NFTs and DeFi. This month we saw several DeFi launches and continued NFT adoption throughout the entire ecosystem with several exciting pfp launches.
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