Tezos Commons :: Month At A Glance — March 2024
April 10, 2024Month At A Glance — March 2024
A breakdown of the latest happenings and significant milestones within the Tezos ecosystem for March 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.
March 2024 was another big month, especially for development and adoption, with new developments introduced to the Tezos ecosystem. These developments include the Paris A/B protocol proposals, updates to tzBTC 2.0, advancements in Tezos gaming, and much more.
Let’s break it all down.
Ecosystem Insights
Paris A/B Protocol Proposals
The latest Tezos protocol proposal currently undergoing voting has been introduced.
The Paris protocol proposal, a significant development in the Tezos ecosystem, consists of two proposals, one named Paris A and the other Paris B. Let’s highlight some of the differences and features of each proposal.
Some of the new features are as follows for Paris A:
10-second block time reductions, lowering latency and enabling faster finality without compromising on decentralization.The Data Availability Layer (DAL) activates on the Tezos mainnet, a foundational step towards ensuring Tezos’ long-term scalability and provides a massive throughput boost for Smart Rollups like Etherlink.Further PoS refinements, such as shortening the consensus rights delay to 2 cycles.A signaling mechanism to activate features later proposed in Paris B.
Paris B includes the aforementioned features but also introduces three features that the Tezos community has requested:
Activation of adaptive issuance, a deviation from Tezos’ existing model of issuing new tez.Introduction of a new role to the economic protocol called “staker”.Introduction of adaptive slashing, a new economic incentive to prevent misaligned or malicious attacks.
As a whole, these features collectively represent a forward-looking approach, aiming to strengthen the Tezos blockchain’s functionality and appeal to a broader range of users and developers. With the new Paris proposals undergoing voting, be sure to tune in and participate in the discussion on Agora. Also, make sure to get out there and vote!
STELLAR New York 2024
Join us at STELLAR for a transformative art journey, proudly brought to you by Victoria West and sponsored by Tezos Commons. This immersive experience is set to unleash a wave of creativity and innovation, featuring incredible speakers, live minting sessions, electrifying music, and the opportunity to forge connections with both new and familiar faces.
Event Details:
Date: April 2, 2024Time: From 2 pm to 11 pm EDTLocation: 393 Broadway, Lume Studios, Brooklyn, NY 11211, United StatesRegistration: Visit the Eventbrite page
Spanning 9 hours, STELLAR is designed to be an art experience like no other, hosted at the iconic 393 Broadway in New York City. Attendees are invited to immerse themselves in a world where art meets technology, fostering connections and sparking conversations in the vibrant Tezos community.
We look forward to welcoming you and sharing this incredible moment together. See you there!
More Tezos Gaming Updates
With games like Coinblast, StarSymphony, BattleRise: Kingdom of Champions, Chestnut, and Metapals, we can see Tezos gaming is taking it up a notch. This is evident in another new game support for Tezos, AutoHero.
Developed by Bombus Studio, Auto Hero is an automatic-shooting 2D platformer game. It also features role-playing (RPG) mechanics, such as the ability to select heroes like Hank, Barry, Dracula, and more.
The game’s objective is clear: shoot as many enemies as possible without dying. It features three different modes, and there are a few options, such as “Endless” or “Tower” if you get tired of playing the campaign mode.
If you play the campaign mode, you must complete 30 rooms to complete each campaign. The first campaign revolves around Woodland Realm and is certainly meant to be easier to help you learn how to play the game. I finished it quite quickly.
One thing that comes up as a strategizing aspect of the game is how you choose your “perks”. Perks in the game represent unique abilities that help you gain an edge as the rooms progress in intensity/difficulty. The strategy that overwhelmingly worked for me was to get as many “double shot” and “ATK up” as I could.
Eventually, enemies became super easy to kill, which is essential as there is a boss room where you’ll need as much of an edge as possible. As for how often these perks drop, they typically come after every 2 or 3 rooms you complete. So, choosing them wisely and strategizing is key to completing these campaigns.
One of the more novel features is the ability to fuse and upgrade items. This is where Tezos comes in. As mentioned in a tweet from the Tezos Foundation, “these actions will transition into on-chain transactions once they are converted into NFTs.”
You can play the game on your Android or iOS device if you haven’t already done so.
News From The Tezos Ecosystem: Quick Bits
Tezos presence at NFT Paris
Teams from Nomadic Labs and Trilitech brought Tezos to builders and partners in one of the world’s leading NFT events. Check out the full recap post here for highlights from the event.
Baanx raises $20M Series A led by Tezos Foundation and Chiron
The investment round, including Tezos Foundation, Chiron, and British Business Bank, brings the crypto payment enabler’s total funding to over $30 million. Learn more about the raise here.
SIWT gets a grant from Tezos Foundation
As an open-source initiative, SIWT is on a mission to transform online user authentication. In collaboration with Kukai Wallet, they’re crafting a TZIP for foolproof message signing. Read more about the grant details here.
Oxalus secures a grant from Tezos Foundation
Oxalus, creators of the hit game Auto Hero, has received a grant from the Tezos Foundation to evolve the game into a Web3 experience on the @Tezos blockchain. Auto Hero, a successful side-scrolling 2D platformer with automatic shooting, will integrate its in-game items as NFTs, allowing players to fuse and upgrade items through on-chain transactions.
Tezos Foundation gives a February community update
Check out the monthly update here.
Blockscout secures a grant from Tezos Foundation
Blockscout offers a full-featured explorer option for all EVM-based chains, supporting mainnets, optimistic, and ZK rollups. They’ve already built a testnet explorer for Etherlink. Check out more details for the grant here.
Tesserart is launching soon!
Tesserart is an innovative platform aimed at revolutionizing the way art is experienced by integrating live minting. It facilitates the real-time creation, authentication, and collection of digital art as NFTs, thereby connecting artists directly with their audience in both online and physical spaces. Launching in April, head over to their site to learn more.
Tezos Foundation announces personnel updates
The Tezos Foundation Council announced the addition of Fleur Pellerin, former French Minister for SME, Innovation, and the Digital Economy, as a new council member, bringing her expertise in the start-up and digital economy sectors. Simultaneously, the council expressed gratitude towards departing members Anil Madhavapeddy and Alice Lloyd George for their years of service, noting their contributions to the foundation’s governance model and community innovations.
Events
Tuesday TezDay w Lyzi— March 5thJustin Bons Interview w Arthur Breitman — March 7thTuesday TezDay w AkaSwap — March 12thTezTalks Live #84: TZ APACTuesday TezDay Community Call — March 19thTezTalks Live #85: LyziTezos AMA w Arthur Breitman and Nomadic Labs — March 20thTezTalks Radio w Victoria West — March 25thTezos Discord Community Call — March 26thTuesday TezDay Community Call — March 26th
Community Rewards Program
The Community Rewards Program (CRP) is a Tezos Commons Foundation initiative to foster adoption and support the Tezos ecosystem. Every month, up to 5,000 tez are rewarded to those who stand out in merit and act in the interest of the Tezos ecosystem as a whole.
The nomination form has been drastically streamlined to make it easier for community members to nominate their favorite contributors to the ecosystem. Now containing only three questions, submitting a nomination takes less than 30 seconds.
Don’t have 30 seconds? You can tag any discord message or tweet with #TezosCRP; we will collect them!
The categories and nomination standards have remained the same. For more information, head over to the refreshed landing page here. We’ve also announced February 2024 winners, so be sure to check out the recap on that here.
About Tezos Commons Foundation
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