Tezos Announcements

🔥 Hot out of the Oven: The Baking Sheet This Week in the Tezos Ecosystem: ➡️ Happy 8th Birthday, Tezos! – Tezos celebrated eight years since mainnet launched with a look back at the milestones that have defined its journey, from pioneering Proof of Stake and self-amendment to building one of Web3's most vibrant digital art communities and laying the foundation for Tezos X. More than two dozen major milestones and 21 protocol upgrades later, the ecosystem continues to evolve through on-chain governance and community participation. ➡️ Ushuaia Is Now Live – Tezos' 21st protocol upgrade successfully activated on June 30 without interruption, bringing a 15x increase in Data Availability Layer bandwidth, faster DAL confirmations, rollup governance improvements, and continued testing for protocol-native liquid staking, post-quantum tz5 accounts, and WASM PVM V6. Ushuaia marks another step toward the future of Tezos while continuing the network's tradition of seamless, community-driven upgrades. ➡️ TezCon Returns to Seattle – The Tezos community is preparing to gather once again for TezCon 2026 on July 11. This year's event features an exhibition of digital and physical art, live music, interactive experiences, community initiatives like Voices of Iran, an exclusive novel reading, and a Sunday Music Showcase. Now in its third year, TezCon continues to bring together artists, builders, collectors, and community members from across the ecosystem. 👉 Read the full newsletter | Subscribe

👋 Hello Ushuaia! The 21st Tezos protocol upgrade is live at block #13,857,889 Major changes include: ⚡️ DAL bandwidth increase to 10 MB/s 🛠️ Dynamic DAL attestation lag 🔧 Rollup-aligned PVM upgrades Three features are included behind feature flags for community testing and evaluation (were not activated on mainnet): 💾 Faster rollup storage preparation 💧 sTEZ – enshrined liquid staking 🛡️ Quantum-resistant user keys 📄 Learn more: https://spotlight.tezos.com/ushuaia-is-live/

🔥 Hot out of the Oven: The Baking Sheet This Week in the Tezos Ecosystem: ➡️ Ushuaia Activates June 29 – After months of development, testing, and governance, Ushuaia is set to become Tezos' 21st protocol upgrade. The update brings a 15x increase in Data Availability Layer bandwidth, faster DAL confirmations, rollup improvements, testnet support for protocol-native liquid staking (sTEZ), and the first implementation of post-quantum tz5 accounts for ecosystem testing. Bakers and node operators are encouraged to prepare by upgrading to Octez v25 ahead of activation. ➡️ Metals.io Expands Into Nickel and Cobalt – Building on its growing real-world asset platform, metals.io has added tokenized nickel and cobalt alongside gold, uranium, and its Strategic Metals Basket. These commodities play a key role in electric vehicles, renewable energy, aerospace, and AI infrastructure, continuing the platform's mission of making traditionally hard-to-access markets more accessible through Tezos. ➡️ Art on Tezos Shines During Art Basel – Art Basel week once again highlighted the strength of the Tezos art ecosystem, with exhibitions including Quayola's En plein air at HEK and Emi Kusano's Office Ladies: Rituals of Overflow presented by Grida. The week brought together artists, collectors, curators, and institutions while showcasing how digital art on Tezos continues to reach major cultural venues around the world. ➡️ Ecosystem Spotlight: Explore Tezos with tez.cool – This week's spotlight features tez.cool, the community dashboard built by Tezos Commons that brings staking data, baker analytics, DeFi metrics, whale tracking, project directories, and live network statistics together in one place. It's a practical resource for anyone looking to better understand what's happening across the Tezos ecosystem. 👉 Read the full newsletter | Subscribe

📣 Tezos bakers & node operators, Ushuaia is set to activate on June 29th, ETA 23:24 UTC - Upgrade to Octez v25.0 - Remove the Adaptive Issuance toggle vote before upgrading - Check hardware requirements & other deployment changes 🧑‍💻Prepare for a smooth upgrade! 📄 The following Agora post summarizes all the necessary: https://forum.tezosagora.org/t/lets-get-ready-for-ushuaia/7119?u=nomadiclabs

🏆 Announcing the Winners of the Tezos Community Rewards Program for May! May Winners for the Tezos Community Awards Program 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. June Nominations are now open 📥 There are two ways to nominate: 1. it only takes 30 seconds via typeform 2. tag #TezosCRP on Twitter/Reddit/Discord/Telegram We're using Kukai's DirectAuth (Info) to send awards straight to the winners' X account on Kukai. If you have any questions about the process, please feel free to contact us.

🔥 Hot out of the Oven: The Baking Sheet This Week in the Tezos Ecosystem: ➡️ Ushuaia Nears Final Approval – With just days remaining in the Promotion phase, Ushuaia is approaching the final stage of Tezos governance. The proposed upgrade would deliver a 15x increase in Data Availability Layer bandwidth, faster DAL confirmations, rollup-specific governance upgrades, testnet support for protocol-native liquid staking (sTEZ), and the introduction of post-quantum tz5 accounts for ecosystem testing and preparation. ➡️ New Public RPC Infrastructure Goes Live – Trilitech has launched new public RPC endpoints for both Tezos Mainnet and Shadownet. While often invisible to users, RPC infrastructure powers wallets, explorers, dApps, analytics platforms, and developer tools. The addition of a dedicated Shadownet endpoint gives builders an easier way to experiment with future technologies and upcoming protocol features. ➡️ Metals.io Featured in Nasdaq Coverage – Ben Elvidge joined the Investing News Network podcast to discuss how metals.io is modernizing commodity ownership through tokenization. 👉 Read the full newsletter | Subscribe

🔥 Hot out of the Oven: The Baking Sheet – Issue #310 This Week in the Tezos Ecosystem: ➡️ Tezos Systems: Understanding Tezos Through Data – Community member Baking Benjamins continues building one of the ecosystem’s most useful resources with Tezos Systems. From governance history and baker analytics to whale tracking, staking metrics, and personalized wallet timelines through Your Tezos Story, the platform helps users explore both the current state of Tezos and the history that shaped it. ➡️ Community Spotlight: TheTezosCommunity (TTC) – Beyond protocol upgrades and product launches, communities are built through consistent participation. TTC continues to bring artists, collectors, builders, gamers, and newcomers together through weekly events, games, artist showcases, quizzes, Spaces, and community gatherings. Their latest 1of1 Week celebrates unique artwork and the special connection between artists and collectors, featuring Tezos Gartic, Rumble Royale, community poker, artist discussions, and more. ➡️ Tezos Commons Expands to Bluesky – Tezos Commons has officially launched on Bluesky, giving the community another place to follow interviews, live Spaces, articles, ecosystem news, and updates. ➡️ To Be Perceived, Against Evil Continues at the Museum of the Moving Image – The latest commission from Linda Dounia and Rhea Myers remains on view through August 2. The installation explores visibility, privacy, memory, and the "right to opacity," transforming visitor interactions into encrypted data that gradually reveals parts of the artwork while intentionally preserving areas that remain hidden. 👉 Read the full newsletter | Subscribe

🔥 Hot out of the Oven: The Baking Sheet – Issue #309 This Week in the Tezos Ecosystem: ➡️ Proof of Palm Returns – One of the Tezos art community’s most beloved traditions is back. Proof of Palm 2026 invites artists to create and mint palm tree-inspired works, turning a simple prompt into a growing collaborative archive of photography, generative art, illustration, animation, and more. ➡️ Preserving Tezos History – Tezos Commons launched two new resources this week: Tezos Commons Radio, an archive for Spaces, interviews, and ecosystem conversations, and the Tezos Media Center, a hub for reports, press releases, media assets, and ecosystem resources. Both are designed to make Tezos easier to explore long after the moment has passed. ➡️ 404_LAND Expands the HEK × Tezos Partnership – The next exhibition from the HEK × Tezos Foundation collaboration transforms the familiar 404 error into a gateway for exploring identity, machine logic, hidden systems, and fragmented realities. Artists include Hind Al Saad, Gabriel Massan, Kat the Poet Engineer, and others pushing digital art into increasingly immersive territory. ➡️ Art on View at Museum of the Moving Image – To Be Perceived, Against Evil by Linda Dounia and Rhea Myers continues its run through August 2, exploring privacy, memory, and the “right to opacity” through an interactive installation powered by Tezos smart contracts. 👉 Read the full newsletter | Subscribe

🔥 Hot out of the Oven: The Baking Sheet – Issue #308 This Week in the Tezos Ecosystem: ➡️ Building for the Culture – Tezos highlighted a collection of community-built preservation tools helping safeguard NFT media, metadata, and digital history. Projects from Jack Tezos, NFTBiker, fafo_lab, flexasaurusrex, and JestemZero are making it easier for collectors and creators to preserve artwork for the long term. ➡️ Ushuaia Enters Cooldown – The next Tezos protocol upgrade successfully cleared Exploration with both quorum and supermajority support. The proposal now enters its 10-day Cooldown phase before the final Promotion vote, bringing features like a 15x DAL bandwidth increase, dynamic attestations, tz5 groundwork, and future staking infrastructure one step closer to activation. ➡️ Open Worlds at Museum of the Moving Image – Artists, collectors, and community members gathered in New York for an afternoon exploring generative art, performance, and digital culture with Travess Smalley, OONA, and Edgar Fabián Frías. ➡️ “To Be Perceived, Against Evil” Opens at MoMI – A new commission from Linda Dounia and Rhea Myers is now on view, exploring privacy, visibility, and the “right to opacity” through encrypted participation and Tezos smart contracts. The installation runs through August 2. ➡️ Now Streaming: Arthur Breitman on TzEL – This week’s TezTalks Radio dives into TzEL, post-quantum cryptography, private payments, rollups, and the long-term privacy challenges facing blockchain systems. 👉 Read the full newsletter | Subscribe

🏆 Announcing the Winners of the Tezos Community Rewards Program for April! April Winners for the Tezos Community Awards Program 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. May Nominations are now open 📥 There are two ways to nominate: 1. it only takes 30 seconds via typeform 2. tag #TezosCRP on Twitter/Reddit/Discord/Telegram We're using Kukai's DirectAuth (Info) to send awards straight to the winners' X account on Kukai. If you have any questions about the process, please feel free to contact us.

🔥 Hot out of the Oven: The Baking Sheet – Issue #307 This Week in the Tezos Ecosystem: ➡️ TzEL Goes Live on Tezos Testnet – Nomadic Labs and Trilitech unveiled TzEL, an experimental rollup exploring private payments in a post-quantum world. The system uses zk-STARK proofs and post-quantum cryptography to protect transactions and encrypted memos against future quantum attacks. ➡️ Why TzEL Matters – Blockchain data lives forever, and encrypted transaction data captured today could eventually become vulnerable once quantum systems mature. TzEL approaches privacy with that future in mind, bringing long-term transaction privacy into a live rollup environment developers can already experiment with. ➡️ Ushuaia Upgrade Tracker – With two days remaining in the Exploration phase, Ushuaia has already reached quorum and supermajority. The proposal includes a 15x DAL bandwidth increase, groundwork for quantum-resistant tz5 accounts, and broader rollup flexibility. ➡️ Open Worlds at Museum of the Moving Image – During Frieze Week, the museum hosts digital art encounters featuring Travess Smalley, Edgar Fabián Frías, and OONA, continuing Tezos’ presence in contemporary digital art spaces 👉 Read the full newsletter | Subscribe

🔥 Hot out of the Oven: The Baking Sheet – Issue #306 This Week in the Tezos Ecosystem: ➡️ Tezos X Previewnet Goes Live – Developers can now publicly experiment with one of the core ideas behind Tezos X: EVM and Michelson interacting through a shared ledger. Instead of relying on separate chains and bridges, applications can now settle actions atomically across both environments in a single execution flow. ➡️ A New Design Space for Developers – Solidity developers keep familiar EVM tooling, Michelson developers gain direct access to EVM users and liquidity, and applications can combine both environments natively. The Previewnet now gives builders a live environment to test assumptions, experiment, and explore what fully composable applications could look like on Tezos. ➡️ Tezos Breakfast Club: Miami Wrap-Up – Developers, artists, founders, and community members gathered in Miami this week ahead of the conference rush, with the team from metals.io joining conversations around tokenized commodities and real-world markets. These meetups continue to bring very different corners of the ecosystem into the same room. ➡️ Open Worlds at Museum of the Moving Image – During Frieze Week, the museum will host an afternoon of digital art encounters with Travess Smalley, Edgar Fabián Frías, and OONA, bringing Tezos-based digital art into a physical exhibition space. 👉 Read the full newsletter | Subscribe

🔥 Hot out of the Oven: The Baking Sheet – Issue #305 This Week in the Tezos Ecosystem: ➡️ Tezos X Moves Toward Reality – Tezos X is no longer just a roadmap. A shared ledger bringing EVM and Michelson together is heading to testnet, letting contracts interact natively in a single transaction. For builders, this opens a much broader design space without fragmentation. ➡️ Tezos Breakfast Club: Miami – A relaxed meetup during Consensus week on May 7. Coffee, conversations, and a chance to connect before the day begins. ➡️ Open Worlds at Museum of the Moving Image – On May 16, digital art takes center stage during Frieze Week with talks and performances from Travess Smalley, Edgar Fabián Frías, and OONA. 👉 Read the full newsletter | Subscribe

🔥 Hot out of the Oven: The Baking Sheet – Issue #304 This Week in the Tezos Ecosystem: ➡️ Ushuaia Proposal Introduced: Scaling, Speed, and Flexibility – The 21st Tezos upgrade is now on the table, pushing the network forward with a 15x increase in DAL bandwidth, faster data confirmation, and more flexibility for rollups. It also introduces early groundwork for liquid staking, tz5 accounts, and future scaling paths. ➡️ BLS Infrastructure Expands Across Bakers – As Tezos moves deeper into BLS-based consensus, bakers now have multiple signer options, including the Tezos RPI BLS Signer, TezSign, Russignol, and Signatory. This growing diversity strengthens performance while preserving decentralization. ➡️ Miami Meetup: Tezos Breakfast Club Returns – During Consensus week, the community gathers in Miami for a casual morning meetup with coffee, conversation, and a chance to connect before the conference begins 👉 Read the full newsletter | Subscribe

🏆 Announcing the Winners of the Tezos Community Rewards Program for March! March Winners for the Tezos Community Awards Program 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. April Nominations are now open 📥 There are two ways to nominate: 1. it only takes 30 seconds via typeform 2. tag #TezosCRP on Twitter/Reddit/Discord/Telegram We're using Kukai's DirectAuth (Info) to send awards straight to the winners' X account on Kukai. If you have any questions about the process, please feel free to contact us.

📣 We are happy to announce that the 21st protocol upgrade proposal for Tezos, Ushuaia, is ready! Built by Nomadic Labs, Trilitech, and Functori. 🔍 Main changes proposed in Ushuaia: - DAL bandwidth increase to 10 MB/s - Dynamic DAL attestation lag - Rollup-aligned PVM upgrades Three features are included behind feature flags for community testing and evaluation (won’t activate on mainnet): - Faster rollup storage preparation - sTEZ – enshrined liquid staking (testnet only) - Quantum-resistant user keys (testnet only) 📄 Learn more 👉 https://research-development.nomadic-labs.com/ushuaia-announcement.html

🔥 Hot out of the Oven: The Baking Sheet – Issue #303 This Week in the Tezos Ecosystem: ➡️ Metals Takes Center Stage Post-Tez/Dev – What stood out in Cannes is now taking shape in the real world. metals.io is expanding access to gold, uranium, and strategic metals through onchain markets with fractional ownership and real-time settlement. It’s a shift from closed, opaque systems to something people can actually use and participate in directly. ➡️ Tezos X: Connecting EVM and Michelson Into One System – Building on Tez/Dev momentum, Arthur Breitman laid out a clearer path for Tezos X. Developers will be able to build across EVM and Michelson without friction, with native asset movement and shared execution. Testnet arrives in April, mainnet integration follows in June, and RISC-V expansion is already on the horizon. ➡️ From Idea to App: Building on Etherlink With a Prompt – A new tool by 0xYpsono is lowering the barrier to entry even further. Using simple prompts, builders can generate and deploy dApps directly on Etherlink. It’s a glimpse at how quickly ideas can move from concept to execution as tooling catches up with infrastructure. 👉 Read the full newsletter | Subscribe

➡️ Tezos Intents Introduces a New Cross-Chain Experience – One of the clearest examples of post-Tez/Dev momentum turning into product is Tezos Intents. Instead of juggling bridges and wallets, users define what they want, and solvers compete to execute it. With smart accounts, RFQ execution, and full on-chain visibility, it reframes cross-chain interaction into a single, controlled experience. ➡️ Metals Moves Beyond Crypto Into Global Industry Conversations – After its debut in Cannes, Metals is already stepping into the real world. The team will be present at The Economist Nuclear Summit, bringing tokenized uranium and strategic metals into discussions around global energy, supply, and infrastructure. ➡️ Tezos Expands Globally with New Regional Entities – The ecosystem is growing its footprint with the launch of Tezos Middle East and Tezos Southeast Asia, alongside the Tezos Patronage Association. This shift reflects a more distributed model for growth, with local hubs supporting builders across gaming, DeFi, capital markets, and art. ➡️ Paris Is Next: Tezos Soirée at Paris Blockchain Week – As momentum carries forward, the community heads to Paris for the next gathering. The Tezos Soirée at Nomadic Labs’ Bastille office offers a more intimate space for builders and contributors to connect ahead of the broader conference week. 👉 Read the full newsletter | Subscribe

🔥 Hot out of the Oven: The Baking Sheet – Issue #301 This Week in the Tezos Ecosystem: ➡️ Tez/Dev 2026 Recap: Builders, Products, and Real-world Momentum – Cannes brought the ecosystem together, and the signal was clear. Teams are building directly on live infrastructure, not hypotheticals. From atomic composability to intent-based design, everything pointed toward systems already in use, with Etherlink’s instant confirmations shaping how products are being designed in real time. ➡️ Metals.io Launch – One of the biggest moments from Tez/Dev was the introduction of Metals by the team behind Uranium.io. Gold, uranium, and strategic metals are now accessible onchain with continuous markets and fractional ownership, pushing real-world assets further into usable infrastructure. ➡️ From Booth to Stage: Etherlink and EthCC Carry the Momentum – That energy carried straight into the Etherlink booth and over to EthCC. Attendees experienced instant confirmations firsthand through the Proof of Speed challenge, while Arthur Breitman brought the conversation toward post-quantum readiness and long-term protocol design. Real-time interaction on the ground met long-term thinking on stage, tying together where Tezos is now and where it’s heading. ➡️ Bitstamp Expands Access to XTZ via Robinhood – In parallel with ecosystem momentum, Bitstamp, now part of Robinhood, added Tezos (XTZ) to its tradable assets, opening another path for market access in the U.S. 👉 Read the full newsletter | Subscribe