Month at a Glance — September
A breakdown of the latest happenings and significant milestones taking place within the Tezos ecosystem for the month of September.
Welcome to our latest issue of Month at a Glance where we breakdown all of the latest happenings and significant milestones taking place within the Tezos ecosystem on a monthly cadence.
The month of September was another record shattering month for Tezos in terms of on-chain metrics, usage, and further adoption.
Let’s break it all down.
Ecosystem Insights
September closed the month off with another record for contract calls, over 5.8M. This increase represents a growth of over 56% from previous month. As comparative to April 2022, the growth we’ve seen is over 400%. This growth we have witnessed is absolutely incredible and there’s been a lot of drivers towards it.
We’ve begun to see a real movement from artists and collectors flocking towards Tezos. There is no denying it anymore. That net demand has been manifested directly in usage of H=N, OBJKT.com, and other Tezos-based NFT platforms accounting for a large chunk of on-chain activity for September.
Tezos is rapidly becoming the artists and collectors platform of choice. I shared a few thoughts on this in our latest Baking Sheet issue in case you missed it. But, the quick TLDR is the network has allowed for so much early experimentation that has begun to pay dividends.
This is an often overlooked aspect. One which we continue to see expounded upon in our weekly Twitter spaces every Tuesday by people like you and artists/collectors alike.
Today, you have an economically sustainable, eco-friendly, and growing platform for minting and distributing NFTs. This is here now. When one looks at other alternatives offering a similar feature set, they would be hard pressed to see the network effects and reputation that has sprung up on Tezos organically.
What makes us even more unique is the art itself. Contrary to other platforms, Tezos boasts some of the most creative, intuitive, and energetic minds. We’ve seen lots of success emerge from generative avatar pfp projects through the likes of Tezzardz and PRJKTNEON. Equally so, H=N has fostered lots experimental and creative art that would not be feasible much elsewhere.
If one were to try and experiment on Ethereum, network fees, minting, etc would dissuade most artists. When you’re catering towards a larger audience besides the already crypto wealthy — Tezos has begun to make the most sense. With platforms like OneOf releasing mainstream-geared NFT’s from the likes of Doja Cat, The Game and others… the push continues towards household recognition.
That said, over the month we’ve seen continued momentum in other sectors as well.
DeFi on Tezos continues to gain increasing traction with Plenty DeFi reaching over $62M TVL. Bender Labs also has nearly $20M in TVL. Bender Labs has also recently announced NFT Wrap, you can learn more here. We’re continuing to see further utility and usage of tez across a wide array of applications/platforms.
Within the STO sector, we learned of a new STO that took place on Tezos and was met with a high amount of demand from market participants. Tezos has increasingly became a platform of choice for institutions/enterprises seeking high-value and high-complexity alternatives. You can learn more about the news in our previous newsletter.
This month also treated us to the latest proposed protocol upgrade for Tezos — Hangzhou. Hangzhou introduces multiple new feature sets for the Tezos protocol such as views, caching, global table of constants, and more. Learn more about the protocol upgrade here.
The Tezos Foundation also released it’s latest bi-annual report, viewable here.
As we traverse into the Hangzhou era, it will be exciting to witness Tezos’ on-chain governance in action once again. Stay tuned for further updates and be sure to vote!
News Across Tezos World
CodeCrafting of Crunchy creates a gallery for Tezzardz stats
- One can now view traits, attributes, rarity and more in his gallery here.
GitHub verifications from Tezos Profiles are now available on H=N
- You can learn more about the announcement here.
The Kolibri DAO now has an interactive form to generate proposal lambdas on-the-fly
- The team behind Kolibri has released a more intuitive governance UI for common workflows. Learn more about the announcement here.
Be wary of impersonators and malicious websites masquerading as Kukai
- There are several fake and malicious websites springing up and masquerading themselves as the official Kukai wallet. Exercise due diligence and report these websites. Failure to do so will result in a loss of funds. Learn more here.
The “Ghost Tezzard” reaches record sale for 30,000 tez
- One of the 6 hand-drawn and most rare tezzardz fetched a sell price of 30,000 tez. There are further plans in the work by CodeCrafting and others to fractionalize the ghost tezzard and begin to offer derivatives. Learn more here.
“Skellington” Tezzard fetches 20,000 tez sale price
- The most rare Tezzard sold for 20,000 tez on the OBJKT.com marketplace. Learn more here.
Homebase is live on mainnet!
- Homebases provides an easy-to-use means for participation in Tezos-based DAO’s for anyone. It also has the potential to be the go-to DAO creation/management platform in the Tezos ecosystem. Learn more here.
Doja Cat debuts her NFT drop on Tezos-based platform OneOf
- OneOf is a NFT marketplace based on Tezos. Users are able to use tez to make purchases of NFTs on the platform. World famous musical artist Doja Cat did an NFT drop on OneOf earlier in the month. Learn more here.
Bender Labs announces Wrap DAO
- Learn more about the announcement here.
Tezos ecosystem map V1
- View the graphic here.
Tezos network breaks over 400,000 contract calls for a 24-hour period
- Setting a new record, we saw the Tezos network eclipse 400,000 contract calls during a single 24-hour time period.
Dogami reveals new trailer for new NFT collection
- Learn more about the announcement here. You can also learn more about the platform in their introductory blog post.
NFT Hunt has been acquired by DNS.xyz
- Learn more about the announcement here.
NFT wrapping is now available on Tezos from Bender Labs
- You can now wrap your Ethereum NFTs on Tezos with a few clicks and enjoy the low fees and speed of the Tezos network. Learn more here.
Kevin Rose, Mike Shinoda, and other big names begin to embrace Tezos NFT’s
- Several large online personalities have begun to embrace Tezos-based NFT’s. You can learn more here and here.
Tezos Commons Community Rewards Program (CRP) winners for August have been announced
- Learn more here.
Kolibri releases revamped metrics dashboard
- See the updated dashboard here.
Kukai 2.0 has been released
- Kukai 2.0 introduces a new shiny new look and feel, a redesigned UI, new NFT section, and a new discover feature. Learn more here.
Tezzardz surpass 1M tez trading volume in just 2 weeks since launch
- In just two weeks since initial mint, tezzardz reached over 1m tez in trading volume. As NFT’s continue to grow on Tezos, it will be worth watching future milestones for Tezzardz and other generative avatar pfp projects. Learn more here.
PRJKTNEON sells out in less than 5 minutes
- The latest generative avatar pfp project on Tezos following Tezzardz was a quick sell. With only 666 available at mint, it was the fastest initial generative avatar pfp project sale yet on Tezos. Learn more here.
Changes to Tezos Commons CRP
- Learn more about the changes here and get your nominations in for September.
Hangzhou protocol upgrade has been announced for Tezos
- Notable features include changes to liquidity baking sunset period, views, caching, global table constants, and more. Learn more about the Hangzhou upgrade here and also here.
Lead vocalist of Linkin Park, Mike Shinoda drops an NFT on Tezos
A Closer Look into Marigold’s Plans for Tezos
- Learn more about what the Marigold development team has been up to and their plans here.
Draper Goren Holm is looking for Tezos developers!
- If you’re interested in applying for their positions open, learn more here.
FaZe Banks shouts out Tezzardz and Tezos to nearly 3M followers
- Tezos NFTs are taking the world by a storm. FaZe Banks gave a shoutout earlier in the month, learn more here.
Emergents TCG site is now live!
- Emergents has just released their website and included a release date for mid Q1 2022 on that. It’s pretty amazing how they’re attracting this collectible and gaming type crowd with Emergents and the whole universe. Emergents boasts several top notch people apart of it with backgrounds in Marvel, Pokemon, Magic The Gathering and a lot more. Learn more here.
Temple Wallet reaches over 70k downloads
- Learn more here.
Over 6,000 Tezos Profiles have been created
- Learn more here.
Tezos Ecosystem map v2
- View the graphic here.
OneOf raises over $139k for climate change
- The Cory Van Lew auctions have concluded with over $139k going towards notable climate change efforts. Learn more here.
TezEdge takes over GigaNode
- Learn more here.
The first grantee in the Tezos Commons Small Grants Program has been announced — TezTools
- Learn more about the announcement here.
Emergents Founder, Brian David Marshall makes the first pitch at the last Mets game of the season
- Talk about mainstream. See the pictures here!
Events
- TezTalks Live #32 — Leo Matchett / Decentralized Pictures
- TezTalks Radio #25: Brian David-Marshall of InterPop, Emergents TCG, and Play with Brio
- AMA with Homebase — A Tezos DAO creator
- Arthur Breitman interview on iSportConnect
- Arthur Breitman hosts an AMA on his YouTube channel
- TezTalks Radio #26: Om of Tezos India
- Twitter Spaces — Weekly live Tezos community hangout sessions hosted by Tezos Commons and DNS.xyz every Tuesday.
TC Community Rewards and Small Grants Program
At the beginning of the month the changes for the Community Rewards Program went live, click here for the details.
The winners of the Community Rewards program for September will be announced this week, there were lots of great nominations!
The Small Grants Program is an experimental regional effort focused on providing funding for low cost, intermittent, or experimental projects in the Tezos ecosystem.
Two amazing community members are moving forward with the Small Grants Program with a third on their way, more details soon. If you like to apply for the Small Grants Program (or know someone that should), for more information check here.
About Tezos Commons
Tezos is a decentralized and permission-less public blockchain. Tezos Commons is a non-profit organization with the primary purpose of building community on Tezos. Through organizing several community-focused events, providing funding for hackathons and small projects, Tezos Commons has been actively contributing towards building and retaining community on Tezos.
Learn more about Tezos Commons.
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