Hello, and welcome to the Tezos biweekly update! While A Proof-Of-Stake Validator Summit is providing the participants with precious knowledge on the staking, we are ready to give you a detailed overview of what happened in Tezos during the past two weeks. From successfully demonstrating on-chain governance to building an actual use-case for blockchain in the real world, Tezos has an extremely bright future ahead! The current proposal Carthage 2.0 has reached quorum and is now in the testing phase. Then it will move to the promotion phase in which bakers can vote to activate the new protocol upgrade.

Furthermore, the Foundation, teams, grantees, and operational entities made substantial progress on the development performance. Nomadic Labs published a blog post on formally verifying the spending limit contract used in the Cortez mobile wallet. Baking Bad team released a new version of the Baking Bad API (v2) with a complete list of public bakers featuring unique data on bakers. They also announced that their TzKT explorer now allows users to export a .csv statement of account operations with a complete history of account balance changes. Moreover, AirGap released Beacon, a simple way to connect Tezos wallets with applications. Taquito team shared the news on its TypeScript library suite for Tezos. Besides, an official blog post on how StakerDAO operates was finally published. If you forgot, StakerDAO is a decision-making platform where the token holders collaborate to launch and manage financial assets. Check more development highlights inside our update!

The public life of Tezos is even more impressive! When Tezos Commons was first formed through the early community on Riot, it had one mission — to build a global community dedicated to the digital commonwealth. Recently, they released a 2019 year in a review blog post detailing its initiatives, objectives, and progress over the past year. Additionally, numerous events were live in January, and a lot of meetups are likewise scheduled for February. Nomadic Labs hosted the ENVITED ecosystem workgroup for discussion on its work building an ecosystem for the virtual proof of validation of autonomous driving functions. Plus, they will serve as a founding member of the Association for the Development of Digital Assets, which aims to promote the development of digital assets in France and Europe. It’s also important to mention that Foundation CFO Roman Schnider spoke on a panel at the Geneva Annual Blockchain Congress on January 20. He discussed tokenized assets and capital markets. The Foundation Council Member Hubertus Thonhauser spoke on digital assets on a panel at the CV Labs Summit in Davos on January 23. Tezos Southeast Asia is hosting a Baking Tour in Singapore and Thailand to teach aspiring bakers how to set up their baking operations.

And the last for today — two significant milestones! The first is associated with Andra Capital, a San Francisco based venture capital firm that announced plans to issue Andra’s Silicon Valley Coin (SVC) via a Security Token Offering (STO). Collaborating with the Tezos Foundation, SVC will utilize TokenSoft’s issuance platform and be built on the Tezos blockchain. Secondly, Vertalo, a Texas-based security token management, and issuance platform, will now encourage its customers to switch over to Tezos, citing Tezos’ faster transactions, greater scalability, and more stable network of participants. Seems like it was a fantastic January for Tezos!

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