It’s time for Tezos, guys! As always, Tezos teams, working entities, grantees and Foundation showed fantastic performance both on the development side and the community expansion. Cryptium Labs and Nomadic Labs combined forces to develop Carthage, a new Tezos protocol proposal. Carthagenet at the time of writing contains the same features as Tezos mainnet (005 or Babylon). Willing community bakers are currently operating it. AirGap announced that tezblock now supports a testnet for this proposal. Tulip Tools stated that TPlus sandboxes had also been updated to run it. Apart from this, significant progress was shown on the side projects of several Tezos-driven teams. Baking Bad announced a new Tezos rewards API, which features splitted baker rewards, actual payment schemes, and amounts to be paid in a specified cycle. They also released a Michelson syntax highlighter for VScode supporting macros and Morley extensions. Moreover, Cryptonomic launched Nautilus Cloud, a new self-service site to get access to the integrated development infrastructure of Tezos and Conseil nodes, which was intended to reduce friction for Tezos developers and clients running nodes or indexers. The team additionally updated its Galleon wallet with Babylon-related features, a private key export, and improved smart contract functionality.

Furthermore, Obsidian Systems published v2.2.1 of its Tezos wallet application for Ledger devices. Tarides released Irmin v2, a git-like data layer for MirageOS. Equisafe deployed its first smart contract on Tezos at Nomadic Labs’ Pitch Day. Fabrx announced another update to its “If This, Then That” project for Tezos, where users can set email notifications on endorsement operations from the bakers they delegate to. Additionally, Happy Tezos updated the documentation for Tezos-as-a-Service (TaaS) and added support for originations and delegations. SmartPy released a new dev version in SmartPy.io/dev featuring further optimizations and targets in the Michelson code generator, better test scenarios, a new UX, and more. The developers of Taquito, a TypeScript library suite for developing on Tezos, declared a new release, featuring more comfortable use of bigmaps. Tezsure published the latest version of Tezster-CLI (0.1.8), which supports interactions on both local nodes and babylonnet. Importantly, Tezos Commons originated the first version of a baker registry contract on the Tezos mainnet. Tezos Nodes issued an update to make it more convenient to monitor the efficiency and free space for new delegations on Tezos nodes for non-public bakers.

Not only development but also social life was vivid for Tezos. The incredible global reach of the Tezos ecosystem has been on display so far in November, with Tezos meetups and events hosted in Thailand, Singapore, India, Korea, Russia, Turkey, Monaco, France, and the United States in just the past two weeks. Worth paying attention that Tezos Southeast Asia (TSA) had a particularly busy week with the Thailand Digital Asset Forum and the Singapore FinTech Festival. TSA also kicked off its Tezos Blockchain Talkshow Series, covering the next wave of innovation for financial institutions on the first day, the myths surrounding STOs on the second day, and blockchain technology’s influence on the insurance industry on day three. Additionally, TSA announced partnerships with Tribe Accelerator and RF International Holdings. Besides, an effort was put on community and dev support. B9labs’ Tezos Blockstars Programme reached week 2, where students learn to run their first Tezos nodes. To make Tezos user-friendly, SimpleStaking published a guide to help user bootstrap Tezos Rust nodes; Nomadic Labs released a 2-minute explainer video to demonstrate its role within the Tezos ecosystem. Tezos.help is now available via its new website to help guide newcomers into the ecosystem. All in all, the community is incentivized and supportive; the number of subscribers in social networks was continually growing. Well, the Tezos community is worth joining — we know it on our own!