Hello, and welcome to our biweekly update on Tezos! Past days were extremely conducive for Tezos Foundation, grantees, operational entities, and teams. Carthage protocol upgrade was finally activated at block 851, 969! The development process continued all the way, so let’s recall the major activities of Tezos dev teams over the period. Obsidian Systems released version 0.8.0 of Kiln, which adds support for the Carthage protocol and upgrades the Kiln Node’s storage backend. Baking Bad revealed zero-net (a Tezos test network) support for its TzKT indexer. In addition, the team announced that Jupyter Notebooks are now Michelson-enabled, making it easier to prototype Tezos contracts in a web browser. TzStats issued an API upgrade with new features, including implicit on-chain events, contract interface hashes, and entry point filters & statistics. They also published an update with fixed supply calculations and smart contract data display. A special one-year anniversary release was disclosed by the SmartPy team, introducing private entry points, updated documentation, and more.

Furthermore, AirGap published an update on Beacon, a tool that allows users to connect Tezos wallets with applications. Ackee launched a proof-of-concept iOS app called RateMyTeam with specific tutorials on the development process. Last, but not least — TQ Tezos proceed with a request for comment about FA2, a multi-asset interface proposal for Tezos. Apart from it, a significant milestone was reached: Equisafe launched its STO platform and tokenized its first asset, the Pavillon de Musique de la Comtesse de Provence in Versailles, on the Tezos blockchain.

By the way, there is a lot to mention about the public and social activity of Tezos teams. Tezos Commons Boston Chapter, led by Ken Garofalo, hosted the Tezos Boston Pitch Competition, showcasing several projects built on Tezos. Nomadic Labs hosted its Tezos Developers Day in Paris on March 6, and it was a huge success. The recordings are available inside the update. TQ Tezos’ Jacob Arluck was interviewed on the Epicenter podcast. He discussed everything about Tezos, including core protocol development, teams, and projects that make up the Tezos ecosystem, the governance process, and his thoughts on the future of the protocol. Some guides for more convenient use of Tezos were kindly published lately. Firstly, Baking Bad released a tutorial video on making an atomic swap using its Atomex wallet. Apart from it, the Stove Labs team shared a guide to implementing a mini token contract with on-chain callbacks. What’s more, Cryptonomic delivered a video guide on how to migrate a Tezos wallet from TezBox to Galleon. Additionally, some modifications were established in the Tezos Foundation. In essence, the governance structure of the Foundation is changing to allow the Council to step back from day-to-day management duties and to put an executive team in place. The roles so far covered by the President of the Foundation will be subdivided into two different functions. An Executive Director, who is not a Council member, will lead the Foundation’s executive team, and a Chair of the Foundation Council will lead the governance and supervision matters of the Foundation. In addition to hiring an Executive Director, the Foundation Council will also designate two new Council members.

The Tezos community keeps growing in social networks and chats. Moreover, recently, the members of the Tezos community came together to fight Covid-19 using the Folding@Home platform, a distributed computing project that uses participants’ computers to perform calculations related to protein folding.

And an important note: Tezos Commons is canceling community events except for third-party and remote sponsorship for March because of COVID-19. TQ Tezos has announced that TQuorum Paris will be rescheduled, so it is better to follow TQ Tezos on Twitter for future updates. Stay safe, and always keep yourself informed! See you in two weeks.

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