Hello, amazing Crypto Community! In this biweekly update, we cover the news of the past two weeks from Tezos teams, Foundation, grantees, and operational entities! This period was pretty eventful both for the development, public, and community side of the project. To begin with, Ryan Jesperson informed the Council that he would not seek reelection this spring, thus leaving the post of the President of the Tezos Foundation. In his message, he mentioned that all his objectives were reached, and “it is now time for somebody else to take this place and continue the momentum.”

Furthermore, the Japanese multinational group Sony invested in Securitize through Sony Financial Ventures and Japan-based VC firm Global Brain. This is another validation of the Tezos ecosystem, as Securitize is in the process of tokenizing $1 billion worth of real estate assets on Tezos through a collaboration with Elevated Returns. Recently, Securitize published a video demonstrating how to issue and manage tokens on Tezos. In addition, Taurus Group announced the first results of its strategic collaboration with the Tezos Foundation, as they integrated the Tezos protocol into its digital asset infrastructure so that its clients can securely store and transfer Tezos-based tokens. The second phase of the collaboration will enhance Taurus’ existing infrastructure to integrate capital markets use-cases and transactions based on Tezos.

As for the development updates, there is a lot to mention! AirGap released the latest report on tezblock, which includes baker charts, CSV exports, and baking & endorsing fees/deposits. Catsigma launched a new version of Misualizer, a tool that allows users to visualize all possible behaviors of Tezos smart contracts and trace all of their internal transactions to get complete pictures of different entry points. DaiLambda stated that SCaml, a language for Tezos smart contracts, is now available as a docker image. It was also included in the LIGO team’s latest update on Tezos smart contract languages. Nomadic Labs published a new paper, “Tenderbake, a Classical BFT Style Consensus for Public Blockchains,” in collaboration with CEA List. Moreover, Cryptium Labs announced that the promotion phase for Carthage 2.0 has now started, and provided resources to learn about it. Check our update for more dev&tech highlights!

Plenty of community events were arranged, and even more, are planned! TQ Tezos, Nomadic Labs, Cryptium Labs, DaiLambda, and others held a Tezos core development AMA on Agora, providing detailed answers for all the topical questions. Additionally, Nomadic Labs hosted multiple days of Tezos training sessions. Tezos India Foundation is organizing TezIndia v. Harappa, a month-long online Tezos hackathon. TQ Tezos announced that the next TQuorum would happen in Paris on 30th March. By the way, Electis, a community-based organization dedicated to exploring all kinds of technologies to push for safe e-voting solutions, announced a new worldwide university voting experiment on Tezos — learn more in our update!

As usual, the Tezos community keeps growing in social networks, chats, and Agora Forum! Stay informed with Paradigm!

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