Into the New Year with Tezos in Top-10! 2019 was amazingly fruitful for the Foundation, teams, granted entities, and community: over 430 bakers securing the Tezos network, more than 1,300 Tezos developers trained, 3 new Tezos smart contract languages introducing 6 new syntax varieties and a lot more! Tezos Foundation published an update, featuring significant milestones of the outgoing year; the next biannual update is to follow! If you recheck all our updates on Tezos, that we have been creating since early 2018, you will see the tremendous progress the project made. The latest weeks were not an exception: teams coped with a plentiful amount of work on development and social activity. Cryptium Labs and Nomadic Labs injected a possible Carthage proposal on the Cathagenet testnet. It reached the quorum and will move on to the Testing Period. Baking Bad announced support for the Carthagenet Tezos test network in its Telegram Faucet Bot. Ledger integrated Tezos directly into Ledger Live to allow users to send, receive, and delegate tezos from it. Obsidian Systems released its latest version of Kiln, a tool for both baking and monitoring the Tezos network via a locally hosted GUI. Tarides announced Irmin 2.0.0, a major release of the Git-like distributed branching and storage substrate that underpins MirageOS. The support was added for ReasonLIGO, a new syntax for LIGO that closely resembles ReasonML. It allows you to write simple, fast, and high-quality code that looks like JavaScript. TzStats released its new API with advanced smart contract features. LabNet, a new Tezos testnet aimed at Layer-2 experimentation and rapid iteration driven by user feedback, was introduced. And an essential update — Nomadic Labs shared a detailed description of the improved Tezos reward formula proposed in Carthage. This new formula is designed to make the network more robust to non-cooperative baking strategies. It does so without changing the total amount of rewards earned by bakers per period, i.e., this update should be transparent to bakers and stakers alike.

Apart from the fantastic performance on the development side, Tezos teams were active socially. As usually, several events were arranged and supported. Tezos Berlin hosted a Tezos meetup, sponsored by Tezos Commons, to discuss the Tezos governance process with members of the Tezos community. What is more, Tezos Commons hosted Tezos meetups in Bordeaux and Réunion Island. Besides, Tezos Brazil launched its Tezos introductory course with 1,000 registered participants. With all the efforts, the community keeps expanding. The number of subscribers increased significantly, especially after Tezos ranking 10 at CMC. 2020 is going to be astonishing! Please share your favorite tezos moment of 2019 in our Twitter and stay tuned!