Biweekly update 25th September — 9th October

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Social encounters

Article on The Blockchain and Us about Tezos, where Ryan Jesperson speaks about his journey to becoming the president of the Tezos Foundation, his outlook for Tezos and its technological innovations. The full article can be found here.

Posted the video on Youtube explaining the intent of The Tezos Grantee Spotlight, which is to help the Tezos community understand why each grant is important and what it will ultimately accomplish for the ecosystem. The first installment of this video series features Obsidian Systems. The team is focused on developing software solutions for baking on the Tezos network, but they have aspirations to do much, much more. The full video can be found here.

Tezos team is attending SF Blockchain Week, where Jacob Arluck (Tezos Governance Researcher) will be speaking on ‘Governance: Who’s in Charge’ with Will Warren (0x protocol), and

Robert Habermeier (Polkadot). More information can be found here.

Created official Tezos Announcement group in Telegram. The link to the Telegram group can be found here.

Posted Tezos ecosystem map. In just a few months the Tezos ecosystem has grown rapidly with a large number of wallets, explorers, baking (delegation) tools and services, developers, start-ups and community organisations building a huge range of the tools, services and applications. The map can be found here.

Tezos Ecosystem Map

Tezos co-founders Arthur and Kathleen Breitman participated in the interview with Epicenter to discuss the history of the project, how the network functions today and how it could develop going forward. The full video can be found here.

Finance

No updates

Roadmap

Betanet launched on the 30th of June 2018.

What’s up next?

Mainnet went live on Monday the 17th of September. The full announcement can be found here.

Partnerships and team members

The Tezos Foundation announced that it will issue grants to help make mobile applications and wallets easier to develop and use. The mobile applications that Tezos Foundation is issuing grants to are Ackee, Papers and AirGap. More information can be found here.

Avalanche-based implementation in OCaml could one day be folded into Tezos. Avalanche is a new consensus mechanism that offers “simplicity, high performance, and amenability to parameterization”. More information can be found in the interview with Edward Tate here.

Robonomics protocol will be developed for usage in new blockchains: EOS, Cardano, Tezos. Robonomics.network is open source software that enables direct robot-to-robot and robot-to-human communication by creating a marketplace of robot liability contracts. More information can be found here.

Rumors

No updates

Social media activity

Social Media Activity

There is a slight growth in Tezos community over time.