Want to learn more about the exciting developments on Tezos that are protecting your privacy?

This Session, hosted In collaboration with ZKProof, featured a presentation by Marco Stronati and Marc Beunardeau from Nomadic Labs. They provided us with a very detailed and informative look into the technical aspects of Sapling, demonstrating how the privacy-preserving protocol uses a process called shielded transactions to allow users anonymity when conducting transactions on the blockchain.

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What is Tezos’s opportunity and strength in the DeFi landscape?

In this Session, TQ Tezos’s Co-founder Jacob Arluck led an in-depth discussion about the architecture of DeFi platforms with Luke Youngblood, Founder, and CEO of Blockscale, and Keefer Taylor, CEO of Tessellated Geometry. Luke mentioned that the current DeFi landscape on Tezos is years ahead of the other networks because of its Proof of Stake consensus layer. Keefer gave a detailed presentation of Harbinger, a self-sustaining price oracle that generates accurate on-chain pricing data.

The highlight of this Session is the very first glimpse of a new stablecoin on Tezos, Kolibri (or kUSD), which is secured by the Harbinger price oracle and can be minted by any XTZ holder or staker. Users can even use baking rewards to mint kUSD, so, according to Luke “you never lose the value of your underlying Tezos that you’re still holding.”

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Do you want to know more about how to get involved with the Tezos community?

In this Tezos Town Hall, TQ Tezos’s President and Co-founder Alison Mangiero led a moderated conversation with Robert Fontaine, Community Manager of the Tezos Foundation, and Alexander Liu, Esq. LL.M., Board Member of Tezos Commons. They dove into some of the features of the new community rewards program, highlighting that while it is a work in progress that will continue to evolve, it proves an exciting opportunity for developers and community members to be recognized for their contributions towards helping the Tezos ecosystem improve and grow.

Alexander also emphasized that “The Tezos ecosystem has a space for everyone.” Even if you don’t have a coding background, there is a place for you to find your value and passion in the Tezos community.

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Are you curious about why Tim Draper believes that “Tezos will be a big success?”

In this Session, Tim Draper lent his expertise in a moderated conversation with TQ Tezos’s Alison Mangiero, covering the range of potential applications of Tezos that could foster an interconnected global system from financial systems to governance. He also explained that his interest in Tezos was in part due to the belief that Arthur and Kathleen Breitman “really wanted to make something extraordinary happen” and “the fact that they were going to focus on smart contracts made me feel like ‘that is the future.’”

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Are you curious about non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and some of the latest projects on Tezos to improve and enhance the NFT architecture?

Gregory Rocco, Senior Project Manager at TQ Tezos, gave an overview of the landscape of NFTs and some exciting developments happening at the TQ product team, including the latest release of the tzNFT. He also offered the community an exclusive look at OpenMinter, an open-source project designed to “enable any user with any level of technical ability to create and manage NFTs” and, eventually, any other token type using the FA2 token standard.

In this Session, the Tezos community voted to hear about the emerging development of decentralized finance (DeFi) on blockchains.

Kevin Mehrabi, Founder of USDtz, explained some of the milestones in advancing DeFi on Tezos, including the development of the FA token standard to make interacting with and trading different tokens possible. He also highlighted the work of Tezos Stable Technologies to create and expand the participation into this new digital economy.

In the second Tezos Town Hall of 2020, a panel of experts delved into the evolving nature of the Tezos ecosystem. Discussion included the decision-making process for implementing updates and features onto the protocol, and offered a glimpse into the near future of what the panel is most excited to improve and expand.

Joining the conversation was Adrian Brink, founder of Metastate, Arthur Breitman, early architect of Tezos, Benjamin Canou, CTO at Nomadic Labs, Jacob Arluck, co-founder of TQ Tezos, and Gabriel Alfour, lead developer at Ligo Lang.

Swiping your credit card, scanning your passport to travel across borders, making an online purchase — in today’s world your identity is not solely yours. In this Session, Wayne Chang, Founder and CEO of Spruce Systems explores how his team is working to shape the future of digital identity and improve security guarantees within the Tezos ecosystem.

He delves into the technical processes of digital identity development, how the team is building “standards-based open source products,” and what it means for the evolution of Tezos.

What if you could pay for your next cup of coffee with a mobile app built on Tezos? This Session dives into ecoo, a digital voucher experiment from Papers/AirGap that tokenizes earmarked funds on Tezos for Swiss residents to redeem at local businesses. Papers’ own Alessandro De Carli discusses how the project can help incentivize local economies, the value of building a user-friendly experience, and how this innovative technology could expand the way Tezos is used for transactions.

Curious about staking on Tezos? This Session features the latest developments of Kiln, an application that lowers the barrier of entry for baking, Tezos’ specific term for block creation.

Members of the newly-formed Kiln consortium break down the importance of baking, the roadmap for new updates, and how to get involved with the project.

How will Tezos be an instrumental component in the future of commerce? In this community-voted Session, Stephane De Baets, President of Elevated Returns, and Scott Bambacigno, VP of Worldwide Sales of AlphaPoint, discuss their work tokenizing over 1 billion dollars worth of real estate in Southeast Asia.

In a conversation with Alison Mangiero, TQ Tezos President and Co-Founder, they highlight how digital assets are redefining the concept of ownership and their vision to develop a secondary marketplace with a variety of securities tokenized on Tezos.

This Session was the first Tezos Town Hall of 2020, and featured a panel of experts who answered community questions about governance and core protocol development. Discussion also included the potential for improvements—including the upcoming 007 upgrade and the release of dalphanet, a test network for experimenting with new features in the upcoming protocol upgrade—as well as how developers can get involved to help improve Tezos.

Joining the conversation was Adrian Brink, founder of Metastate, Arthur Breitman, early architect of Tezos, Raphaël Cauderlier, research engineer at Nomadic Labs, Jacob Arluck, co-founder of TQ Tezos, and Gabriel Alfour, lead developer at Ligo Lang.

In this Session, Ayo Akinyele, CEO & co-founder of Bolt Labs, and Ian Miers, co-founder of Zcash, sit with TQ Tezos’s Jacob Arluck to discuss the importance of improving privacy on blockchains and why this is a necessary step for advancing Tezos.

During their conversation, they highlight the problems with centralized payment channel systems and the importance of enabling security for crypto transactions. The group also dives into the experience of developing zkChannels, a chain-agnostic, second-layer protocol solution to preserving user information, which the team plans to implement on Tezos.

In this Session, we meet Evan Weiss, Founder of the Proof of Stake Alliance (POSA), and Abe Sutherland, Adjunct Professor of the University of Virginia Law School, for an in-depth look into how POSA is helping advance the Tezos ecosystem by providing clarity on the legal and regulatory side of staking. The Session was recorded on the heels of POSA's support of a letter submitted by the Congressional Blockchain Caucus calling on the IRS to reexamine block reward legislation.

What is drawing developers towards building games on Tezos? In this community-voted Session, Drew Taylor from Chain of Insight answers that question with his zero knowledge proof oracle, PoP Machine Glow (PoPMG). He breaks down how the security of Tezos smart contracts and the protocol’s computational limits inspired his team to build their crypto puzzle, Shrodinger’s Cup, on the platform. TQ Tezos’s Jacob Arluck then joins Drew in a discussion on plans to build mobile graphical games on Tezos and the future of the blockchain gaming industry.

In this Session, camlCase founder Tyler Clark pulls back the curtain on the power of open-source development on Tezos. He debuts Magma, camlCase’s new mobile wallet, and offers a sneak preview of Dexter, a decentralized exchange that is set to launch soon. TQ Tezos’s Jacob Arluck then joins Tyler in a Q&A where they discuss the experience of building on Tezos and what other developers can learn from the projects.

TQ Tezos president and co-founder, Alison Mangiero, chats with Tezos co-founder, Kathleen Breitman, about the current state of the Tezos ecosystem and her active role, how blockchain innovations can be applied to the gaming space, and her latest venture, Coase.