Tezos in a nutshell

• Tezos is a public, open-source blockchain protocol, based on a liquid proof of stake consensus model and allowing for digital asset transactions and smart contracts execution. It was launched in 2018 () and the native currency on the Tezos blockchain is the tez (ticker symbol : XTZ). Learn more on

• What makes Tezos special :

Secure smart contracts : the process of formal verification, based on Michelson programming language, provides the mathematical proof of the correctness of the contract (), that can be verified automatically. It is the golden standard of "trustless" guarantee in a blockchain system.

Participative governance : "bakers" (see below) can vote on a proposal or submit a proposal thanks to a very efficient on-chain formal voting procedure (). By extension, all Tez holders can express their opinion by delegating their Tez to a baker that shares the same view on a given subject (to consult the voting history of a given baker, click on a baker from the list then access the "voting" tab).

Upgradeable without forks : Tezos formal on-chain governance model has already allowed for 7 smooth, successful upgrades of the Tezos protocol and lets Tezos stay on top of innovation (). This is a major advantage over other blockchains and gives Tezos the ability to quickly incorporate proven features of other chains (like saplings : ) or innovate with homebrewed upgrades (like liquidity baking : ).

Energy-efficient : POS requires significantly less energy than POW, and Tezos is one of them ().

• Main core protocol developers : Nomadic Labs () in partnership with French National Research Institute for Computer Science INRIA (), Marigold ()

• Economics, supply cap, inflation : the vision of Tezos founder Arthur Breitman

Recommended Tezos wallets

• List of recommended wallets : 

• Popular wallets : Temple (), Kukai (, works on mobile browsers)

• Be sure to use the links provided on the Tezos.com page, beware of phishing sites

Staking on Tezos (baking and delegating)

• How does it work : on the “POS” based blockchain Tezos, holders can participate in the process of forming blocks and are rewarded for it (by staking themselves if they hold enough tez, or by delegating their tez to a “baker” while keeping control of their tez : )

• Where do I stake : you choose between several addresses where you can delegate your tez from a wallet, by comparing relevant metrics (rewards, free space, voting history : ) of different bakers ( or or )

• How long do I have to wait before I get my rewards : it takes between 20-40 days to receive it the first time, then every 3 days ()

• How to become a baker on Tezos : ,

• Some corporate bakers on Tezos : EDF Exaion (), Ubisoft (), Wakam (), Smartlink ()

NFT platforms/projects on Tezos

• What are NFTs, and why Tezos is the best place to mint/collect them (OneOf presentation : , McLaren presentation : , Red Bull presentation : )

• Marketplaces :

Hicetnunc ()

Objkt ()

Kalamint ()

Truesy ()

Bazaar ()

Minterpop ()

• Music : OneOf (), AmplifyX ()

• Sport :

• Comics :

• Trading card game :

• Programmatically randomly generated avatars :

A few DeFi platforms on Tezos

• Decentralised exchanges (DEX) : Quipuswap (), Plenty ()

• Liquidity pools, Farms : Quipuswap (), Plenty (), Wrap Protocol ()

• Lending : Youves (), Kolibri Finance ()

• A few stablecoins : kUSD by Kolibri, uUSD by Youves (dollar pegged), EURL by Lugh (euro pegged)

Other use cases on Tezos

• CeFi use cases on Tezos : Société Générale bank (), InCore Bank (), Equisafe investment (, Aqarchain real estate investment (), MountX real estate investment ()

• E-voting : Electis ()

• Comics and Gaming : Interpop ()

Future projects to be excited about

• Emergents : trading card game by an impressive team ()

• NFTs from exclusive partnerships with Tezos : Red Bull Racing (), McLaren Racing ()

• Smartlink (escrow, DeFi, marketplace : ) and Vortex (DEX by Smartlink : )

• Juster : decentralized betting protocol by the Baking Bad team ()

• Tezos Finance : DeFi, lending ()

News and blockchains statistics

• Tezos news :

• Blockchain activity :  or

• Transactions as it happens :

• Smart contracts explorer : 

• Tokens price and statistics : 

• Node explorer :

References

• White paper ()

• Tezos ()

• Open Tezos ()

• Tezos Agora ()

• Tezos commons ()

• Tezos Ukraine ()

• Nomadic Labs ()

Developers resources

• First steps and general references : and

• Michelson, Tezos smart contracts language : and

• High end alternatives to Michelson : Ligo (), SmartPy (), Archetype ()

• Octez, implementation of the tezos software by Nomadic Labs : )

"Red Bull Racing Honda today confirms a new multi-year technical partnership with Tezos, the world’s most advanced blockchain, as the Team’s Official Blockchain Partner. The energy efficient blockchain Tezos has been selected by the Team to build its first ever NFT fan experience.

Tezos is a pioneering and energy efficient open-source blockchain for assets and applications that, similar to Formula One, is constantly evolving with the very latest industry advancements. By design, Tezos uses a more energy efficient approach to secure its network which means it can operate cleanly, with minimal energy consumption and a negligible carbon footprint."

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Tezos ecosystem career fair! We’ve noticed that many people on seem to have an interest in getting a job in the cryptocurrency/blockchain industry. However, it can be tough to find an opportunity to join with a job opening that fits your skill set.

We’re here to help.

is a decentralized public blockchain with a focus on governance, security and evolution. Tezos has attracted a large, organic community of artists and other creatives while also being utilized by big brands and organizations like Manchester United, Red Bull Racing Honda, McLaren, Ubisoft, Cambridge University, and more. Whether it’s related to art and NFTs, DeFi, Gaming, or some other blockchain use-case - there’s probably a Tezos ecosystem team working on it; if there isn’t, then the Tezos foundation also has a grant program to help fund innovative projects:

The Tezos ecosystem has been growing significantly over the past year and there are many teams looking to fill open positions. We’ve compiled a list of some credible organizations within the Tezos ecosystem with many open roles to choose from. These definitely aren’t the only roles available in the ecosystem - but there are many listed here!

We’ll be in the comments to provide people with additional information about Tezos as well as the organizations and jobs listed. We’ll be taking whatever questions you have. Have fun and good luck! Our usernames are: , , - and we’re sure other members of the Tezos ecosystem will also be in the comments.

Blokhaus: A Marketing and Communications agency working in the web3 space.

• Account Supervisor (Remote)

• Digital Production Designer (Remote)

• Freelance Writer (Remote)

• Graphic Designer (Remote)

• Senior Public Relations Manager (Remote)

Smartlink: A leading provider of escrow smart contract services that leverages the agility and security of Tezos chain for its smart contracts.

• CTO – Senior Blockchain Engineer (Remote)

• Senior Blockchain Developer (Remote)

• Senior Front-end Developer (Remote)

• Graphic Designer (Remote)

• Digital Marketing Manager (Remote)

• Technical Content Writer (Remote)

Interpop: Company that’s forging the future of digital fandom with comic, game, and collectible NFTs minted responsibly on the Tezos blockchain.

• Frontend Engineer (Remote)

• Senior Backend Developer (Remote)

• Senior Security DevOps Engineer (Remote)

• Senior SWE Generalist (Remote)

• SWE Generalist (Remote)

Madfish: Blockchain technology company that concentrates on developing open-source projects for the Tezos DeFi ecosystem. Some of their products are: Temple wallet, QuipuSwap, Sol2Ligo.

• React Native JS Developer (Remote)

• Middle Senior React Native JavaScript Developer (Remote)

Nomadic Labs: One of the largest research and development centers within the Tezos ecosystem. This Paris-based company brings together more than 60 engineering researchers working to develop and enhance the Tezos protocol.

• DevOps Engineer (Paris)

• Ecosystem Developer (multiple positions) (Europe)

• Technical Writer (Paris)

• Application Software Engineer (Paris)

• Engineering Manager (Paris)

• Senior Support Engineer (multiple positions) (Europe)

• Distributed Consensus Algorithm Expert (Paris)

• Senior Software Engineer (Paris)

• Internships (multiple positions) (Remote) (Paris)

Tarides: International software company founded in 2018 by pioneers of systems and functional programming. The team includes experts in virtualisation, distributed systems and programming languages, with a strong academic and industry background.

• Engineering Project Manager (Remote)

• Head of Marketing and Communications (Remote)

• Head of Consulting Services (Remote)

• Team Lead - Software Engineering (Remote)

• Senior Software Engineer - Irmin (Remote)

• Senior Software Engineer - Benchmark tooling (Remote)

• *Open to Spontaneous Application (Remote)

Marigold: Dynamic and collaborative company, established by Gabriel Alfour in November 2020, focused on testing and developing upgrades to the Tezos Protocol.

• UI Developer (Remote)

• Senior Software Engineer (Remote)

Trilitech: Tezos blockchain R&D and entrepreneurship hub based in London, UK. Their objective is to further develop and catalyse unique opportunities for the Tezos ecosystem.

• Engineering Manager (London)

• Product Owner (London)

• Head Of Talent (London)

• Software Engineer (London)

• Director of Engineering (London)

TzConnect: A Berlin-based team dedicated to advancing the Tezos ecosystem. We build open source software, provide support to projects and companies building on Tezos, and serve as a bridge between different players within the Tezos ecosystem.

• Fullstack Developer (Berlin)

• Blockchain Developer (Berlin)

• UX/UI Designer (Berlin)

• Digital Designer (Berlin)

• DevOps Engineer (Berlin)

• Office Manager (Berlin)

• Event and Adoption (Berlin)

• Marketing and Communications (Berlin)

Ecad Labs: ECAD Labs provides open-source tooling and infrastructure services for developers working with the Tezos blockchain.

• Technical Project Coordinator (Remote)

• Senior Software Engineer, Developer Tools (Remote)

• Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) (Remote)

• API Technical Writer, Developer Experience (Remote)

• Technical Project Manager (Remote)

• Software Engineer (Intermediate) (Remote)

• Junior Software Engineer (Remote)

• Intermediate Software Engineer (Remote)

• Software Engineer - Developer Tools (Remote)

Papers: A Swiss engineering company that has dedicated its 10+ years of existence to developing secure, mobile-first software embracing paradigm shifting technologies like blockchain to provide a more distributed, secure and accessible future of human interaction. Working on projects with various Fortune 500 companies and on large Blockchain projects such as Tezos.

• Blockchain Engineer (multiple positions)

• Frontend Engineer (multiple positions)

• Full-Stack Developer (multiple positions)

• Mobile Developer (multiple positions)

TzAPAC: The leading Asia-based blockchain adoption entity supporting the Tezos ecosystem. Supported by the Tezos Foundation and is headquartered in Singapore.

• Blockchain Developer (Singapore)

Dogami: Mass-market NFT play-to-earn game built on the Tezos blockchain, where players adopt and raise beautifully-crafted virtual NFT dogs.

• 3D Artist (Paris)

• Head of Finance (Paris)

• Head of People (Paris)

• Unity Developer (Paris)

• Game UX / UI Designer (Paris)

• QA Tester (Paris)

• Social Media Manager (Paris)

• Marketing Artist (Paris)

• Product Owner (Paris)

• Senior Frontend Developer (Paris)

• Senior Product Designer (Paris)

• System Engineer - Junior (Paris)

Tezos India: A non-profit organization committed to build and empower a well-rounded Tezos ecosystem in India.

• Graphic Designer (Remote)

• Smart Contract Developer (Remote)

• Devrel Coordinator (Remote)

Tezsure: Tezsure is creating an ecosystem for DeFi on the Tezos blockchain. With support from the global Tezos community they are building developer tools, oracles, and a user-facing app for easy access to DeFi.

• Front-End Engineer (Remote)

• Flutter Engineer (Remote)

• Ocaml Developer (Remote)

Tezos Commons: Tezos Commons supports the ideas, individuals and organizations dedicated to building the Tezos digital commonwealth. They empower the community to be the architects through bootstrapping local communities, communications, promotion, education, funding open source initiatives and advocacy.

• Backend Engineer (Remote)

Don't see a job listed that might fit your skills and experience? You can still reach out to some organizations (like Blokhaus) on their websites and see if they are interested!

In May of last year Josh and Jessica Jarrett requested a refund of income tax they paid on Tezos staking rewards in 2019. (Around $3200 for approximately 8800 Tezos tokens)

Today, the IRS has decided to issue that refund.

They will not refund any amount that was sold, obviously, but the couple is getting refunded for the entire amount requested, the tax they paid on the rewards that they did not sale.

This could be huge for everyone involved in cryptocurrency.

My opinion: Nothing else is taxed at the moment of creation. You don’t pay tax on gold that you pan in a stream and keep. The federal reserve doesn’t owe income tax to the IRS when it prints money.

The records will be made public Thursday and the IRS has not made any public statements.

Source: Blockworks .com , forbes .com

The Jarrett couple argued that new coins are tax-payer created property and should not be taxed until sold or exchanged.

Edit: For those that are unfamiliar, the IRS views cryptocurrency as property, a capital asset. There are two methods of taxation, capital gains tax and income tax.

When you sell, trade, or dispose of a capital asset you incur capital gains tax.

When you receive crypto through staking rewards, mining, airdrops, the IRS views that as income and it’s subject to income tax, just like interest you earn on fiat in a traditional bank.

You owe income tax on it whether you sell or not.

This is what is in question, taxing something that has not been sold or traded, only created.

Recently reading about Cardano on other subreddits and the sentiment is not as jubilant as when cardano is mentioned in this sub.

Often when talking about Cardano a comparison is drawn to Tezos and how Tezos is way ahead of Cardano.

Which got me thinking, why don’t we talk more about Tezos here? How come we hear so much about Cardano instead?

Sign in to the Tezos Agora Forum using your Tezos wallet!Sign in to the Tezos Agora Forum using your Tezos wallet!

This new feature by@StakeNow makes accessing decentralized apps and services smoother than ever and is now live at , Gone are the days of traditional sign-ins like Google or Facebook. With Sign-in with Tezos (SIWT), you simply authenticate by proving ownership of your Tezos address. Just sign a message with your private key, and you're in!

It's super easy to get started. Head over to the Tezos Agora Forum and select "Sign-in with Tezos." You'll be prompted to choose your Tezos wallet, sign some messages, and you're all set.

This feature isn't just limited to Tezos Agora. You can also use SIWT on the@TeiaCommunity forum, making it a consistent experience across platforms. Plus, with the new TZIP-33 proposal, SIWT ensures interoperability by adhering to chain-agnostic standards.

So, dive in and explore the benefits of this seamless, secure sign-in method. Start using your Tezos wallet to access forums and dApps today. Stay tuned for more updates and new integrations coming your way!

Originally Posted as a tweet here: 

I’ll never trade Tezos.

I might not be the most conservative crypto investor. Thanks to this group I’ve built a bag heavy on BTC and Eth. It’s a solid footing and a reliable base.

But I’ve also built a machine that kicks back a solid APY. Tezos 💙 is at the core of it.

Last Christmas we were given a gift. Tezos dipped below $2 and the internet went on a bashing spree - calling it all sorts of names. It was Christmas and I said “this is our gift!” And it’s time to buy. Other coins have pumped more since then. Facts. But of all the coins I’ve researched Tezos is my #1.

I’m not here to shill, just to say waking up and seeing it break a new all time high is worth celebrating. I’m not selling. Bigger things are on the horizon for our little engine that can!

Happy Sunday everyone! Way to go Tezos! I’m proud of you! And most importantly thank you Tezos 💙

The Tezos blockchain is set to reach a new performance milestone with the upcoming Octez v13 release, which will enable it to perform 1000 Transactions Per Second (TPS).

This work has been done by the Tarides team who have a solid tech background including team members coming from University of Cambridge, Inria, and IIT Madras.

The Tarides team has 60+ people performing groundbreaking innovation, feature development and crucial maintenance of OCaml-based projects.

In January 2022, it was announced that OCaml Labs, an organization founded at the University of Cambridge by Prof. Anil Madhavapeddy in 2012 would be joining forces with Tarides ‘to bring OCaml – one of the most advanced programming languages in the world – into mainstream use’.

Some of the organizations they do work for include Jane Street, The Tezos Foundation and Hyper.

Jane Street, a well-known quantitative global trading firm adopted OCaml as its main programming language early on because ‘the language’s functional programming style and clear expressiveness made it possible for code reviews to be performed by traders who were not programmers, to verify that high-performance code would do what it was intended to do.’

In an announcement that was posted to the Tezos Agora discussion platform on April 21st, Thomas Gazagnaire (CTO of Tarides) said:

“Our work on improving the Irmin performance resulted in Tezos reaching 1000 TPS! With the release of Irmin 3 and Octez v13, transactions have become 5x faster than they were with Octez v12 (6x compared to Octez v10).

Additionally, we’ve further stabilised the storage layer and reduced the memory required by 80%. This is a great improvement for all the Tezos users (and especially bakers), as it will make the network more stable and the baking rewards much more predictable.”

You can read the full article below :

Its all season and crypto like Ada is getting a lot of attention. A lot of people are talking about how you can stake Ada, and how it has low transactions fees. The promise that ada will have smart contracts in the future. We all know that projects got delays, and typically over promise and under deliver. Im not saying that this is the case cardano but if you are interested in all of that take a look into tezos.

Why Tezos?

Fully functional blockchain with staking and smart contracts

Low fees

NFT trading live

STOs

Defi with fraction of transactions fees

Privacy features and upgrades

I always supported tezos chain and always respected tezos foundation decisions.

Emergents swallowed milions and it's closing one month after being out. It wasn't even a 1.0, the thing was still in beta.

It had potential but the launch was clearly underwhelming, basic functionnality for this type of game were missing, no solo, no ingame story while they made tons of lore and comic books... It shouldn't even launched in this state. Any gamer could have seen it just by playing the tutorial. What a waste..

Wtf, Is throwing money in every failed project is a thing of yours TF ? Ubisoft, redbull, manu, and even kathleen's baby emergents... Every time, it's like tf is pissing in the wind. I start to doubt if tezos isn't getting scammed on purpose at this point.

Really, that's one of the biggest failure i've ever seen in the gaming industry. Even tiny studios without any funding try at least few months before closing their failure. Here, a beta state game launched as a real launch and closing 1 month later.

Will this finally make the tf realize that there's no point in funding stuff if there is no one to use and hype tezos ? Will they finally realise that the most important thing to do right now is to market tezos hard to crypto users instead of throwing money everywhere hoping normies will magically be appealed by a top 50 coin ? It won't happen.

You have money left, use it to pump tezos marketcap, use it to pay crypto influencers to research the coin and promote it to crypto crowd, so tezos has least have a chance to compete with other L1 and not just lag behind while no one knows anything about it.

If we were top 10 with 15B mc, no team would be insecure, agora would be filled with idea and people discussions, tf would'nt need bto cut budgets, teams and dapps would find private investors without problem. Do what you want, pay influence, market buy tezos, but you need to do something and play this fucking game sooner or later before you just burn all the money left and tezos dies, because no one will ever give a shit if things stays the way they are.

Honnestly, i am a long time supporter but i don't think i can support this anymore. Probably you don't give a shit, but when everyone will be gone, you will spend the last money you got and then you will close the gates, being known for the poeple who managed one of the biggest fail in crypto ever.

Everyone knows that Tezos has the best technology. The problem is that crypto is still a yolo culture where tens of billions in capital are being secured by multi- sigs and non-enshrined bridges and rollups. If Tezos could offer some kind of on-chain insurance for builders maybe that would help to attact dapps and liquidity. What do you think?

"As a validator on the Tezos network, the company plans to experiment with the liquid proof-of-stake (LPoS) consensus mechanism and explore the potential of the technology for the future of gaming."

It is because its more resilient than that POS software Microsoft is running

Hello members of the Tezos community! Welcome to our AMA series on ! -- Recent developments for Tezos includes the implementation of Granada, NY Mets joining the Tezos ecosystem as an advertising partner, Tezos DeFi accumulating over 100 million in TVL, and daily transactions on Tezos hitting over 200K

The answer process will begin tomorrow, August 25th at 12pm ET/4pm UTC/6pm CEST. Questions will be answered by:

from Tezos Commons
from Nomadic Labs
from Blokhaus

Greetings and thank you to this incredible community for hosting us,

we represent the Tezos Ecosystem, a proof-of-stake blockchain aiming to be ‘Smart Money’ and we're here to answer your questions regarding Tezos.

Recently, Tezos has been gaining traction in DeFi, STOs, NFTs, and DAOs. You can check out some cool recent product launches on Tezos like (DAO platform), (NFT platform), (DeFi platform), (DEX) and (NFT marketplace), all built by different organizations from across the Tezos Ecosystem. Some other cool things built by the community is that lets anyone send tez or NFTs to anyone with a Reddit or Twitter handle.

What is Tezos?

Tezos is smart money, redefining what it means to hold and exchange value in a digitally connected world. A self-upgradable blockchain with a proven track record, Tezos seamlessly adopts tomorrow's innovations without network disruptions today. Tezos is also built to incentivize developers, any developer can submit a protocol upgrade with an invoice attached and the community of Bakers (validators) will be able to vote on the protocol upgrade with Tezos built in governance mechanism. To date, Tezos has had 5 protocol upgrades and the 6th one was proposed just last week! You can check it out on the to view the voting activity.

Recent milestones

• . In another previous upgrade, Tezos reduced gas fees ~75% which enabled users to transact on the network with extremely low costs.

Want to get involved?

Every month we distribute up to 5000 tez in rewards to contributors from the ecosystem ranging from all skills and levels. Whether you are a meme expert, an indie developer, or answering questions about Tezos, we want to reward you!

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Participants

Tezos Co-founder, Arthur Breitman:

Tezos Commons Executive Director, Corey Soreff:

Additional members of the Tezos community, developers, and organizations like Tezos Commons and will also be answering questions that highlight their fields of expertise.

We will begin answering questions at 12PM EST, please start populating your questions now!