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Tezos
Foundation
March 2021
1
“
Tezos has seen more evolution
in the past two years than the
rest of the industry combined.
Through its upgradability, other
blockchains become
Tezos’ testnets.
Preface
Dear Tezos Community
Since the last issue of our biannual update in deployment is key to winning the marathon
September of last year, the Tezos project has race to global adoption. It is even more crucial
continued along a strong pathway to long-term to understand that the Tezos Foundation is not
growth, despite an unprecedented amount of Tezos but only one entity in a global ecosystem.
volatility in the global economy. The world that Our role is to sustainably deploy the resources
we have begun to reenter will be fundamentally that are under control to support the long-term
different than the world that came before. What success of Tezos. This long-term success will only
is clear, at this moment, is that blockchain tech- be possible with a vibrant decentralized eco-
nology will play a key role in a post-COVID-19 system. Our goal is to empower independent,
world and that we all need to adapt to this new high-performing organizations in this ecosystem
reality. With its governance function, Tezos can and ensure that they have the resources needed
continue to evolve and therefore be the block- to solve the challenges that lay ahead.
chain the world needs.
No one understands the Tezos Foundation’s role
During the period that this report covers, the better than Arthur Breitman, an early architect
Tezos blockchain was successfully upgraded of Tezos. We are delighted to welcome Arthur
twice. Delphi, the first upgrade, significantly im- to the Tezos Foundation Council, where his
proved the performance of the Michelson inter- technical expertise and unparalleled knowledge
preter and lowered gas fees significantly while can inform the Council and help fulfill the Tezos
Edo was adopted only a few months later and Foundation’s mission.
added continuous performance improvements
and, with Sapling, a powerful tool that enables There is much to look forward to and be hopeful
new types of applications, such as voting and about when it comes to Tezos. In this report,
asset transactions with selective disclosures. you will find information about the 62 grantees
With Florence approaching on the horizon, it based in 21 different countries that have re-
is clear that the Tezos upgrade process has ceived new funding since September 2020. 42%
reached a seamless regular cadence and so we of these projects are new to the Tezos ecosys-
say with a smile that for Tezos, other blockchains tem and we welcome their ideas and enthusiasm
have become a testnet. for Tezos. We are confident that 2021 will prove
to be a very bright year for Tezos.
It is crucial to understand that we view Tezos
as a long-term project - where a solid technical The Tezos Foundation Council
foundation and long term capacity for capital
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Table of
Contents
Preface Research, Education, Financials
3 & Core Development 44
Grants
Mission of the 14
Tezos Foundation
5 Ecosystem – Tools
& Applications Grants
The Past Six Months 20
with Tezos
6 Community Grants Governance
34 48
Facts & Figures
8 Industry
Adoption
Grants 38
9
Council & Committees
of the Tezos Foundation
Industry Adoption – 49
Priorities & Process Collaborations
10 39 Foundation Council
50
Grantees & Other A Map of the
Funded Entities Tezos Ecosystem Foundation Committees
13 42 52
4
Mission of the
Tezos Foundation
Tezos is a technology that powers a distributed, peer-to-peer,
permissionless network. No single entity owns, manages,
or controls Tezos. Understanding this paradigm is fundamental
to understanding Tezos.
The Tezos Foundation is a Swiss foundation, nications, all working toward the success
supervised by the Swiss Federal Foundation of a platform that we believe will ultimately
Supervisory Authority. Its global purpose drive innovation on a global scale.
is to facilitate and enable the promotion
and development of new technologies The Tezos Foundation fulfills its mission by
and applications, especially in the fields deploying resources that support the long-
of new, open, and decentralized software term future of the Tezos project. Grants and
architectures, including the promotion and other capital deployment vehicles offer a
development of the Tezos protocol and strategic way to help community members,
related technologies. such as educational and research institu-
tions, developers, or activists from all over
As highlighted in the Tezos position paper, the world, to support the advancement of
the success of any decentralized network the Tezos project.
is determined by the efforts of a robust,
diverse, and flourishing community. The Tezos’ potential rests in the hands of its
Tezos Foundation exists as a part of this community, which is among the strongest
eco-system, alongside developers, scien- and most exceptional in the blockchain
tists, network validators (“bakers”), enthusi- ecosystem. All interested parties are
asts, and independently managed entities welcome to join the Tezos community and
in charge of tech, adoption, business contribute to the project.
development, and marketing and commu-
The success of any decentralized network
is determined by the efforts of a robust,
diverse, and flourishing community.
The Tezos Foundation exists as a part of
this ecosystem.
5
The Past Six Months
with Tezos
10 11 12 01
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Selected Events from the Tezos Ecosystem
08 January 6, 2021
Saudi Arabia’s Taibah
Valley becomes the first
December 31, 2020 Middle Eastern corporate
As part of Tezos Commons’ baker in the Tezos
monthly community ecosystem.
November 5, 2020 reward program, several
The Swiss bank Sygnum is community members January 7, 2021
the first regulated bank to receive tez for their Launch on Tezos’ testnet
October 29, 2020 launch staking for Tezos for contributions to the of kUSD, a trustless,
Kukai Wallet introduces its clients. ecosystem. algorithmic stablecoin that
DirectAuth on Tezos, is collateralized by XTZ
September 25 , 2020 allowing users to send November 17, 2020 December 28, 2020 and soft-pegged to the US
Sword launches Tezos and receive tez with their Sword France expands its Stably brings the USD- dollar.
DigiSign, an open source Google, Reddit, and Twitter involvement in the Tezos backed stablecoin, USDS,
August 25 , 2020 solution to digitally sign, accounts. ecosystem by becoming a to Tezos.
Luke Youngblood and store and verify documents corporate baker.
Keefer Taylor present on the Tezos blockchain October 30, 2020
Harbinger, a project to ecoo, a coin for local
deliver signed price feeds September 30, 2020 businesses is launched by
based on market data from Launch of Dexter, the Papers, DU DA and Farner
multiple exchanges to the first noncustodial and Consulting as a platform
Tezos network. decentralized exchange on for customized, earmarked
Tezos. payment instruments in a
August 27 , 2020 Swiss pilot city.
Spruce Systems are
working on decentralized
identity (DID) capabilities
built using the latest W3C
standards.
Between Aug. 12 & Sept. 4: Between Oct. 20 & Nov. 12: Between Nov. 12 & Dec. 5: Between Jan. 21 & Feb. 13:
The Tezos Delphi upgrade The Tezos Delphi upgrade The Tezos Edo upgrade The Tezos Edo upgrade is
2020 is proposed. is activated. is proposed 2021 activated.
August September October November December January
6/7
Facts & Figures
Some Tezos Foundation Highlights Since August 2020
USD M in assets
(as of January 31, 2021)
62 new grants in total issued
USD M new grants
new committed
council members
countries where grantees Grant Platform launched
are based
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Grants
Grants –
Priorities & Process
A key activity of the Tezos Foundation is to deploy resources
to entities and initiatives that will help to ensure the long-term
success of Tezos. The Tezos Foundation is focused on three grant
categories:
Research, Education & Core Development Grants
Foster innovation, development, and education about
Tezos. These grants include a range of projects, from
online training courses to core protocol development.
Ecosystem – Tools & Applications Grants
Lower barriers to entry to help make Tezos as accessible as possible for
developers and end users of subsequent applications.
Community Grants
Support other organizations and initiatives that strengthen and grow
the Tezos community to which the Tezos Foundation belongs.
With the launch of the Tezos Foundation’s Grant Platform, a range of areas of interest have been
published. These reflect our current needs and change based on the priorities at a given point in
time. Over the past months the areas of interest published focus on baking, developer experience,
education and training, end-user applications, privacy and security. Additionally, the Grant Platform
allows the submission of proposals that are not listed as a priority but may advance the Tezos eco-
system. The launch of the Grant Platform also marks a transition to the ongoing possibility of handing
in proposals rather than during specific time slots. This biannual update stays consistent with previous
updates and uses the three overarching categories for projects.
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Our Evaluation Process
Step 1
Anyone can apply with a project at any time. The Tezos Foundation’s website
contains links that guide to the Grant Platform. Applications are initially vetted
to ensure they fulfill the Tezos Foundation’s formal and substantial require-
ments. Vetting is performed by several contributors from the Tezos ecosystem.
The Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) has full visibility over reviewers and
ensures adequate management of potential conflicts of interest.
Step 2
Applications that pass through the initial review phase are sent to the Tezos
Foundation’s TAC for technical due diligence and evaluation. The list of current
TAC members can be found on the Foundation’s website. The TAC does not
make grant decisions itself, but rather offers advice on an application’s tech-
nological strength and usefulness to the Tezos ecosystem.
Step 3
Applications that receive positive recommendations from the TAC complete
a due diligence process before final decisions to approve, decline, or revise
grant applications are made by the Executive Committee or the Tezos Founda-
tion Council.
Step 4
Final decisions about grant applications are communicated to applicants after
they are made by the Tezos Foundation. Lastly, approved applicants collabo-
rate with the Tezos Foundation to complete legal paperwork before a grant is
finalized.
In some circumstances, when projects are of sig- Grants are usually paid out in multiple install-
nificant importance to the Tezos ecosystem, the ments. Such installments are subject to a pay-
Tezos Foundation will push applications through ment schedule to ensure that predefined mile-
an out-of-cycle process. It is important to note stones are achieved. The Tezos Foundation con-
that although these applications are expedited, trols payments and assesses milestone reports
they undergo the same due diligence process from grantees prior to follow-on payments. It
and require the same approvals. may involve the TAC in this process if technical
The process underwent a change in Q3 2020 to- assessments are needed. The Tezos Foundation
gether with the launch of the Tezos Foundation’s will not distribute follow-on payments for pro-
Grant Platform and the communication of areas jects that do not hit their deliverables.
of interest on its website.
11?
Flying evolves.
Tezos evolves.
Since its inception, Tezos has had five upgrades: Athens, Babylon, Carthage, Delphi, and Edo.
12Grantees & Other
Funded Entities
Since the last Biannual Update (September 2020), the Tezos Founda-
tion has committed funds to 62 new projects across 18 countries for
a total amount of USD 51.3 M. 21 of the 62 new grants (34%) are to
organizations or individuals that were not previous grant recipients.
The increase of committed funds compared to the period covered
in the last Biannual Update predominantly relates to large annual
grants that were entered into at the beginning of the year.
Some projects that previously received grants and are still active are
not listed in this Biannual Update. Please see the Tezos Foundation’s
previous Biannual Updates for information on earlier grants.
10.3 M (20%)
Community
25.3 M (49%) Grants
Ecosystem – Tools &
Applications Grants
USD
51.3 M
15.7 M (31%)
Research, Education
& Core Development
Grants
13Research, Education
& Core Development
Grants
The Tezos Foundation supports research on and education about a
wide spectrum of domains pertaining to computer science, such as
distributed systems, cryptography, programming languages, and
formal verification. A significant amount of resources are allocated
toward supporting scientists and engineers at top-tier institutions and
organizations around the world, as well as educational programs to
train future talent. These initiatives, and others that contribute to core
protocol development, are a top priority for the Tezos Foundation.
Grantees and Other Funded Entities:
Core Development • University of Freiburg, Germany
• Bolt Labs, USA • Inacta, Switzerland
• DaiLambda, Japan • Indian Institute of Technology
• Marigold, France (IIT Madras), India
• Metastate, Switzerland • Kestrel Institute, USA
• Nomadic Labs, France • Nagoya University, Japan
• OCaml Labs, UK
Research & Education • OCTO Technology, France
• B9lab, UK • Simple Staking, Malta
• Baking Bad, Russia Spruce, USA
• Cryptoverse Wars, India • Stove Labs, Slovakia
• France-IOI, France • Tarides, France
• VDF Alliance, USA
Total: USD
15.7 M
Contractual calculated monthly burn-rate per organisation and category:
Over USD 500K Up to USD 200K
Up to USD 500K Up to USD 50K
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14Bolt Labs Team
Core Development Marigold is Gabriel Alfour’s French com-
pany that has received funding to both
Bolt Labs is a US-based firm building grow their core developer team and work
zkChannels to provide fast and private on several high priority Tezos core protocol
transactions on blockchains. By deploying topics such as performance, concurrency
privacy-preserving state channels, trans- and codebase maintenance.
actions are gathered off-chain, relying
on zero-knowledge proofs and multiparty Metastate, a Switzerland-based, security-
computation techniques. With the grant, oriented entity, is dedicated to distributed
Bolt Labs will enable privacy-preserving ledger research and protocol develop-
state channels on the Tezos blockchain. ment. Metastate researches and develops
a number of technologies to help advance
DaiLambda, a Tezos core development the Tezos project. Notably, they work on
team based in Japan, is dedicated to consensus algorithms, privacy-preserv-
research and development of the Tezos ing features, proof-of-stake and staking
core protocol and smart contracts. The products, governance, smart contracts,
DaiLambda team has extensive experi- sharding, and more. Metastate collabo-
ence with OCaml stemming from time in rated with other Tezos developers on the
academia at Inria in Paris, and contributes Delphi and Edo upgrades.
to the growth of the Tezos ecosystem in
Japan and the Greater Asia region through
training and consulting engagements. The
grant covers the Plebia project that targets
storage optimisations for the Tezos core
protocol as well as promotional activities in
Japan.
15Nomadic Labs is a French firm that
conducts ongoing research into formal
verification of smart contracts, consen-
sus algorithms, and possible zero-know-
ledge cryptography implementations for
Tezos. Nomadic Labs continues to work on
Michelson, a domain-specific language for
writing smart contracts on Tezos, as well as
an additional low-level language, Albert,
which will serve as a compilation target for
high-level languages. The team has con-
tributed to past protocol upgrades such
as Delphi and Edo. Furthermore, Nomadic
Labs collaborates with global research
institutions and universities on the develop-
ment of the protocol. They work together
with the global Tezos developer community
to support development initiatives and
streamline workflows across various teams
and contributors to the Tezos project, as
well as develop foundational projects such
as a reference wallet.
Research and Education
B9lab is a UK-based company specialized
in technology adoption, enterprise learning,
and consulting solutions focused on the
blockchain and decentralized applica-
tion space. The team received funding
to develop an educational experience
for developers who want to learn how to
develop Tezos applications leveraging the
Nomadic Labs Core Development Team
ecosystem stack. They are building a freely
accessible training course and a developer-
centric continuous security offering (CSO) Cryptoverse Wars is developed by the
use case as part of their efforts. Indian firm BUIDL Labs wich is built by and
for entrepreneurs, supporting them in their
Baking Bad is an active, Russian Tezos growth. They continue to develop the proj-
development team that builds a variety ect as an interactive and fun code school
of Tezos products such as Better Call Dev, that onboards developers to the Tezos
a smart contract explorer, and TzKT, an ecosystem by teaching them to write Tezos
advanced block explorer, indexer, and API. smart contracts in SmartPy.
In addition to continuing with its existing
projects, the Baking Bad team received The French association France-IOI has the
funding to create an interactive Tezos de- goal to make as many people as possible
veloper training program to help onboard discover programming and algorithms. By
more developers to the Tezos ecosystem. providing resources, training, and competi-
tions the association is, for example, sup-
porting high school students in attending
the International Olympiad in Informatics.
The purpose of the grant is to broaden their
offering of Tezos-related languages such as
OCaml and Michelson. 16Peter Thiemann is a full professor of in- Nagoya University is the third-highest-
formatics at the University of Freiburg in ranked higher education institution in Japan
Germany. Professor Thiemann received this with over 16,000 students. Jacques Garri-
grant for Contract Orchestration for OCaml gue, a professor at the Graduate School of
(COOC), a project to ensure a smooth inter- Mathematics, is working on the Certifiable
action between OCaml and Michelson and OCaml Type Inference (COCTI) project to
to provide a framework that guarantees the make OCaml type inference more robust,
correct orchestration of contract invocation modular, and verifiable by modularizing the
from an application program in the OCaml OCaml type checker using constraint-ba-
language. sed type inference and certifying it using
the Coq proof assistant. Further, the grant
Inacta is a Switzerland-based professional will support the teaching of blockchain- and
service firm focusing on information ma- verification-related related topics as well
nagement. With a team of over 60 experts, as technical courses on Tezos technology
they offer both consulting and implemen- in collaboration with DaiLambda and other
tation services, including in the blockchain Tezos teams in the Greater Asia region.
field. The grant is provided to support the
transition and training of their consultants At Cambridge University, OCaml Labs is
on the Tezos blockchain and to support such a top-tier functional programming and
implementations in the region of Germany, multidisciplinary computer science team
Switzerland and Austria.. based in the UK. With this grant, the OCaml
Labs team will migrate the Tezos codebase
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT to the new duniverse build system, which
Madras) is a world-class institute with over will help improve the speed of Tezos builds
8,000 students and nearly 550 faculty staff and smooth the development workflow
concentrating on higher technological edu- for developers. OCaml Labs is working
cation as well as basic and applied research. with researchers at the Indian Institute of
IIT Madras received a grant to upstream Technology (IIT Madras), one of the foremost
multicore support for OCaml and extend institutes of national importance in India in
the Tezos tool stack, specifically Irmin and higher technological education and applied
Lwt. The team is in close collaboration with research, on this project.
OCaml Labs for this project.
OCTO Technology is a French consulting
The Kestrel Institute, based in the USA, is and IT realization firm within Accenture
a nonprofit research center for computer Digital. With this grant, the OCTO team
science. Their team is formally verifying the built and improved Tezos Academy, a freely
functional correctness of the R1CS imple- available online platform that teaches LIGO
mentation of Jubjub elliptic curve operations smart contract development in a fun and
described in the Zcash Protocol Specifica- user-friendly manner.
tion. Their work will be used in collabora-
tion with Nomadic Labs and in Tezos’ core Simple Staking is a Malta-based firm
development. building TezEdge, a Tezos node in the Rust
programming language, a popular language
with a focus on safety. They collaborate with
Nomadic Labs and the larger Tezos devel-
oper community on the project. With a Tezos
node in Rust, the ecosystem profits from a
higher diversity of node implementations,
further increasing decentralization and
robustness of the network.
17Tarides is a French software engineering firm
focusing on virtualization, distributed sys-
tems, and programming languages. Tarides
received a grant from the Foundation for the
integration between Tezos and MirageOS
and its further development as well as for
porting and maintaining Tezos on new
platforms such as Windows and JavaScript.
The team also ensures long-term support of
MirageOS libraries used in Tezos.
The VDF Alliance is a collection of world-
class academic, nonprofit, and corporate
collaborators building open-source hard-
ware for the blockchain ecosystem. The
Tezos Foundation joined the VDF Alliance to
support research and development that will
hopefully improve the security and scalabili-
ty of blockchain protocols like Tezos.
Spruce Team Members
The US-based team Spruce joined the Tezos
ecosystem to build a digital and self-sove-
reign identity solution on Tezos. The main
products the team is working on are a
mobile application as a credential wallet, a
Web2 and Web3 application/platform for
credential issues, verifier tools, an ecosys-
tem steward portal, and several infrastructu-
re deliverables such as identity bridges and
SDKs.
Stove Labs is a firm based in Slovakia that is
building Tezos School, a comprehensive and
up-to-date curriculum of content for develo-
pers to learn how Tezos can be utilized. They
promote this project including the develop-
ment of use cases to be taught.
18?
Phones evolve.
Tezos evolves.
Since its inception, Tezos has had five upgrades: Athens, Babylon, Carthage, Delphi, and Edo.
19Ecosystem – Tools
& Applications Grants
The Tezos Foundation supports many teams is building tools
that will help developers of varying skill levels build novel
applications on Tezos and contribute to the growth of its
ecosystem. To date, the Tezos Foundation has focused on
five main areas within this grant-making category:
programming languages and libraries, block explorers and
analytics, smart contract development, infrastructure, and
applications.
Grantees and Other Funded Entities:
Programming Languages and Libraries Smart Contract Development
• Ackee, Czech Republic • Agile Ventures, Czech Republic
• Alexandre Moine, France • Anchor Labs, USA
• Attic Lab/Everstake, Ukraine • Baking Bad, Russia
• Edukera, France • Biconomy, Singapore
• Go Tezos, USA • DaiLambda, Japan
• Luiz Milfont, Brazil • Guillem Rieu, France
• Madfish Solutions, Ukraine • Johann Tanzer, Austria
• MoneyTrack, France • Runtime Verification, USA
• NEOFACTO, France • Smart Contract Labs, Estonia
• Nomadic Labs, France • Tezsure, India
• Simple Staking, Malta • Truffle Blockchain Group, USA
• Sotez (Andrew Kishino), USA • Korea University (Hakjoo Oh), Korea
Block Explorers and Analytics Infrastructure
• Baking Bad, Russia • Anyblock Analytics, Germany
• Blockwatch Data, Germany • Attic Lab/Everstake, Ukraine
• Papers/AirGap, Switzerland • Baking Bad, Russia
• Bender Labs, France
• Breadwinner, Switzerland
• camlCase, USA
• Crypto Storage, Switzerland
• Cryptonomic, USA
• dOrg, USA
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20Infrastructure (cont.) Applications
• Dream Way, Turkey • Andrii Sobol, Ukraine
• DSENT, Switzerland • Atlas One, Canada
• ECAD Labs, Canada • Blockcurators, Germany
• Equisafe, France • Botwars Ultimate Trading, UK
• Figment Networks, Canada • Chain of Insight, Canada
• Fireblocks, Israel • Diginex Solutions, Hong Kong
• FutureSense, Korea • Electis, France
• Global P.O.S, France • hicetnunc2000, Brazil
• Gravity, France • IBF Net, Malaysia
• Henrik Moe, USA • LeewayHertz, India
• ImToken, China • Madfish Solutions, Ukraine
• KoineArth, Singapore • Mudit Marda, India
• Kukai (Klas Harryson Consulting), • Nzinghaa Lab/Ejara, Cameroon
Sweden • Shubham Kukreja and Khushi Asawa,
• Ledger, France India
• LIGO, France • Sword France, France
• Magic Labs, USA • Trout Labs, USA
• Metaco, Switzerland • Wolfram Blockchain Labs (WBL), USA
• MIDL.dev, Estonia
• OCTO Technology, France
• Ozone Networks, USA
• Papers/AirGap, Switzerland
• Pierre Genevès, France
• Shareable Asset, Singapore
• SkillZ, France
• Smart Chain Arena, USA
• SmartChain, UAE
• Soulmachine, UK
• Stably, USA
• Sylo, New Zealand
• Taurus, Switzerland
• TQ Tezos, USA
Total: USD
25.3 M
Contractual calculated monthly burn-rate per organisation and category:
Over USD 500K Up to USD 200K
Up to USD 500K Up to USD 50K
21Programming Languages Luiz Milfont is based in Brazil and is working
and Libraries full-time on advancing the Tezos project
there. He received a grant for creating
In order to make Tezos as accessible as libraries in programming languages so that
possible, the Tezos Foundation supports Tezos may be present in several programm-
engineers in creating open-source soft- ing environments and frameworks as well
ware that helps lower barriers to entry to as for educational initiatives targeting the
Tezos development. Portuguese-speaking audience.
Ackee, the Czech development team, The Ukrainian software development
worked on updating its existing TezosSwift company Madfish Solutions is working on
project, including tutorials and a proof of several projects to help advance the Tezos
concept application. ecosystem. As part of this category, they
will improve the eth2tez (sol2ligo) transpiler
Alexandre Moine, who is based in France, to help developers migrate smart contracts
developed a linter for the LIGO language. from Solidity to LIGO.
He received funding to build a compiler
hook and lint-ligo 1.0, which is able to take
linting rules as inputs and produce user-
friendly reports. His development is in colla-
Tezos’ functional pro-
boration with the LIGO development teams. gramming makes us con-
The Ukrainian firm Attic Lab/Everstake is
receiving funding for several projects. As
fident about having top-
part of their efforts, they are building and
improving TezTracker, a Tezos block ex-
grade, provable reliability
plorer, and a Tezos multisig wallet. They re-
ceived a grant to build and deploy both the
across systems built on
back and front ends of the block explorer,
while relying on an existent, efficient, and
Tezos.
publicly available indexer. Madfish Solutions
Edukera is a France-based company
focusing on smart contract security. The MoneyTrack is a France-based team
team contributes to Tezos smart security building a payment platform for direc-
efforts through Archetype, a domain-spe- ted currency that combines the world of
cific smart contract language focused on traditional payment with the guarantees
security for the Tezos blockchain. They of control, traceability, and irrevocability
received a grant from the Tezos Foundation of blockchain. As part of their efforts on
to further this project and contribute to the Tezos, they are developing a Dart library for
formal verification process for Archetype Tezos to facilitate developers’ adoption and
smart contracts. remove friction in dApp development.
Go Tezos, created by Tezos developer The consulting firm NEOFACTO, with offices
Brice Aldrich in the USA, is a popular Go in France, Luxembourg, and Belgium, has
library that exposes and builds upon the a team of over 80 members supporting
Tezos remote procedure call (RPC). Brice companies with their digitization initia-
continues to improve Go Tezos by adding tives. As part of their offering, they provide
additional features such as smart contract blockchain consulting as well as applica-
deployment and more RPCs, increasing test tion development. The team received a
coverage and improving security. grant to contribute to the Tezos project by
developing and releasing a Java connec-
tivity toolbox (EJ4Tezos) to help boost the
adoption of Tezos in the enterprise world.
22Michelson, maintained by Nomadic Labs, is Block Explorers and Analytics
the programming language for Tezos smart
contracts and was designed with formal The Tezos Foundation has also made it a
verification in mind. Even though it is a priority to fund the development of open-
rather low-level, stack-based language, its source block explorers and other tools to
static type system eliminates a whole class help community members analyze the
of programming errors before the execut- Tezos blockchain.
ion of smart contracts. Nomadic Labs also
works on Albert, an intermediate smart Baking Bad is a Russian Tezos develop-
contract programming language intended ment team that builds a variety of widely
to serve as a compilation target for high- used products in the ecosystem. This grant
level languages. Furthermore, Nomadic supports the team with the further improve-
Labs maintains Mi-Cho-Coq, a specifica- ments of TzKT, a lightweight, API-first, ac-
tion of Michelson using the Coq interactive count-oriented block explorer for the Tezos
theorem prover. This provides a formal spe- blockchain. They received further grants
cification of the syntax and semantics of for Better Call Dev, a Tezos smart contract
Michelson, as well as a framework to verify explorer.
smart contracts.
Blockwatch Data, which is based in Germa-
Simple Staking is a Malta-based firm that ny and led by Alex Eichhorn, received an
continues to build TezEdge, a Tezos node in additional grant to accelerate the develop-
the Rust, programming language, a popular ment of TzStats, a Tezos block explorer, and
language with a focus on safety. They its underlying blockchain indexer, tzindex.
collaborate with Nomadic Labs and the In addition to ensuring compliance with
larger Tezos developer community on the future protocol upgrades, TzStats will also
project. With a Tezos node in Rust the eco- allow users to track upcoming Tezos-based
system profits from a higher diversity of assets (tokens). A recent API upgrade in-
node implementations, further increasing cluded the addition of features such as
decentralization and robustness of the net- implicit on-chain events, contract interface
work. hashes, and entry point filters and statis-
tics.
Andrew Kishino is a US-based Tezos devel-
oper working on Sotez, a bare-bones Papers, the Swiss team behind the AirGap
JavaScript library for interacting with Te- wallet, is an active development team in
zos. The firm received a grant to continue the Tezos ecosystem. The Papers team con-
said development on Sotez and also to tinues to improve tezblock, a Tezos block
contribute to Taquito, a TypeScript library explorer, by adding more advanced baking
suite for development on Tezos. and governance data through integration
with Tezos Agora, Tezos smart contract and
asset support, and other key metrics and
data visualizations.
23Baking Bad Team
Smart Contract Development Anchor Labs is a US-based team that is
working on bringing Golang support to
Tezos supports institutional-grade smart Tezos’ smart contracts. They are working on
contracts. The Tezos Foundation funds expanding the scope of Anchorage’s open-
tools to help lower barriers to entry for source library to support creating and invok-
Tezos smart contract development and the ing contract scripts in the Go language.
applications that will follow.
Adding to its list of products in develop-
Agile Ventures, based in the Czech Repub- ment, Baking Bad works on Atomex STO
lic, is an in-house software development Gate, a collection of flexible program
team and consultancy group that has modules to provide various atomic swap im-
worked on a number of Tezos projects since plementations for digital securities (security
2016. They are currently receiving several tokens) and other Tezos asset standards.
grants. Continuing from their work on TaaS,
the Agile Ventures team continues working The Singaporean company Biconomy is
on bringing GraphQL subscriptions on top focusing on Web3 applications. The team
of Tezos, collaborating both with ECAD develops a metatransaction protocol for
Labs and Nomadic Labs. Further, they are Tezos. As part of these efforts, they develop
building a set of smart contracts for a Tezos a TZIP and collaborate with other Tezos de-
Domains dApp, where users can participa- velopers on a standard for smart contracts
te in domain auctions and manage their to support metatransactions in order to
Further, they are building a set of smart leverage gas-optimized metatransactions
contracts for Tezos Domains, a dApp where and a client-side SDK that allows developers
users can participate in domain auctions to easily plug into relayer infrastructure to
and manage their domains as well as load- leverage metatransactions. The team is
balanced, and geo-redundant deployment collaborating with ecosystem teams such as
of the Tezos Domains Indexer and publicly TQ Tezos.
available API. of the Tezos Domains Indexer
and publicly available API. 24DaiLambda development team, based in Smart Contract Labs is an Estonian-ba-
Japan, received an additional grant to sed team focusing on blockchain products
lower the burden of developing high-qua- on modern proof-of-stake platforms. Their
lity smart contracts using formal methods. team is contributing to the Tezos project by
This will include establishing a concept of building a platform for creating and trading
a Typical Smart Contracts (TSC) Agency synthetic assets on Tezos, starting with
and building an open-source prototype for binary options.
such a platform. The platform will be a web
application where visitors follow an intuitive Tezsure is an India-based team focused
and informative wizard to create a smart on building Tezos tools for decentralized
contract generated from one of many tem- finance (DeFi) applications. This grant helps
plates provided. the Tezsure team continue to build Tezster,
a testing tool for Tezos development, by
Guillem Rieu, who is based in France, is implementing more advanced features,
working on the PeerPatron platform and producing tutorials and explainer videos,
related open-source tools with the goal of and adding examples of smart contract
developing a Tezos-based alternative to templates.
conventional crowdfunding platforms like
Patreon. In this project, he will also release Truffle Blockchain Group, the US-based
templates for dApps and smart contracts team behind the world-class development
as well as tutorials and full documentation. environment Truffle Suite, received a grant
to achieve its objectives with regard to con-
Johann Tanzer, based in Austria, is the tributing to the Tezos project by supporting
lead developer of Tplus, a tool that helps the development of a software program
developers manage Tezos environments that implements Tezos support for the
(sandboxes and public nodes) to lower the Truffle smart contract development tool.
barriers for development on top of Tezos. Truffle support will be added for the Smart-
He received a grant to incorporate existing Py programming language. The team will
open-source projects and libraries into also create a proof-of-concept, Tezos-
Tplus, improve its user interface (UI) and flavored Ganache.
user experience (UX), and promote its use
and adoption in the community. Korea University has around 30,000 stu-
dents as one of the oldest institutions of
Runtime Verification is a US-based com- higher education in the country. Hakjoo Oh
pany that uses runtime-verification-based is an Associate Professor in the Computer
techniques to improve the safety, reliability, Science department and received a grant
and correctness of software. Building off of to build a fully automated tool to verify and
its previous Tezos work developing formal test the integrity of smart contracts written
semantics of Michelson in the K frame- in Michelson.
work, the firm created a formal verification
framework for Michelson by extending its
existing unit-testing framework to handle
the case of symbolic unit tests. Furthermo-
re, the team has started their work on a
Firefly client for Michelson that can present
coverage information directly over the
Michelson code.
25Infrastructure Breadwinner is the Swiss company behind
the BRD wallet, which is integrating Tezos,
Infrastructure is essential to a thriving including the ability to delegate tez to ba-
blockchain ecosystem. In the case of kers in the network.
Tezos, projects building critical infra-
structure like financial primitives and asset The US-based team at camlCase, which is
standards make it easier for developers to focused on (DeFi) development and edu-
use these public goods to build novel appli- cation, received grants to launch and conti-
cations on Tezos. nue both Dexter, a decentralized exchange,
and Magma, a mobile wallet. Magma has a
The German firm Anyblock Analytics is native integration of Dexter and is availa-
a blockchain solution provider offering ble on both iOS and Android. Furthermore,
consulting, tools, and data to integrate they received funding to build and launch
business processes with blockchain. One a mobile smart wallet for Tezos with native
key offering of theirs is the Anyblock Index, integration with Dexter.
which enables searching, processing, and
analyzing of blockchain data. The grant Crypto Storage is a Swiss company that is
covers adding the Tezos blockchain to their part of Crypto Finance AG, which focuses
indexer and enabling it to be queried using on storage infrastructure and tokenization.
Elasticsearch DSL and SQL free of charge The team therefore integrated Tezos’ FA1.2
for the community. and FA2 token standards into their system
for their client’s projects.
Attic Lab/Everstake is a Ukrainian team
working on several projects for which they
receive funding. As part of their efforts for
Tezos’ infrastructure, they are operating
and maintaining the Tezos Giga Node for a
reliable and stable operation for the Tezos
ecosystem. Furthermore, they are building
a Tezos multisig wallet web application that
also supports the creation of continuous
vesting contracts making use of Paper’s
Beacon for signing and authentication.
Baking Bad is further developing
IMichelson, a Jupyter (interactive note-
book) kernel, for education and prototyping
purposes based on a custom Michelson Cryptonomic Team
interpreter with runtime type checking and
further features such as basic autocomple-
tion. The US-based firm Cryptonomic builds
infrastructure solutions. They provide tools
Bender Labs is a France-based team cur- and smart contracts that enable higher-
rently building an MVP of the Wrap proto- level decentralized and consortium appli-
col, allowing anyone to easily wrap ERC20 cations. The firm received a grant to devel-
tokens into tokens on Tezos. Their project op oracle services on Tezos via Chain-
includes technical and nontechnical key link, including ongoing maintenance and
features such as making use of FA2’s white- community engagement, with which they
listing capabilities and building a wrapping will touch on existing projects such as their
consensus and incentive systems as well as Arronax block explorer.
a user-friendly web interface.
26dOrg is a full-stack freelancer agency They will further integrate Tezos into Data
based in the USA building and running Hub, a “full-nodes-as-service” offering to
on Web3 The team designs and devel- make it easier for developers to access
ops Homebase, an app for creating and Tezos blockchain data via an API.
interaction with DAOs using the BaseDAO
framework on Tezos. Fireblocks is an Israel-based company that
develops and operates their digital asset
Dream Way is a Turkish company helping custody, transfer, and settlement platform.
drive the adoption of Tezos tokens among Their platform uses multiparty computa-
retailers and online merchants. They re- tion (MPC), and they have integrated Tezos’
ceived a grant to continue advancing native token, including the support for
Payzos, a set of plug-ins for e-commerce staking, and are building tokenization ca-
platforms that lets users set up a Tezos as a pabilities using FA1.2 and FA2.
payment method for their online stores.
FutureSense is a Korean-based compa-
Dsent, which is based in Switzerland, is ny incorporating Tezos in its efforts with
working on tokengate.io, a token issuance the NIA National Police Agency in Korea,
platform on Tezos, including payment via including a DID subsystem, data integ-
Tezos tokens. Their product focuses on insti- rity subsystem, and a token-based data
tutional clients such as banks that want to marketplace. With its efforts, the team is
make use of tokenization. The firm received collaborating both technically and on a
a grant to build a token wallet generation communication level with Tezos ecosystem
tool as well as the integration of the FA2 members such as Nomadic Labs and TQ
token standard in their platform. Tezos.
The Canadian firm ECAD Labs delivers and Global P.O.S is a French company working
manages projects in the areas of software on the integration of Tezos into their
development, systems engineering, open- Easy2PlayWallet cryptocurrency wallet
source development, and support. ECAD and making tez usable for payments at its
Labs received a grant to develop a Grafana point-of-sale locations internationally.
data source plug-in for Tezos and improve
Signatory, a Tezos remote signer. ECAD Gravity is a France-based team developing
Labs is also involved in the development of a solution that allows individuals and small
Taquito, a TypeScript library suite for de- businesses to bring together verifiable data
velopment on Tezos as well as in advancing about themselves in a digital wallet and bu-
the Tezos indexer library by Nomadic Labs ild trusted digital identities that are private,
to make it better suited for mass adoption. portable, and persistent. As a digital iden-
tity project, they are in collaboration with
Equisafe is a French company that devel- Spruce ID, during which they are building
ops a solution for unlisted companies to an open-source ID stack for humanitarian
manage their investors and investments. organizations. Part of their Foundation-sup-
Their product is used by start-ups, real es- ported work is the integration of Tezos-
tate companies, and investors. The team is based DIDs and verifiable credentials into
implementing the FA1.2 and FA2 standards the RedRose system used by NGOs world-
into their platform. wide.
Figment Networks is a Canadian company Henrik Moe is a US-based developer who is
working on Web3 solutions. Their team is working on proof-of-stake reward-related
aiming to help make Tezos application de- Tezos projects for which he received grants.
velopment a more seamless experience for He has been developing a tool for bakers
software engineers. With the grants, they to build taxation reporting, which he is now
integrated Tezos into their Hubble Web3 ex- improving under the name cryptocount,
plorer, a high-level analytics, alerting, and including improved UI and UX design for its
governance tool for the Tezos ecosystem. users.
27imToken is a China-based company that The LIGO team based in France is ad-
developed one of the most popular wallets vancing their work on the LIGO project
in the Asian region. The team not only with the objective to turn it into a widely
worked on the integration of tez into their adopted and well-supported tool. LIGO is a
solution, but also on contributing to the net- friendly smart contract language designed
work by running a public baker for its users for developing larger contracts than those
and supporting communication efforts in written in Michelson. LIGO is an imperati-
the Asian market. ve language that compiles down to clean
Michelson code. They received a grant to
The Singaporean KoineArth built marketsN, continue their advancements, including the
a blockchain- and AI-based, ERP-compa- front end (e.g. error messages), middle end
tible solution for organizations to work to- (e.g. public API), and back end (e.g. inter-
gether in a collaborative business-to-busi- preter improvements).
ness (B2B) marketplace that creates end-
to-end visibility and integrates into business Magic Labs (formerly Fortmatic) is a com-
processes and vendors on one scalable and pany based in the USA that launched Tezos
distributed platform. The team builds this support in its white-label SDK. It enables a
marketplace on Tezos, including using the passwordless wallet connector for Tezos-
FA2 token. based apps, greatly improving the app’s
UX. The grant issued to them includes work
on the infrastructure, platform, and front
end to support their integration on Tezos.
We’re excited about the
With their SILO platform, the Swiss firm
easy onboarding through Metaco provides custody solutions for
financial institutions to manage digital
DirectAuth and how users assets. As part of this, the firm received a
grant to support both the Tezos blockchain
seamlessly send tez directly and its native token in the SILO platform,
including changes in the front end, back
to social media accounts. end, storage solutions, and the support of
delegation and baking. They further recei-
Kukai
ved it to integrate the Tezos token standard
(e.g. FA2) SILO client‘s digital securities
Kukai by Klas Harrysson Consulting and using Tezos as the underlying technology.
their team in Sweden is a popular wallet for
Tezos-based assets. One of its features is MIDL.dev is an Estonian firm providing
the ability to use DirectAuth, allowing users staking as a service solution for building an
to create wallets through their social media open-source suite of Tezos infrastructure
accounts. The team has received a grant tools. They offer solutions providing the
to proceed with their development of the infrastructure against a fixed fee, allowing
wallet, including UX and UI improvements, clients to stake directly. MIDL.dev received
integration with dApps such as Dexter, mo- the grant to simplify the process to imple-
bile device solutions, and more smart wallet ment a complete baking infrastructure as
features. code in a replicable and secure manner,
consequently lowering the barriers to entry
Ledger, the France-based company behind for aspiring Tezos bakers.
the Ledger Nano hardware wallets, works
on security and infrastructure solutions
for cryptocurrencies and blockchain ap-
plications alike. A grant was issued to add
Tezos support and delegation capability
to Ledger Vault and maintain said support
throughout Tezos protocol updates.
28Papers Team Members
OCTO Technology is a French consulting The Switzerland-based Papers team
and IT implementation firm within Accen- collaborates with other Tezos develop-
ture Digital. They have been awarded an ment teams to create a wallet interaction
additional grant to continue to advance standard to help users interact with appli-
the Tezos Link project, an HTTP API to the cations built on Tezos from their browsers.
Tezos network. It includes architecture Using this standard, a browser extension,
improvements, increased security, handling Beacon, has successfully been developed
of testnets, and further advancements such to allow any application developer to easily
as better scalability of nodes. The firm is incorporate a wallet via a generic imple-
also supported through a grant in their de- mentation. Furthermore, the team integra-
velopment of Tezos Land, an open-source tes Sapling into their AirGap solution.
boilerplate for a digital collectibles market-
place on Tezos. The French developer Pierre Genevès is
developing TezQuery, a query engine that
Ozone Networks is the US company behind evaluates not only SQL queries, but also
OpenSea, one of the largest marketplaces powerful (recursive) queries on the graph
for nonfungible tokens (NFTs) worldwide. structure of the Tezos blockchain.
Their team is supported to allow users to
explore, buy, and sell Tezos NFTs on the Shareable Asset is a team from Singapore
main OpenSea marketplace site and ensure integrating the Tezos protocol into Share-
embeddable NFT improvements on Tezos. able Asset’s development of a real estate
asset tokenization platform for the issuance
of real estate tokens on the Tezos block-
chain.
29SkillZ is a France-based blockchain com- Sylo is a team based in New Zealand that
pany with the aim of helping firms deploy is building the Sylo Smart Wallet, an appli-
enterprise-grade, production-ready infra- cation that combines a digital asset wallet
structure. Their goal is into integrate Tezos with a decentralized private messenger.
to their platform, allowing clients to deploy The team integrated Tezos into their smart
and manage Tezos nodes on multicloud wallet in late 2020 and is further working
infrastructure as well as to foster adoption on both a fiat on-ramp as well as providing
in the industry and collaborate with the baking services. The Sylo Smart Wallet uses
community. a decentralized communications protocol
and messaging platform that has a built-in
Smart Chain Arena, based in the USA, is the smart wallet for sending secure crypto pay-
team behind SmartPy. They have received ments and messages between users.
previous grants and are now focusing
on improving existing features and new Taurus is a Swiss financial services com-
development. Among others, these efforts pany building a next-generation plat-
include the support of Tezos’ upgrades, the form to trade, invest, and protect digital
ability to easily add metadata to contracts assets. Taurus is also a leading B2B service
(TZIP-16), lazy and updateable entry points, provider in Switzerland for cryptocur-
the integration of Thanos to smartpy.io, and rency custody. The team integrated the
SmartML and SmartJS editors. Tezos protocol as well as the FA1.2 and FA2
standards into their infrastructure. The
SmartChain is a technology organization integration speeds up the adoption of the
domiciled in Abu Dhabi in the UAE, with protocol by providing robust and trusted
presence in Saudi Arabia that has built a infrastructure targeting institutional players
platform called Aqar Chain. They are the and providing secure access for Tezos to
first in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) some leading financial institutions.
to tokenize real estate property using
blockchain technology and offer fractional TQ Tezos houses a technology team
ownership through crowdfunding for retail building Tezos-based solutions and
investors. Their tokenization platform uses open-source software for enterprises and
Tezos’ FA1.2 token standard. developers. Among a variety of products
in development, TQ Tezos, in collaboration
Soulmachine is a team from the UK con- with other Tezos developers, spearheads
tributing to the Tezos project by integra-
ting the Tezos protocol into OroPocket, a
venture of SoulMachine for tokenizing gold
and silver assets and enabling swift transfer
of these tokens between wallets. The Tezos
wallet on the OroPocket platform for users
enables transfer of tez and Tezos gold and
silver tokens, allowing users to instantly buy
and sell gold and silver tokens.
US-based Stably has the mission to make
financial transactions faster, cheaper, and
more transparent through a borderless neo-
banking platform powered by blockchain,
stablecoins, and open-finance APIs. Stably
is integrating Tezos to enable next-gene-
ration DeFi applications and stablecoins in
the Tezos blockchain.
TQ Tezos Team Members
30the development of a standard for a unified Chain of Insight is a Canadian builder of
token contract interface, supporting both decentralized tools and blockchain gaming.
a wide range of token types (e.g. fungible, The team has built Tezos based puzzle
nonfungible, nontransferable) and mul- games and is currently working on working
tiasset contracts. Furthermore, the team on Project Uanon a puzzle game on Tezos
focuses on the development of DAOs, ba- with several stages. The game will include
king software, reference applications, and Tezos-based NFTs and will play over several
private versions of Tezos. months.
The Hong-Kong-based company Diginex So-
Applications lutions drives institutional adoption of digital
assets and blockchain technology. They
End-user applications help facilitate the received a grant for building and launching
adoption of Tezos and growth of its eco- eMin on the Tezos blockchain. This includes
system. The Foundation issues grants to the production of an implementation of
projects building applications that target eMin in Thailand in collaboration with
a variety of real-world use cases based on Verifik8 (project 1) and with the United Nati-
Tezos. ons International Organization for Migration
(IOM) (project 2). Furthermore, they are pro-
Ukrainian software developer Andrii Sobol ducing an enhanced version of the Diginex
received a grant to conduct a game-theo- Trust eMin application for digital auditing
retic economic analysis of the QuipuSwap purposes in collaboration with the Ethical
protocol and its components. QuipuSwap is Toy Program (ETP) and its member compa-
a decentralized exchange protocol to facili- nies, including Mattel.
tate the exchange of Tezos-based assets. In
this analysis, he aimed to find possible ways
of attacking the QuipuSwap protocol and,
in case of found vulnerabilities, provide the
Tezos NFTs are an eco-
QuipuSwap team with possible remedies.
system with lots of
Atlas One is a Canadian company focusing
on digital securities for private capital
growth potential with
markets. The team is using Tezos as the un-
derlying technology of its platform for the
functional programming
purpose of structuring, creating, issuing,
distributing, and managing digital securi-
working well to connect
ties and digital security offering (DSOs).
NFTs to oracles.
Blockcurators GmbH, which is based in Ger- Chain of Insight
many, is a software development firm that,
among other things, focuses on blockchain
and cryptocurrency. They received a grant Electis is a nonprofit organization based
for integrating Tezos into their CoinKit in France aiming to promote new usage
TipBot and for providing related support to of technology for democracy and voting,
offer tipping of tez (Tezos tokens) through with particular expertise in blockchain and
the bot across a variety of platforms such enabling concrete voting projects. The grant
as Twitter, Discord, Slack, and Telegram. will help the Electis team to continue with
its Tezos-based e-voting application and
Botwars Ultimate Trading is a UK-based support its community of over 50 universities
team that teaches players through games from around the world to contribute to the
how to trade responsibly in a fun and inno- project. Furthermore, the team is collabo-
vative way. In Botwars, you are the captain rating with Spruce to add Spruce’s Tezos-
of an army of trading robots and it is your based DID solution to the voting application.
job to lead them to victory by conquering
the cryptocurrency markets. 31The Brazilian firm hicetnunc2000 was built Ejara is a mobile application that supports
by Rafael Lima, a Tezos, developer in Brazil. cryptocurrencies and tokenized assets
He has been building several projects on uniquely tailored to the African market.
Tezos and for this grant, he is focusing on With this grant, Cameroon-based Nzinghaa
the e-sports community, allowing users to Lab, which is the team behind Ejara, will
take part in crowdfunding and e-voting develop and integrate smart contracts into
systems. The company received a grant to its product to enable secure wallet back-
build and launch an application on Tezos up and key recovery, Bitcoin-Tezos atomic
that offers this system, including a marke- swaps, and a cross-chain key registration
ting campaign and providing references and recovery system on Tezos.
and complete documentation.
Shubham Kukreja and Khushi Asawa are
IBF Net is an Islamic business and finance students at Savitribai Phule Pune University.
network that is leveraging research and They have launched CricTez, a fantasy
technology for a halal ecosystem based in cricket crypto platform. The platform
Malaysia. As part of their efforts, they are serves each cricket player participating in
building a charity management platform the league as multiple NFTs in the form of
that integrates Tezos and aims to allow cards/collectibles. The individual players
collection, distribution, and management are defined by a fixed number cards.
of charity donations in the blockchain, Meantime, the assumption is 100 cards
including donations in tez and other (NFTs), each having a score of 1.0 at the
cryptocurrencies. commencement of the league. Each
card/collectible is exclusive to its card
LeewayHertz is an Indian company building score and ownership.
digital solutions using emerging technol-
ogies for start-ups and enterprises. Their Sword France is an international leader in
team has been publishing several Tezos- digital transformation that has engaged
focused blogs and receives support in significantly with blockchain technologies.
developing a Tezos-based loyalty token The French team is executing a Tezos-
backed by tez. based digital signature project to fight
against document fraud and fake invoices.
In addition to eth2tez, the Ukrainian firm
Madfish Solutions received grants to build Trout Labs, a US-based team, is producing
the following pieces of infrastructure: an open-source web application dash-
QuipuSwap – a protocol enabling a se- board for bakers to manage their baking
amless exchange of tokens and assets operations. The platform will enable bakers
on Tezos in a secure, decentralized, and to be more transparent about their baking
censorship-resistant manner; and Thanos – operations and facilitate proper accoun-
a fully featured wallet focused on UX with ting for bakers.
integrated support for various Tezos asset
standards, dApps, explorers, etc. Further- The US-based team Wolfram Blockchain
more, the team is collaborating with TQ Labs (WBL) provides solutions and services
Tezos on several projects such as BaseDAO powered by the Wolfram Language,
and the Tezos gas station network. Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha, and assor-
ted Wolfram technologies. In collaboration
Mudit Marda is an Indian developer who with the TQ Tezos team, they aim to create
is focusing on building a marketplace for Wolfram|Alpha integration, oracle integ-
NFTs using Tezos’ FA2 standard. His solution ration, and education work completed by
is powered by a unified flexible framework WBL.
for conducting different formats of auc-
tions with customizable auctioning attribu-
tes running on the Tezos blockchain.
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