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Tezos
Foundation
//Biannual
Update
Quasimondo
Rose Jackson
march 2022
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“There is a reason why the NFT boom is
synonymous with the exponential adoption
of Tezos. From rising artists to house-
hold-name brands, anyone who is looking
to put their own creation, value, and
reputation on the line requires a block-
chain that delivers sustainability over
empty promises, reassurance over flashi-
ness, and longevity over expediency.”
}
Mike Shinoda OBJKT#3895
// Preface
Tezzardz OBJKT#2338
>>> Dear Tezos Community
Since the last Biannual Update in September I tructure-related grants to providing support to
2021, Tezos has witnessed an increase in adop- | applications and end-user tooling, further
tion driven by the collective efforts of builders } accelerating the momentum experienced.
around the world creating new and engaging |
applications and tools, such as Objkt.com, Teia, | Meanwhile, the Foundation has also kept a strong
fx(hash), Tezotopia, Smartlink, youves, InterPop, | focus on core protocol improvements and up-
Dogami and OneOf, as well as adoption from | dates, as exemplified in the support provided for
high-profile brands, such as Manchester United, } the two network upgrades, Granada and Hang-
Ubisoft, McLaren Racing, Red Bull Racing, | zhou, completed in the last six months. The initial
Team Vitality, Misfits Gaming, FloSports, The | rejection of Ithaca, the ninth protocol upgrade
Gap, Pantone, and so many more. Furthermore, | proposal demonstrated the sovereignty and rea-
empowered by a grass-roots community-driven } lity of on-chain governance. We commend all the
movement, Tezos has been propelled forward as { ecosystem teams whose hard work and diligence
the de facto art-driven NFT blockchain, further | enabled the further growth and evolution of the
exemplified with Tezos taking the center stage } Tezos blockchain and ecosystem.
at Art Basel Miami Beach 2021 and its recent |
presence at SXSW 2022. This momentum in the | Thanks to this constant technological evolution
arts and culture category is expected to conti- } and robust community participation, Tezos’
nue growing with enhanced presence at other { longevity is assured, and meanwhile, with a pass-
global events, which will allow the art world to | ionate community of builders and high-profile
embrace Tezos even more. In parallel, keystone } brands selecting Tezos for their initiatives, we an-
Tezos NFT marketplaces continue to onboard ta- { ticipate further increased consumer awareness of
lented artists and passionate collectors through | the Tezos brand on a global scale. We’re thankful
their user-centric experiences and functionality. } to be part of a truly unique community, and want
| to thank all active participants that contributed
Although this mainstream adoption is impres- | to the growth of the platform over the past six
sive, we celebrate all builders that make Tezos } months. In 2022, we want to strengthen our focus
their home and who collectively have contribu- { on supporting even more projects in the DeFi,
ted to a spectacular increase in on-chain acti- | gaming, and NFT spaces around the world. The
vity, driving a 4,034% growth in smart contract | future of Tezos is in the hands of its community;
calls between January 2021 and January 2022. } both individual contributors and teams dedica-
In this Biannual Update, we aim to highlight the | ting themselves to driving greater adoption and
major theme of NFTs that has emerged across | awareness for the Tezos blockchain.
the ecosystem in the last six months, in combi- |
nation with the Foundation’s shift from infras- | The Tezos Foundation Council
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// Table
of Contents
Preface Research, Education, Financials
3 & Core Development 56
Grants
Mission of the 16
Tezos Foundation
5 Ecosystem – Tools
& Application Grants
The Past Six Months 22
with Tezos Governance
7–9 Community Grants 60
43
Facts & Figures Council &
10 Industry Committees
Adoption of the Tezos
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// Mission of the
Tezos Foundation
Quasimondo
The Tezos Foundation is a Swiss foundation The Tezos Foundation fulfills its mission by de-
supervised by the Swiss Federal Foundation ploying resources that support the long-term
Supervisory Authority. The Foundation’s purpose future of the Tezos project. To do so, the Founda-
is to support the promotion and development tion deploys grants, investments, and partner-
of the Tezos protocol and related technologies ships as a strategic way to support community
around the world through grants, investments, members, such as educational and research in-
and sponsorships. This also includes new technol- stitutions, developers, and activists from all over
ogies and applications, especially in the fields the world.
of the latest open and decentralized software
architectures. Tezos’ potential rests in the hands of its com-
munity, which is among the strongest and most
As highlighted in the Tezos position paper, the exceptional in the blockchain ecosystem, which
success of any decentralized network is deter- can be illustrated by the ever-growing number
mined by the efforts of a robust, diverse, and of smart contract calls on the blockchain. We
flourishing community. The Tezos Foundation welcome and encourage all interested parties to
exists as part of this ecosystem, alongside deve- join the Tezos community and contribute to the
lopers, scientists, network validators (“bakers”), Tezos project.
enthusiasts, e-sports and gaming companies,
digital art creators, and many others, all working
toward the success of an ecosystem that we be-
lieve will ultimately drive innovation on a global
scale.
5
// Music NFT Project
OneOf
OneOf is known as the environmentally
friendly “Green” Web3 company, deeply
committed to a sustainable blockchain
future. Minting an NFT on OneOf using
the Tezos blockchain uses over two
million times less energy than the
competition – about the same amount of
energy as sending a tweet. OneOf do-
nates 5% of its platform revenue from
every sale to either the Right Here,
Right Now - Global Climate Alliance,
their environmental cause partner and
an official partner of United Nations
Human Rights, or a charity of the
artist’s choice. OneOf makes NFT adop-
tion seamless for the next 100 million Diana Sinclair x Whitney Houston: Whitney The Model
noncrypto-native fans by enabling NFT
purchases via credit and debit cards as
well as major cryptocurrencies.
Ben Ditto x Pia Mia: Earth Bounce
Doja Cat x The Rise of Planet Doja: Water Rough Draft Studios x Alesso: ROUGH DRAFT III
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// The Past Six Months
with Tezos
Selection from the multitude of events from the Tezos ecosystem
Main % MOM
Month contract calls growth
August 3,272,557 22%
September 5,813,966 78%
October 4,720,205 –19%
November 5,169,917 10%
December 5,580,350 8%
January 22 6,217,364 11%
YOY growth: Source: better-call.dev/stats/mainnet/general ↗
January 2021 (150,387) to January 2022 (6,217,364): 4,034%
Highlights: Over six million contract calls per month reached in January 2022
391 public bakers on January 31, 2022
I ––––––—____…………_––– August 2021
|
} August 5, 2021
| The NY Mets invite people to
|
“Build, Play, and Collect” on Tezos
|
at the Citi Field located in Flushing
|
}
Meadows–Corona Park in New
| York City.
|
| August 6, 2021
} Granada, Tezos’ seventh upgrade
{ of the Tezos blockchain goes live.
|
} August 10, 2021
| TZ APAC, Tezos India, and
September 2021 ––…––-——_–—____—––———| Chainstack collaborate to launch
} the TezAsia hackathon.
{
September 2, 2021 |
August 11, 2021
Global digital bank EQIBank selects }
Tezos blockchain for decentralized {
Tez staking is added by BTCS
finance (DeFi) offerings. | to its blockchain Infrastructure. 7
}
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} August 23, 2021
September 30, 2021 |
Contract calls on Tezos reach Leading European banks choose
|
5,813,966 calls made in a month. Tezos technology to enable smart
|
|
contracts
}
|
| ––––––—____…………_––– October 2021
|
} October 5, 2021
{
Arab Bank chooses Tezos
|
blockchain to offer storage,
}
|
staking, and trading of tez.
|
} October 7, 2021
November 2021 –…—–-……_––_————………_–—— { TriliTech launches a Tezos
| development hub in London.
November 3, 2021 }
Red Bull Racing launches its digital { October 12, 2021
collectibles (NFTs) built on Tezos. | Launch of NeuillyVote, the first
} voting application built on Tezos.
November 10, 2021 |
Cambridge University announces | October 20, 2021
future decentralized carbon credit }
McLaren Racing launches its
{
marketplace built on Tezos to support digital collectibles built on Tezos.
|
reforestation efforts worldwide.
|
}
November 16, 2021 | ––––––—____…………_–––
Experimental test network Tenderbake December 2021
|
goes live on the Tezos blockchain. |
| December 2, 2021
Web3 decentralization example; NFT } NFTs built on Tezos are showcased
marketplace hicetnunc brought back | at Art Basel Miami Beach 2021
to life by the community hours after the | as part of the Human + Machine
site was shut down. | experiential exhibition.
}
November 18, 2021 { December 4, 2021
| Hangzhou, Tezos’ eighth upgrade
Gitcoin launches Game On! Global
} of the Tezos blockchain goes live.
hackathon.
|
|
November 20, 2021 December 7, 2021
|
Tezos India and Plenty collaborate to Ubisoft announces Ubisoft Quartz
|
launch Plenty Global Hackathon. }
and in-game NFTs built on Tezos.
{
November 22, 2021 | The Tezos blockchain is
Launch of fx(hash) – Art Is Evolving, | announced as excelling as an
a Tezos-based NFT platform for } energy-efficient blockchain by
generative art. | PwC.
|
November 29, 2021 } December 8, 2021
{ The Unsplash x Tezos international
Tezos Africa launches the Tezos
| contest is launched.
Afrikathon hackathon.
|
}
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January 2022 –…—–-……_––_————………_——… |
| December 9, 2021
January 3, 2022 | Pantone announces the color of
Tezos Ukraine announces the biggest | the year and the upcoming drop
blockchain hackathon in Eastern Europe. } of NFTs built on Tezos.
|
January 6, 2022 |
December 20, 2021
Leading e-sports organization Team |
LucidPay announces the launch of
Vitality announces Tezos as main }
{
a Tezos-based stablecoin for the
technical partner. hospitality industry.
|
}
A new token built on Tezos to support December 16, 2021
|
the funding of French cinema is | NFT platform Rarible integrates
announced to be launched by La } the Tezos blockchain.
Diversité du Cinéma Français (DCF). {
|
January 12, 2022 }
Gap announces a hybrid digital {
experience with NFTs built on Tezos. |
}
January 15, 2022 |
Tezos is the first public blockchain to |
present a specially curated Asian- }
{
centric NFT showcase titled “NFTs: The
|
New North Star” within S.E.A. Focus as
|
part of Singapore Art Week. }
|
January 18, 2022 |
Resubmission of the Ithaca proposal. |
|
January 22, 2022 }
NFTs and digital art projects based on |
Tezos are prominently showcased at the |
NFT Day in Paris. |
}
January 31, 2022 {
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OneOf announces partnership with
}
Warner Music.
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Contract calls on Tezos reach an all- }
time high with 6,217,364 calls made in a {
month. |
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// Facts
& Figures
Some Tezos Foundation key numbers since September 2021.
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# new grantees = grants signed per week =
// 243.3
USD million
{33}
// maximum approved funds { countries where grantees are based }
# 1,163
USD million
# in assets (as of January 31, 2022)
< countries where
new grantees are based >
=
//43.23% 167
// acceptance rate with = granted projects overall =
over 180 proposals received
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//Grants
11// Grants –
Priorities & Process
The Tezos Foundation focuses on deploying resources that will
help to ensure the long-term success of the Tezos ecosystem.
Among other forms, these can be grants that fall under three
grant categories:
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l Research, Education & Core Development l
l Grants l
l Foster innovation, development, and education about Tezos. l
l These grants include a range of projects, from online training l
l courses to core protocol development. l
l l
‘–––––––——————–—_____———————————______________——————————__—————‘
;––––––––––––––––––––––—__————_—————————___——__—_—_————————————;
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l Ecosystem – Tools & Application Grants l
l Contribute to lowering the barriers to entry to make Tezos as accessible l
l as possible for developers and end users of subsequent applications. l
‘––––––——————--_______—__––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––‘
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l l
l Community Grants l
l Support other entities and initiatives that strengthen and grow the l
l Tezos community, to which the Tezos Foundation belongs. l
‘_____________________________———————__________________________‘
Over the years, several areas of interest have been identified as being the most beneficial to the Tezos
ecosystem at this point. These areas will change over time as the ecosystem evolves and expands.
For this edition of the Biannual Update, the overarching three categories mentioned above remain
the same.
The grant platform allows the ongoing submission of proposals in our areas of interest and also those
that are not listed as a priority but may advance the Tezos ecosystem.
12Our Grant Evaluation Process
The evaluation of grant proposals involves three phases, which are detailed be-
low:
;-_______————————————————————————_————————————————————__———————;
l l
l 1. Proposal/Grant Proposal Submission l
l The grant process starts with a grant proposal submission. The grant l
l proposal should include central information on the proposed project and l
l l
how the team intends to succeed. This information can include, for exam-
l l
ple, functional and technical details of the proposed solution, its purpose,
l l
l a road map, an introduction of the project team, evidence of familiarity l
l with the Tezos ecosystem, anticipated value added to the Tezos eco- l
l system, and measures to assure the longevity of the solution beyond the l
l grant duration. After proposal submission, the proposal is vetted by the l
l Tezos Foundation. The outcome of this step can be a forward for in-depth l
l review, a revise and resubmit, or a decline. l
l Duration: one week l
‘_____________________________———————__________________________‘
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l 2. Award/Review and Final Decision l
l If forwarded for in-depth review, the grant proposal is reviewed by eco- l
l system experts supervised by the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC). l
l l
The TAC completes an in-depth due diligence process and develops
l l
recommendations on a proposal’s fit and usefulness to the Tezos eco-
l l
l system. The TAC’s recommendations are then reviewed by the Executive l
l Committee (EC) or the Tezos Foundation Council (FC), which then makes l
l the final decision. Final decisions about grant proposals, which can be l
l an accept, decline, or a revise and resubmit, are then communicated to l
l grant proposers. l
l Duration: three weeks l
l l
‘_–————————–——––___–--____————___________________—_____—_—_____‘
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3. Post-Award/Grant Agreement and Follow-Up l
l Approved applicants work on the legal paperwork to finalize a grant with l
l the Tezos Foundation. The grant agreement for the project and the corre- l
l sponding payments are usually structured along milestones. Once a mile- l
l stone is completed, the grantee submits a report, which is reviewed and, l
l if approved, the payment for the milestone is issued. After the project is l
l l
finished, the Tezos Foundation conducts regular check-ins to determine
l l
the prosperity of the project. At this stage, the Tezos Foundation explores
l l
l further collaboration opportunities with grantees and may offer to con- l
l nect parties in the Tezos ecosystem with similar synergies. l
l Duration: four weeks – open-ended l
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13// Art NFT Project
Art Basel Miami Beach
Human + Machine: NFTS AND THE EVER-EVOLVING WORLD OF ART.
Presented at Art Basel Miami Beach, this exhibition,
which was built on the Tezos blockchain, explores the
ever-changing collaboration between art, technology,
and culture. Through an interactive NFT experience with
artist Mario Klingemann (Quasimondo) and a thought-pro-
voking speaker series, audiences were invited to examine
larger questions about creating art in our digitally
native world. On this new digital frontier, when a
machine is the maker, who plays the role of the artist?
And what can we make together?
Tezos – HUMAN+MACHINE Tezos – HUMAN+MACHINE
Tezos – HUMAN+MACHINE
Tezos – HUMAN+MACHINE
14// Grantees & Other
Funded Entities
Since the last Biannual Update (September 2021), the Tezos
Foundation has approved funds to 67 new projects across
24 countries for a total amount of USD 243.3 million.
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. Additionally, a few agreements are not listed
based on mutual nondisclosure agreements.
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Core Development Grants
Through its grant program and other investments, the Tezos
Foundation supports research and education across a wide
spectrum of domains pertaining to computer science, such as
distributed systems, cryptography, programming languages, and
formal verification within the Tezos ecosystem. 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 ta-
lent. These initiatives, and others that contribute to core pro-
tocol development, are a top priority for the Tezos Foundation.
Grantees and Other Funded Entities:
Core Development > Dacade (Unit U+2467 GmbH), Germany
> Bolt Labs Inc., USA > Figment Networks Inc., Canada
> DaiLambda Inc., Japan > Kestrel Institute, USA
> Marigold (Accélérateur de Blockchain > Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India
SAS), France > Inference AG, Switzerland
> Nomadic Labs SAS, France > Nagoya University, Japan
> Oxhead X LLC, USA > OCaml Labs Consultancy Ltd., UK
> Tarides SAS, France > OCTO Technology, France
> TriliTech Ltd., UK > PyratzLabs SAS, France
> Segfault Systems Private Ltd., India
Research & Education > Turing College, Lithuania
> B9lab Ltd., UK > University of Basel, Switzerland
> Computer Software Group, Graduate > University of Cambridge, UK
School of Informatics, Kyoto University, > University of Siena, Italy
Japan > Viable Systems S.R.O., Slovakia
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> Over USD 500K > Up to USD 200K
> Up to USD 500K > Up to USD 50K
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>>>>//////YYYYY>>>>>>>>>>=======////////=======YYYYYY=======////////=======YYYYYYsmart contracts on Tezos. Nomadic Labs created Research and Education
and developed Umami, which is a Tezos desktop
wallet that combines best-in-class features to de- Research and education grants are
liver a smooth user experience for both beginner dedicated to supporting the long-term
and advanced users. Nomadic Labs’ teams work success of Tezos and the training of
together with the global Tezos developer com- new developers. Research and develop-
munity to support development initiatives and ment teams are not the only ones sup-
streamline workflows across various teams and ported with these grants. They are also
contributors to the Tezos project. Nomadic Labs dedicated to those that are active-
collaborates with global research institutions and ly working on reducing the barrier of
universities on the development of the protocol entry for new teams that are joining
and conducts research into formal verification of the Tezos ecosystem through educational
smart contracts, consensus algorithms, and zero- materials.
knowledge cryptography.
B9lab is a UK-based company specialized in
Oxhead Alpha (Oxhead X LLC) is an American technology adoption, enterprise learning, and
full-stack developer team dedicated to main- consulting solutions focused on the blockchain
taining network primitives, protocol R & D, and and decentralized application space. The team
supporting companies building on Tezos. In order received funding to develop an educational
to provide continuity for the ongoing efforts to experience for developers who want to learn
advance awareness and adoption of the Tezos how to develop Tezos applications leveraging
technology, the team will assume responsibility the ecosystem stack. They are building a freely
for the maintenance and development of several accessible training course and a developer-
projects relating to infrastructure and protocol centric continuous security offering (CSO) use
research and development. Among other things, case as part of their efforts.
the Oxhead Alpha team collaborated with other
teams on the Ithaca protocol upgrade proposal. Computer Software Group, Graduate School of
Informatics, Kyoto University, works on devising a
Tarides is a Paris-based team that builds func- static verification method for transactions,
tional systems focused on offline-first architec- namely, sequences of operations, which may
ture, working to address security and latency involve multiple participants, and developing
issues common with cloud computing. The team an inter-contract verification tool for Michelson
creates decentralized Internet of Things (IoT) ap- based on the existing verifier Helmholtz. This
plications, distributed systems, and efficient uni- research adds to the core development of the
kernel infrastructure. In collaboration with their Tezos blockchain.
partners in the OCaml and MirageOS community,
Tarides also further develops innovative OCaml- Dacade is a project by Unit U+2467, a multidisci-
based, open-source software. For instance, they plinary network of strategists, developers, and
are the primary developers of Irmin. This system designers. They were founded in Berlin in 2010
stores the Tezos blockchain ledger in the Octez and are now distributed in four countries working
node implementation. Tarides also maintains on the project. It is a peer-to-peer learning net-
the OCaml developer tools used by the Octez work where quality educational interactions are
developers and ensures long-term support of rewarded with tokens. Dacade will become a
MirageOS libraries used by the Tezos developer market for knowledge within the Tezos ecosystem
community. and educational interactions.
TriliTech is a Tezos blockchain R & D and entre- Figment Networks is a Canadian company wor-
preneur hub based in London that mainly focuses king on Web3 solutions. Their team aims to help
on core development of the Tezos protocol as make Tezos application development a more
well as supporting industry global adoption of the seamless experience for software engineers. One
Tezos technology. Their goal is to further develop of their initiatives is Figment Learn, a learning
and catalyze unique opportunities for the Tezos platform where they integrated Tezos blockchain
ecosystem, both on- and off-chain. The ambition as a pathway for the community to learn about
of TriliTech is to be a centre of excellence in the Tezos and how to use different tools that were
Tezos ecosystem. built by the ecosystem. 18Kestrel Institute, based in the US, is a non- OCTO Technology, part of Accenture, is a French
profit research center for computer science. Their consulting and IT implementation firm. The OCTO
team is formally verifying the functional correct- team previously built Tezos Link and improved
ness of the R1CS implementation of Jubjub elliptic Tezos Academy, a freely available online platform
curve operations described in the Zcash Protocol that teaches LIGO smart contract development
Specification. Their work will be used for Tezos’ in an entertaining and user-friendly manner.
core development in collaboration with Nomadic Furthermore, OCTO developed Tezos Land, an
Labs. open-source boilerplate for a digital collectibles
marketplace on Tezos. Recently, they also pub-
The Indian Institute of Technology Hyder- lished OpenTezos, a clear and exhaustive training
abad is working on developing an efficient covering developer resources to foster adoption
framework for parallel execution of smart con- of the Tezos blockchain.
tract transactions in the Tezos blockchain by
exploiting multicore resources. This will lead to PyratzLabs is a 450-square-meter, Paris-ba-
improved transactions throughout the Tezos sed start-up studio dedicated to Web3 with the
blockchain. secret ambition of industrializing the launch of
ventures in the Tezos ecosystem. Responsible for
Inference is a Zurich-based company (Switzer- Smartlink & Dogami, the studio plans to launch
land) that focuses on offering security assess- eight new companies in 2022. As huge believers in
ments for the decentralized world, with a partic- education, PyraTzLabs also developed PyMich, a
ular focus on the Tezos ecosystem. The team Python-to-Michelson compiler to allow for easier
covers a multitude of systems, such as smart con- developer onboarding.
tracts, web applications, cryptographic protocols,
and embedded systems. Segfault Systems Private is a deep tech start-
up founded in Chennai, India. Segfault Systems
Nagoya University is one of the most elite solves complex problems in scalable systems
higher education institutions in Japan. Jacques using type-safe programming language abstrac-
Garrigue, a professor at the Graduate School of tions. They lead the development of the Multicore
Mathematics, is working on the Certifiable OCaml programming language and its associated
OCaml Type Inference (COCTI) project to developer tools. With this grant, Segfault Systems
make OCaml type inference more robust, modu- supports the ecosystem by building Multicore
lar, and verifiable by modularizing the OCaml type functionality for Tezos.
checker using constraint-based type inference
and certifying it using the Coq proof assistant. Turing College, an online data and blockchain
Furthermore, the grant will support the teaching of school based in Lithuania, is working on laun-
blockchain- and verification-related topics, which ching a new free course program dedicated to
include technical courses on Tezos technology in smart contract programming. During the classes,
collaboration with DaiLambda and other Tezos students will get a chance to work on practical
developer teams in the Greater Asia region. projects developed on the Tezos blockchain. The
course is planned to start in Q4 of 2022.
OCaml Labs Consultancy is a multidisciplinary
team focused on promoting OCaml and function- Located in northwestern Switzerland, the Center
al programming as a platform in research and for Innovative Finance of the Univer-
industry, together with broadening the applicabili- sity of Basel has a research focus on public
ty and popularity of the language and ecosystem. blockchain protocols and decentralized finance.
Based in Cambridge, UK, they work closely with As part of the annual Blockchain Challenge, stu-
the OCaml community, investing in the OCaml dent teams will work on a case suggested by the
ecosystem, maintaining crucial libraries, and up- Nomadic Labs team focusing on decentralization
streaming key language functionality in collabo- and the Tezos blockchain.
ration with the OCaml core development team.
OCaml Labs is working with Segfault Systems to
provide Multicore support by integrating parallel-
ism support into the protocol core and integrating
effects to improve scalability of the Tezos shell.
19The University of Cambridge is a renowned
UK-based university. The Tezos Foundation has
provided philanthropic and research funding
to the University to support its foundational re-
search on project verification and decentralized
carbon trading for nature-based solutions to cli-
mate change, in line with the Tezos blockchain’s
energy-efficient approach to transactions. This
work is based in the University’s Department
of Computer Science and Technology and is in
collaboration with the Cambridge Conservation
Initiative, Cambridge Zero, the Department of
Zoology, the Department of Plant Sciences, and
the Cambridge UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training
in the Application of Artificial Intelligence to the
study of Environmental Risks.
Located in the middle of Tuscany (Italy) in the
Department of Political Economy and Statistics of
the University of Siena, Professor Nicola Di-
mitri researches Tezos’ Liquid Proof-of-Stake pro-
tocol. The project will investigate and formalize
how users determine their optimal stake between
baking and delegating.
Viable Systems is a global team of experi-
enced developers and technical writers who work
remotely, primarily from Europe and North and
South America. The global team is further divided
into five teams: 1) security, which is tasked with
creating tools for automatic testing and auditing
the node’s security; 2) core, which focuses on
the development and management of the node
itself; 3) storage, which works on the storage
implementation of the node that stores the
blockchain state; 4) community, which is primarily
focused on the creation of front-end tools that
make using the node easier and more user-friend-
ly; and finally, 5) marketing, which is tasked with
the creation of content that attracts new users
and keeps existing ones interested.
20// Gaming NFT Project
CCP Games
EVE Online is a multiplayer online role-playing game
developed by CCP Games and enjoyed by over 24 mil-
lion players since its launch. As a community-driven
sandbox with a thriving in-game economy, EVE Online
invites players to forge their own path among New
Eden’s 7,000+ star systems. In 2005, EVE Online held
its earliest official player-versus-player event cal-
led the “Alliance Tournament”. The Alliance Tourna-
ment sees hundreds of EVE Online players go head-to-
head every year. In addition to in-game rewards, the
100,000 competitors in the 2021 Alliance Tournament
could choose to claim a non-fungible token (NFT)
after landing the final blow on an enemy ship. These
NFTs captured a capsuleer’s moment of victory over
their enemy, memorialized on the Tezos blockchain.
CCP Games
CCP Games
CCP Games CCP Games// Ecosystem – Tools & Application Grants
The Tezos Foundation supports many teams that are building
tools to help developers with different skill levels build no-
vel applications on Tezos and contribute to the growth of the
ecosystem. To date, the Tezos Foundation has focused on the
following main areas within this grantmaking category: pro-
gramming languages and libraries, block explorers and analyt-
ics, smart contract development, infrastructure, applications,
collectibles and creator tokenization, crowdfunding, decentral-
ized finance, and payment solutions.
Grantees and Other Funded Entities:
Programming Languages and Libraries Infrastructure
> Formal Land (Arae SARL), France > Ateza LLC, USA
> LIGO (Accélérateur de Blockchain SAS), > Bakin’Bacon, USA
France > Chainstack Pte Ltd., Singapore
> Madfish Solutions Inc., Ukraine > Cryptocount, USA
> Nomadic Labs SAS, France > Cryptonomic Inc., USA
> ECAD Labs Inc., Canada
Block Explorers and Analytics > Entropy Foundation, Taiwan
> Baking Bad OÜ, Estonia > Figment Networks Inc., Canada
> Blockwatch Data Inc., USA > FutureSense Co Ltd., Korea
> Dialectic Design, Netherlands > Gravity SAS, France
> Papers AG/AirGap, Switzerland > INABLR FZCO Ltd., UAE
> Kalima Systems SAS, France
Smart Contract Development > Kukai AB, Sweden
> Baking Bad OÜ, Estonia > MIDL.dev OÜ, Estonia
> Compellio S.A., Luxembourg > Nomadic Labs SAS, France
> DaiLambda Inc., Japan > Opsian Ltd., UK
> GK8 Ltd., Israel > Papers AG/Airgap, Switzerland
> Korea University, Korea > Satoshi’s Closet Inc., USA
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology, > Smart Chain Arena LLC, USA
USA > Solvuu Inc., USA
> Runtime Verification Inc., USA > Sword SAS, France
> Serokell OÜ, Estonia > Taurus Group SA, Switzerland
> TezWell Unipessoal LDA, Portugal > Tezos Ganon (SmartChain SAS), France
> Tezos Reward Distributor, USA
> Tom Jack, USA
22Applications > Open Block Ventures LLC, USA
> Agile Ventures S.R.O., Czech Republic > Red Bull Racing Ltd., UK
> Diginex Solutions Ltd., Hong Kong > Shanghai Kefeng Information Technology
> D /a:rt/, Germany Ltd./Mozik, China
> Electis, France > Superstar Xchange Inc., USA
> Giry SAS, France > Team Vitality SAS, France
> Kontera GmbH, Switzerland > Vyking GmbH, Germany
> Metaculus Inc., USA > VerticalCrypto Art (VRTCL Ltd.), UK
> MVL Foundation, Singapore > Universe-Dimensional Space Pte. Ltd.
> Talao SAS, France (Organisation Asta), Singapore
> Tangany GmbH, Germany
> Wolfram Blockchain Labs LLC, USA Crowdfunding
> Xcap Ecosystem Ltd./Ownera, UK > Kickflow, India
> Zondax GmbH, Switzerland
Decentralized Finance
Collectibles and Creator > CamlCase, USA
Tokenization > Ejara (Nzinghaa Lab), Cameroon
> Amplify Creative Group Inc., USA > Madfish Solutions Inc., Ukraine
> Arago, France > Nyayomat (Samserve Ltd.), Keyna
> Blckbook Inc., UK > OpusDei (G.Ko Inc OÜ), Estonia
> Bloqtech Solutions LLC, Philippines > Papers AG/Airgap, Switzerland
> Mailscript Inc. (DNS), USA > RAZ Finance (Roshem Ventures Ltd.), Israel
> D /a:rt/, Germany > Rocket Launchpad Ltd., Virgin Islands
> Eco Mint Ltd., UK > Wealthchain Inc., USA
> euraNov SAS, France
> FloSports Inc., USA Payment Solutions
> hicetnunc2000lab, Brazil > Al Bawaba Group LLC, UAE
> Illustrative Space (Illust Creative > CryptoTask (Novabit Software LLC), Croatia
Partners Inc.), USA > Ejara (Nzinghaa Lab), Cameroon
> Misfits Gaming Group (Esports > Hexa Solutions SAS, France
Now LLC), USA > LucidPay Ltd., UAE
> McLaren Racing Ltd., UK > Mt Pelerin Group SA, Switzerland
> OneOf Inc., USA > RadionFM, USA
–––––—___----————————————–––––___________________________--–-––———____–
Total: USD
179 million
Monthly maximum approved amount per organization and category:
> Over USD 500K > Up to USD 200K
> Up to USD 500K > Up to USD 50K
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Block Explorers and Analytics Dialectic Design, a team based in the Nether-
lands, is working on The Stack Report, a financial
The Foundation has also made it a pri- analysis and reporting outlet providing analytics
ority to fund the development of open- and data-driven storytelling for and on the eco-
source block explorers and other tools nomics of the Tezos ecosystem. Tezos technol-
to help community members analyze the ogy adoption is seeing rapid growth with both
Tezos blockchain’s activity. community-driven projects and more established
organizations choosing the technology and net-
Baking Bad is a Tezos development team that work for their initiatives. The goal of this project
builds a variety of widely used products in the is to build on the work done in analysis and visu-
ecosystem. The team is active in numerous fields alization of Tezos NFT activity and expand this
and products built on Tezos. In the area of block reporting to the broader Tezos ecosystem. The
explorers, they continue to work and improve main output will be regular reports shared on the
both TzKT and Better Call Dev. Apart from their thestackreport.xyz ↗ website and multiple
indexer functionality, this includes the necessary social media channels.
changes to support protocol upgrades, but also
the adjustments to recent developments in the Papers is an active development team that,
ecosystem, such as the exponential growth in among other things powers the AirGap wallet
NFT and DeFi-related activities. and has developed Beacon for connecting
wallets with DApps in the Tezos ecosystem. The
Blockwatch Data is a US-based software com- Papers team, based in Switzerland, continues
pany and blockchain data provider that created to improve tezblock, a Tezos block explorer, by
the popular Tezos block explorer TzStats and its adding more advanced baking and governance
underlying blockchain indexer TzIndex. In ad- data through integration with Tezos Agora, Tezos
dition, the team is working on developer tooling, smart contract and asset support, and other key
such as the Golang library TzGo and Tezos Polyw- metrics and data visualizations.
rap plug-ins, which will enable easy integration of
Tezos into cross-chain Web3 applications. 25Smart Contract Development Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in the United States, one of the most presti-
The Tezos blockchain supports institu- gious American universities, conducts research in
tional-grade smart contracts. The Tezos formally verified cryptographic software libraries
Foundation funds tools to help lower and formally verified software/hardware stacks
barriers to entry for Tezos smart con- implementing cryptographic protocols, with all
tract development and the applications software and hardware designs made available
that will follow. publicly under open-source licenses. MIT works
with the Tezos community to develop useful ex-
In addition to other projects covered in this re- tensions as necessary.
port, Baking Bad works on Atomex STO Gate, a
collection of flexible program modules to provide Runtime Verification is a US-based company
various atomic swap implementations for digital that uses runtime-verification-based techniques
securities (security tokens) and other Tezos asset to improve the safety, reliability, and correctness
standards. of software. The team supports the Tezos eco-
system through numerous smart contract audits.
Compellio is a Luxembourgian entity that imple- In addition, the team is developing a Firefly client
ments a Verifiable Data Registry based on the for Michelson that can present coverage infor-
W3C verifiable credentials model. Smart con- mation directly over the Michelson code.
tracts will be deployed on the Tezos blockchain.
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more than 36,000 students and is one of the
oldest institutions of higher education in the
country. Hakjoo Oh is an Associate Professor in
the Computer Science department who received DaiLambda’s team
a grant to build a fully automated tool to verify
and test the integrity of smart contracts written
in Michelson. 26Serokell is a software development company Infrastructure
focused on creating customized high-perfor-
mance solutions. The Estonia-based blockchain Infrastructure is essential to a
company is responsible for developing and main- thriv-ing blockchain ecosystem. In the
taining various developer tools and Tezos smart case of the Tezos blockchain projects
contracts, including efforts around stablecoins building critical infrastructure like
and wrapped assets. Additionally, they also help financial primitives and asset standards
in the maintenance of several tools and platforms make it easier for developers to use
in the ecosystem, such as Tezos Agora, Kiln, and these public goods to build new appli-
the TZIP explorer. cations on Tezos.
TezWell is a Portuguese company created in Ateza is a US-based team developing a global,
2020 that initially provided consultancy services load-balanced application programming inter-
to the SmartPy project. Today, the company fo- face (API) with end-to-end encryption to interface
cuses on bringing visual programming to smart with the Tezos nodes. The goal of the API is to help
contract development in the Tezos ecosystem, strengthen the Tezos infrastructure to facilitate
which will allow users to describe smart contracts development of applications that interface with
through illustrations that can be built by simply the Tezos distributed ledger.
dragging and dropping blocks. Text-based
programming languages make the programmer Bakin’Bacon is Tezos baking software made
think like a computer, which is usually difficult easy. It aims to remove the cumbersome complex-
for people without a computer science or similar ities of being a Tezos baker by having a single
background. TezWell will contribute to lowering download and simplifying the setup process
barriers of entry for people with less technical through a series of simple steps. Bakin’Bacon re-
knowledge. leased v1.1 GA back in December 2021. The team is
getting ready for Tezos’ next protocol improve-
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27Cryptonomic builds infrastructure solutions. The Future Sense is incorporating Tezos blockchain
US-based firm provides tools and smart contracts technology in its efforts with the Korean National
that enable higher-level decentralized and con- Police Agency in South Korea, including a DID
sortium applications. The firm develops oracle subsystem, data integrity subsystem, and a to-
services on Tezos via Chainlink, including ongoing ken-based data marketplace. With its efforts, the
maintenance and community engagement, with team is collaborating both technically and on a
which they will touch on existing projects, such communication level with Tezos ecosystem mem-
as their Arronax block explorer. Adding to this, bers, such as Nomadic Labs and TZ APAC. A first
they are also in charge of maintaining Galleon, phase has been finalized and a second phase is
Conseil, and ConseilJS, and having regular align- in process.
ments with Tezos ecosystem teams.
Gravity is a France-based team that developed
ECAD Labs builds open-source development a solution allowing individuals and small busi-
tools and provides infrastructure services for the nesses to bring together verifiable data about
Tezos ecosystem. Headquartered in Vancou- themselves in a digital wallet and build trusted
ver, Canada, ECAD Labs is on a mission to lower digital identities that are private, portable, and
technical barriers and simplify the blockchain persistent. As a digital identity project, they
development experience. ECAD Labs is the team collaborate with Spruce ID on building an open-
behind Taquito, the popular Javascript library for source ID stack for humanitarian organizations.
the Tezos community. Other ECAD Labs projects Part of their foundation’s supported work is the
include Signatory, a remote signing application; integration of Tezos-based DIDs and verifiable
Tezgraph, a GraphQL indexer API built in collabo- credentials into the RedRose system used by
ration with Agile Ventures; and Taqueria, a Tezos NGOs worldwide.
development tool suite recently launched in beta.
Kalima Systems is a France-based company.
Entropy Foundation is a Taiwan-based team The team worked on interconnecting the Kalima
that works toward bridging next-generation, blockchain with the Tezos blockchain. Their so-
highly performant, and secure Oracle services lutions are focused on IoT devices and offer their
into Tezos. The Tezos ecosystem has a large num- clients mixed private and public blockchain solu-
ber of bakers in its ecosystem that help secure tions. Through large-scale industry partnerships,
the network by signing and publishing blocks. The their products support the adoption of Tezos
team’s goal is to empower bakers by supporting technology in the enterprise sector.
the development of standardized tools, tutorials,
and cloud applications. Kukai is a Sweden- based company that deve-
loped a popular wallet for Tezos-based assets.
Figment Networks is a Canadian company One of its features is the ability to use DirectAuth,
working on Web3 solutions. Their team aims to allowing users to create wallets through their
help make Tezos application development a more social media accounts. The team has received a
seamless experience for software engineers. With grant to proceed with their development of the
the grants, they are further integrating Tezos wallet, including UX and UI improvements, integ-
technology into Data Hub, a “full-nodes-as-servi- ration with dApps such as popular decentralized
ce” offering to make it easier for developers to exchanges, mobile device solutions, and more
access Tezos blockchain data via an API. With smart wallet features. The team is actively imple-
Data Hub, developers will be able to sign up and menting new features based on community and
access live Tezos blockchain data via a standard developer feedback.
API without having to worry about maintaining
blockchain infrastructure or doing custom integ- INABLR is an UAE-based authorized sandbox
rations. participant under the Central Bank of Bahrain
(CBB) Regulatory Sandbox program. Their aim is
to develop a platform to democratize fractional
ownership of financial and alternative investment
instruments.
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