Every ecosystem has moments when the online world becomes a real one. Tomorrow, members of the Tezos community will gather in Seattle for another TezCon, bringing together artists, musicians, developers, collectors, and friends who have spent the past year collaborating across continents, time zones, and screens. It's a nice reminder that behind every project, governance proposal, or artwork is a person contributing to something much larger than themselves. That same spirit of participation carries through the rest of this week's stories. Community-built tools continue making governance easier to understand, new infrastructure is helping developers build more connected financial applications on Etherlink, and conversations between builders continue to be shared through TezTalks Radio. Some weeks are defined by major protocol upgrades or headline announcements. This week is about the people who continue building, creating, and showing up. Together, they remind us that the strength of Tezos has never come from the technology alone, but from the community that continues to move it forward. TezCon Begins This Weekend By the time you're reading this, there's a good chance travel plans are already underway. TezCon 2026 kicks off tomorrow in Seattle, bringing together artists, collectors, musicians, developers, and community members for what has become one of the Tezos ecosystem's most anticipated annual gatherings. Now in its third year, the event continues to grow while staying true to the spirit that made it special from the beginning: celebrating creativity, community, and the relationships that have formed around Tezos. This year's program features a diverse mix of art, music, conversation, and hands-on experiences, including: An exhibition featuring artists working across both physical and digital media Live performances from Hello Carmello, Red Alark, Bdwill, Ryan Tanaka, Yoeshi, and other musicians Interactive art experiences, including Juniper Paisley's community arts and crafts space An exclusive reading from Shreyans Khunteta's unpublished debut novel A Sunday community jam session supported by Sustainable Music Northwest Community initiatives will also play an important role throughout the weekend. Visitors can explore Voices of Iran, the community-led zine organized through TEIA that uses decentralized publishing to amplify the voices of Iranian artists and writers. Physical copies will be available during the event, alongside conversations about how blockchain can preserve and share stories across borders. Attendees will also have the opportunity to experience TEIA's latest marketplace tooling firsthand, meet members of the community behind the platform, and see how a community-owned marketplace continues to evolve through open governance. If you're planning to be there, here's a quick reminder: • Date: Saturday, July 11, 2026 • Location: Artspace Hiawatha Lofts, 843 Hiawatha Place South, Seattle • Start Time: Programming begins at 4:04 PM • Sunday: The community Music Showcase continues on July 12 If you're attending for the first time or returning for another year, we hope you have an incredible weekend. Safe travels to everyone making the journey, and we'll be looking forward to sharing highlights from Seattle in next week's edition. This Week in the Tezos Ecosystem Community Spotlight: TezGov Governance has always been one of Tezos' defining features, and over the years the community has continued building tools that make participating in that process easier. One of those projects is TezGov, a governance interface developed by Tez Capital that brings both Tezos Layer 1 and Etherlink governance together in a single, easy-to-use platform. Available at gov.tez.capital, the interface allows users to stay informed about active proposals, review governance activity, and participate in voting as new protocol and ecosystem initiatives move through their respective governance processes. One feature that stands out is the ability for delegators to signal their voting preferences directly to their baker. While bakers ultimately cast governance votes on behalf of delegated stake, TezGov creates another channel for communication between delegators and bakers, making the governance process more transparent and encouraging greater community participation. The platform currently supports: Tezos Layer 1 governance Etherlink governance Delegator voting signals Proposal tracking and voting information Community-built governance tools like TezGov continue an important tradition within the Tezos ecosystem. Governance works best when people can easily understand what's being proposed and how to participate. Projects like TezGov lower that barrier, making it easier for the community to stay informed and take part in the conversations that shape the network. Vaults.fyi Brings Etherlink Vaults Under One API Wrapping up this week's community highlights, another integration is making it easier for developers to build on Etherlink. Vaults.fyi has integrated Etherlink, giving builders access to native vaults through a single API. Rather than connecting to each vault individually, developers can integrate once and support multiple yield-bearing products directly within their own applications. The integration currently includes Etherlink-native vaults from Midas, including: mBASIS mTBILL By simplifying access to these products, Vaults.fyi allows wallets, fintech applications, portfolio trackers, and neobanks to incorporate tokenized yield products with significantly less development work. It's the kind of infrastructure that often sits behind the scenes, but plays an important role as an ecosystem grows. The easier it is for developers to integrate financial products, the easier it becomes for users to discover and access them through the applications they already use. Tezos Summer Events To Be Perceived, Against Evil Opens at MoMI Now on view at the Museum of the Moving Image, To Be Perceived, Against Evil is a new commission by Linda Dounia and Rhea Myers created through the ongoing MoMI × Tezos Foundation partnership. Inspired by Édouard Glissant's concept of the "right to opacity," the installation explores visibility, privacy, memory, and what deserves to remain unseen in an increasingly data-driven world. Visitors encounter the work through an obscured Media Wall where movement is transformed into encrypted data that interacts with Tezos smart contracts. As people engage with the installation, portions of the artwork are gradually revealed while other areas remain intentionally hidden. Drawing from themes of ancestry, identity, and personal autonomy, the piece uses blockchain as a creative material, continuing the exploration of technology and artistic expression that defines the MoMI × Tezos partnership. Visitors can also collect a free process image accompanying the commission through objkt.com, offering a glimpse into the development of the work alongside the installation itself. To Be Perceived, Against Evil is now open and will remain on view through August 2 at the Museum of the Moving Image. 🔴 Now Streaming: TezTalks DeFi Series | vaults.fyi Want to learn even more about the team behind Vaults.fyi? In this week's featured episode of TezTalks Radio, we sit down with the builders behind the platform to explore how they're simplifying access to onchain vaults, why standardized infrastructure matters, and how tools like Vaults.fyi can help accelerate the next generation of financial applications on Etherlink. Tune in for a closer look at the ideas driving the project and the role developer tooling plays in building a more connected DeFi ecosystem. Now streaming on YouTube. Powered by beehiiv
今週は、エコシステム内でしばらくの間築かれてきたテーマがいくつか集まります。 テゾスのプロトコルアップグレードのクールダウンフェーズに入るにあたり、私たちはアートやコレクション、文化的歴史の成長アーカイブを保つのに貢献している素晴らしいコミュニティメンバーに注目しています。 この永続性と保存への焦点は、ソフトウェアを超えて広がっています。ニューヨークでは、アーティスト、キュレーター、コレクターが最近、映像の動きの美術館で「オープンワールド」に集まり、リンダ・ドゥニアとリア・マイヤーズによる新しい委託作品が現在、進行中のMoMI x テゾス財団のパートナーシップの一環として展示されています。