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The Experience of Using Objkt.com Just Got Even Better
When I go to an online marketplace to discover and maybe collect some art, there is a specific place I am coming from that is already delicate. An emotional grey area waiting to be filled with wonder, yet surrounded by sharp edges. In other words, this is a raw and somewhat rare series of events that can easily be interrupted or manipulated.
The tech needs to be sound and the experience intuitive or most will simply disengage at the first hurdle. For people already in a delicate place, they need to be met with an interface built by people willing to do some handholding and emotional support. The experience needs to be secure and maintained by those committed to the arts more than the charts.
This is how you can tell that OBJKT is here to stay, grow, and hold up the arts. After several years of enduring rigid market conditions and criticism at every turn, for very little monetary gain, they continue to improve the experience of using the platform. They keep iterating the site like an ever evolving collaborative code-based artwork, and recently another huge update hit the site making the entire user experience feel fresher, smoother, and more artsier. This article will dive into some of the nuances within those changes.
Collection of posts about the OBJKT update A Quiet Shift in the Room
Anyone who has spent time in digital art circles knows that UI critique is its own sport. Interfaces get picked apart and rarely can make a majority of users satisfied, so watching the response to this latest objkt update has been interesting for that reason. Not many complaints are circulating from the community. I have mostly just seen praise. That kind of reception only happens when the people building the thing have been listening for a long time and rolled out a solid UI that most can appreciate.
Hung Nguyen of the objkt team published a thorough roundup of the changes on objktor, the team’s native blog, which is worth a read for anyone curious about the design thinking behind each decision. This article approaches the same update from the other side of the screen, with the perspective of a longtime user who has watched the platform evolve through every season the ecosystem has weathered.
More Room To Be Yourself
The profile page is often the first real impression an artist makes on a collector, and for a long time it offered very little space to actually introduce yourself. When you land on a profile, you can see the artworks someone has created and collected, but there has not been much reserved space for context about who they are as a person or artist, beyond the ability to add links. That gap has now been closed with the addition of a dedicated About tab.
You can add text, headings, quotes, and images, in this new section, which means an artist can finally tell their own story without sending visitors off to a personal website or X profile. Pair this with animated banners and a more fluid profile layout, and the page can now be as intentional and unique as the art.
For collectors, this also means more context to grab onto when appreciating a work that stopped their scrolling. For artists, it means one less reason to constantly point people in multiple directions.
A profile that matches the art by Rinifish Themes Beyond Light and Dark
This objkt update has created a lot of genuine excitement and joy with a lot of it focused on a particular enhanced feature. On top of the usual Light and Dark themes, objkt has added Caramellatte, Cyberpunk, Win 95, Dracula, and Cupcake. Win 95 in particular is a love letter to anyone who grew up online during that specific era of the internet, and the fact that it lives inside a Tezos marketplace in 2026 says that the team sees the bigger picture. Many are still trying to get that early internet energy back, and on Tezos devs are building towards what it can evolve into.
The deeper layer of the theme update is the option to build your own. Clicking “Manage themes” opens the Settings page, where you can edit or create a custom theme, from colors to more specific details like field size and border width. Two collectors browsing the same drop might be looking at completely different palettes, customized to fit their vibe, and that small bit of agency changes how it feels to spend time on the site.
Speaking More Languages
Accessibility takes many forms, and language is one of the most fundamental. The update brings support for German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Japanese, and Chinese, opening the marketplace to artists and collectors who have been participating in the Tezos ecosystem without their primary language being part of the interface. The Tezos art community has always been globally distributed, and Tezos marketplaces are evolving to align with Tezos users more and more.
Less Clicking, More Picking
The explore page has been refreshed with filters moved to the top, and the clicking needed to interact has been greatly reduced. Making an offer, bookmarking, adding to a curation, sharing, reporting, or muting notifications, are now available directly from the browsing view. Not a flashy feature, but a powerful one resulting in less clicking and more time actually looking at and collecting art.
These are the kinds of nuances that only get prioritized when a team is using its own platform and seeking how to improve upon it. Tooltips, spacing tweaks, and action shortcuts show up in the bones of an interface and create a better atmosphere for immersion.
Easing The Learning Curve
Minting and curating on any blockchain can be quietly intimidating for someone arriving for the first time. The update includes more context and helpful tips at the points where new users tend to get stuck, woven into a first-time tutorial that is more thoughtful than what most marketplaces offer. Holding a new user’s hand through their first mint or their first curation is the kind of work that does not get applauded loudly, but it determines whether someone stays in the ecosystem or quietly drifts off after a single confused attempt to contribute. Treating onboarding as a creative responsibility, rather than an afterthought, is part of what will help the digital art movement expand and thrive.
Building For The Arts
A team that keeps refining an interface, year after year, through bear markets and through criticism, is a team that has decided their north star is the people using the platform rather than the next speculative wave. The features described in Hung’s objktor post are technical changes, but the posture behind them is truly artsy. Objkt decided that artists deserve a real About tab and that a non-English speaking collector or artist deserves an interface in their own language. Then built it into one of the biggest and most successful updates to ship in 2026 so far. I said it in an article before and I will say it again, while others dip, objkt ships.
Still Here, Still Growing
The update is live, the community has noticed and celebrated the way Tezos does best, which is through making more art. The trajectory feels like it has picked up momentum. If you have been away from objkt for a while, this is a worthwhile moment to come back through and explore.
Customize a theme. Fill out an ‘About’ tab. See the art and navigate with ease. These small updates add up to an experience that is easier to adopt on a greater scale, and with most of the UI critics satisfied, the experience can speak for itself.
OBJKTively Committed To Growth was originally published in Tezos Commons on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Săptămâna aceasta reunește câteva dintre temele care s-au conturat în ecosistem de ceva vreme.
Pe măsură ce intrăm în faza de cooldown pentru următoarea actualizare a protocolului Tezos, ne concentrăm pe membrii faini ai comunității care contribuie în felul lor prin instrumente ce ajută la păstrarea arhivei în creștere de artă, colecții și istorie culturală create pe Tezos.
Această concentrare pe permanență și păstrare se extinde și dincolo de software. În New York, artiști, curatori și colecționari s-au adunat recent pentru Open Worlds la Muzeul Imaginilor în Mișcare, în timp ce o nouă comandă de la Linda Dounia și Rhea Myers este acum expusă ca parte a parteneriatului în derulare MoMI x Tezos Foundation.

O scurtă trecere în revistă a celor mai recente evenimente și repere semnificative din ecosistemul Tezos pentru aprilie 2026.
Bine ați venit la cea mai recentă ediție, Luna Într-o Privire (Aprilie 2026), unde oferim o scurtă trecere în revistă a celor mai recente evenimente și repere semnificative din ecosistemul Tezos pe o frecvență lunară.
April a fost o lună de construcție și expansiune, cu upgrade-uri ale protocolului avansând, noi proiecte lansându-se și infrastructura ecosistemului continuând să crească în diverse regiuni și cazuri de utilizare. De la repere de guvernanță la unelte pentru dezvoltatori, acces la active și inițiative comunitare, rețeaua a continuat să progreseze pe mai multe fronturi simultan.

Announcing the CRP Winners for April 2026!
Greetings Tezos Community,
We are pleased to announce the winners of the “Community Rewards Program” CRP for the month of April 2026!
For more details about the various categories, please refer to the rewards page on the Tezos Commons website.
The Community Rewards Program is a Tezos Commons Foundation initiative aimed at fostering adoption and supporting the Tezos ecosystem. Every month, tez rewards are distributed to individuals and teams who stand out in merit and act in the interest of the Tezos ecosystem as a whole. For this round, a total of 10,000 tez has been awarded.
In an endeavor to make it easier for community members to nominate their favorite contributors to the ecosystem, the nomination form has been drastically streamlined. Now containing only three questions, it takes less than 30 seconds to submit a nomination.
Don’t have 30 seconds? You can tag any Discord message, Reddit post or tweet with #TezosCRP and we will collect them as well!
This is the fifth iteration of the program, and we will continue to make changes based on community feedback. Just like the Tezos blockchain, we will be continually evolving this program.
Numerous factors are used when evaluating submissions, such as quality of submissions, quality of activity, number of submissions, and verifiable proof of activity done by the nominee (no single factor is determinative of a winner, as all factors were weighed to select winners). The judges would like to note that for each category, they are looking for the respective monthly related activity, meaning submissions should reflect activities done for that current month, i.e.; month of May activities.
Without further delay, here are the results of the winners, below.
Drill Sergeant Award
@skllzarmy
Helping Hand Award
@siftcroix
@AuRo404
@spike_0124
@TechMental_
@TheTezos
@paraxenod
Influencer Award
@UnknownCo123
@001failure
@_TransparentArt
@sansfomo
@ryangtanaka
@UnitedSaints
Tez Dev Award
@maxcapacity
@retro_manni
@JackTezos
@flexasaurusrex
@_joesimon
@JestemZero
Assimilation Award
@0xwiU
@SkullDegenClub_
@StrokeDriven
@ZeroUnboundArt
@ODemerge
@mederu_art
@uzzy_arts
Patissier Award
@libertez_baker
@Zir0h
@riseuptez
@blockbakery
@fafo_lab
Tezos Tutor Award
@cletusEllijah
@TozartWeb3
@malsheep56
@FirstRainArt
Formal Verification Award
@webidente
@BakingBenjamins
TEO Award
@NftyTrap
@MiRetratito
@WX8BK
Nominations Are Open For May
With May underway, we have begun accepting nominations for this month. If you know someone who deserves a reward for their contributions to the community or have ideas about other categories that should be recognized, then please fill out a nomination form located here, or you can tag a post (or discord message) with #TezosCRP.
As mentioned previously, we are still working on long-term improvements to this program. We know this program is far from perfect, so please bear with us while we strive to improve this program based on community feedback. Stay tuned, stay creative, and keep nominating!
As a reminder to the reward winners, the awards are all distributed through Kukai and DirectAuth. If you have issues claiming your awards, please message us here.
Tezos Community Rewards — April 2026 was originally published in Tezos Commons on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

May 2026 Spotlight of Art On Tezos
What does the word “artsy” actually mean? The definition of the word artsy is something that showcases artistry or talent. Sometimes we assign our own meaning to words, and the more those alternatives get spoken, the stronger the association becomes, eventually replacing the definition. This phenomenon, however, where words get skewed from defined to abstract, is ironically an important feature of symbolism, when used in moderation.
That’s what this series aims to provide, an intentional spotlight on the people who express themselves by being artsy. The spotlighted artists are also expanding how they share their art through technology. Through the use of new mediums like NFTs, and through growing online communities forming around the appreciation of digital art, we can discover new paradigms as they unravel.
This month I am curating the spotlight myself, following the same approach the series has settled into when lacking nominations. Just me and my attempt to showcase art that moved me. Art I came across while collecting on Tezos. Each piece earned its place here for being expressive and daringly artsy. I will focus on the art itself, while making sure every artist is properly credited.
“Full Time Artist” by Ozge Gulbakan “Full Time Artist” by Ozge Gulbakan
One of the reasons I selected the artwork “Full Time Artist” was the sheer relatability. Most of my life I’ve been a full-time artist with an empty wallet. It’s because of knowing that feeling so well that I collect from fellow artists today. I like that Ozge chose a green wallet, and I read it as the persistence to keep paying the bills doing what she loves, but this comes at a trade off.
The frustration of perpetually emerging can either fuel the timeline with rants, or the fire within can be turned into art that speaks for us. I admire the art Ozge creates and posts because she expresses genuine emotion through a style that is unmistakably hers, yet shaped by today’s meme culture and relatably to human struggles. Follow Ozge to enjoy more of her art here.
“Artistry” by JMAC “Artistry” by JMAC
I had to go on an investigative journey to properly spotlight “Artistry” by JMAC. On first impression I could feel there was a lot more going on in the workflow than what was being described in the context on OBJKT. Further exploration of this artist’s account led me to their X profile, followed by a joyful dive into the making of “Artistry” on YouTube. This artwork started as a portrait, then was composed through a series of mixed media steps you can view for yourself here.
I fell in love with the abstract and surreal world crafted from such a simple yet original foundation. The result depicts, to me, a performing singer-songwriter capturing the attention of entities from multiple dimensions, through the universal language of sound. JMAC is a surrealist painter with more work on Tezos, here.
“Balloon Meow G.O.A.T.” by Choen Lee “Balloon Meow G.O.A.T.” by Choen Lee
A cat ascends into the blue sky, propelled by a helium balloon, gazing into a smartphone. The animation is simple and charming, hand-drawn in a way that feels personal. On closer look it reveals itself as a tribute to Nyan Cat, the iconic animation Christopher Torres uploaded in 2011 that became one of the defining works of early internet meme culture.
The artists who keep succeeding tend to be the ones who honor the people who inspired them along their journey. Choen Lee has been a consistent and recognized figure in Web3 art, with a range of work that spans years of platforms, communities, and creative shifts. Her art tells a story that expands beyond her own timeline, picking up threads from the broader history of digital art and carrying them forward. Visit her linktree here.
https://objkt.com/tokens/hicetnunc/880151 “Toxic Melt” by Theo Laurent
While exploring earlier artworks minted on Tezos, “Toxic Melt” stopped me from scrolling. A reminder that what once felt like a cultural melting pot of shared ideas has devolved into a toxic soup where characters have lost their solid form, replaced by plastic and digital waste. The static broadcast on the TV represents the noise now void of any significant signal.
According to Theo, the piece is intended as a group portrait of civilization as it wastes away. The work shows how art can carry real frustration and how those expressions find a home and an audience in the rebellious corners of the Tezos art community. Find hundreds of artworks by Theo here.
Until Next Month’s ‘ART’icle
To close this month’s spotlight, I want to remind the community that nominations for the next #tezARTicle are always open. Every suggestion matters and can help highlight an artist who deserves to be seen.
The artists spotlighted this month found me organically, reminding me that impeccable craft and unfiltered expression are not opposing forces. They feed each other, and the work that lasts tends to come from artists who hold both at once.
The pieces featured here show why I keep coming back to collect, create and explore on Tezos, where artists are telling a story and showing what is possible through creating and sharing digitally.
Thank you for reading. Keep exploring art on Tezos, keep nominating, and stay tuned for more spotlights soon.
The ‘ART’icle of The Month was originally published in Tezos Commons on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Bine ai revenit. Ediția din această săptămână se axează pe unul dintre experimentele mai vizionare pe care le-am văzut ieșind din ecosistemul Tezos în ultima vreme.
TzEL aduce plăți private post-quantum într-un mediu de testare live, transformând o problemă care de obicei trăiește în lucrări de cercetare și discuții pe termen lung despre securitate într-un lucru cu care dezvoltatorii pot interacționa efectiv astăzi. Abordează o întrebare care devine din ce în ce mai greu de ignorat în întreaga industrie: ce se întâmplă cu confidențialitatea blockchain-ului când criptografia care protejează tranzacțiile de astăzi devine vulnerabilă mâine?

Behind the tools, jokes, and experiments, here’s a peek into how one of Tezos’ most prolific builders thinks and creates.
You’ve probably seen that, quite often, I write articles about community-built tools that make it easier for Tezos users to navigate the space. And if you’ve been paying attention, there’s a name that keeps coming up again and again. Of course, I’m talking about Jack Tezos.
He’s one of the most capable and well-loved builders in the community, a multiple-time Tezos CRP award winner, and the creator of a lot of tools that make the ecosystem more fun and accessible. I thought it was about time he got a little extra spotlight, so here’s my Q&A with Jack, where we dig into his journey and his take on building in Tezos.
https://jtez.xyz/
Q: To start things off, and without doxxing yourself, tell us a bit about your background, like what got you into coding and building in the first place?
Video games. I’ve loved them since I was a kid, and I always knew that’s what I wanted to do with my life. After finishing my engineering degree, I was lucky enough to find work in the Spanish indie game development scene, where I spent about 10 years.
So my code has always been deeply tied to art and I hope it stays that way.
Q: Do you remember what initially pulled you into Tezos specifically, and not just crypto in general?
A friend introduced me to Tezos long before I ever decided to create the “Jack Tezos” Twitter profile. What I saw was a whole community of people making art, showing their most punk side, doing genuinely wild things… others writing code, maintaining platforms, all of it decentralized, or at least heading that way. Honestly, I felt at home from the very first moment.
At the time I didn’t know whether I’d end up writing code for the community, I hadn’t written a single line of “web apps” code back then, Bandog was my first web tool, whether I’d lean more into exploring and creating art. In the end, I did both. I learned to write code in that language called JavaScript, which should never have existed, and on top of that I started exploring interactive art.
Bandog: Analytics & visual tools for artists & collectors. Track sales, mints, wallet networks, and spot suspicious activity. All by pasting your wallet, no connection needed.
Q: When did it click for you that “ok, I’m not just using this, I’m actually going to start building things here”?
I remember posting on Twitter in 2023 asking if anyone needed a dapp, because I genuinely wanted to help the community. I didn’t have high expectations of sticking around as a builder since I had no web development experience at all. A collector reached out and asked if I could build an app to check the legitimacy of a Tezos address, something that would surface buy/sell data, wash trading activity, that kind of thing.
That’s when I started building Bandog. I still have the tweet saved!
And well, apart from starting Bandog, that’s also when my addiction to building things for Tezos began, lol.
Q: A lot of what you build feels like it starts from your own needs or curiosity. How do you decide what’s worth turning into something public?
Good question. When I’m deciding whether to build something for the community, I run through a few things: Is it actually useful, does it solve a real problem? Is the community asking for it? Can I commit the time needed to maintain it? And can I afford to keep it running?
If the answer to all of those is yes, I start writing code as soon as I have some free time.
Q: Have you ever built something you thought was really useful, but it didn’t get much traction? How do you think about that?
Due to its technical nature, Fileship is probably the service that “regular” users understand the least, which makes total sense since it solves a very specific technical problem. That said, it is actively used by the devs currently building in the ecosystem.
And then there’s Fart Noises… I probably should have picked a better name, lol. It’s a solid notification service that doesn’t get much usage right now, but I think it’s important to have an alternative to Crypto Noises. It was the only notification service in the entire ecosystem, and that’s never a healthy situation.
Fart Noises: A humorous yet practical tool that sends Telegram notifications for virtually everything happening with your Tezos NFTs, including sales, offers, mints, listings, and wallet activity.
Q: Out of everything you’ve built on Tezos, is there one project you were personally the most excited about? What made it stand out for you?
I’d have to say SBJKT. I remember spending 12 hours a day building alongside MEK during the week before launch, squashing bugs and polishing the last details. The community support was really something, and after a year and a half, 3,664 purchases have been made using SBJKT as a frontend. I consider that a success, and that project holds a very special place for me.
Q: What has it actually been like building on Tezos for you so far?
On the technical side, it’s hard to beat. You have free indexers and the support from the maintainers is great. I remember the BakingBad team helping me through the first problems I ran into with Bandog.
On the community side, people are genuinely engaged and interested in what you’re building, which is a real moral boost that keeps you going.
Q: What would you like to see more of in the Tezos ecosystem going forward?
On the technical side I have one very specific request: I’d love to see an alternative to the Objkt indexer. It works really well, it’s fast and very flexible, but right now it’s the only option we have for that purpose. We definitely need an open source alternative.
On the community side, after the 2021 boom a lot of people left the ecosystem. I’d love to see new artists, collectors, devs, and people who just want to experiment with the medium coming in and making it their home.
SBJKT: A collector-focused feed for Tezos art. Follow artists, filter by sales type (1/1s, auctions, OEs), track their new drops & listings across marketplaces, and get notified for the things you want.
Jack’s answers give a good glimpse into how he thinks and builds, but the Q&A only scratches the surface of everything he’s been up to. I won’t go into explaining his tools here, they’ve been covered in previous articles, and honestly, it’s even better if you go explore them yourself. In this piece, I wanted to focus more on the person behind the tools because Jack deserves the spotlight for how he thinks, experiments, and contributes to the Tezos ecosystem. It’s worth mentioning that beyond the projects he mentioned, he’s also behind more tools like the Tezos Archiver. You can explore them all at jtez.xyz.
On top of that, Jack has done some impressive work to preserve the Tezos ecosystem itself. Using his Archiver, he’s archived over 1 million Tezos NFTs. He even used it to try to archive all of Foundation’s NFTs when they announced the platform would shut down, helping preserve them for the community. And honestly, it’s not hard to see that he’s a generous person who loves Tezos and is always ready to help whenever and wherever he can.
So, if you want to keep up with his latest experiments, projects, and the occasional chaos he brings to Tezos, definitely give him a follow, you won’t regret it.
Community Spotlight: Jack Tezos was originally published in Tezos Commons on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Tezos X Previewnet este acum live, oferind dezvoltatorilor primul mediu real pentru a experimenta cu EVM și Michelson funcționând împreună pe un registru comun. Pentru un roadmap care a fost discutat în postări de blog, prezentări la conferințe și upgrade-uri de protocol în ultimii câțiva ani, acesta este un pas semnificativ înainte. Dezvoltatorii pot acum să testeze efectiv arhitectura, să exploreze cum se comportă aplicațiile între medii și să înceapă să gândească la modele de design complet noi.
În același timp, partea comunității din ecosistem continuă să evolueze alături de aceasta. Evenimente precum Tezos Breakfast Club Miami îți amintesc că în spatele fiecărei actualizări de protocol și a fiecărui milestone tehnic se află încă o rețea de oameni care împărtășesc idei, construiesc proiecte și conturează direcția în care se îndreaptă lucrurile.

Welcome back, Tezos community. This week’s edition centers on one of the clearest updates we’ve seen this year.
Tezos X is moving from roadmap into something developers can actually work with. The architecture that brings EVM and Michelson together on a single ledger is now approaching testnet, and the path to mainnet is already laid out. It’s a moment that ties together a lot of the groundwork that’s been built over the past couple of years.
As we start heading towards Summer, it becomes conference season and we have a new event to highlight. Let’s talk about it all below in this week’s Baking Sheet.
Tezos X: From Roadmap to Reality
This week brings one of the clearest updates yet on where Tezos is heading, with a detailed post published by the teams at Nomadic Labs, Trilitech, and Functori outlining how Tezos X is moving from concept into implementation.
Tezos X is no longer framed as a long-term vision. The first phase is about to roll out, starting with a testnet that brings EVM and Michelson together on a single shared ledger. That architecture changes how applications are built and how users interact with them.
Instead of operating across separate environments, applications can run within one system. A Michelson contract can interact directly with an EVM contract inside the same transaction, allowing assets and logic to move across both without additional layers or fragmentation.
From a user perspective, this means fewer steps and a smoother experience. A transaction that would typically require bridging or multiple confirmations can now settle atomically in one flow.
For builders, it opens up a broader design space:
• Deploy using Solidity or Michelson with existing tools • Access both EVM and Tezos-native users from the same application • Call across environments natively within a single transaction • Retain formal verification through the Michelson interface
Under the hood, Tezos X operates as an enshrined execution layer. It processes transactions at high speed while settling back to Layer 1 for security, keeping the system non-custodial and aligned with Tezos governance.
The rollout timeline is already defined:
• May 2026: Testnet launch with EVM and Michelson on a shared ledger • June 2026: Etherlink governance vote for mainnet activation • H2 2026: Transition toward RISC-V, enabling more programming languages and faster iteration
This update builds on the work delivered over the past two years. Block times have been reduced, the Data Availability Layer is live, Etherlink has expanded execution capacity, and latency has dropped to the millisecond range through instant confirmations.
With those pieces in place, Tezos X brings them together into a single execution environment where developers can build across runtimes and design applications that tap into multiple ecosystems at once.
The roadmap is now entering the stage where developers can test it, build on it, and push it forward.
Tezos Spring Events
Tezos Breakfast Club: Miami
As the ecosystem heads into another busy stretch of events, there’s a chance to connect in a more relaxed setting during Consensus week.
If you’re in Miami, the Tezos Breakfast Club is hosting a morning meetup on May 7, bringing the community together over coffee, breakfast, and conversation.
There’s no formal agenda here. It’s a simple setup that works well. People gathering, catching up, and exchanging ideas before the day gets underway.
Here’s what to expect:
• Coffee, breakfast, and a casual atmosphere • Conversations with builders, operators, and community members • A chance to connect before the main conference schedule begins
Register here.
Open Worlds: Digital Art at MoMI During Frieze Week
During Frieze Week in New York, Museum of the Moving Image will host Open Worlds: An Afternoon of Digital Art Encounters, organized in collaboration with Art on Tezos and supported by the Tezos Foundation.
The event brings together talks, performances, and a book signing across three distinct artistic practices, offering a closer look at how digital art continues to evolve within the Tezos ecosystem.
The afternoon includes:
• Travess Smalley presenting a talk and book signing for Pixel Rugs • Edgar Fabián Frías leading a live performance with local Indigenous artists • OONA sharing a performance and talk
The program wraps with drinks, snacks, and time to connect with the artists in a more informal setting.
Events like this highlight another layer of the ecosystem. Alongside infrastructure and applications, there is a continued focus on creative expression and real-world engagement, bringing digital work into physical spaces and conversations.
If you’re in New York, it’s a chance to step into that intersection firsthand.
🗓 May 16, 1:30–6 PM EST 📍 Museum of the Moving Image 🎟 Free with RSVP
🔴 Now Streaming: The Story Behind Tezzardz and Everything Around It
This week on TezTalks Radio, we sit down with George Goodwin, better known as OMGiDRAWEDit, one of the most recognizable artists in the Tezos ecosystem.
If you’ve spent time in Tezos art, you’ve likely seen his work with bold colors, strange characters, and chaotic scenes that somehow hold together the longer you look.
It starts before Tezzardz, before Tezos, back when George was still trying to figure out what kind of artist he wanted to be, and what was missing from his work.
Now streaming on YouTube.
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Spotlight-ul comunității din aprilie 2026 pe artă pe Tezos
Luna trecută, am ieșit de pe scenă, lăsând spotlight-ul să urmeze descoperirea personală în loc să aștept nominalizările. Cu toate acestea, sunt fericit să spun că unele nominalizări au apărut pe feed-ul meu imediat după publicarea ‘ART’icle-ului din martie. Luna aceasta, trei artiști au ieșit la suprafață prin nominalizările comunității pe X. Am adăugat un al patrulea și cred că toată lumea va înțelege de ce.
Ce urmează este un spotlight al artei selectate din acele nominalizări. Mă voi concentra pe artă în sine, asigurându-mă că fiecare artist este corect acreditat. Niciuna dintre aceste lucrări nu este listată de mine pentru vânzare secundară, iar nimic de aici nu ar trebui interpretat ca sfat financiar.

Săptămâna aceasta în The Baking Sheet, accentul revine la nucleul modului în care Tezos funcționează zilnic.
O nouă propunere de protocol este acum pe masă cu Ushuaia, continuând impulsul către un throughput mai mare, confirmări mai rapide și o infrastructură mai flexibilă pe straturi. În același timp, schimbările deja în mișcare încep să apară în modul în care funcționează bakerii, mai ales pe măsură ce rețeaua avansează mai adânc în consensul bazat pe BLS cu un set în creștere de instrumente de semnare.
Dacă îți place să vezi cum funcționează Tezos la nivel de protocol și tehnic, atunci o să-ți placă actualizarea de săptămâna aceasta.

Un ecosistem de artă din nouă eră pe Tezos
Se desfășoară o criză de identitate în jurul NFT-urilor, iar mulți încearcă să construiască următorul mare proiect, dar unde sunt pionierii care construiesc următorul lucru SPECIAL? Cum putem face tranziția de la criză la creativitate?
Din ceea ce observ, se întâmplă ceva special la mederu.art. Numele este ciudat, marketingul este brut, și nimic din toate acestea nu pare să fie gândit pentru a face un american ca mine să se simtă imediat ca acasă. O energie străină, dar totuși familiară mă cuprinde când derulez feed-ul de artă mederu. Acesta nu este jocul AAA rafinat al piețelor de artă. E mai mult ca un joc indie, gătit cu dragoste și pasiune.

Anunțăm câștigătorii CRP pentru martie 2026!
Salutări, Comunitate Tezos,
Suntem încântați să anunțăm câștigătorii Programului de Recompense pentru Comunitate (CRP) pentru luna martie 2026!
Pentru mai multe detalii despre diversele categorii, te rugăm să consulți pagina de recompense de pe site-ul Tezos Commons.
Programul de Recompense pentru Comunitate este o inițiativă a Fundației Tezos Commons, menită să încurajeze adopția și să sprijine ecosistemul Tezos. În fiecare lună, recompensele tez sunt distribuite indivizilor și echipelor care se evidențiază prin merit și acționează în interesul ecosistemului Tezos ca un întreg. Pentru acest ciclu, un total de 9,500 tez a fost acordat.

Bine ați revenit, comunitatea Tezos. Săptămâna aceasta se bazează direct pe ceea ce a ieșit din Cannes, iar focusul începe să se concentreze pe un singur temă: Metale.
La Tez/Dev, metals.io a fost unul dintre cele mai clare exemple de active din lumea reală care se integrează într-un sistem pe care oamenii îl pot utiliza efectiv. Această conversație a continuat, cu analize mai profunde și o privire mai atentă asupra modului în care accesul la aceste piețe începe să se schimbe.
De asemenea, am petrecut ceva timp săptămâna aceasta concentrându-ne pe fundația Tezos, o infrastructură solidă. Prezentarea lui Arthur despre Tezos X a adus foaia de parcurs într-o viziune mai clară, arătând cum infrastructura susține acum aplicații mai complexe în diverse medii, noi instrumente care fac mai ușor să construiești, să experimentezi și să împingi ideile înainte fără fricțiuni.

Comunitatea Tezos se întoarce în Seattle pentru a sărbători arta
E timpul să-ți planifici călătoria la TezCon. Ce a început ca o idee simplă născută din legăturile formate prin TezTones evoluează într-o tradiție mai amplă a comunității Tezos. Seattle este deja recunoscut ca un loc perfect pentru artiști, inovatori și minți curioase să se adune și să celebreze arta. După trei ani de influență în Seattle, TezCon și-a dezvoltat propriul ritm și caracter, susținut de oamenii care continuă să se conecteze prin Tezos, dar care doresc să aducă acea prietenie și colaborare în lumea fizică.

Numărul #302 sosește într-o săptămână în care accentul se mută de la brainstorming la modul de execuție pentru Tezos.
Tez/Dev a oferit o imagine clară asupra poziției lucrurilor. Dezvoltatorii lucrează cu infrastructură activă, produsele sunt concepute în jurul execuției mai rapide, iar noi sisteme încep să se conecteze între straturi. Acea impulsionare continuă, iar această săptămână începe să arate cum se aplică.
În această săptămână, Tezos Intents indică o modalitate diferită de a se mișca între lanțuri, unde utilizatorii definesc ce vor și lasă sistemul să se ocupe de execuție. Metals continuă să progreseze, făcând pași în conversații care ajung dincolo de ecosistem și în industrii din lumea reală.

Totul are nevoie de echilibru
„Totul cu moderație. Prea mult din orice este un lucru rău.”
Este un mantra pe care mama mi-o repeta adesea în timp ce creșteam, una care continuă să-și dezvăluie adâncimea în timp. Semnificația sa se extinde mult dincolo de referințele evidente precum sex, droguri și rock’n’roll. Relevanța sa este înglobată în viața de zi cu zi, cum ne gestionăm timpul, navigăm relațiile și contribuim la o comunitate în timp ce ne avem grijă de noi înșine.
Moderația a căpătat un rol mai literal pentru mine. Moderez activ mai multe canale și comunități pe Telegram bazate pe Tezos, axate pe artă. Aceleași spații în care am petrecut ani întregi promovând propria mea lucrare ca artist de medii mixte și muzician. Această schimbare mi-a oferit o poziție unică. Am experimentat ambele părți ale interacțiunilor.

Bine ați revenit, reluăm imediat după o săptămână plină la Cannes și există multe de discutat.
Tez/Dev a adus ecosistemul într-o singură cameră și a făcut câteva lucruri clare. Echipele construiesc pe infrastructura live. Etherlink deja influențează modul în care sunt concepute produsele. Am avut un anunț uriaș privind activele din lumea reală, cu lansarea 'metalelor' pe care le poți accesa astăzi.
Acea moțiune a continuat direct în restul săptămânii. Discuțiile lui Arthur la EthCC au împins focalizarea spre pregătirea pe termen lung, Bitstamp a deschis o altă ușă pentru acces prin Robinhood, iar noile proiecte de pe Etherlink au continuat să arate cum experimentarea și creativitatea evoluează pe lanț.

O prezentare rapidă a celor mai recente evenimente și a etapelor semnificative din cadrul ecosistemului Tezos pentru Martie 2026.
Bine ați venit la cea mai recentă ediție a noastră, Luna în Un Curs de Vedere (Februarie 2026), unde oferim o prezentare rapidă a celor mai recente evenimente și a etapelor semnificative din ecosistemul Tezos pe o cadentă lunară.
Martie a adus un amestec puternic de progrese în cadrul ecosistemului. De la preview-uri timpurii ale upgrade-ului protocolului Ushuaia care urmează, până la continuarea iterațiilor pe Etherlink, adăugiri noi de infrastructură și semnale în creștere din afara ecosistemului, lucrurile au avansat pe multiple fronturi deodată. Este genul de lună în care atât fundațiile, cât și activitatea de suprafață evoluează în paralel.

Martie 2026 Reflectorul de Artă Găsit pe Tezos
A fost un moment în care m-am prins că, fără să vreau, păzesc chiar ceea ce am creat pentru a extinde reflectorul asupra artei de pe Tezos.
Încercând să mențin seria ‘ART’icolul Lunii aliniată cu angajamentul comunității, am permis unei simple absențe de nominalizări să se oprească în tăcere. Intenția a fost corectitudinea. Rezultatul a fost absența.
Această realizare a reframat întreaga premisă. Oamenii sunt ocupați. Ei construiesc, creează, navighează prin viață și, în multe cazuri, încearcă pur și simplu să se mențină pe linia de plutire. Așteptând nominalizări consistente ca o cerință pentru a evidenția lucrări semnificative a introdus fricțiune acolo unde ar fi trebuit să existe flexibilitate. Absența nominalizărilor nu a fost niciodată o reflecție a absenței unei arte grozave pe Tezos.