Hot out of the Oven: The Baking Sheet. This Week in the Tezos Ecosystem:.
26 Jun 2026, 19:32
🔥 Hot out of the Oven: The Baking Sheet
This Week in the Tezos Ecosystem:
➡️ Ushuaia Activates June 29 – After months of development, testing, and governance, Ushuaia is set to become Tezos' 21st protocol upgrade. The update brings a 15x increase in Data Availability Layer bandwidth, faster DAL confirmations, rollup improvements, testnet support for protocol-native liquid staking (sTEZ), and the first implementation of post-quantum tz5 accounts for ecosystem testing. Bakers and node operators are encouraged to prepare by upgrading to Octez v25 ahead of activation.
➡️ Metals.io Expands Into Nickel and Cobalt – Building on its growing real-world asset platform, metals.io has added tokenized nickel and cobalt alongside gold, uranium, and its Strategic Metals Basket. These commodities play a key role in electric vehicles, renewable energy, aerospace, and AI infrastructure, continuing the platform's mission of making traditionally hard-to-access markets more accessible through Tezos.
➡️ Art on Tezos Shines During Art Basel – Art Basel week once again highlighted the strength of the Tezos art ecosystem, with exhibitions including Quayola's En plein air at HEK and Emi Kusano's Office Ladies: Rituals of Overflow presented by Grida. The week brought together artists, collectors, curators, and institutions while showcasing how digital art on Tezos continues to reach major cultural venues around the world.
➡️ Ecosystem Spotlight: Explore Tezos with tez.cool – This week's spotlight features tez.cool, the community dashboard built by Tezos Commons that brings staking data, baker analytics, DeFi metrics, whale tracking, project directories, and live network statistics together in one place. It's a practical resource for anyone looking to better understand what's happening across the Tezos ecosystem.
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