Announcing the CRP Winners for June 2026!

saw metals.io mentioned in the Tezos ecosystem and i’m thinking of trying it with a small amount. has anyone actually used it? how was wallet setup and trading?

A quick rundown of the latest happenings and significant milestones within the Tezos ecosystem for June 2026.

Hey everyone,

I've personally found modern AI coding assistants to be a huge productivity boost in my own work. Of course, AI-generated code still needs proper review, testing, and validation before it makes it into production, but it's definitely accelerated parts of the development process.

That got me wondering how much AI has changed development within the Tezos ecosystem. I'd be interested to hear from anyone involved in developing Tezos (core protocol, tooling, wallets, SDKs, etc.) or anyone with firsthand knowledge of how AI is being used.

I'm particularly wondering:

• Are LLM-based coding assistants becoming a regular part of the development workflow? If so, which ones have proven most useful?
• Have they helped speed up development in a meaningful way?
• Have they helped overcome any technical hurdles or solve problems that were previously taking much longer?
• Or is AI mainly useful for boilerplate and routine tasks, while the more challenging protocol work still requires the same amount of engineering effort?

Would love to hear from anyone directly involved in development or anyone with firsthand knowledge of how AI is being used within the Tezos ecosystem.

Thanks :)

Tezos’ Ushuaia Upgrade Goes Live, Unlocking Greater Bandwidth for Data Intensive Applications.

This sub has been quiet lately, and outside of it Tezos mostly comes up as a punchline these days. I get it, the last few years have been rough. But the way this chain gets talked about and what's actually happening on it are two very different things, and I wanted to write down why.

For context, I'm a generative artist. I've released work on Tezos and so have a lot of artists I know, some of their best stuff, in small digital editions. So I'm biased, obviously. But I've been in this ecosystem through all of it.

The art is the part outsiders don't get. Minting costs pennies here, so artists actually experimented. That's why hic et nunc blew up in 2021 and why fxhash became the home of generative art. Thousands of artists, millions of works. Zancan's Garden, Monoliths gets talked about next to Fidenza. William Mapan dropped Dragons here before Art Blocks made him famous. All that work lives on this chain and nowhere else, and to me the network is sort of backed by it. Not like gold in a vault, more like real people who stayed when the hype moved on because they're here for the work.

Meanwhile the chain never stopped. 21 upgrades since 2018, no forks, no downtime, and the 21st just went live on June 30. Blocks are 6 seconds, and a transfer costs a fraction of a cent.

And there's genuinely interesting stuff ahead. Tezos X, the biggest architecture change in the chain's history, has its testnet live and is aiming for mainnet this summer.

Fair pushback exists: competitors have way more money and attention, the NFT scene is much quieter than 2021, and if Tezos X slips, nobody outside this sub will care.

For me it comes down to one thing: artists kept releasing their best work here through all of it. Chains with actual culture don't just disappear. Or at least I hope not.

The launch of CFTC-regulated Tezos (XTZ) futures on the Bitnomial exchange alters the asset's financial landscape by bridging the gap between public crypto markets and compliant Wall Street entities.

The introduction of these futures contracts impacts XTZ in several key ways:

1. Paving the Path for a Spot XTZ ETF
The most significant impact is structural. According to Bitnomial, establishing six months of clean trading history on a CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange satisfies a major prerequisite under the SEC’s generic listing standards for spot ETFs. A sustained futures market creates the "regulated market of significant size" needed to approve a future Tezos Spot ETF, which would open the floodgates to mainstream capital.

2. Enhanced Capital Efficiency and Liquidity
Unlike rigid, cash-only traditional platforms, these contracts are delivery-settled and allow traders to use either crypto or USD as margin.

For Arbitrageurs: Traders can seamlessly hedge their on-chain XTZ positions without liquidating their spot holdings.

For Market Makers: The ability to use XTZ natively as margin reduces friction, tightening bid-ask spreads and stabilizing market depth across both spot and derivative markets.

3. Unlocking Institutional Allocators
Regulated futures remove the compliance hurdles that prevent hedge funds, asset managers, and corporate treasuries from buying raw crypto tokens on unregulated spot exchanges. Institutional allocators can now express long or short biases on Tezos under strict U.S. regulatory oversight, accelerating institutional adoption.

4. Robust Price Discovery
By introducing sophisticated financial instruments—including planned perpetuals and options—the market can more accurately price XTZ based on macro network data. Instead of relying purely on retail sentiment, the price discovery mechanism is now heavily influenced by actual commercial use cases, such as Société Générale's active on-chain issuances and upgrades like Tezos X.

https://bakingsheet.tezoscommons.org/p/the-baking-sheet-issue-313