Etherlink processed 18.6 million transactions in Q4 2025, representing a 50% quarter-over-quarter increase.

Layer 1 daily active addresses decreased to 1,700 in Q4 2025, down 28.1% quarter-over-quarter.

Etherlink DeFi TVL stands at $68.3 million in Q4 2025, down 30.3% quarter-over-quarter.

Layer 1 DeFi TVL declined to $36.2 million in Q4 2025, down 19.7% quarter-over-quarter.

Etherlink daily active addresses reached 9,900 in Q4 2025, nearly doubling with a 96.6% quarter-over-quarter increase.

Layer 1 contract deployments totaled 2,780 in Q4 2025, down 24.8% quarter-over-quarter.

Stablecoin supply reached $54.2 million in Q4 2025, down 0.1% quarter-over-quarter.

"Context Collapse" group exhibition by second_guess and objktone opened on February 27, 2026 in Marina Del Rey during LA Frieze Week.

francis_ost and Merzmensch announced their first joint poetry reading "Voicing Machines: Poems Between Human and AI" on March 3, 2026 at House of Literature Kiel.

vandaloruins won a public grant to exhibit darktalesxyz "Edmund's Bazaar" in Parma, Italy in May 2026.

Quayola's computational art piece "Storms" is being presented at Art Basel Hong Kong 2026 with bitforms, objkt, and artontezos.

madebyoona's solo show "Dear David: A Surveillance Love Story" will be on view from March 19 to April 23, 2026 at Schlachter 151 by OOR Studio, Berlin, curated by The Second Guess in collaboration with numeroberlin and artontezos.

Launched integration with Blockfort's Swiss Digital Art Fortress, enabling professional galleries and institutions to store and manage Tezos NFTs via a regulated Swiss custodian.

Tezos Commons is awarding community members with monetary grants for their ecosystem contributions through a nomination-based program.

Released Octez.connect, an open-source wallet connection library that enables dApps to connect to Tezos wallets, request signatures, and interact with smart contracts.

Migrated Ghostnet testnet to Shadownet, with objkt.com redirecting; includes Temple wallet support, faucet, and Michelson interface development tools.

Concluded "Screen Time" auction series by RJ on objkt platform, totaling 13,550 tez in proceeds.

Participated as a blockchain partner in InnovateDenver conference alongside 20+ other blockchain projects and institutions.

Teia Community launched a new donations page supporting the treasury and TEIA Fountain, with an on-chain blogging platform currently in development.

TezCanvas, a virtual gallery app for Tezos art built for Android TV screens, released a demo with support from Jack Tezos and objkt's API.

Objktify, a free analytics tool for artists and collectors on Tezos, was shared allowing users to fetch stats and see collector data by address.

Collaborated with dropart on "Love Is Blind" campaign starting 2026-02-14, matching funds for collectors of works by absurdeity, Crip2DaX, tinoch, unityofmulti, and yangwong on Drobbit's website.

objkt is exploring social features directly on platform with a community survey currently live.

Runs Art on Tezos open calls creating opportunities for artists and builders to form long-lasting structures.

THE PLAN live art show scheduled for February 20, 2026, in Prince George, Canada, featuring on-stage Tezos NFT drops and physical exhibition.

FART NOISES tool launched on February 6, 2026, providing Telegram notifications for Tezos NFT transactions (buys, sales, offers) with per-wallet configuration.

Bitnomial lists the first US futures contracts for Tezos.

Provided a grant to KindredAI (formerly MetaPals), which the Tezos Foundation later stated failed to deliver against initial promises and did not meet specific conditions or deadlines, leading to efforts to secure the return of grant funds and potential legal action.

Hosting a community breakfast event at The Wild venue during Ethereum Denver on February 17, 2026 from 10:00-12:30 GMT-7.

Completed the Tallinn protocol upgrade (20th upgrade), implementing 6-second block times with 12-second Layer 1 finality, enhanced attestation mechanism requiring all bakers to attest every block once ≥50% adopt tz4 addresses, and an Address Indexing Registry providing up to 100x storage efficiency gains.

Partnership with Manchester United ended in 2025.

Established strategic partnership with TENX PROTOCOLS, which acquired approximately 5.5 million XTZ for validator operations and yield generation.

Generated 721,130 ꜩ in total sales volume for the "horizon(te)s" NFT collection since its 2022 release, with 400 ꜩ moved in the last 24 hours as of January 17, 2026.

Hosts art event 'I've missed our conversations' opening on January 27th, 2026 in Berlin, featuring multiple artists in a group show curated by @postanika focused on AI, emotions and being human.

Partnered with Museum of Moving Image (MoMI) for 2025-2026 programming, featuring "Lick Pic" by isthisanart_ and yehwanyensong, an interactive installation with mechanical tongues activating screens via objkt activity, and a free NFT mint on objkt. Hosts FA2 Fellowship sessions with Moving Image NYC and NFTPROTECTOR through objktlabs.

Hosts community event #1of1SZN: Cloud Dancer running from January 26th to February 1st, 2026, featuring only 1/1 artworks with soft white hues theme and maximum 3 mints per artist.

Hosts 'Luxuria' collective exhibition on objkt launching on January 27th, 2026, organized by @Boundless8D and curated by multiple curators.

Hosts #RetrospecTez community event centered around nostalgia theme running from February 3rd to February 10th, 2026.

TzKT explorer released a major update featuring an improved bakers list, reworked schedule tab, and new charts.

Holds Artz Friday community call on January 3, 2026, hosted by TezosCommons, featuring discussions about art, stories, resolutions, and friendship.

Hosts Genuary event via editart_xyz offering 3,300 tez in prizes, judged by notable creators including piterpasma, annaluciacodes, sableRaph, UnknownCo123, and pifragile.

Launched TEZ FM, a radio player application for streaming Tezos music NFTs, featuring curated playlists, audio-reactive visualizer, lock screen controls, and offline functionality as a progressive web app.

Hosts a free mint scheduled for March 2025 for all previous FxHash collectors on the platform.

Staking fully migrated to Etherlink, the EVM-compatibility layer, using tez (XTZ) as its native token.

Featured in a long-form research paper by HivemindCap analyzing decentralization approaches across major blockchain networks, examining how protocol design choices shape trust enforcement and system integrity.

Sapling protocol, developed by Zcash developers, went live on Tezos mainnet in 2021, enabling shielded transactions where amounts and counterparties are private by default with selective disclosure via viewing keys.

Has a staking ratio of 59.8% of circulating supply.

Auction activity on objkt.com shows final visible bid at 51 XTZ after competitive bidding escalated from 20 XTZ through multiple participants.

Artwork "Royalty" (edition of 25, minted 2022) sells for 3,500 XTZ in secondary market. Artist OriginalGoldCat drop scheduled for tomorrow.

New artwork "I've Been a Gem" by artist Lorna Mills launches on teia/objkt with 20 editions at 50 XTZ each.

New artwork "Goblin night files" launches on drop.art with 11 editions at 50 XTZ each, 6 of 11 editions already minted.

New artwork "Her Heart Signals" launches as part of OneLoveArtDAO Collection for Art Basel Miami on objkt.com with 10 editions at 22 XTZ each.

New artwork "not unimpossible" launches with 25 editions at 4 XTZ each.

New artwork "Elevate" by artist Oaknarrow launches in THE OCEAN HAS INFINITE WAVES Superchief Exhibit on objkt.com, edition of 20 at 50 XTZ each.

Day 2 of 12-day Tezmas advent calendar launches with Etherlink quest offering NFT edition giveaway by artist ilyabliznets.

New artwork "Primal Fear" by artist paperbuddha launches in IMMORTALITY Superchief Exhibit on objkt.com, edition of 10 at 200 XTZ each.

New artwork "metamirage" by AI artist pactalom launches in THE OCEAN HAS INFINITE WAVES Superchief Exhibit, edition of 20 at 50 XTZ per piece on objkt.com.

New 1/1 auction "Panoptic" goes live on objkt.com with 500 XTZ reserve price as part of IMMORTALITY Superchief Exhibit, featuring generative artist loackme_.

dropdotart, a customizable blind drop launchpad, goes live with multiple NFT releases scheduled throughout December. InfiniteInk allocates 3000 XTZ to collect new artworks minted this month during its second week of operations, while a holiday meme art contest offers 6000 XTZ in prizes with Dec 14 deadline.

Open edition poster variants launch December 13 at 30 XTZ for 7 days, created for Syncretismo Art Residency with immersive display at Un Sueno Digital in Mexico City.

Superchief Exhibit "THE OCEAN HAS INFINITE WAVES" goes live on objkt.com with artist Haich_ releasing 20-edition artwork at 50 XTZ per piece.

The platform launches 12 Days of Tezmas from December 12-23, featuring daily quests that reward participants with free artworks from prominent artists.

TEZ gains 6% to lead top movers, outperforming the broader crypto market where BTC dropped 2%, ETH fell 4%, and SOL declined 4%.

Sogni Protocol develops AI infrastructure on Tezos and Etherlink. Artist niceaunties transitions Auntieverse to Tezos with Paris Photo Fair 2025 exhibition.

The IMMORTALITY Miami exhibition generates over 27,000 TEZ in art sales, with 8 out of 10 trending live auctions on objkt.com featuring artists from the show.

Messari releases "State of Tezos Q3 2025" report covering network activity, usage, and active addresses for both Tezos and Etherlink.

Artist Bryan Brinkman exhibits at NFT Miami with support from Tezos, Trilitech, Rarible, and Etherlink in partnership with bitbaselart.

Artist @ina_vare exhibits at NFT Miami with support from Tezos, Trilitech, Rarible, and Etherlink in partnership with bitbaselart.

Artist @batzdu exhibits at NFT Miami with support from Tezos, Trilitech, Rarible, and Etherlink in partnership with bitbaselart.

UMBRA art exhibition goes live on Tezos featuring over 100 artists, organized by boundless8d and curated by multiple community members. Arthur Breitman appears on Rollup TV at 12:00p ET to discuss the project.

Porsche Centre Montpellier and Lamborghini Bordeaux accept tez and 80+ digital assets for car purchases via Lyzi app with instant euro settlement.

ADGM-licensed firms in Abu Dhabi can now use USDT on Tezos following Tether's regulatory approval in the jurisdiction.

Umami wallet now supports private sending and receiving of tez with new privacy functionality.

Full moon airdrop completes distribution to Tezos and Base holders.

SuperchiefNFT Miami Art Week exhibitions receive sponsorship from Rarible, Trilitech, and Sendrock for a 60-artwork raffle mechanism, with Day 3 winners announced December 5th and 100% of proceeds funding emerging artist acquisitions.

xU3O8 tokenized uranium now functions as collateral to borrow USDC on okutrade platform, powered by MorphoLabs and Etherlink.

Live Art Basel emerging artists exhibition launches on Tezos in collaboration with SuperchiefNFT and objktcom.

Airdrop incoming for ETH and TEZ holders under the name "full moon air drop".

Co-founder Arthur B discusses tokenized uranium partnership with uranium_io for real-world assets and 100M user ambition in KuCoin KuTalks episode.

Tezos Foundation backed Acurast with $11M funding alongside Gavin Wood for a DePIN L1 project that turns smartphones into a decentralized compute network.

Superchief Gallery serves as official art director of NFT Miami 2025 in partnership with Bitbase Art, with Tezos, Trillitech, Etherlink, sendr0ck, and Rarible as sponsors for a multi-chain art showcase featuring over 40 artists.

Sogni Protocol builds GPU network for creative AI on Etherlink, the EVM compatibility layer, with development support from TzApac's Fortify Labs.

Superchief Gallery launches IMMORTAL exhibition on December 1 featuring 20 digital artists with editions priced at 200 tez each, backed by 20,000 tez acquisition fund from Tezos and sendr0ck to purchase half of all editions for raffle during Miami Art Basel week with 100% of raffle proceeds reinvested in emerging artists.

Frank Lloyd Wrong NFT mint launches December 1, 2025 at 12pm EST.

Window Season Week 4 completes buyback and burn of 61 NFT editions across 13 releases using 1 TEZ from each edition sale to purchase secondary market floor, with Week 5 beginning next.

Q3 2025 quarterly metrics show L1 transaction volume rose 21.5% QoQ peaking at 4.7M, Etherlink TVL ended at $61.2M (up 46.9% QoQ), DeFi TVL reached $45.1M (up 13.1% QoQ), and active developers hit 229 (up 37.1% QoQ).

InfiniteInk opens public smart contract deployment access on their launchpad and commits to collecting 3,000 TEZ of art minted on IINK this month.

Moving Image NYC launches multi-year partnership with Tezos Foundation through 2025-2026 programming, opening with "Contingent" exhibition by James Bloom and Gottfried Jäger, running until February 15, 2026 with a free mint available.

Superchief raffle for NFTMIAMI launches live on Rarible with tickets priced at 1 TEZ each, with 60 winners to be announced December 3-5 and raffle tickets minted on Etherlink while artwork distributes on Tezos via Objkt.

The Francisco Carolinum art collection is fostered on Tezos, Ethereum, and Bitcoin, representing institutional acknowledgment of blockchain art by cultural organizations including @ooeculture.

The Hyper minter tool upgrades with dual functionality allowing quick minting to factory contracts (Objkt/Teia) or custom contract deployment with batch minting capabilities.

TechRel lead from trilitech presents at EFDevcon in Buenos Aires, discussing how Etherlink (the EVM compatibility layer) empowers communities in Latin America and globally.

Tezos sponsors NFTMIAMI Open Call exhibition featuring 22 emerging artists at bitbaselart in South Beach, Miami on December 5th, titled "THE OCEAN HAS INFINITE WAVES."

Revolut now passes full on-chain delegation rewards to Tezos holders with no fees, keeping tokens liquid for trading.

A new batch minting tool for artists goes live, created over 2 days to replace batch minting functionality lost when Dns shut down their tool.

L1 usage rose 21.5% quarter-over-quarter and peaked at 4.7M in July, while fees gained 16.9% QoQ to 17,460.

mode :: ART MARKET Curated Program launches November 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM CET featuring artist humdrum with six 1/1 pieces from "ritual – 02" series priced at 120 XTZ each.

idOS raises $4.5M seed funding including Tezos, Fabric Ventures and other backers, reports 83K+ app users onboarded since September 2025, and integrations with Ready (2M+ downloads) and billions_ntwk (2.2M+ verified users). KYC deadline set for Nov 23 at 6 PM UTC before community sale Nov 24-26 using USDC on Arbitrum One.

SuperchiefNFT launches 48-hour open call for NFT Miami Art Basel exhibition ending Sunday Nov 23rd at 7pm EST with winners announced Tuesday Nov 25th, allocating 5000 TEZ to purchase artwork from 20 winning emerging artists with sales on objkt.com and raffle proceeds via Rarible and Etherlink going 100% to buying more art from emerging artists.

Tezos backs idOS_network, an identity layer infrastructure for the stablecoin economy, alongside Circle Ventures, Ripple Labs, NEAR, Starknet and Radix, with idOS Community Sale scheduled for Nov 24-26.