Happy New Year 🎆 🥳 Here’s the Tezos 2025 Roundup 🎉 From protocol upgrades and major ecosystem events to standout moments in art, gaming, community, and real-world assets, 2025 was another big year for the Tezos ecosystem Here are some of the moments that shaped it 👇🧵

⚙️ Quebec activated Jan 20 at block 7,692,289 A faster layer 1 with 8s blocks and 16s finality, plus staking and economic improvements like Adaptive Issuance aimed at aligning security with real participation as the network scales. ⚙️ Rio activated May 1 at block 8,767,488 Cycles moved to 1 day for more flexible staking operations, participation rewards began supporting the Data Availability Layer (DAL), and clearer baker inactivity definitions helped maintain network resilience as activity grows. ⚙️ Seoul activated Sept 19 at block 10,279,489 Protocol-native multisig accounts strengthened shared custody, aggregated attestations improved efficiency, and automatic finalization enabled simpler unstaking experiences in wallets and staking tools.

The Tezos DAL (Data Availability Layer) was shipped this year: Enabling data-intensive dApps on Tezos rollups, without compromising on speed, cost, or decentralization.

🌍 TezDev 2025: Catalyst in Cannes during @ETHCC week ⚡ A full day of keynotes, demos, and deep dives across Tezos X, smart rollups, developer tooling, RWAs, gaming, and digital art, including a keynote from @ArthurB and teams across the Tezos ecosystem.

🤝 Ecosystem events and meetups Builders and teams showed up across @EthereumDenver, @token2049, and @EFDevcon, with Tezos Breakfast Club meetups keeping things local and human - talks, coffee, and builder chats hosted by Tezos Trailblazers

⚛️ Real-world assets on Tezos In 2025, @uranium_io brought physical uranium on-chain through xU3O8: 🟡 Tokenized access to physical uranium via on-chain settlement ⚙️ World’s first on-chain uranium spot price feed 🔁 USDC borrowing enabled using xU3O8 as collateral 🌍 Expanded liquidity through listings on multiple centralized exchanges Together, these milestones showed how tokenization can unlock real utility, liquidity, and efficiency for commodity markets.

🔗 @Etherlink in 2025 A year of major upgrades, growing DeFi activity, and expanding real-world usage across the Tezos ecosystem. Key highlights: 🛠️ Network upgrades → Calypso, Dionysus, Ebisu, and Farfadet, improving performance, scalability, and EVM compatibility 🗳️ The first election of a new Etherlink sequencer operator marked a major milestone for decentralization and community-led governance. 🍏 Apple Farm incentives helped drive DeFi growth, contributing to an ATH TVL of $80M+ 💧 Core DeFi protocols expanded on Etherlink, increasing liquidity and on-chain utility ☁️ Builders gained access to @googlecloud Web3 credits, unlocking infrastructure and go-to-market support Ongoing governance upgrades strengthened network resilience and decentralisation, thanks to the Tezos baker community.

🎮 Gaming kept shipping. More studios are building fast, engaging gameplay and on-chain economies on Tezos, with titles like @Real_Sugarverse and @appleville_xyz showing how active communities and EVM-native tooling on @Etherlink can help onboard new players on-chain.

🎨 Art was a 2025 headline From art fairs to museums, festivals, conferences and more, Art on Tezos was shown and enjoyed all over the world while infrastructure grew with new platforms including @editart_xyz, @infiniteink_art, @dropdotart, @bootloader_art, @ZeroUnboundArt Explore the 2025 wrap up via @artontezos_ ↓