Month At A Glance - December 2025

A quick rundown of the latest happenings and significant milestones within the Tezos ecosystem for December 2025.

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Welcome to our latest issue, Month At A Glance (December 2025), where we give a quick rundown of the latest happenings and significant milestones in the Tezos ecosystem on a monthly cadence.

December wrapped up the year with a mix of closure and momentum across the Tezos ecosystem. While some threads reached important milestones, upgrades moving through governance, platforms going live, and tooling maturing, others quietly set the tone for what’s coming next. From protocol-level progress on both L1 and Etherlink, to real-world integrations, privacy features becoming more usable, and steady community activity through the holidays, the month felt less about big announcements and more about systems doing what they’re supposed to do: moving forward, even when things are calm.

Let’s break it all down.

Ecosystem Insights #

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Drop.art goes live #

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Drop.art went live in early December, introducing a new blind-mint platform on Tezos with a strong emphasis on participation rather than presentation alone. Each mint feeds into the platform’s Live Pole, a shared, on-chain structure where every minted token is added as a new segment. At the time of writing, the pole already stands at roughly 230 meters tall, growing organically as more mints take place. Both artists and collectors earn “paint” through minting, which can be used to draw directly onto the pole, making interaction part of the experience rather than an afterthought.

From a tooling perspective, drop.art gives artists a fairly direct path from setup to launch. Drops are configured via CSV uploads for metadata, artwork files are mapped by token ID, royalties and sale stages are set upfront, and each drop deploys its own FA2 contract, appearing as a standalone collection on marketplaces like objkt. The platform is explicit about its constraints: a 20% primary sales fee, a flat 0.1tez reveal fee for collectors, and locked metadata and royalties once sales begin. A ghostnet version is also available for testing, which lowers the risk for artists who want to experiment before publishing on mainnet.

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Farfadet, Etherlink’s sixth kernel upgrade, went live on mainnet in mid-December, delivering the performance and responsiveness improvements it set out to bring. Shortly after activation, a regression affecting FA token deposits via the Tezos Bridge was identified. As a precaution, FA deposits were temporarily paused while the issue was investigated, with tez transfers and other bridges remaining unaffected.

What mattered most was the response. The issue was quickly isolated, a fix was proposed through the fast governance track, Tezos bakers reacted and voted, and Etherlink 6.1 was rolled out within days to restore normal operation and ensure affected deposits were correctly delivered. It was a good example of the Etherlink stack working as intended: issues surfaced early, communicated clearly, and resolved without drama. Farfadet’s broader goals, higher throughput, lower latency, and a more modern EVM environment, remain intact, reinforcing Etherlink’s role as a fast-moving but carefully governed execution layer within the Tezos ecosystem.

Tallinn enters the final stretch of governance #

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On December 27, the Tallinn protocol upgrade entered the Promotion phase of Tezos governance, marking the final vote before activation. By January 1, the proposal had already reached quorum, a strong signal of broad baker participation and alignment. With a few days still left in the Promotion period, the proposal is on track to move into Adoption on January 10, setting the stage for activation toward the end of January.

As a reminder, Tallinn is a deliberately focused upgrade. It brings a set of targeted improvements aimed at smoothing developer workflows, refining block validation rules, and strengthening the overall protocol environment, while continuing to prepare the ground for future Tezos X-related features. Assuming the process completes as expected, Tezos will once again demonstrate its governance model working as intended: steady, transparent, and driven by active baker participation rather than rushed timelines.

News From The Tezos Ecosystem: Quick Bits #

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Beyond those insights, the ecosystem saw plenty of other noteworthy developments worth a quick look:

Events #

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