Month At A Glance — October 2026

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

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November 4, 2026

Welcome to our latest issue, Month At A Glance (October 2026), where we give a quick rundown of the latest happenings and significant milestones in the Tezos ecosystem on a monthly cadence.

October was a full month for Tezos, with new projects and platforms emerging, existing ones expanding their offerings, and plenty of activity from both builders and the wider community. We saw new ways for artists and collectors to connect, along with developer tools, infrastructure improvements, and community-led initiatives, so we have a lot of catching up to do.

Let’s break it all down.

Ecosystem Insights #

TezCity Opens Its Doors to Tezos Artists and Collectors #

Let’s start with a newcomer to the ecosystem. In early October, Ida Belle announced TezCity, a social platform made for the people behind Tezos art, where artists and collectors can follow each other and supporting an artist happens right inside the platform.

Artists can offer memberships and exclusive posts to their supporters, and anyone can send a tez tip to say thanks for a piece. Collectors earn badges for what they collect, and leaderboards bring some friendly competition on top. It gives artists a more direct line to the people who back them and gives collectors a way to be recognized for it.

TezCity didn’t stop at the social side. The Starfall arcade game arrived later in the month, and the new analytics tools show artists who is collecting their work, what is selling, and where it is reaching people. Those are open through a waitlist, with new members approved every day. If you’d like to hear how it came together, and what more to expect, Ida talked about it with us on Tuesday-Tezday Ep. 202 and TezTalks Live!

And while we’re on the topic of social platforms, another great development came from the objkt team, which announced objkt social on October 28. It’s an addition to the marketplace that lets the community talk, follow and collect in the same place. It runs on the AT Protocol, the open protocol behind Bluesky, so you can sign in with a Bluesky account or create a new one.

You can follow your favorite artists and collectors, join group chats, and collect a piece straight from a post. Until now, discovering art, talking about it and collecting it usually happened in different places, and this brings those steps closer together around the art itself.

I think this is a great move. Artists don’t have to depend on X anymore to get seen, and they can talk to people who are actually into Tezos art. Collectors get an easier way to find new artists too. Most of all, objkt has artists and collectors spread across many different platforms for the social side, and now they can all have it straight from inside the marketplace they already love.

Teia Backs 11 Community-Run Events for Its Second Cohort #

Staying with the community side of Tezos art, Teia announced on October 20 the second cohort of its community events program, funded in stages by a grant from the Tezos Foundation. The first cohort was announced in June for events running through the summer. For this one, community members pitched their own ideas, and the selected proposals went through a review and a multisig vote before Teia agreed to help bring them to life between August and December.

The eleven organizers selected are The5thForce, HPLovebux, HannahKrypt, Ivana, Jovi, Libertez, LMDesigns8, MatNova, Mad Dolph, Tan-Tan and UBERMORGEN, and the first event is already behind us. Ivana’s Teia Woman exhibition took place in Belgrade in August.

Among the ones announced so far, Mad Dolph’s #26POV is already open for submissions until November 9, Jovi’s ZERO starts on November 1, The5thForce’s #CrossPollination launches on November 6, and HPLovebux’s #PostAmericana: CIRCUS MAXIMUS kicks off on December 1. The other organizers will share their plans in the coming weeks, so follow Teia’s announcement thread to learn more and stay updated.

News From The Tezos Ecosystem: Quick Bits #

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

Quantumnet Gets a Hands-On Tutorial for Bakers
Following September’s introduction of Quantumnet, October brought a detailed tutorial allowing technically experienced users to experiment with post-quantum baking. The walkthrough covers running a node, creating tz5 and tz6 keys, staking, operating a DAL node, and managing consensus-key rotation. It’s an opportunity for bakers to explore the practical differences involved in operating a post-quantum network.
Tezos Commons Gets a Town Hall in TezTowers
TezTowers, the virtual 3D city launched by skllzarmy in late September, continued growing throughout October. On October 17, we (Tezos Commons) got our own spot in the neighborhood, setting up a Town Hall featuring TC articles, news, a radio station playing recorded Spaces, and even a familiar Blangs waiting outside. A fun little addition to the growing virtual neighborhood!
Tezonia Makes Exploring the Tezos Ecosystem More Interactive
Community builder webidente introduced Tezonia, an interactive virtual town where visitors can discover Tezos wallets, art platforms, developer tools, and almost everything around the Tezos ecosystem by exploring a digital neighborhood.
HalloweeK and the Tezonia Halloween Hunt Bring the Spooky Season to Tezos
The TheTezosCommunity team ran a week of Discord games ending with a “Ghosts of Tezos” quiz on October 31, plus a daily glint hunt in Tezonia with Tezos art as prizes. The main Tezos account also gathered artists’ spookiest pieces for its own Halloween thread.
CFTC’s New Crypto Rules Notice Again Cites Tezos (XTZ) as a Digital Commodity
In its October 13 notice on rules for retail crypto markets, the CFTC pointed back to its joint guidance with the SEC from March, which lists Tezos (XTZ) among its examples of digital commodities alongside BTC, ETH, SOL, XLM and XRP.
Taquito v25.1.0 Adds Support for Post-Quantum tz5 Addresses
Taquito, the TypeScript library for building apps on Tezos, released v25.1.0 on October 19 with support for tz5 addresses, which use the post-quantum ML-DSA-44 signature scheme. It covers keys, signatures, forging and verification, alongside fixes to operation confirmation and fee estimates.
Metals.io Adds Copper to Its Tokenized Commodities Lineup
On October 29, metals.io launched xCu, giving holders beneficial ownership of physical copper held in bonded warehouses in the Netherlands and Germany, with Archax as trustee. It’s the sixth metal on the Tezos-based platform, next to uranium, gold, cobalt, nickel and a rare metals basket.
Nomadic Labs Introduces Octez.js, a New SDK Built for Tezos X
Octez.js is a JavaScript and TypeScript SDK for building on Tezos, built as a fork of Taquito. Its new tools aim at Tezos X, such as mapping addresses between the Michelson and EVM runtimes, tracking operations across both, and preparing cross-runtime transactions and contract calls.
Arthur Breitman Discusses Quantum Security at TOKEN2049
Tezos co-founder Arthur Breitman joined Alex Pruden (Co-Founder and CEO of Project Eleven) and Eli Ben-Sasson (Co-Founder and CEO of StarkWare) for a panel titled Quantum: An Existential Threat to Crypto? at TOKEN2049 Singapore on October 7. Moderated by Ren CF (General Partner at Electric Capital), the discussion explored the potential impact of quantum computing on cryptocurrencies and the importance of preparing for the transition to post-quantum cryptography.
Tezos Domains Introduces a New Pricing Structure
Following a community governance vote, Tezos Domains implemented a new pricing structure on October 16. Standard .tez names of five or more characters now cost 16 XTZ annually, up from 3 XTZ, reflecting a target price of approximately $5. The new structure uses dollar-denominated targets to help make the service’s revenue more predictable, with provisions for future adjustments based on changes in the XTZ exchange rate.
Community Built Tools Updates
Chris Pinnock’s Signet wallet made its first live NFT purchase on objkt on mainnet, and TTC updated its Next.js boilerplate for dApps with Next.js 16 and Octez Connect v5. IDoctorWhoI’s staking calculator now accounts for the supply, delegation and staking caps when estimating rewards.

Events #

All recordings from Tuesday Tezday, Artz Friday, and other Tezos Commons community calls can be found on radio.tezoscommons.org! During October, we hosted the following spaces:

Artz Fridays ft. Skllz — October 2nd
Tuesday🎙Tezday ft. Yann Régis-Gianas & Zaynah Dargaye — October 6th
Artz Fridays ft. MadDolphNFT — October 9th
Tuesday🎙Tezday Community Call — October 13th
Artz Fridays ft. pluraluse — October 16th
Tuesday🎙Tezday ft. Ida Belle — October 20th
Tuesday🎙Tezday Community Call — October 27th
Artz Fridays October’s Community Call — October 30th

Besides X spaces, we also published the following TezTalks podcast episodes:

Stay in the Conversation, Stay in the Know #

Tezos Commons hosts a variety of community-oriented events and content. From podcasts, X Spaces, and long-form content, there’s something for everyone.

You can also contact us on X or via email at social@tezoscommons.org.