Belgian Blockchain Consulting Firm Block0 expands its involvement in the Tezos ecosystem by becoming a corporate baker. It is now the first Tezos corporate baker in Belgium.
Block0
Founded in 2017, Block0 was the first Walloon software company entirely dedicated to blockchain and decentralized solutions. Its main clients are players in the energy, agri-food, logistics and software development sectors, for which it develops document traceability tools and systems related to identity.
Block0 is also active in research and development, with recurring support from the European Union through several European grants and awards for the quality of its developments and its innovation in the field of traceability supported by IoT and blockchain, and delivery of documents by delegation.
Block0’s role as a Tezos baker
Block0 has expanded its involvement in the Tezos ecosystem and blockchain by becoming a corporate baker. As a corporate baker, Block0 will now validate transactions (blocks) and add them to the Tezos blockchain.
Block0 is now part of a growing list of corporate bakers on Tezos which includes Rocket Launchpad, Smartlink, Ubisoft, Wakam, Exaion EDF Group, Taurus, Sword Group, The Blockchain Group, and Nisbah Capital.
Sebastien Pirlet, Block0 representative, said:
“With Tezos, we are now addressing major players in the business world who have proven their worth and whose blockchain ecosystem is reassuring. This is the key to the deployment of this technology. in Belgium.”
Alexia Martinel, Head of Adoption in Belgium at Nomadic Labs, commented:
“We are particularly delighted to welcome the first Belgian corporate baker to the Tezos ecosystem; thus paving the way for a growing engagement of institutional players in the country.”
Tezos Attracting Many Projects And Brands
Tezos is one of the first level 1 Proof-of-Stake blockchain networks. The Tezos ecosystem offers a lot of advantages to developers and projects, including low gas fees, cross-chain utility, yield farming protocols, efficient DEXs, animated NFT platforms, and more.
Tezos represents one of the fastest growing blockchain ecosystems. Tezos is recording massive growth in smart contracts-related transactions driven by fast growing ecosystem in 2021. According to data on Better Call Dev (BCD), Tezos recorded over 4.5 million contract calls till today (September 22).
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On Tezos, developers can easily build powerful decentralized applications and products. This is the reason, projects and brands such as Red Bull Racing Honda, McLaren Racing, OneOf, Ubisoft, Interpop, Hic-Et-Nunc and many others have chosen to rely on the Tezos blockchain.
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Upgrades on Tezos are executed by its proven on-chain governance, where continuous improvements are proposed by network participants, voted on, adopted and deployed. This update mechanism minimizes disruption while providing regular upgrading and improved functionality over time.
So far, Tezos has undergone seven network updates without any hard fork. The more frequent updates resulted in reducing gas fees by 70%, improving token standards, and increasing transaction speed.
Successful upgrades and continuous improvements are now attracting more DeFi platforms, DEXes, and NFT marketplaces to Tezos blockchain in 2021.
