Two years of Adaptive Issuance:
🔵 More than 30% of circulating tez is now directly staked → up from ~7%
🔵 For the first time, more tez is staked than delegated
🔵 Issuance has fallen below 3%, its lowest level yet
More participation. Lower issuance. Stronger network economics.
Dive into the full breakdown ↓
https://t.co/6P9jFeKDzF
❖ Weekly Recap ❖
✦ Featured on the objkt merch store: Ego Death, a new artist collaboration with @bubaviedma
✦ Season 01: Web Nostalgia @Kentocards previewed artist cards from @amber_vittoria & BTS process from @omgidrawedit
- The open call for art submissions closes 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟯𝟭, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 — 𝟮𝟯:𝟱𝟵 𝗚𝗠𝗧. ** If selected, the artist will be featured alongside 38 internationally recognized digital artists, and 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 as part of the collection.
✦ New Drop on @dropdotart: @no_hygiene launched SMELLS LIKE PROTEIN Part 1, a 250-piece blind mint of grotesque little guys with big main character energy.
+ on OBJKTOR: @RaquelGaudard sat down with @no_hygiene to discuss Smells Like Protein, exploring excess, memes, AI, consumerism, and why images don't always need to explain themselves
✦ Featured Gallery: @OneLoveArtDAO presented Beyond Silence: Iranian Artists, bringing together Persian artists whose works explore resilience, censorship, hope, and the enduring power of artistic expression. Paired with an in-person exhibition in Miami.
✦ Artist Feature: @toadswiback, revisiting some of the artist's early Tezos works through the lens of today's evolving practice.
✦ @RaquelGaudard announced "Signals for a Village", with a release on July 23 on objkt and the accompanying exhibition opening July 25 in @CasteldiCroce_ Italy.
✦ New on Bootloader: ◉ p5.js v2 Artist Series Drop #5 ◉ Take a Spline for a Walk, by @alexis_o_O, which transforms a single animated line into a printable book, where the drawing continues seamlessly across every page. Produced with @ProcessingOrg and @TezosFoundation.
✦ New on OBJKTOR: An interview with @Olga_f2727 for @objktlabs, discussing Silence, meditation, attention, and finding clarity in an age of constant acceleration.
✦ Museum Grade Prints on @origenprints: artist profile @GregorioZanard, bringing figurative paintings balancing beauty and unease into the physical world through museum-grade prints.
✦ Top 5 Creators:
- @toadswiback
- @lm_netwebs
- @no_hygiene
- @mattdesl
- @kimasendorf
✦ Top 5 Collectors:
- @FlyingBeagle_
- @absurdeity
- @August35750182
- @Sneketoshi
- @darbycrash58
✦ @dropdotart highlights from this week:
- Emanaciones, by @BarbaraBezina
- Matterhorn Mesh Paintings Excel Series II, by @nftaverse
- Hypnotik Blend, by @andriykalkov
- M E T A F O R M A T I K A, by @pactalom
✦ @bootloader_art highlights from this week:
◉ Slider, 2026, by @jczobele
◉ 6/:+(/-/ P////<, by @llllll__lllllll
◉ cloud chamber, by @Cruel_Coppinger
◉ Pattern Collapse, by @infinitypr0ject
✦ Collector of the Week #53 featured @1xVollard, reflecting on collecting through curiosity and the thrill of discovering culturally significant work. Up next: @AkiraD
✳ Thanks for following along — we'll see you next week. ✳
▼ Take a Spline for a Walk #9, by @alexis_o_O
p5.js v2 Artist Series Drop #5 on @bootloader_art
Art on Tezos Friday Recap 🔔
→ TezCon 2026 brought the Tezos art community together in Seattle for a weekend of exhibitions, performances, artist talks, live music, Voices of Iran, Teia showcases, and open participation centered around the theme Beyond Enshittification: Agency in an Age of Extraction. 🌲🎙️
→ @RaquelGaudard announced "Signals for a Village", with an @objktcom release on July 23 and the accompanying exhibition opening July 25 in Castel di Croce. 📡🏘️
→ @artontezos_ introduced the second Totally Not A Cabal collector pair, following @joshuasobel and @ronnaldong as they shared their journeys into collecting art on Tezos. 🤝🎨
→ @TezosCommons published the latest #tezARTicle spotlight, featuring @Abbas_rahmani63, @art_anael, @arbstein, and @cleofis. ✨🖼️
→ @fabriziobrarez published a new edition of Seen By Brarez, this week spotlighting @romandrits. 🔍🖼️
→ @TeiaCommunity reminded artists that submissions for #ComputationalJewelry close today, inviting works exploring digital art, physical jewelry, and women’s health. 💎💜
→ @paraxenod opened community voting for #Art4LifeTez on Teia Polls, inviting the community to help select works raising awareness for blood donation until July 21.🩸🗳️
→ @objktlabs spoke with @Olga_f2727 about Silence and @alexmayarts about Moment of Significance, exploring meditation, memory, perception, and digital systems. 🧘🧠
→ Tezos Commons announced this week’s Artz Friday guest, multidisciplinary artist @JaycPraiz, discussing the journey from physical artworks to digital art on Tezos. 🎙️🎨
→ New on OBJKTOR: Raquel Gaudard spoke with @no_hygiene (Excess, Memes, And Flesh) and @RJ16848519 (Digital Devotion), exploring memes, AI, internet culture, faith, and digital identity. 🤖📱
→ @objktcom featured @1xVollard as Collector of the Week #53, discussing curiosity, philosophy, and discovering artists through stories rather than hype. 💬🖼️
Don't Miss:
→ Beyond Silence, a collection by @OneLoveArtDAO showcasing Persian artists exploring resilience, hope, isolation, and endurance. 🇮🇷🖼️
→ Take a Spline for a Walk by @alexis_o_O on @bootloader_art as Drop #5 of the p5.js v2 Artist Series, produced with @ProcessingOrg and @TezosFoundation. 💻〰️
→ Visual Voice, an audiovisual collaboration between @speciesofvalue and @tendrela_ai. Curated by @_second_guess, the work transforms speech into evolving sensory forms through AI. 🎙️✨
→ Flex’s Gem Machine at @tezvendsmachine, loading 130+ GIFs from a five-year personal collection by @flexasaurusrex into an interactive art vending machine . 🦖💎
→ Morphogenesis: Terraforming Protocol by @endless_mazin, exploring abstract, trippy, and seamless dreamscapes.
→ New on @dropdotart:
- smells like protein by @no_hygiene
- ://route by @relaxertex
- Breaking Point by @_KamauKamau
- 𝑺𝑶 𝑻𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒅 by @1000Landz
Image: Terraforming the Skybenders Nation by MAZiN
⛓️💥 Quantum computers may break today's cryptography.
Not tomorrow. But the risk could materialize eventually.
Ushuaia introduces tz5, a post-quantum account type using ML-DSA-44 → live on testnet now.
Learn more and test this new feature 👇
https://t.co/5UZ34IHels