Updates from ECAD Labs

We are very pleased to announce Taquito v11.0.1, which supports the new Tezos Hangzhou protocol coming to mainnet around Dec 3rd, or more specifically, at block level 1,916,929.

Read the Taquito v11 Release Notes here: https://github.com/ecadlabs/taquito/releases/tag/11.0.1

Taquito is an amazing JavaScript library many Tezos developers use to create web applications. It allows you to easily connect your app to a wallet and to the blockchain to read data and send transactions.

However, most developers using Taquito only scratch the surface of all the features offered by the library. While it caters to the most simple needs of the Tezos developers, like reading contract storages and forging transactions, it is also a great tool to add to your belt if you want to take your skills to the next level and build more complex dapps. It can make your dapp faster, more secure, and more efficient.

Everybody is talking about NFTs! But a lot of people don’t understand what they are or how they work. Where are they stored? What do they represent? Why do some of them become so expensive? Am I going to become rich if I sell NFTs too? 😄

Although Ethereum was the first blockchain to start the NFT revolution, more and more NFT “minters” are moving to Tezos, attracted by the low gas fees, the robust smart contract platform, and the recent success of Hic et Nunc.

It’s been more than a year since I wrote How to build your first dapp on Tezos. At that time, creating dapps that work with the Tezos blockchain was still in its infancy, it was difficult, the tooling was nonexistent or undocumented and the features limited. There was only a handful of developers who had experience with building apps on Tezos. I started my journey on Tezos at this point when building dapps was hard and I decided to document it in order to help other developers who would come after me.

A year later, the Tezos ecosystem has bloomed even more than we imagined, there are many complex and beautiful dapps out there, over a million contract calls per month, and new developers joining every day. The recent success of Tezos dapps doesn’t mean that onboarding new developers is over. On the contrary, it becomes even more important and my tutorial from last year needed an update.

Recently the Florence protocol amendment reached enough votes in the Promotion phase of the Tezos’ on-chain governance process, which means that Tezos Mainnet is now locked in for another protocol upgrade from Edo to Florence! (Tezos protocols get nicknamed after ancient cities).

With this milestone met, we are happy to release v9.0.0 of Taquito which is fully compatible with Florence. We have had the Florence testnet in our CI pipeline for some time now.