Learn how to use a new GraphQL-based API to query data from the Tezos blockchain If you have been developing on Tezos, you may already be familiar with a REST API like the TzKT API to fetch different kinds of data from the blockchain. …

Understand how the Liquidity Baking contract works and the features it offers What is the Liquidity Baking contract? The Granada upgrade introduced a new tool on the Tezos blockchain: the Liquidity Baking contract. This is a constant product market-making (or CPMM) decentralized exchange contract (or DEX) for the XTZ/tzBTC pair. …

Learn more about how permits can secure your Tezos smart contracts One of the most interesting features of smart contracts is that they can grant intricate access permissions to their users. Smart contract developers can allow anyone to use their contracts or they can set up conditions as to who…

Use less known features of Taquito to bring your Tezos web dev skills to the next level 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…

Learn more about NFTs and how to create them using the Tezos blockchain and the IPFS 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…

Learn how to build a dapp on Tezos that connects to wallets and updates a smart contract 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…

Use the latest feature of the Tezos blockchain in your smart contracts Prerequisite: this article requires a basic knowledge of CameLigo, one of the syntaxes used by the Ligo language. Tickets have been a very anticipated feature of the Edo upgrade: they promise to bring permission-based access in smart contracts…

Learn more about the message passing architecture of Tezos smart contracts with a practical use case Tokens are the hot subject of the moment in the Tezos ecosystem: everyone is talking about non-fungible tokens (or NFTs) with the release of different platforms to create them (like OpenMinter) and to sell/exchange…

Unlock the power of Michelson maps with Taquito — One of the most attractive features of smart contracts is the possibility to store a substantial amount of data into them that can then be used in the contract code. Although Michelson provides different structures to store data, the object of this article is going to be its maps. Maps…