Month At A Glance — October 2025
A quick rundown of the latest happenings and significant milestones within the Tezos ecosystem for October 2025.
Welcome to our latest issue, Month At A Glance (October 2025), where we give a quick rundown of the latest happenings and significant milestones in the Tezos ecosystem on a monthly cadence.
October felt like a month where a lot of longer-running efforts started to become real: a major game many have been watching finally opened its doors, the next protocol upgrade was announced, and infrastructure pieces, from signers to cloud tooling to analytics and payments rails, continued to lock into place. It wasn’t flashy, but it was substantive. The kind of progress that makes the ecosystem feel more capable, more mature, and more ready for what’s coming next.
Let’s break it all down.
Ecosystem Insights
Tallinn Protocol Upgrade Proposal Announced 
In October, core development teams introduced Tallinn, the next Tezos protocol upgrade, now in its stabilization phase and expected to be proposed on-chain in November. The upgrade reduces block time from 8s to 6s, improving responsiveness across everyday interactions, while continuing the transition toward more uniform BLS-based attestations as baker adoption progresses.
Tallinn also introduces Address Indexing, replacing repeated full addresses in contract storage with compact numeric IDs, a change that can reduce storage costs by 50–100× in token and NFT contracts. It’s a practical, performance-focused upgrade that improves efficiency today while laying groundwork for larger-scale applications and future Layer-2 growth.
Reaper Actual Foundation Alpha Goes Live
October finally brought the moment a lot of people in the Tezos space had been waiting for: Reaper Actual opened its Foundation Alpha. This is the tactical extraction shooter led by EverQuest co-creator John Smedley, and it’s not just another “Web3 game announcement.” People were actually playing, loading into Marova, testing weapons, pushing into conflict zones, and getting a feel for the pacing and map flow. After months of early teasers and community buildup, seeing it live felt like a real milestone.
Players could enter the alpha through several access packs, depending on how deep they wanted to go. The Stygian Oath packs, which included extra Reapers and additional perks, sold out quickly, though. If you’re lucky, you might still spot a few floating around on the secondary market. The on-chain component plays a role in how identity and ownership work in the game, but it isn’t a barrier to playing. You can simply jump in and shoot, or you can choose to engage more deeply via owning characters, bases, and cosmetics on-chain. Both paths feel intentional, not forced. It’s early, but the foundation feels solid and the excitement around it is well-earned.
Raspberry Pi BLS Signer Introduced for Bakers
Another noteworthy October development came from Nomadic Labs, who introduced a lightweight Raspberry Pi BLS signer for Tezos bakers. With the shift toward BLS signatures becoming increasingly relevant for future upgrades like Tallinn, this release matters because it gives bakers a simple, affordable, and secure way to handle signing without needing to upgrade to heavier hardware.
The idea is straightforward: instead of running everything on a single machine, the signer can live on a small, isolated Raspberry Pi, reducing attack surface and making key management cleaner. It’s open-source, well-documented, and designed for ease of setup. For existing bakers, this lowers friction in preparing for the BLS-attestation era; for new bakers, it makes entry and key security more approachable. Quietly meaningful progress here, the kind that keeps Tezos’ validator layer accessible.
News From The Tezos Ecosystem: Quick Bits
Beyond those insights, the ecosystem saw plenty of other noteworthy developments worth a quick look:
TezDev 2026 has its date and location March 30th, 2026 in Cannes, France. It’s still early, but the save-the-date gives teams, builders, and community organizers plenty of time to plan ahead. Expect more details on programming and participation closer to the new year.
Etherlink x Google CloudEtherlink announced a collaboration with Google Cloud, and the network is now available through the Google Cloud Marketplace, making it easier for developers to deploy and scale nodes without a custom DevOps setup. As part of the partnership, eligible builders can access up to $200,000 in Google Cloud credits, giving teams real runway to prototype, test, and launch on Etherlink.
MoMI × Tezos Foundation Partnership RenewedThe Museum of the Moving Image and the Tezos Foundation have renewed their partnership for 2025–2026, continuing support for exhibitions, residencies, and public programming exploring digital art and on-chain creativity. This renewal keeps Tezos present in a major cultural institution, reinforcing the chain’s ongoing relationship with the art world.
Forte Integrates EtherlinkForte Pay, the payment and wallet infrastructure used by game studios and consumer apps, launched on Etherlink, giving developers a seamless way to handle purchases, asset ownership, and in-game transactions without forcing users through complicated onboarding flows. This brings familiar, frictionless payment UX into the Tezos ecosystem, the kind that matters when building for mainstream players.
Chainspect Integrates the Tezos EcosystemChainspect, a network comparison and performance analytics platform, now includes the Tezos ecosystem in its live monitoring dashboards. Builders and analysts can track throughput, block times, finality, decentralization factors, and dev activity alongside other networks in real time.
KyberSwap Integrates Tezos via EtherlinkKyberSwap added support for the Tezos ecosystem through Etherlink, enabling swapping, routing, and liquidity visibility directly within the Kyber interface. This lowers the barrier for users coming from EVM environments and gives Tezos projects access to broader liquidity and a tooling layer.
Octav Adds Support for EtherlinkOctav, the treasury management and on-chain analytics platform, added support for Etherlink, making it easy to view token balances, protocol positions, and transaction activity in one place. Teams can also pipe this data directly into their own dashboards using Octav’s API, which is especially useful for DAOs, DeFi projects, and ecosystem analytics.
Tezos Foundation × Processing FoundationThe Tezos Foundation announced a new partnership with the Processing Foundation to launch a creative coding workshop series focused on interactive art and generative expression. Processing has long been a gateway for artists entering code-based art, so this collaboration puts Tezos directly in front of the next wave of creative technologists. It’s a meaningful bridge between established digital art pedagogy and on-chain creation.
Morpho Launches on Etherlink via OkuTradeMorpho, one of the most respected lending/borrowing protocols in the broader DeFi space, is now live on Etherlink through OkuTrade. This brings a familiar, battle-tested DeFi primitive to the Tezos ecosystem, with clean UX and transparent rates. It’s a strong signal that Etherlink is becoming a credible environment for serious DeFi builders, not just early experiments.
Banxa Integrates EtherlinkBanxa, a major global on/off-ramp provider, added support for Etherlink, giving users and apps an easier way to move between fiat and on-chain assets. This simplifies onboarding for new users and reduces friction for products building on Etherlink that need seamless deposits and withdrawals.
Events
Artz Fridays w DarkWheel.tez — October 3rd
Tuesday🎙Tezday Community Call—October 7th
Stakehouse Episode 1 — October 9th
Artz Fridays w Scott — October 10th
Tuesday🎙Tezday w Hasbrown — October 14th
Artz Fridays w The Myth (BosequeGracias translating) — October 17th
Tuesday🎙Tezday Community Call — October 21st
Artz Fridays w Papper Buddha — October 24th
Tuesday🎙Tezday Community Call — October 28th
Artz Fridays October’s Community Call — October 31st
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