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This week on TezTalks Radio, host Brandon Langston sits down with Ryan Tanaka, a longtime builder in the Tezos art ecosystem behind projects like TEIA, teia.cafe, and Tezcon.

The conversation starts with a moment many remember, when Hic et Nunc shut down. For some, that was the end. For others, including Ryan, it became the reason to rebuild.

🎙️ This episode explores what it actually takes to keep a creative ecosystem alive when the platform disappears.

🔍 In this episode, we explore:

• Why Ryan chose to rebuild after Hic et Nunc instead of moving on
• How fragmentation across tools like teia.cafe created real friction for users
• Why music and on-chain media remain under-discovered on Tezos
• What it’s like to build and ship features inside a DAO
• Why simple ideas like wallet-to-wallet messaging are harder than they seem
• What’s still missing for artists in the space today
• How builders stay motivated through quieter market cycles
• Whether decentralized platforms can avoid the same patterns as Web2
• Why the Tezos art community has endured while others faded

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This week on TezTalks Radio, host Brandon Langston is joined by Chris Pinnock, Chief Baker at the Tezos Foundation.

Baking is often described simply, but in practice it sits at the center of everything: consensus, signing, security, coordination, and infrastructure.

🔍 In this episode, we explore:

• What a Chief Baker actually does beyond the title
• Where pressure shows up first in the baking layer
• The kinds of risks and failure modes that matter most
• What separates a smooth week from a difficult one
• How BLS signature aggregation works in practice
• What changed when BLS moved from theory to live infrastructure
• How the Tezos Foundation structures and operates multiple bakeries
• The trade-offs between simplicity and resilience
• Real moments where the system was under pressure and what was learned
• How incident response works when speed and caution both matter
• The biggest shifts in baking over the past few years
• What challenges lie ahead as Tezos continues to scale

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This week on TezTalks Radio, we’re joined by Mat Cybula, CEO of TenX Protocols, following the announcement of a strategic staking partnership with the Tezos Foundation.

In January, TenX acquired approximately 5.5 million tez. But beyond the headline, this conversation focuses on something more important: how that decision was made, and what it actually means in practice.

🎙️ This episode looks at Tezos from the perspective of an operator responsible for uptime, security, and long-term trust.

🔍 In this episode, we explore:

• How the internal decision to acquire tez came together
• The biggest concerns raised before committing capital
• What made Tezos a “yes” for TenX
• What a “strategic staking partnership” actually involves
• What TenX is running today and how to verify it
• What delegators should expect in terms of fees, payouts, and reporting
• How validator performance and transparency will be communicated
• What due diligence from the Tezos Foundation looks like behind the scenes
• How TenX approaches security, key management, and failure scenarios
• The balance between yield optimization and operational safety
• How TenX thinks about decentralization and stake concentration
• Why Tezos governance and upgrade reliability stood out
• How TenX plans to approach on-chain voting
• Whether TenX plans to contribute beyond validation

Throughout the conversation, Mat keeps coming back to a simple idea: running infrastructure is about responsibility, not just returns.

If you’re delegating, building, or just trying to understand what serious operators look for before committing to Tezos, this episode gives a clear view into how those decisions are made.