📣 Here’s the state of Tezos for Q3 2025 from @MessariCrypto 👇 ⚡ Tezos L1 transactions rose 21.5% QoQ, peaking at 4.7M in July 🔌 fees reached 17.5k tez, up 16.9% QoQ 🧱 @etherlink, the EVM compatibility layer for Tezos, ended Q3 at $61.2M TVL, up 46.9% QoQ after a sharp July dip and rebound 💧 Tezos DeFi TVL grew 13.1% QoQ to $45.1M, led by @youves_com (+18% QoQ) 🧩 Monthly active open-source devs hit 229, up 37.1% QoQ 1/5 🧵

🔗 @etherlink kept scaling the ecosystem as the Tezos EVM compatibility layer. → Kernel 4.1 doubled throughput targets to 4M gas/sec and improved gas estimation, keeping costs low as capacity expanded. → Daily active addresses on Etherlink rose 33.8% QoQ, helped by KuCoin native deposits. 2/5 🧵

💧 DeFi liquidity deepened → Tezos L1 DeFi TVL grew to $45.1M → Etherlink DeFi TVL reached $84.4M (+37.9% QoQ), with @CurveFinance jumping to $31M TVL within weeks → RWAs kept plugging into DeFi flows, with @Spiko_finance (+121.8% QoQ) and @uranium_io-backed borrowing powered by @okutrade and @Morpho. 3/5 🧵

🎨 Art on Tezos stayed a standout → @objktcom remained the leading NFT marketplace by active users (+3.7% QoQ) and launched @bootloader_art for long-form generative art → Art was centre stage at TezDev with a 360° art show featuring curated releases and logo remixes → @RGB_MTL raised 15,000 tez in under 20 minutes, the Tezos Foundation matched the proceeds to help power the third annual event → @bitforms presented a solo show of @zancan's works in New York → Tezos Foundation partnered with NXT Festival in Seville to present a series of works curated by @sutanz → @motus_art presented an interactive installation at Volumens Festival, powered by @editart_xyz and @tesserart_xyz 4/5 🧵