Developer Adoption Working Group; Interchain Accounts; Solo Machine vs. Proof of Authority; Off-chain Oracle Module; Chain Name Service; Atlas Node Discovery; Welcome Charly Fei! Alan Dart Extension; Cosmos SDK Audit; Cosmjs maintenance; Thank you Jae Kwon;
It’s that time again, for the Interchain Foundation’s bi-weekly update. We’re a few days late, but will aim to release these every other Thursday as consistently as possible.
In the intervening two weeks the most significant news is without a doubt the Stargate Launch, which includes IBC and represents the culmination of years of work by the entire Cosmos ecosystem. Following the upgrade, Ethan Buchman and Sam Hart published a blog post, The Cosmos Hub is a Port City, describing a vision for what’s next for the Cosmos Hub.
Blockchains are Cities
Blockchains are virtual cities: districts of economic and cultural exchange, where common infrastructure gives rise to a mutual sense of place and a shared social fabric.
Bitcoin is a city. The original application-specific chain. Despite its minimal feature set, Bitcoin is surrounded by a rich ecosystem of clients, exchanges, and layer-2s. Likewise, Ethereum is a sprawling metropolis with a rapidly expanding financial district, so much so that the cost of living is pushing people to the suburbs.
There are plenty of small cities that serve their residents perfectly well, but many next generation blockchains are…
EthDenver Interoperability Panel; WenChang launched by Bianjie on BSN; Confio begins work on TypeScript Relayer; UX Working Group Updates;
Welcome to the eleventh edition of our bi-weekly update! We’ll be using this space to highlight some of the exciting activities that took place at the Interchain Foundation over the last two weeks. This includes some check-in meetings that occurred with various funding recipients, as well as goings-on that members of the Interchain ecosystem might find interesting and informative.
If any of the updates are especially relevant to what you are working on, feel free to drop us a line at hello@interchain.io.
If you’re interested in applying for funding, take a look at our process, our request for proposals and…
Cosmos Hub Upgrade DELAYED until Feb 18; CTM Music Festival launches Cosmos SDK Chains; Bianjie builds CosmWasm VSCode Extension; Sean King joins Interchain GmbH; Account Coordinator: A Proposal for the Future of Wallets; Video: Agoric and MetaMask on Securing Web3; Chain Registry Working Group Kick Off; Informal Systems’ Cross Chain Validation Draft Spec;
Welcome to the tenth edition of our bi-weekly update! We’ll be using this space to highlight some of the exciting activities that took place at the Interchain Foundation over the last two weeks. This includes some check-in meetings that occurred with various funding recipients, as well as goings-on that members of the Interchain ecosystem might find interesting and informative.
If any of the updates are especially relevant to what you are working on, feel free to drop us a line at hello@interchain.io.
If you’re interested in applying for funding, take a look at our process, our request for proposals and…
Our fourth quarter of funding proposals closed submissions on October 31st, 2020. This is the third time our new process has been followed since the update last year. We reviewed the applications internally and compiled the proposals recommended by the Board of Management. These were included with comments from the Technical Advisory Board and submitted to the Foundation Council for approval. The time spent since then was on finalizing service agreements and getting the required signatures in place.
The following proposals have now been finalized and work has begun by the respective teams. This comes in tandem with the Q4…
The Interchain Foundation (ICF) is delighted to announce the publication of key financial figures and funding activity for the last quarter of 2020. The Foundation maintains a very professional and conservative asset management approach which ensures sustainable capital deployment for the Cosmos project for many more years to come. In order to achieve the Foundation’s mission, safeguarding the Foundation’s assets and providing operational liquidity is essential and it is closely and constantly monitored by the Foundation Council.
Since its inception in 2017, the ICF has been subject to full financial audits and is happy to announce that during all reporting…
ICF RFP Governance Module Improvements; Cosmos Hub Stargate Upgrade HAPPENING NOW; CosmWasm MusselNet; Progress report: NFT+Metadata Standards; Citizen Cosmos; Orijitech Starting Cosmos SDK Benchmarking; Onur Akpolat Joins Interchain GmbH; UniFi DAO Demo Day; Runtime Verification; LazyLedger Optimistic Rollup Mod; Chainapsis Launches Interchain Accounts with Starport;
Welcome to the ninth edition of our bi-weekly update! We’ll be using this space to highlight some of the exciting activities that took place at the Interchain Foundation over the last two weeks — in this case with the holidays it’s actually been four weeks. This includes some check-in meetings that occurred with various funding recipients, as well as goings-on that members of the Interchain ecosystem might find interesting and informative.
If any of the updates are especially relevant to what you are working on, feel free to drop us a line at hello@interchain.io.
ChainSafe Conference Highlights;Cosmos Conversations Highlights; Trust Graphic Novel; Cosmos Quicksync from Chainlayer; Bianjie Agreement for Enterprise Compliant SDK; CosmosCash Research Paper; Althea Peggy Public Standup; WalletConnect Spec and Presentation; Map Of Zones Updates; Cosmos Rust Meeting; cdot and Substrate IBC; cdot and Substrate IBC; Gaia team lead Shahan Khatchadourian;
Welcome to the eighth edition of our bi-weekly update! We’ll be using this space to highlight some of the exciting activities that took place at the Interchain Foundation over the last two weeks. This will include some check-in meetings that occurred with various funding recipients, as well as goings-on that members of the Interchain ecosystem might find interesting and informative.
If any of the updates are especially relevant to what you are working on, feel free to drop us a line at hello@interchain.io.
If you’re interested in applying for funding, take a look at our process, our request for proposals…
ChainSafe Conference and Ethermint Testnet; UX Working Group Chain Registry; Ape Unit Stewarding UX Working Group; NFT Working Group RFC on Specs; Confio Delivers CosmWasm IBC Testnet and New Features (Random Beacon, Multi-Sig, Sub-Keys, IBC Visualizer, Dapp StarterKit); Chainapsis Delivers New Keplr Features (Akash & Starname Networks, Vesting Accounts, CW20 Tokens, Advanced Account Importing, Multi-Currency); Althea gets Peggy an Audit from CertiK; ZKSummit Videos Coming Online; WalletConnect Published v2 Alpha; Akash & IBC Relayer
Welcome to the seventh edition of our bi-weekly update! We’ll be using this space to highlight some of the exciting activities that took place at the Interchain Foundation over the last two weeks. This will include some check-in meetings that occurred with various funding recipients, as well as goings-on that members of the Interchain ecosystem might find interesting and informative.
If any of the updates are especially relevant to what you are working on, feel free to drop us a line at hello@interchain.io.
If you’re interested in applying for funding, take a look at our process, our request for proposals…
Cosmos Jobs Launches; ICF Engages Orijitech for Security Development; Hackathon V Concludes; ICF Joins Future of Cosmos Broadcast; UX Working Group Making Quick Progress;
Welcome to the sixth edition of our bi-weekly update! We’ll be using this space to highlight some of the exciting activities that took place at the Interchain Foundation over the last two weeks. This will include some check-in meetings that occurred with various funding recipients, as well as goings-on that members of the Interchain ecosystem might find interesting and informative.
If any of the updates are especially relevant to what you are working on, feel free to drop us a line at hello@interchain.io.
If you missed the last update, check it out at ICF Update — Nov 3rd.
Cosmos Jobs Launches
Interchain Foundation
The ICF (https://interchain.io/) is the Swiss foundation funding and pushing the frontiers of blockchain-related infrastructure.
