The Interchain Foundation is excited to announce that Tess Rinearson has joined the Foundation as a Council member. She is the newest member since the addition of Brian Crain and Fernando Pedone in 2020.

Jae Kwon announced his intention to retire from the position of president of the ICF to focus on engineering activities. Foundation Council member Pascal Schmid has also left his position to focus on new endeavors. The Foundation is grateful to Jae and Pascal for their services and wishes them all the best in their new endeavors. …

Our first quarter of funding proposals closed submissions on February 14th, 2021. 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 Q1 Financial Transparency Report. Applications for Q2 2021 closed May 14th. …

The Interchain Foundation (ICF) is delighted to announce the publication of key financial figures and funding activity for the first quarter of 2021. 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…

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IBC token transfers enabled!

Tonight IBC token transfers are now enabled on the Cosmos Hub. After years of R&D, moving tokens and other information securely across chains is now possible. Also, Keplr wallet’s IBC transfer support is now available! Congratulations to the core teams at Interchain GmbH, Informal, All in Bits, Agoric, and Iqlusion, who helped bring this project to life, as well as the many individuals and teams that played an important supporting role. Check out out the new IBC protocol website to learn more about the various IBC specification and development initiatives. …

It’s that time again. Here’s a brief summary of what’s going on in the Cosmos.

Keplr

Keplr wallet is seeing strong user growth, now with well over 20,000 installs. The latest update now supports Cosmos chains that have upgraded to Stargate, and will be rolling out IBC transfers shortly after the governance vote activates the feature on the Hub.

Celo Bridge

Chorus One is making great progress on their Celo bridge, completing the ed21559 precompile needed on the Celo side, as well as an MVP of the Celo rust light client.

Agoric incentivized testnet

Agoric will be starting their incentivized testnet now that validator applications have…

Note: The Cosmos ecosystem is constantly growing and expanding. This article’s content is now outdated. For the latest content, see https://cosmos.network/.

ICF Update — March 1st

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. …

Ethan Buchman & Sam Hart

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…

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…