The Interchain Foundation (ICF) and Composable Finance are pleased to announce that Composable Finance has received a grant from the ICF for its work on the Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol: IBC-Go. …

And why you shouldn’t buy into Interchain FUD — Interchain Accounts V1 is live! As different chain ecosystems prepare to launch different products based on Interchain Accounts, we wanted to share further details around the usage of Interchain Accounts which we hope will help contribute to smooth and successful rollout across the Interchain. For users of IBC: What is the difference between an…

The Cosmos Hub Testnet Program is designed to prepare validators and integrators for upcoming upgrades. And, the best way to prepare validators is to simulate an upgrade on a network that mirrors the mainnet as closely as possible. This means all users, validators, and tokens from the Cosmos Hub mainnet…

Everything you need to know about the Theta testnet program for validators, wallets and integrators — We are gearing up for the Cosmos Hub v7-Theta upgrade in April! As per the Cosmos Hub roadmap, this release includes Cosmos SDK v0.45.1, the exciting new Interchain Account Module, an upgraded Gravity DEX, IBC v3.0.0, and many performance improvements. We’re providing a number of opportunities for you to prepare…

If the crypto narrative of 2020 was around DeFi and the deconstruction of financial systems to composable primitives, 2021 saw the growth of interoperability– the interaction of these primitives across the growing diversity of crypto ecosystems– as a major component of the narrative. However, this world of sovereign interchain ecosystems…

Preparing for the Cosmos Hub Vega Upgrade — The Cosmos Hub Testnet for the Vega upgrade successfully passed the upgrade proposal at 12 Nov 2021, 5:09:48pm UTC which resulted in a network upgrade at height 7,453,750 which was at 12 Nov 2021, 20:25:32 UTC. The network was down for 22 min 52s for this upgrade which is an…

Attention all Cosmos Hub Validators and Node Operators — We’ve just launched a testnet for the vega upgrade including the gaia v6.0.0 release candidate. The testnet is a snapshot of the current cosmos hub with some modifications so that over 66% of the voting power is controlled by nodes controlled by the Cosmos Hub Team. Validators can either re-use…

We’re happy to report that Confio completed the Cosmos hierarchical deterministic (HD) key derivation spec. This is a proposal to change the way keys are generated within the Cosmos ecosystem. HD wallets allow you to generate public and private keys for multiple blockchains with one single mnemonic seed phrase. Following…

The Interchain Foundation and BlockScience are pleased to announce a partnership to bring robust complex systems engineering to the Cosmos stack. To date, the Interchain Foundation has made significant investments in the correctness of core Cosmos components, including formal verification and model-based testing of the Tendermint consensus protocol and light…