Our plan for delivering ABCI++ The Tendermint project is one which, relative to other software in the space, is long in the tooth. While Tendermint remains the industry standard in consensus engines, its journey has seen many iterations of the core development team. This lack of continuity has led to…

A retrospective on the v0.35, what happened, how it happened and the decisions we’ve made going forward — Tendermint v0.35 was released in November 2021. Among other work, v0.35 included the first phase of a peer to peer (p2p) refactor which modified several abstractions with the aim of preparing the codebase for larger subsequent changes (i.e. libp2p). The refactor included an overhaul to: the Router – responsible for…

Introduction The Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol offers a secure, general-purpose, and fault-tolerant standard to act as the connective tissue between blockchains. Over time, IBC has arguably established itself as the benchmark for natively verified interoperability systems. The light client-based verification mechanism that IBC uses has been at the core of ensuring…

The Interchain Foundation is committed to stewarding the Cosmos ecosystem by funding and advancing the creation of an interoperable, sustainable, and community-owned decentralized ecosystem. As part of our ongoing efforts to support the Cosmos ecosystem, the ICF is updating its delegation strategy, which has been notably outdated. Due to limited…

With guest writers from Composable Finance The cross-ecosystem future of DeFi Interoperability has been a significant focus within the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) sector. Cross-chain movement of liquidity plays a vital point in yield-maximization, serving end-users with greater growth of TVL than would be possible in any singular ecosystem. …

The birth of Bitcoin led to a Cambrian explosion of blockchains with different design decisions and use cases. While these distributed ledgers serve different purposes, they existed (and still exist to a certain degree) as silos with limited meaningful interaction. Similar to the Internet which facilitates different types of computers…

The birth of Bitcoin led to a Cambrian explosion of blockchains with different design principles and use cases. While these distributed ledgers serve different purposes, they existed (and still exist to a certain degree) as silos with limited meaningful interaction. Similar to the Internet which facilitates different types of computers…

The team at Interchain GmbH will shortly release ICS-29–relayer fee incentivization–for the ibc-go module. This marks an important milestone in the roadmap towards scalability of the IBC (Inter-Blockchain Communication) protocol. Relayer operators are a crucial part of the IBC infrastructure, yet sometimes their presence is taken for granted. In this…

Today we are providing details about the Builders Program, why it was born, and the problems it seeks to solve. We’ll highlight structural aspects and support points of the program and give an outlook for the future. At its heart, the program is made by builders for builders, linking together…