IRISnet Monthly Update
2022.11— Technology & Ecosystem & Community Recap
🌈IRISgardians, here comes the IRISnet Monthly Digest! 🗞
The IRISnet mainnet was upgraded to IRIS Hub 1.4! With the Interchain Announts host functionality enabled, we’ve become the 1st mainnet in Cosmos that supports cross-chain managing NFT assets using ICA!
The Game of NFTs (GoN) is on the way! Amid the mainnet upgrade, we’re planning a GoN (Incentivized testnets +Hackathon) for extensively testing the Interchain NFT Transfer (ICS-721), and for exploring innovative dApps and use cases!🥳
IOBScan-IBC supported 56 chains! You can now explore more details of registered relayers through their “relayer details” page! Check out now!
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Read on!⏬
Table of Content
Technical Updates
• irishub
• IOBScan-IBC
Ecosystem Updates
• IRISnet 1.4 Mainnet Upgrade Has Been Successfully Completed!
• IOBScan IBC-centric Interchain Explorer Supported 56 IBC chains✨
• The Game of NFTs is Coming! (Interchain NFTs are Coming to Cosmos)
Community Updates
• The 20th Execution of the Eco-development Funds Plan was completed!
• Sentiment Proposal #21 Draft: IRISnet Mainnet Hard-Fork Upgrade
• Content from the IRISnet Community
⭐Technical Updates⭐
irishub
• Completed migration from irismod/moudels/nft to cosmos-sdk/x/nft
• Upgraded to cosmos-sdk v0.46.5
• Upgraded to ibc-go v5.0.1
• Upgraded the testnet
IOBScan-IBC
1. Released v0.9, v0.9.1, v0.9.2
• Upgraded IOBScan logo
• Updated Twitter and Medium links
• Added cross-chain transaction amount statistics on the Transfer page
2. Released v0.10
• Added the Relayer Details page
• Refactored the Relayers page
• Optimize the relayer registry page, and update the history data
3. Released v0.11
• Supported Stride (56 IBC chains in total!)
4. Developing v0.12
• Add address details page
• Add relayer info to the homepage
5. Developing OpenAPI
⭐ Ecosystem Updates ⭐
IRISnet 1.4 Mainnet Upgrade Has Been Successfully Completed!
The whole upgrade process was completed in 10 hours after its initiation at 05:49:00 UTC on December 5. Big shoutout to all IRIS Hub validators and service providers who have participated in and supported the upgrade!
We also previewed the upcoming features on our upgraded website following the mainnet upgrade, including the EVM support and Interchain NFTs.
Blogpost:
IOBScan IBC-centric Interchain Explorer Supported 56 IBC chains✨
In the past month, the IOBScan-IBC Interchain explorer has successively rolled out v0.10 and v0.11.
🧰New features include:
• supported 56 IBC chains!⛓
• introduced a new relayer details page
• optimized the relayers page
The new relayer details page shows visualized info of registered relayers, including channel pairs they’re connecting, relaying trends, related assets, the proportion of each transaction type they’re relaying, success rate and transaction details. You can check out these pages by clicking on relayers’ icons/names in the list.
*Note that the details page is only available for relayers who submitted Pull Requests to the relayer registry page (Still open for registration!).
Also if you wish to change/update your logo or info on IOBScan-IBC, please contact us through @iobscan_ibc or the #explorer-support channel in Discord.
The Game of NFTs is Coming! (Interchain NFTs are Coming to Cosmos)
Together with the Interchain Foundation, Stargaze, Gravity Bridge and many other community teams, we’re planning a Game of NFTs for thoroughly testing the ICS-721 Interchain NFT Transfer function, and engaging the community for exploring innovative applications in Q1 2023.
GoN is designed to have two phases, one is for public incentivized testnets, and the other will be a hackathon for building various NFT/Interchain NFT-related applications, tools, integrations and other use cases. The whole process will be lasting for approximately 3 months, starting from late January 2023.
The discussion on GoN is still ongoing and there might be some changes to the timeline, please follow @irisnetwork and join the Discord server for early updates and discussions.
Let’s play and BUIDL!
⭐ Community Updates ⭐
The 20th Execution | Eco-development Funds Community Management Plan
In April 2021, the IRIS Foundation launched a new Ecosystem Development Program, which included the Eco-Development Funds Community Management Plan. The Foundation will undelegate about 300 million IRIS gradually, and then transfer these assets into the Community Pool in batches.
By submitting on-chain governance proposals, every community member can co-manage all assets in the pool for the purpose of enhancing the ecosystem.
The 20th execution of this plan has been completed at the end of November: https://irishub.iobscan.io/#/txs/F44CD6318944F7662C2E1ABF3AE136DEE8F51A2DBBEF11517FE2A6BDF69D5941
Sentiment Proposal #21 Draft Discussion: IRISnet Mainnet Hard-Fork Upgrade
On December 9, we published a draft of sentiment proposal #21 in the IRISnet forum proposing a hard-fork mainnet upgrade to deal with the buggy cosmos-sdk v0.46.5 used by irishub v1.4.1, among other things.
Reasons why we prefer a hard-fork approach:
• it would be easier and safer to migrate to v0.47+ cosmos-sdk releases with a hard-fork upgrade
• to relieve storage burden for node operators
• a hard-fork upgrade will bring the mainnet up to a much more stable cosmos-sdk version in a low-risk manner, while ‘cleaning the slate’ for bustling dApp activities expected from early 2023 (the Game of NFTs!).
We also plan to add EVM support on our mainnet around Q1-Q2 of 2023, in response to the community’s ongoing appeals.
Welcome to check out for more details and join the discussion🗣:
