[52 Week Cosmos] Week 13, 2019

A Weekly Cosmos Ecosystem Update (Mar 20— Mar 27)

Cosmos/Tendermint

General

• Great feature addition to two Cosmos explorers. Delegate right from the explorer using the Ledger Nano S (Stargazer by Certus One and Hubble by Figment Networks)
• Workshop on how to build a Plasma MVP chain using the Cosmos SDK

• The Interchain Foundation has begun delegations to Game of Stakes winners
• ‘How to Choose Cosmos Validator’ by Mira Nugumanova of Ztake.org

Upcoming Events

• Cosmos launch parties around the world! [Seoul, Shanghai]
• Live AMA with the Cosmos Team by Cryptocopia [Mar 28, Online]
• ‘Building an Application Using the Cosmos-SDK’ Workshop [April 1, Berkeley]
• Geekhub (Chinese blockchain community) online meetup with the Cosmos Team [April 4, Online(China)]
• Jae Kwon speaking at Cornell Blockchain Conference [April 12, New York]

IBC

• Biweekly IBC discussions have begun. Track the progress of IBC discussions and development here.

Governance

• Community discussions have begun on the process of accepting software upgrades and implementing it. The question is ‘how do we implement an efficient yet decentralized process of upgrading the Cosmos Hub?’
• Two proposals are ongoing voting at the moment: 1. Adjust the blocks-per-year parameter to match actual Cosmos Hub blocktime and 2. Enable Atom transfers. Proposal #1 has passed minimum quorum + yes votes, and pending voting end time (April 3) and Proposal #2 pending quorum and a supermajority yes votes.
• Discussions on Interchain Foundation delegations kicked off by Validator Network. Focusing on decentralizing voting power. Additional suggestions raised by B-Harvest.

Validator Updates

• In-depth live discussion on Decentralization led by Chorus One
• ‘Validating is the new mining’ by Terence Lam of Forbole
• Cosmos Hub validator Figment Networks raises seed round investment of $1,800,000 (CAD)
• Validator Iqlusion blogpost on Cosmos Hub proposal #1
• Iqlusion blogpost on validator network architecture and thoughts on what to consider as Cosmos Hub validators
• ‘How to Choose Cosmos Validator’ by Mira Nugumanova of Ztake.org

Ecosystem-at-large

Iris Network

• Cosmos & IRISnet mainnet launch party at Shanghai [Event Page]
• IRISnet validator Cypher Core’s ‘IRISnet Week in Review’
• Validator pool showing consistent growth with new members joining in

Binance Chain

• Binance Chain simulated trading competition complete
• 666,000 address activated / $500 million USDT.B trading volume / 7.3 million TXs handled

Terra

Lunamint stopped by at the Terra meetup in Seoul, Korea

• ‘Understanding the Relationship Between Monetary Velocity, Seigniorage, and Stability’ by Evan Kereiakes (Core Researcher at Terra)

Sentinel

• Sentinel dVPN node usage crossed the 45 TB mark in 1 month. For more details, check out this page
• Sentinel advisor James McDowall joined the Cosmos launch party in Berlin

Did we miss anything? If you’re building on Cosmos/Tendermint/Cosmos-sdk, we’d love to feature your projects’ updates in the next 52 Week Cosmos. Feel free to reach out to us via email (atlas@lunamint.com) or tweet us.