[52 Week Cosmos] Week 14, 2019

A Weekly Cosmos Ecosystem Update (Mar 27 — Apr 3)

Cosmos/Tendermint

General

• Latest Tendermint Core release: v0.31.3 [Changelog]
• Latest Cosmos-SDK release: v0.33.2 [Changelog]
• Cosmos-SDK v0.34.0 release soon
• Cosmonaut Chjango Unchained & Sunny Aggarwal talks Cosmos at the Cryptocopia AMA [Video]
• Epicenter podcast with Sunny Aggarwal and Ethan Buchman
• In-depth look into blockchain operability with comparisons (Demystifying Cosmos: Atomic Swaps, Ethereum, Polkadot and the Path to Blockchain Interoperability by Jason Choi, Spartan Group)
• Cosmos mention in ‘Blockchain Voter Apathy’ by Roy Learner (Wave Financial). Proposal #1 at the end of its voting period ranked as one of the highest participation networks.

Upcoming Events

• [April 12, NYC] Jae Kwon speaking at Cornell Blockchain Conference
• [April 8–14, Sydney] Sunny Aggarwal joining this year’s EDCON

IBC

• Work in progress for IBC relayer algorithms (ICS18)

Governance

• After an extended debate regarding software upgrade proposals, the Tendermint team has recommended a two-phase software upgrade process: 1. Vote on proposed changes and 2. Vote on the released software + timing of upgrade. [Cosmos Forum Discussion]
• A new system of voting was suggested for the two-phase voting system. An initial 2-week voting period for the first proposal, and an expedited vote for the second proposal.
• ‘ATOM Transfer Enablement v2’ proposal is in voting period with recommended changes by Tendermint. [Cosmos Forum Discussion]
• Proposal #1: ‘Adjustment of blocks_per_year to come aligned with actual block time’ has passed.
• Stats from Proposal #1 Vote:
  — 80% of bonded Atom voted
  — Yes 99.26% / Abstain 0.41% / No 0.33% / No(Veto) 0%

Validator Updates

• Chorus One’s Newsletter ‘Staking Economy #14: Staking Goes Mainstream’
• Validator Network’s staking reward reinvestment script released
• ‘HSM Policies and the Importance of Validator Security’ by Michael Ng(StakeWith.Us)

We joined the Samsung NEXT meetup to talk about Cosmos

Ecosystem-at-large

Iris Network

Highlights from the Cosmos & IRISnet Launching Party in Shanghai

• IRIS Hub v0.13.1 Released [Changelog] (Optional but recommended upgrade)

Binance Dex

• CZ announces plans for Binance Chain mainnet by the end of the month
• Binance DEX coding competition has begun: 1. develop an SDK in Python, Swift or C# and 2. Create a signing service for the Binance Chain

Terra

• Terra announces plans for mainnet in April
• Terra Core, documentation, and other GitHub repository open to public

Sentinel

• Sentinel Q1 Update and 2019 Roadmap blogpost.
• Q1 In Review:
  Total data consumed — 46TB
  Sentinel Tendermint Testnet 1.1 and Desktop Client v0.1.0 release
  Sentinel Android VPN entered ’50 Most Popular VPN’ category
• What’s ahead:
  More releases: Desktop, Android, iOS
  dChat release
  Sentinel Relay Network prototype & TOR Node
  Incentive Models
  Token swap process
  and more

Chainpoint

• Chainpoint announces plans to implement Tendermint Core

Ockam

• ‘An Introduction to Trust Architectures for IoT Devices’ by Matthew Gregory, Ockam CEO

Loom Network

• Software upgrade to allow mobile wallet signing on PlasmaChain with Ethereum private keys successful

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.