[52 Week Cosmos] Week 15, 2019

A Weekly Cosmos Ecosystem Update (Apr 4 — Apr 10)

Cosmos/Tendermint

General

• Cosmos SDK v0.33.1 / v0.33.2 released
• The Lunie wallet is live for open beta. Go stake some Atoms!
• Gaia-13003 Testnet has begun [Explorer]
• Cosmos March Community Update is out
• Interoperability tech compared: Cosmos vs Polkadot
• Cosmos Validators Brief #13: Chainflow by Jesse Livermore
• Part two of ‘The Internet of Blockchains’ series by Chorus One
• Mintscan explorer completed its first major renewal. New features include validator cumulative share %, proposal discussion, charts/graphs, and more

Upcoming Events

• [April 12, NYC] Cornell Blockchain Conference (Jae Kwon)
• [April 8–14, Sydney] EDCON (Sunny Aggarwal)
• [April 13–15, Paris] Cosmos Paris Blockchain Week Hackathon (Gautier Marin & Billy Rennekamp)
• [April 16–17, Paris] Paris Blockchain Week Summit (Zaki Manian)

IBC

IBC Weekly #2

• Track progress of IBC specification development here
• Work for documentation regarding high-level IBC architecture explanation has begun

Governance

• Figment Networks on standardizing the Cosmos Hub Proposal formatting. Feedbacks are welcomed!
• ‘Proposal #3: Atom Transfer Enablement v2 Evaluation’ by Chorus One
• ‘To Transfer? — The Sequel’ by Christopher Goes / Cryptium Labs
• [governance] proposal #3 by B-Harvest

Validator Updates

• Figment Networks makes good on their promise to delegate reward earnings to smaller validators. First recipient? Sentinel
• ‘Postmortem: 2019–03–29 DNS-related Cosmos Hub Validator Incident’ by Iqlusion. The fix for this error has been patched in v0.33.2

Ecosystem-at-large

Iris Network

• IRIS first official listing at Huobi Global / Huobi Korea
• IRISnet Week in Review #2 by Ken | Cypher Core

Binance Dex

• Binance Chain completed its hardfork. Upgrades include Tendermint updates, performance enhancements, and governance workflow
• Binance Chain SDK in Go, Java, Javascript is available to the public

Lino Network

• Youtuber PewDiePie will be exclusively streaming his weekly show on the DLive platform

Sentinel

• Work in progress for Sentinel iOS application. RT for beta testing!
• dVPN consumption passes 47 TB. Averaging about 150–200 GB of data processed per 24 hours

Nomic

• Check out Nomic’s Bitcoin sidechain testnet developed with LotionJS: https://nomic.io/

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.