[52 Week Cosmos] Week 16, 2019

Cosmos/Tendermint

General

• Cosmos-SDK v0.34.0 released [Changelog]
• Chorus One’s Felix Lutsch shares a comprehensive overview of Cosmos Hub staking and rewards
• Research discussions regarding disincentivizing validator centralization. Ideas with slashing levels increasing with voting power. The question is: how do you prevent sybil validators?

• Live discussion on the economics of Cosmos hosted by Chorus One
• Nicolas Cantu of Chain Accelerator shares his experience testing out the Cosmos SDK

Upcoming Events

• [April 23–24, Toronto] Rebuild Conference (Ethan Buchman)

IBC

Governance

• Proposal #4: Enable fungible token issuance on the Cosmos Hub is in voting phase. Check out the Cosmos forum discussions
• Proposal #3 voting period coming to an end. Strong support to enable transfers with 92% yes votes.
• WIP led by Figment Networks on formalizing the software upgrade proposal format and process. Add your thoughts and suggest edits here.
• Cosmos researcher and Sikka validator Sunny Aggarwal draft proposal to refund proposals on No votes, and only burn on majority NoWithVeto votes to incentivize more proposals.

Validator Updates

stake.fish + Sunny Aggarwal (Sikka) stopping by at EDCON Sydney

• Everstake blogpost on Proposal #3

Ecosystem-at-large

Iris Network

• Iris Network March update is up: 40,000 blocks, 90 active validators, 26% of tokens bonded
• Cosmos & IRISnet launch party review
• IRISNet forms strategic partnership with U Net

Terra

• Terra mainnet launch is set to April 23, 23:00 PST
• Terra researcher Evan Kereiakes on ‘The Revolution of Money and Finance’

Lino Network

Sentinel

• Upcoming releases: Sentinel Desktop Client v0.1.2, Tendermint & Ethereum testnet node update, Sentinel Android App update
• dVPN node incentivization planned

TruStory

• Become an early user of the TruStory platform: apply for the TruStory waitlist

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.