Cøsmos Network: 2 years anniversary, Prop 41 to enable IBC transfers on Cosmos Hub, IBC is coming to Starport, HackAtom RU is on, Crypto.com partners with Visa, Brave joined the BSC ecosystem, Bytom 2.0 whitepaper and roadmap released, Anchor Protocol is live, Polygon integration with Band Protocol, Sentinel mainnet on Mar 27, and more!

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14 min readMar 24, 2021

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Biweekly update on Cosmos ecosystem vol. 44, 9th March — 24th March

Greetings, Space Cowboys and Astronaut Girls! It’s time for our traditional biweekly report!
Did you know that on March 13th 2019 Cosmos Hub was born? Last week, we celebrated the very special day — two years since the launch! Happy anniversary to the team!
HackAtom RU, a Cosmos IBC-focused hackathon, is waiting for its most creative developers. Space mission: IBC’ing (aka bridging) DeFi into Cosmos! Read full details below, register and start building. Only a few days left to submit your Cosmos project!
Starport, the easiest way to build a blockchain, now comes with a brand new release, Starport v0.15, that focuses on one of the most important features of Stargate — the Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol.
Proposal #41 is in the voting period. It enables transferring and receiving assets using the ICS20 standard on the Cosmos Hub. If this proposal passes, there will be IBC assets available in the Bank module of the Hub and ATOM will be available on Zones connected over IBC.
As for the Cosmos ecosystem news: Crypto.com announces global alliance partnership and principal membership with Visa. Also, Crypto.com will launch a non-fungible token (NFT) platform on March 26 featuring content from the likes of Snoop Dogg, Lionel Ritchie and Boy George. Launched smoothly, Akash mainnet 2 saw 188 application deployments in the first 2 weeks. Althea blockchain community update and AMA took place. The application phase of Agoric incentivized testnet is now complete. Polygon (Matic Network) completes integration with Band Protocol to secure DeFi, NFT, and gaming ecosystem. Brave joined the BSC ecosystem to accelerate DeFi adoption. What’s more, Binance Smart Chain surpasses Ethereum in volume and users BSC DeFi. The Bytom team just released the Bytom 2.0 whitepaper, the evolution will greatly influence the Bytom blockchain. The Idena hard fork update has been successfully activated at the block number 2643893. The new Idena app version will be released soon to support the mining delegation. Oasis is partnering with Darwinia Network to bring their powerful cross-chain bridge to the Oasis Network — helping expand cross-chain asset transactions and unlock the next generation of privacy-enabled DeFi. Injective Equinox pre-staking launched. Uptick App launched on IRISnet mainnet. Terra Bridge is live: You can now transfer assets between Terra, Ethereum, and Binance Chain within a single user-friendly interface. Anchor Protocol is now live. Mirrored SPY Index (S&P 500) is here. BitSong mainnet launch is planned on March 26th. Santinel mainnet launches March 27th. Kava 5 recommended launch date has been moved to March 31st. SEFI, native governance token for Secret DeFi, is expected to launch on March 31st. Regen mainnet soon. ATOM community meme competition is on. And more!
That’s all for today! See you next month with more exciting Cosmos news!

Development

Github metrics:

2 years since the Cosmos Hub launch

On March 13th 2019, Cosmos Hub was born! Happy 2 years anniversary to the team!

Cosmos Governance

Proposals:

# 38 Signal Proposal to Adopt the Liquidity Module onto the Cosmos Hub PASSED

The aim for the Cosmos Hub Gravity DEX is to act as a marketplace for trading tokens from any connected network including:

Cosmos-SDK networks
Ethereum, including DeFi tokens
Other networks via IBC/Peg or others

#41 Enable IBC transfers IN THE VOTING PERIOD

The Proposal enables transferring and receiving assets using the ICS20 standard on the Cosmos Hub. If this proposal passes, there will be IBC assets available in the Bank module of the Hub and ATOM will be available on Zones connected over IBC.

Tendermint

Starport v0.15: Supercharged IBC and Frontend Code Generation

Starport has supported Cosmos SDK Stargate even before Starport was released in September 2020. The team has improved and simplified the scaffold, introduced better tools to manage proto files, and switched to the latest version of SDK by default. Starport v0.15 focuses on one of the most important features of Stargate — the inter-blockchain communication protocol (IBC). This release includes incredibly useful commands for scaffolding IBC modules, packets, messages, and indexed types. To provide an even better developer experience, a built-in relayer accelerates the development of IBC interconnected blockchains.

Starport has always bundled a frontend application with every scaffolded chain. In this release, frontend support is re-engineered to include separate packages for Vue components and common Vuex stores. The foundation under all the frontend efforts is the new client code generation capability. Starport automatically generates JavaScript, TypeScript, and Vuex clients for standard Cosmos SDK modules as well as, of course, the custom modules you are building.

Hierarchy of Tests

by Anton Kaliaev

How are critical distributed systems, like Tendermint Core, being tested and how is the engineering team doubling down on its overall resilience and stability? The answer is multiple layers of testing.

Hierarchy of Tests

This story dives into the history of testing Tendermint and our current approach, plus some future ideas.

medium.com

Towards Tendermint Core 1.0

Tendermint roadmap for the next 18 months

Tendermint Core 1.0’s chief concern is stability. It must be stable enough that people can (continue) to build production software on it confidently. This requires an increased level of clarity and rigidity around all the interfaces exposed by Tendermint Core. It also requires us to build confidence in Tendermint Core’s performance and correctness through investments in performance-oriented refactors and increased, more sophisticated testing.

This post outlines the things the team considers necessary for a 1.0 release.

The team thinks of new features and improvements as a kind of Maslow’s hierarchy combined with a food pyramid, with the most substantial and most boring goals at the bottom, and the shinier and smaller changes at the top.

If you have questions, ideas, or would like to contribute, please open an issue or join Tendermint developer forum.

Meet the team:

Awareness and social encounters

HackAtom RU 2021

Money bag $45,000 prize pool in $ATOMs & other tokens

Reminder: This hackathon is for both Russian & English speakers. Everything will be available in both languages so all hackers can participate!

Schedule:

Hacking started: March 15th, 19:00 pm MSC
Submissions Due: March 26th, 23:45 pm MSC
Voting for Community Choice Award: March 27th — 30th, voting closes 17:00 pm MSC
Winners Announced: March 31st 15:00 pm MSC

Citizen Cosmos

Finance

Information from Mintscan.io:

Top 10 validators:

Cosmos Markets

Information from Coinmarketcap.com:

Information from Coinlib.io:

Top Cosmos Ecosystem Coins by Market Capitalization:

Cosmos Roadmap:

100% complete

Releases:

Interchain Foundation

ICF bi-weekly updates

If you missed previous updates, check it out at ICF Update — March 1st ICF Update — Feb 11th ICF Update — Jan 28th ICF Update — Jan 14th ICF Update — Dec 15th ICF Update — Dec 1st ICF Update — Nov 17th ICF Update — Nov 3rd ICF Update — Oct 20th ICF Update — Oct 6th, ICF Update — Sept 7, ICF Update — Sept 22.

Ecosystem updates

Akash Network:

Althea Network:

Althea Network is growing!

Althea blockchain community update and AMA. This community call focuses on the upcoming Althea chain.

Agoric:

The application phase of Agoric incentivized testnet is now complete. Selected validators and waitlist members should complete the next steps sent to your emails.

Band Protocol:

Binance (BSC):

Binance Smart Chain Surpasses Ethereum in Volume and Users: The Binance Smart Chain has experienced rapid growth in the last six months. This can be attributed to a plethora of things such as the DeFi boom or the extreme transaction fees on the Ethereum network.
Binance Chain Mainnet Lowering of Fee Structure: This change focused on the Binance Chain mainnet and reduced multiple fees. Moving forward we can expect further proposals to lower fees on both the Binance Chain and the Binance Smart Chain as BNB price continues its steady accent higher.
Brave (BAT) joins the BSC ecosystem to accelerate DeFi adoption: Basic Attention Token (BAT) is exploring multiple blockchains as a part of its Themis initiative and is now also available on Binance Smart Chain (BSC) as wrapped BAT.
Chai pNetwork’s Ethereum-BSC bridge now live on the Binance Smart Chain
BSC Tutorial: Getting Started on The Binance Smart ChainЖ This tutorial outlines how to get funds onto a Binance Smart Chain (BSC) wallet to begin interacting with dApps. This is a great place to start for beginners who are yet to get a working wallet on the BSC.
Binance Smart Chain Recap Analytics and AnalysisЖ Join CryptoRich in his weekly series, “BSC Recap: Analytics and Analysis,” where he dives into data, graphs, and the latest projects, providing insight on the state of the BSC.
Binance Chain extension wallet v1.138.5 release on FireFox.
Find the latest BSC news here.

BitSong:

BitSong mainnet launch on March 26th:

Bluzelle:

Bluzelle Biweekly Review
Bluzelle Partners with $50B Data Infrastructure Leader Equinix
Bluzelle Welcomes Ankr as a Validator
The Official Bluzelle NFT Collection: With the upcoming new brand design, the team is giving away a collection of artistic NFTs

Bytom:

Bytom 2.0 WhitePaper Released: New Solar Epoch: Click here to view the details of the WhitePaper.
Insight into the WhitePaper: Everything You Need to Know About Bytom 2.0
Bytom 2.0 Roadmap Explained: Usher in An New Epoch by Three Steps

Crypto.com:

e-Money:

e-Money Appoints Leading Design Agency Bürocratik For Rebranding & Digital transformation

Idena Network:

The hard fork update has been successfully activated at the block number 2643893. Make sure you’re running the latest node version 0.25.0. The new Idena app version will be released soon to support the mining delegation.

Injective

Injective Equinox Pre-Staking Launch: Now, you can transfer your ERC-20 INJ tokens into Injective to start earning yield. To further reward the community’s patience, the team has also raised the baseline APY to 15%.

Injective Exchange Upgrade: A Novel Order Matching Mechanism
Injective Partners with Cartesi to Enable Mainstream Developer Adoption: Injective is joining forces with Cartesi to enable mainstream developer adoption of the Injective Chain. Both companies will study together how to integrate Cartesi’s tools on the Injective ecosystem.
Injective Partners with SuperFarm to Launch Exclusive Injective NFTs
Injective Partners with Tidal to Provide Insurance for Decentralized Derivatives
Injective Partners with PARSIQ to Enable Fully Automated Decentralized Trading
Injective Partners with KardiaChain to Expand our Cross-Chain Trading Universe

IRIS Network:

Uptick NFT App Launches on IRISnet: The 1st NFT App in the Cosmos/IRISnet Ecosystem

Kava:

Kava 5 recommended launch date has been moved to 15:00UTC March 31st. This is to allow more time for quality assurance testing.
Kava Labs Completes Acquisition of Crank Studio.

Oasis:

The Oasis-Eth ParaTime is Live on Mainnet. Join the Hackathon: The Oasis-Eth ParaTime by Second State is live on Mainnet of the Oasis Network. It launched successfully and has 18 nodes registered to operate on the ParaTime.
Hackathon Winner’s Spotlight: Oasis Docs
Hackathon Winner’s Spotlight: Personality Tester
Expanding cross-chain asset transactions
Expanding cross-chain asset transactions

Oracle:

Oracle Announces Java 16: New release delivers 17 enhancements, including new Java language improvements, tools, memory management, and incubating and preview features.
Oracle Announces New Compute E4 Platform on 3rd Gen AMD EPYC Processors: The new E4 compute instances based on the third generation AMD EPYC processors deliver on the promise of truly responsive and cost-effective compute services.
Oracle is Poised for Cloud Greatness and Wall Street Is Starting to Notice: Barron’s cover story outlines unique advantages Oracle brings to the booming cloud computing market.
Moat by Oracle Receives MRC Accreditation for Connected TV Video Impression Measurement
TIM Brasil Selects Oracle and Microsoft to Migrate All of its Datacenter Workloads to the Cloud
Building the Future of Business: Over 750 Organizations Across Industries Have Gone Live on Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications in the Last Six Months
US Consumers Eager to Return to Stadiums Provided Certain Changes are Implemented
Oracle ERP Virtual Summit: Insights from Oracle’s Larry Ellison and execs from PwC, Square, and goPuff
Why more companies want unified, cloud-based ERP and HCM
Oracle Cloud Gives Prosperdtx Tools to Boost Patient Care at Lower Cost
Customers Are the Cornerstone to Our Success: Oracle Named a Customers’ Choice Vendor in 2021 Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’
WorkForce Software CEO: Selecting Oracle Cloud Was A “No-Brainer”
ClearView to Power Digital Transformation with Oracle Insurance
Next Generation of Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Available
Louisville Water Company Taps Oracle to Improve Operational Efficiency

Persistence:

Community Newsletter #5 — February 2021
A full playlist of Proof-of-Stake: The New Paradigm is now available on the YouTube Channel:

Polygon (previously Matic)

The Ocean Protocol is now live on Layer 2, with Polygon
Prosper is now integrated with Polygon, more than 3.5M$ in Rewards
Band Protocol Partners With Polygon to Bring Decentralized Oracles to Polygon’s Ecosystem of DeFi, NFT & Gaming DApps
Polygon Improvement Proposals announced: Polygon Improvement Proposals are design documents describing new features and proposals to the Polygon community.

Regen Network:

Regen bounty to help make NFTs (climate) cool again:

Aplikigo-1, the last incentivized testnet of Regen Network before the mainnet launch, which is due April 8th, has come to an end. Check out the winners and a breakdown on how all the testnets went so far Right pointing backhand index https://regen.vitwit.com
Regen mainnet soon:

Secret Network:

Secret DeFi Update: Genesis Distribution Date for SEFI + SecretSwap Improvements: $SEFI, native governance token for Secret DeFi, is expected to launch on March 31st, 2021. Inside: how you can receive SEFI, recent SecretSwap growth and improvements, new bridges, and more.
Secret Network Ecosystem Update: February 2021
Introducing Sienna: A Privacy-First DeFi Protocol: Secured by Secret Network and launching April 2021, Sienna is building a new interconnected DeFi protocol that allows for a privacy-preserving lending, borrowing, and trading experience.

Sentinel:

Sentinel Cøsmos Based Mainnet Wallet & Staking Guide: Santinel Mainnet launches at 12:00 PM UTC on the 27th.
Sentinel Announces Key Communications Partners: Wachsman and Winkrypto
Sentinel’s Next Chapter: The Path to dVPN Mass Adoption: SENT has raised a funding round of $3.5M led by forward-thinking institutions and accomplished industry veterans.

Terra:

Terra Bridge is live: You can now transfer assets between Terra, Ethereum, and Binance Chain within a single user-friendly interface.
Terra validators can now vote on oracle prices without fees.
Liquid Staking on Terra introduced: Liquid staking on Terra is built around the bLUNA token — a staking derivative of Terra’s native LUNA token.

Anchor Protocol is now live: Anchor completes Terraform Labs’ vision of launching 3 financial primitives (payments, investing, and savings) on the Terra blockchain to support a thriving inter-chain DeFi ecosystem. Anchor is a decentralized money market and savings protocol providing 20% APY to UST depositors. Only liquid staking derivatives of major PoS chains accepted as collateral on the borrower side.
Mirrored SPY Index (S&P 500) is now live.

THORChain:

Projects that are actively building on the Cosmos ecosystem.

MISC

Cosmos Community Microgrants Wrap-up 2020: A big shoutout goes to the incredible cosmonauts, for the amazing work they have done in Q3 and Q4 2020!

Cosmos Community Microgrants Wrap-up 2020

A big thank you goes out to our Cosmos Community contributors in 2020!

blog.cosmos.network

Hurry up and submit your application for Q1 2021: https://cosmos.network/contributors

ATOM community meme competition is on:

Social media metrics

Social media activity:

Cosmos community continues to grow! There is a stable increase in the number of subscribers of Cosmos social media channels these weeks.

Join Cosmos official Discord channel here.

Check out Tendermint and Interchain Foundation Twitter pages.

There are also Community-managed Channels. These channels are managed entirely by members of the Cosmos community and do not represent official Cosmos or ICF announcements.

Cosmos Validator Working Group

Twitter Cosmos China

Twitter Cosmos Korea

Twitter Cosmos Japan

Cosmos India Telegram

Cosmos Singapore Telegram