Cøsmos Network: IBC is coming to Cosmos Hub in T-8 days, Tendermint Core’s 1.0 roadmap, Starport v0.14, ‘UniFi DAO Demo Day’ videos are here, Bluzelle mainnet launches, Matic becomes Polygon, Oracle & Mastercard team up, Regen to help Microsoft, BSC flipped Ethereum on daily transactions, THORChain multichain testnet is live, IRISnet mainnet 1.0 upgrade on Feb 25, and more!

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13 min readFeb 10, 2021

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Biweekly update on Cosmos ecosystem vol. 41, 27th January — 10th February

Welcome all Space Cowboys and Astronaut Girls to our traditional biweekly report on Cosmos! Get ready to catch up with all the news and events that were up in the ecosystem over the past two weeks!
First and foremost, the development team has been hard at work in making sure the Stargate Upgrade is a success. To include an improved user experience and more, the Stargate Upgrade for the Cosmos Hub was postponed until February 18th. So at the earliest, all systems go for IBC would be early March. IBC here we come!
With seven years in the making and securing major blockchains ecosystems, how does Tendermint Core’s 1.0 roadmap look like and what should the users expect? Check out the blog post in their official blog (it’s all about interface and block protocol stability, as well as performance, security and usability improvements). What’s more, Starport v0.14, the easiest way to build Cosmos blockchains, comes with a brand new release focused on improving its core features: scaffolding, configuring, and running blockchains in a development environment.
As for the Cosmos ecosystem updates: The tenth edition of the Interchain Foundation’s biweekly update is here. Regen Network’s Core Team led the SDK architecture for the migration to Protobuf and stewarded the non-IBC parts of the Stargate release. Moreover, Regen named one of 15 global carbon suppliers to help Microsoft pursue climate moonshot. The new integrated Oracle and Mastercard solution automates the process of helping those in need — from determining program eligibility to the accurate and timely distribution of funds, in turn removing inefficiencies, reducing operational costs, and enhancing fraud prevention. The first front-running resistant, cross-chain AMM is now live on the Secret testnet. IRISnet Mainnet 1.0 Upgrade is about to happen on February 25th. Bluzelle Mainnet goes live. Matic Network is expanding tech scope and mission and becoming Polygon. The Injective team introduced Equinox Staking, which will serve as the final phase of their testnet. After a successful run in testnet, Kadenaswap is headed to mainnet in the upcoming days to start “Bountyswap”. The first testnet of the Althea blockchain and the Gravity Bridge will happen on February 13th. Band Protocol 2021 roadmap is out. BSC (Binance Smart Chain) flipped Ethereum on daily transactions. e-Money has joined forces with Ramp Defi to provide greater interconnectivity and accessibility in the crypto space. Cosmos (ATOM) staking is now live on DeFi Earn. Sentinel’s first public iOS dVPN release is ready for its App Store launch, opening up the Sentinel ecosystem to millions of more potential users. Starname roadmap was pudlished. Terra’s ‘January 2021 Community Update’ is out. And more!
For more news and details, please, check the report below! See you in two weeks!
That’s all for today! Stay in the loop!

Development

Github metrics:

Right now, blockchains communicate via tacked-on solutions (state channels, sidechains, swaps, bridges and so on). With the Stargate update to Cosmos on February 18th, the tools for native blockchain interoperability will be live on mainnet.

Iqlusion’s Zaki Manian, who leads much of the development for Cosmos, explained that once Stargate goes live, a governance vote will be required to switch on inter-blockchain communication (IBC), which will take two weeks to finalize.

So at the earliest, all systems go for IBC would be early March. That said, Tendermint chains need to upgrade to the Cosmos SDK for this to happen. Manian said this is probably one or two weeks of work for most dev teams and they don’t need to wait for Stargate to kick in to start.

Tendermint

Starport v0.14: state persistence and improved support for proto files

For the first release of 2021, the team has decided to focus on improving the core features of Starport: scaffolding, configuring, and running blockchains in a development environment. Starport now offers even more streamlined Stargate support with commonly used protocol buffer files bundled with the CLI, a simpler scaffold, and automatic code generation. Configuration now supports setting a custom binary name, the path to the home directory, and enabling a built-in faucet. Finally, the blockchain state now persists between restarts.

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:

Cosmos Governance

Proposals:

#37 Stargate Upgrade- Second time is a charm! in the voting period

Proposal to complete the Stargate upgrade, halt `cosmoshub-3` at 06:00 UTC on Feb 18th, export the state and start `cosmoshub-4` based on gaia 4.0.

#36 Delay of Hub Stargate Upgrade for approximately 2 weeks passed

The Stargate team was recommending that the Cosmos Hub reschedule the next upgrade to a new commit hash.

Awareness and social encounters

UnifiDAO DemoDay videos are now available on Cosmos YouTube channel:

Finance

Information from Mintscan.io:

Top 10 validators:

Cosmos Markets

Information from Coinmarketcap.com:

Information from Coinlib.io:

Cosmos Roadmap:

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Releases:

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Interchain Foundation

ICF bi-weekly updates

ICF Update — Jan 28th: Cosmos Hub Upgrade DELAYED until Feb 18; CTM Music Festival launches Cosmos SDK Chains; Bianjie builds CosmWasm VSCode Extension; Sean King joins Interchain GmbH; Account Coordinator: A Proposal for the Future of Wallets; Video: Agoric and MetaMask on Securing Web3; Chain Registry Working Group Kick Off; Informal Systems’ Cross Chain Validation Draft Spec;

The tenth edition of the Interchain Foundation’s biweekly update! They are using this space to highlight some of the more exciting activities that took place at the Interchain Foundation over the last two weeks. This includes some check-in meetings that occurred with various funding recipients as well as general meetings and goings-on that members of the Interchain ecosystem might find interesting and informative. If any of the updates are especially relevant to what you are working on feel free to drop them a line at hello@interchain.io.

If you missed previous updates, check it out at 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 launches Althea blockchain:

The first testnet of the Althea blockchain and the Gravity Bridge will happen on February 13th 8am PDT:

Althea Network is growing!

Agoric:

Agoric’s weekly updates:

Band Protocol:

Band Protocol 2021 Roadmap: Releasing Phase 2, Enterprises, Rapid Growth: The Band Protocol team has hit the ground running in 2021 with relentless efforts to ramp up towards the launch of BandChain Phase 2 — where the focus will revolve around enterprise and institutional integration to unlock virtually all the data on the open internet for blockchain and decentralized applications to securely utilize.
Band Protocol January 2021 Community Update
Linear Finance Launches Synthetic Assets Exchange Secured by Band Protocol on Mainnet
Citadel.One Integrates Support For Band Protocol (BAND) Into Leading Staking Platform

Binance:

BSC (Binance Smart Chain) flipped Ethereum on daily transactions.
Should Binance Smart Chain lower the gas fee? Leave your opinions in the community proposal.
Find the latest BSC news here.

Bluzelle:

Bytom:

Cyber:

Citizen Cosmos news:

Crypto.com:

e-Money:

Idena Network:

Injective

IRIS Network:

Kadena:

Introducing Kadenaswap “Bountyswap” Live Beta: After a successful and productive run in testnet, Kadenaswap is headed to mainnet in the upcoming days to start “Bountyswap”
Update to the Kadena Token Economic Model
Kadena Telegram AMA with Stuart Popejoy — 02/05/2021

Kava:

Kava 5 Incentivized Testnet: Win $25,000 in the “Money Market Madness” Competition

Competition Period: Feb 11th at 17:00PST to Feb 25th at 17:00PST.

Oasis:

Oracle:

Mastercard and Oracle Team Up to Speed Social and Economic Assistance: The new integrated Oracle and Mastercard solution automates the process of helping those in need — from determining program eligibility to the accurate and timely distribution of funds, in turn removing inefficiencies, reducing operational costs, and enhancing fraud prevention.
Oracle Expands Hybrid Cloud Portfolio with New Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure: New solution enables secure, scalable cloud services wherever customers need them, even in the most remote areas of the world.
Oracle Cloud VMware Solution Obtains FedRAMP High Authorization: JAB Provisional accreditation gives government customers the flexibility to build and manage highly-secure VMware environments in Oracle Cloud.
Australian Data Centres Selects Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer to Provide Sovereign Cloud Services to Government: Provides new option for secure government workloads.
Mexican Footwear Retailer Steps Up Customer Engagement with Oracle Cloud: Grupo Nazan accelerates online retail operations to support customers in the pandemic.
Retailers Adapt to Massive Changes in Consumer Shopping with Oracle
Deutsche Bahn Shifts Human Resources Management into the Digital Age with Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM: Deutsche Bahn enters a new era with Oracle Cloud HCM by digitalizing and standardizing all its HR processes with user-friendliness and flexibility.
Oracle Supports Nemours Children’s Health System’s Move to the Cloud: Leading pediatric healthcare system moves finance, HR, and supply chain to the cloud to enhance insights, improve decision-making, and increase employee engagement.

Persistence:

StakeDrop Key Details:

Total rewards: 200,000 XPRT ($50,000 based on the latest valuation)
Campaign duration: 45 days
Rewards allocation start date and time: 20th January 2021 (checkpoint 9707)
Rewards allocation end date: 6th March 2021
Magic Transaction start date: 18th January 2021
Average checkpoints per day: 30 (based on the last 500 checkpoints)
Network Rewards Pool: 160,000 XPRT
AUDIT.one Rewards Pool: 40,000 XPRT

Polygon (previously Matic)

Regen Network:

Cosmos SDK and the Launch of the 0.40 Stargate Release
Regen Network Announces Historic Carbon Credit Sale in Australia: Regen Network announces the historic sale of soil carbon credits to Microsoft, one of the largest soil carbon credit issuances ever in Australia. These soil carbon credits, known as CarbonPlus Grassland credits, help Microsoft meet its climate goals and reward Australian land stewards for sequestering carbon and ecological stewardship of their ranch lands.

Secret Network:

Secret AMM is Live on Testnet: The first front-running resistant, cross-chain AMM is now live on the Secret testnet. With mainnet week of Feb 15, take an early look and learn about opportunities for rewards — plus more.
Secret Auction Web App is LIVE on Mainnet: The first and only crypto auction platform with privacy by default is now LIVE. Bid for any secret token, with any secret token. Try it now!
Announcing the Secret Network Grant Program: Secret Network is growing fast — now you can grow with it. Come build Secret Apps, network improvements, and ecosystem tools, and receive grants for your efforts.
Secret Network Ecosystem Update: January 2021
WSCRT LP Rewards are LIVE on Uniswap
secretnodes.com Tax Reporting Feature

Sentinel:

Sentinel’s first public iOS dVPN release is ready for its App Store launch, opening up the Sentinel ecosystem to millions of more potential users.

Starname:

THE STARNAME ROADMAP:

Discover Starname roadmap and some of the topics of the next AMA on February, 26th.
Call to action for IOV token holders that didn’t request the migration of their tokens to Cosmos SDK
IOV appoints new CEO and new Product Manager to conduct mass adoption mission

Terra:

THORChain:

THORChain Multichain Testnet Live: Multichain testnet released publicly ft. BTC, BCH, LTC, BNB & ETH
RUNE Distribution Update
Weekly Dev Update #79: THORChain Weekly Dev Update for Week 79, 26–31 Jan
Monthly Treasury Report — Jan 2021

Projects that are actively building on the Cosmos ecosystem

MISC

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