Cøsmos Network: Ethermint v0.1.0 released, CosmWasm launched GaiaFlex — its governance-permissioned public testnet, Stargate latest updates, ICF assets overview 2020 and Q2 funding recipients, ‘Cosmos Unchained: Ethermint vs. Avalanche’

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19 min readAug 26, 2020

Biweekly update on Cosmos ecosystem vol. 29, 12th August — 26th August

Welcome, Cosmonauts, to our regular report on the Cøsmos ecosystem! The past two weeks have brought a number of significant tidings which are the main focus of the current report.
Firstly, Ethermint v0.1.0, the scalable, high-throughput PoS blockchain, fully compatible and interoperable with Ethereum build with Cosmos SDK and Tendermint Core has been released! Forby, the Tendermint team has completed all the tests and integration milestones for Stargate! Keys are being collected from Cosmos validators for the first public integration testnet. Peng Zhong, Tendermint’s CEO, gave a comprehensive overview of the company’s long-term strategy to accelerate the path to the Internet of Blockchains. These weeks, Peng Zhong also featured on Citizen Cosmos podcast. The Cosmos SDK v0.39.1 launchpad version which fixes the issue affecting the accounts migration from v0.38 to v0.39, is now out. Check out the Cosmos SDK 0.39.1 milestone for details.
What’s more, CosmWasm, a multi-chain smart contract platform for the Cosmos ecosystem, has launched its governance-permissioned public testnet GaiaFlex, on August 18th, 2020. GaiaFlex testnet will demonstrate the usage of a governance-permissioned contract system for the Cosmos Community.
The Interchain Foundation (ICF) announced the publication of key financial figures and funding activity for the first half of 2020 and in the future on a quarterly basis. Furthermore, check out Q2 funding recipients below. On August 13th, ‘Cosmos Unchained: Ethermint vs. Avalanche’ live meetup with Billy Rennekamp (Interchain Foundation), Zaki Manian (Iqlusion), and Emin Gun Sirer (Ava) took place. They discussed the differences between Cosmos’ Ethermint and Ava’s Avalanche. Watch the replay below. Join Chjango Unchained (Tendermint), Matt Luongo (Keep Network), Matt Bell (Nomic), and James Pestwich (Summa and recently joined Celo) who will discuss Bitcoin pegs — what is currently available and the future of Bitcoin pegging, on August 28th.
As for the Cosmos ecosystem projects’ updates, there was a ton of big stuff over the past two weeks! An update on the Peggy Ethereum to Cosmos bridge was published. BitSong is ready to release the Mainnet 1.0 based on Cosmos v0.39. IRISnet announced that they have established a strategic partnership with MYKEY to bring MYKEY’s technologies, including the cutting-edge Smart Wallet and digital identity. Desmos Network validating summer program is here. Staking on Bluzelle Soft Mainnet is now live. Also, Elrond has tapped Bluzelle as its decentralized database layer provider for dApps running on its mainnet. Kava announced the strategic cooperation with Injective Labs, creators of Injective Protocol. LUNA listed on Binance. Interpark Ticket, Korea’s №1 ticketing site with over 70% ownership of the K-entertainment ticket market, integrates with CHAI. Binance Smart Chain, an EVM compatible blockchain built by world-leading cryptoasset exchange Binance, has completed integration with Band Protocol. Cyber congress is going to be pitching euler~Foundation at DAO Rush Week on the 31st of August and will be presenting the DAO later, on the 3rd of Sept. Persistence One to bring on Jeffrey Hu as a Strategy Advisor to the team. THORChain teams up with Icelandic Youtuber Hrafna to host a competition to pronounce Norse Mythology names. And much more!
Finally yet importantly, our Citadel.one team finally deployed Cosmos node, so the Cosmos integration is near at hand!
That’s all for today! See you next month with more exciting Cosmos news!

Development

Github metrics:

Cosmos Stargate Upgrade

Stargate is the largest Cosmos upgrade yet. Stargate enables higher transaction throughput, cross-chain transactions, accelerate UI development, and so much more.

Join the Cosmos Stargate announcements channel!

If you’re running a block explorer, wallet, exchange, validator, or any other service (eg. custody provider) that depends upon the Cosmos Hub or Cosmos ecosystem, you’ll want to pay attention, because this upgrade involves substantial changes.

Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC)- cross-chain transactions
Protobuf Migration — blockchain performance & dev acceleration
State Sync — minutes to sync new nodes
Full-Featured Light Clients
Chain Upgrade Module — upgrade automation

Stargate latest updates:

Ethermint v0.1.0 release:

Ethermint v0.1.0, the scalable, high-throughput PoS blockchain, fully compatible & interoperable with Ethereum build with Cosmossdk & Tendermint Core has been released!

CosmWasm Launches Its Permissioned Testnet, GaiaFlex:

CosmWasm, the multi-chain smart contract platform for Cosmos, has launched its governance-permissioned public testnet, GaiaFlex

CosmWasm, a multi-chain smart contract platform for the Cosmos ecosystem, has launched its governance-permissioned public testnet GaiaFlex, on August 18th, 2020. GaiaFlex testnet will demonstrate the usage of a governance-permissioned contract system for the Cosmos Community.

GaiaFlex proves the potential of a smart contract container at the heart of the Cosmos Hub.

Tied to Cosmos Hub proposal

2.5 months ago, the team promised to Cosmos community(Hub proposal #25) to build a software with which Cosmos Hub validators can control which smart contracts, whether staking derivatives or subkeys, can be uploaded and instantiated on the network, within 2 to 4 months´ timeframe.They are the people of their word.

There are several benefits to the Cosmos Hub when CosmWasm integrates on it:

CosmWasm will allow faster and easier iterations for Hub.
Two largest post-IBC value propositions, relaying Dynamic IBC Protocols and Rented Security(Cross-chain staking), using ATOMs as collateral for smaller zones, would greatly benefit from CosmWasm’s flexibility.
CosmWasm provides a mechanism for Governance to add new functionality, but it doesn’t add any functionality to Hub itself, nor does allow anyone to upload or instantiate new contracts. This provides flexibility, while addressing security issues as adding codes to Gaia should be very carefully controlled.
Also, the entry barrier to add functionality to the Hub gets much lower.

What is GaiaFlex testnet like?

GaiaFlex functions much like Coralnet, but the main difference is that GaiaFlex is permissioned meanwhile Coralnet is permissionless. The team configured GaiaFlex such that the on-chain governance must approve all contracts uploaded and instantiated except their execution. This will look like many other Gaia testnets including cosmos prefix, muons, and the binary except that this is updated to launchpad and with the CosmWasm module added.

Staking and fee token is muon, like the last Cosmos Hub testnet

Genesis file was prepared with all the voters for proposal #25: If you have voted for the proposal even with 1 Atom -yes or no-, you have your share on GaiaFlex testnet, just like they promised on the proposal. They airdrop testnet staking tokens, muons to all the Cosmos addresses who participated in the vote.

Follow these instructions to claim your airdrop.

Importantly, the team reduced the voting period to 3 days, to allow for multiple cycles to conclude in a timely manner and enable more test scenarios. Please be mindful of that when proposing new contracts to the chain.

The Plan

The team would like to operate GaiaFlex testnet for a short time frame, say 1 month or so, then gladly hand it over to other interested entities in the Cosmos ecosystem. As theirr goal is to get the technology ready for people to test out, experiment, and experiment with all the possible scenarios of CosmWasm smart contracts. The decision-maker for the integration of CosmWasm to the Hub is not them, it is the Governance who decides the actual execution after reflection and discussion from the community based on the experience of trying GaiaFlex.

Your engagement

The team encourages you to try out GaiaFlex, as you could explore many interesting features without too much risk and that is exactly what a testnet is for. When you join GaiaFlex testnet, please make sure you go through https://docs.cosmwasm.com/testnets/build-requirements.html and https://github.com/CosmWasm/testnets before.

As a smart contract developer, you could deploy several contracts on Coralnet first to experiment and see how they work, and then later you could choose the best one and propose it to the GaiaFlex governance to execute with approval.

As a validator, you could participate in voting to upload and instantiate contracts and currently possible scenarios which can be changed while running GaiaFlex is as below;

Governance voting is needed to both upload code, and to instantiate code
Anyone can upload code, governance voting needed to instantiate code
Governance voting is needed to upload code, governance can assign a “committee” to authorize contract instances of that code

The IBC demo is up-and-running with real light clients, real proofs, end-to-end handshakes and working token transfers.

Check out the code and try it out yourself here.

Tendermint

Accelerating the Internet of Blockchains: Tendermint in 2020:

Peng Zhong, Tendermint’s CEO, gives a comprehensive overview of the company’s long-term strategy to accelerate the path to the Internet of Blockchains.

Tendermint 2020 Roadmap:

The Tendermint Core team has decided to share their goals and roadmap for 2020. What follows is a list of their objectives for the year, organized around four high-level goals, which are themselves ordered by approximate priority. However, the team plans to tackle pieces of each of these goals concurrently.

This list is ambitious: It is possible, even likely, that there’s more outlined here than they can achieve in a year. If you are interested in helping the team reach these goals, they’ll be opening up a few new positions soon.

Goal 1: Increase the number of people who can make substantive contributions to Tendermint Core

Goal 2: Ship features and fixes which help Tendermint Core retain its market-leading position

Goal 3: Improve the developer- and user-experience for projects that use Tendermint Core

Goal 4: Expand and curate the number of technologies that can be integrated with Tendermint Core

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

New Cosmos SDK release:

The Cosmos SDK v0.39.1 launchpad version [managed by: Alessio, Cory, Ethan] which fixes the issue affecting the accounts migration from v0.38 to v0.39, is out.

Check out the Cosmos SDK 0.39.1 milestone for details.

Awareness and social encounters

Peng Zhong, Tendermint, management & decentralization on Citizen Cosmos podcast:

Josh Lee aka Dogemos, a community advocate at Tendermint and the co-founder of Keplr on Citizen Cosmos podcast. They talk about communities and chart-driven users. Envision the post-IBC world, interoperability as a state of mind and privacy issues among the most popular messengers in Korea.

August 13th: Cosmos Unchained: Ethermint vs. Avalanche, a live meetup with Billy Rennekamp (Interchain Foundation), Zaki Manian (Iqlusion), and Emin Gun Sirer (Ava) discussed the differences between Cosmos’ Ethermint and Ava’s Avalanche.

Code With Us

Live online workshops by Cosmos

The team launched “Code with us,” a live, interactive workshop program designed to educate and provide real-time practice to developers in the community.

The Cosmos ‘Code with Us’ program brings workshops from the home offices to yours. There couldn’t be a better time to invest in online learning, especially with so many people working from home. This program aims to provide everyone with access to the information and resources they need to become familiar with the Cosmos stack. These seminars are small workshops led by expert mentors from Tendermint Inc, Interchain GmbH, Agoric, Band Protocol and others that will use their expertise to guide the community of developers from deploying a simple “Hello World” blockchain, to getting familiar with the Cosmos SDK architecture, running an IBC relayer, and much more.

Participants have the opportunity to access hands-on live lessons to code together in real-time with some of the community’s most respected contributors. Most of the workshops are structured in two-hour sessions with associated online materials or tutorials, and will take place roughly every two weeks. If you are looking for a quick and fun introduction to Cosmos’ tech, this is the perfect way to get started. To get started, make sure you sign up for “Code with Us” workshops.

Sign up for the “Code with Us” workshop program. The team will send you a link to add the calendar, email reminders of the upcoming workshops and a list of documentation for each session.

Cosmos Code With Us — Experiment with cross-chain NFT minting & round trip tx with Cosmos IBC: Dig deep into a media use case of blockchain where you setup a Cosmos SDK based chain, install the NFT module & use Cosmos IBC to mint a custom NFT

Upcoming events:

August 28th: Cosmos Unchained: Bitcoin Peggy Showdown: Join the team as Chjango Unchained (Tendermint), Matt Luongo (Keep Network), Matt Bell (Nomic), and James Pestwich (Summa and recently joined Celo) discuss Bitcoin pegs — what is currently available and the future of Bitcoin pegging.

Keep Network is building tBTC. tBTC lets Bitcoin holders deposit and redeem BTC in DeFi without centralized intermediaries. Check out tbtc.network for more info.
Nomic is a new blockchain which runs in parallel to the Bitcoin blockchain, allowing decentralized financial primitives which use BTC as their native asset. Learn more: nomic.io
Summa created cross-chain architecture that drives tBTC and improves blockchain interoperability. Summa recently joined Celo to further diversify and decentralize the Celo Reserve in a fully-permissionless way and improving both the security and user experience of the Celo Platform. Check out https://celo.org to learn more.

Finance

Cosmos validators

Information from Mintscan.io:

Top 10 validators:

Cosmos Markets

Information from Coinmarketcap.com:

Roadmap

Cosmos Hub Roadmap:

Governance Milestones

The following milestones will require voting by on-chain governance.

Proposal: Atom Transfers

2019–04–10 An upgrade proposal may be created on the Cosmos Hub to allow ATOM to be transferred to other Cosmos addresses. Read more »

Proposal Passed: Atom Transfers

2019–04–17 Success! The proposal to allow ATOM to be transferred to other Cosmos addresses passes.

Proposal: IBC future TBD

An upgrade proposal may be created on the Cosmos Hub to add support for IBC, the Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol. IBC will allow other Cosmos SDK-based blockchains to connect to the Hub. Read more »

Proposal Passed: IBC future TBD

Success! The Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol is now supported by the Cosmos Hub. The IBC standard will allow blockchains that support it to connect.

Community Governance future TBD

At this point, the critical features of the Cosmos Hub has been activated by the community of Atom holders. Further governance of the network and upgrades to the software or blockchain state are left to the community. Read more »

IBC Implementation

Due by September 02, 2020 84% complete

IBC v1.0.0 issues left to be implemented.

Ecosystem updates

Akash Network:

Oracle:

IRIS Network:

IRISnet and MYKEY Established a Strategic Partnership: IRISnet announced that they have established a strategic partnership with MYKEY to bring MYKEY’s technologies, including the cutting-edge Smart Wallet and digital identity, and also MYKEY’s ecosystem to IRISnet’s internet of blockchains, further facilitating the construction of next generation distributed applications and application blockchains.

Develop Your First DApp Using the Public Chain Node Service Provided by BSN.

Rainbow Validator (July)| IRISnet Validator Grants Program.

2020–08–11 AMA.

Regen Network:

August 26th: Cosmos Community SDK Development Call. Regen Network team held their monthly Cosmos SDK Community call in which they were reviewing the technical roadmap.

IOV:

Bluzelle:

Staking on Bluzelle Soft Mainnet is now live:

Huobi Global is adding $BLZ/ $USDT trading pair soon.

Blockchain payment project Elrond has tapped Bluzelle as its decentralized database layer provider for dApps running on its mainnet:

Desmos Network:

Desmos Network validating summer program is here:

Desmos Network August update was published:

Kava:

Injective Protocol Integrates with Kava to Create A More Diversified Derivatives Ecosystem: Kava announced the strategic cooperation with Injective Labs, creators of Injective Protocol, the world’s first Layer-2 derivative DEX platform. The cooperation will bring Kava’s lending facility and stablecoins to users of the Injective DEX creating a robust decentralized trading experience. With Injective’s trading platform and derivatives protocol, Kava will provide USDX stablecoins to Injectives Derivative ecosystem creating a safe, high-performance, and scalable trading experience.

Injective Protocol plans to integrate with Kava’s decentralized lending platform. Injective Chain plans to leverage the IBC protocol to connect with Kava to solve cross-chain interactions effectively as well as use the interoperability to increase the reach of their derivatives.

Borrow USDX on Kava with Ledger: Step-by-step guide on how to borrow USDX on Kava web app using assets in your Ledger wallet.

Borrow USDX on Kava’s Web App Using Trust Wallet.

Kava Labs Development Update: August 19th, 2020.

Terra:

LUNA listed on Binance.

Interpark Ticket, Korea’s #1 ticketing site with over 70% ownership of the K-entertainment ticket market, integrates with CHAI:

Persistence One:

Persistence One to bring on Jeffrey Hu as a Strategy Advisor to the team. Jeffrey is the Director of Research at IRIS Network and a well-known figure in the Chinese Cryptocurrency ecosystem.

Tushar Aggarwal was joining the Karma Dao community to present Persistence One & talk about how they are bridging the gap b/w Traditional Finance & DeFi.

Band Protocol:

Binance Smart Chain Integrates With Band Protocol To Empower Scalable Decentralized Applications: Binance Smart Chain, an EVM compatible blockchain built by world-leading cryptoasset exchange Binance, has completed integration with Band Protocol to provide secure and customizable oracles for developers to build scalable smart contract applications. This means that developers can begin creating fine-tuned oracle scripts on BandChain that relay data from any external data source or API to Binance Smart Chain.

Band Protocol Joins Binance’s Build for Bharat: DeFi-Focused Hackaton & Accelerator program: Band Protocol announced that they will be joining hands with Binance Chain to launch Build for Bharat, a 3-month long program with hackathon and acceleration opportunities designed to bridge blockchain towards mass adoption. They are excited to work with Google Cloud, Matic Network, Marlin Protocol, Ankr who share a collective vision of spreading open finance to bring unique and creative products that leverage blockchain technology to life.

dForce Strategically Partners & Integrates Band Protocol Decentralized Price Oracles To Secure Unified DeFi Network: dForce, a unified network of decentralized financial protocols on Ethereum, has completed the integration of Band Protocol decentralized oracles to swap trade and secure their digital gold token GOLDx.

Nervos Chooses & Integrates Band Protocol To Bring Scalability & Extensive Data Support For Growing DApp Ecosystem: Nervos, China’s leading public blockchain ecosystem, has chosen to integrate Band Protocol to bring scalable decentralized oracle technology to developers and their extensive partner network which includes China’s Blockchain Services Network and Grin. Both teams have completed the initial bridge implementation for Band Protocol and are working towards the end-goal of enabling Nervos developers to connect with any open and premium data providers, covering exhaustively all potential data needs through BandChain’s customizable oracle script.

DSLA Protocol Partners With Band Oracle To Power Decentralized Service Level Agreements On Mainnet: DSLA Protocol, a decentralized finance alternative to Service Level Agreements (SLA), has chosen Band Protocol to power DSLA smart contracts and created custom decentralized oracle to bridge staking analytics from the DSLA decentralized performance monitoring data indexer. Band Protocol will also be joining the DSLA Incentivized Beta which will provide BAND delegators a decentralized hedge against validator performance while enabling anyone to earn rewards for protecting BAND staking deposits against staking risks.

FutureICX Prediction Market on ICON Integrates Band Protocol For Decentralized & Customizable Price Oracles: FutureICX, a multi-grant winning decentralized prediction market built on ICON Network, has completed the integration of their BandChain customized oracle script and the migration to BandChain Proof-of-Authority Mainnet.

Swipe Integrates Band Protocol Oracles For SwipeFi Launch & Lists BAND on Visa Card Platform: Swipe, a leading multi-digital asset wallet and Visa card platform acquired by Binance, has strategically partnered with Band Protocol for listing on Swipe Wallet and the launch of SwipeFi — a decentralized financial money market protocol launching soon on Binance Smart Chain.

Coinbase Consumer Lists Band Protocol (BAND)

Huobi Futures Launches Band Protocol (BAND) Perpetual Swaps

Bytom:

Althea Network:

Peggy dev update #1: An update on the Peggy ethereum to Cosmos bridge.

Althea Peggy Standup #1: With a public testnet scheduled to run in Nov 2020 and an Althea Network mainnet deployed with Peggy scheduled for Jan 2021, what else is there in store for Peggy, the Ethereum <-> Cosmos bridge?

Find out this and more in the first Peggy standup call.

Althea is growing!

Agoric:

Agoric’s weekly updates:

Cyber:

Cyber congress is going to be pitching euler~Foundation at DAO Rush Week on the 31st of August and will be presenting the DAO later, on the 3rd of Sept. Find out all the details at the event and listen to the other amazing DAOs here.

The Game of Links is full steam ahead:

Check out Cyber’s WP on research hub.

Kadena:

BitSong:

BitSong is ready to release the Mainnet 1.0 based on Cosmos v0.39.

LikeCoin:

Sentinel:

The SENT dVPN network has reached an all time high in the number of community hosted nodes.

THORChain:

Norse Mythology Competition Ft. Hrafna: THORChain teams up with Icelandic Youtuber Hrafna to host a competition to pronounce Norse Mythology names.

Monthly Treasury Report — August: The treasury comprises of $3.8m USD liquid and $15.7m in RUNE, with a 34 month Runway. Planned Obsolescence July 2022.

RUNE Distribution Update — August: There are 5631 Rune Holders, with 2482 engaged with RUNEVault. The top 100 own 122,285,123.74 (64%).

Weekly Dev Update #57: THORChain Weekly Dev Update for Week 19–24 Aug 2020; Testnet 5, Bepswap Improvements, Chaosnet Preparations.

Weekly Dev Update #56: THORChain Weekly Dev Update for Week 11–18 Aug 2020; Testnet 5, Midgard Improvements, thorchain.net.

Built with the Cosmos SDK

Projects that are actively building on the Cosmos ecosystem

Band Protocol — Band Protocol provides a secure and scalable decentralized oracle for Web 3. Announcement » Infrastructure

Binance Chain — Binance Chain is developed by Binance and its community as the basis for a decentralized exchange. Binance is considered the biggest cryptocurrency exchange in the world in terms of trading volume. Announcement » DEX

e-Money — e-Money is the leading European provider of currency-backed stablecoins. The stablecoins are interest bearing and protected by an insolvency fund, which makes them unique in today’s market. Infrastructure Enterprise Stablecoin

IOV — IOV a universal protocol between blockchains and wallet users, is making it possible to send, receive and exchange any cryptocurrency from a single address of value. Wallet Name Service

IRISnet — IRISnet is designed to be the foundation for next generation distributed business applications. It is a BPoS blockchain, built with Cosmos-SDK, that enables cross-chain interoperability through a unified service model. Announcement » Enterprise

Kava — Kava is the first cross-blockchain DeFi platform that enables traders to leverage their assets and hedge using a multi-collateral CDP system and collateral-backed stablecoin (USDX). Announcement » Stablecoin Infrastructure

Persistence — Persistence is creating the most effective tools for enterprise blockchain solutions, built on Cosmos technology and powered by Tendermint. Announcement » Enterprise

Playlist — Playlist is a project aimed at tokenizing the music industry with their PLAY Protocol. Social

Regen Network — Regen Network is a global community and platform focused on ecological monitoring and regeneration. Announcement » Agriculture

Sentinel — Sentinel Network is a network layer that enables a true p2p and decentralized Applications & Resources marketplace. Announcement » Infrastructure

Terra — A price-stable cryptocurrency designed for mass adoption. We are building financial infrastructure for the next generation of decentralized applications. Announcement » Stablecoin Infrastructure

Check out the Full list of projects in Cosmos & Tendermint Ecosystem.

Interchain Foundation

Interchain Foundation Assets and Funding Overview:

The Interchain Foundation (ICF) announced the publication of key financial figures and funding activity for the first half of 2020 and in the future on a quarterly basis. The Foundation maintains a very professional and conservative asset management approach which ensures sustainable capital deployment for the Cosmos project for many more years to come. In order to achieve the Foundation’s mission, safeguarding the Foundation’s assets and providing operational liquidity is essential and it is closely and constantly monitored by the Foundation Council.

Since its inception in 2017, the ICF has been subject to full financial audits and is happy to announce that during all reporting periods unqualified audit reports have been received by an independent auditor. As required by Swiss law, the audit reports are filed with the Swiss Federal Supervisory Authority for Foundations. The ICF is fully compliant with all regulations and requirements.

The below is the first update for the period of 1 January through 30 June 2020. Going forward the reporting cadence will be quarterly. (The next update will be released during the month of October for Q3 activity)

Here are the highlights:

Total assets as per mid-year 2020 add up to USD 103 million
Holdings denominated in Cosmos Atom tokens represent 47% of total assets, respectively 71% of Crypto holdings.
Investments includes besides public securities also crypto investments such as Regen, Agoric, Althea and Iris.
Number of grant applications received during Q1 and Q2, 2020: 71
Number of grants approved during Q1 and Q2, 2020: 36
Grants committed during Q1 and Q2, 2020: USD 14.9 million
Additional grants are currently being reviewed and will be reported in future quarterly updates

ICF Q2–2020 Funding Recipients:

This is the first quarter that utilized ICF’s newly reformulated funding program, including participation of the inaugural Technical Advisory Board. It was also the first batch of Funding approved by ICF recently expanded Foundation Council.

Details are still being finalized for a handful of Q2 funding recipients, which will be announced imminently, so keep an eye out for follow-up posts detailing these exciting initiatives. The ICF Funding team is also drafting a post on its current ecosystem priorities as a public Request For Proposals to be released soon. And if you’re interested in submitting a proposal for the Q3 funding cycle, please do so before August 31st at apply.interchain.io.

Check out Q2 funding recipients here.