IBC Benefits & Limitations While Cosmos scales horizontally with IBC, there exist some limitations...Chain A sends the box to Chain B through IBC The IBC module on Chain B will open the box and send the...front-end for bridging to/from Osmosis from ecosystems outside IBC, and all incentivized non-IBC pools...(currently 13 IBC peers).

Jehan Tremback from Informal released a post yesterday titled “Atomic IBC”. https://informal.systems/...blog/atomic-ibc....In essence, atomic IBC is taking replicated security and extending it one step further by having consumer...Replicated security was essentially the parallelization of applications through separate chains; atomic IBC...

Numerous Cosmos protocols have coordinated on Twitter today hinting at something being released tomorrow. Being as all of the images are of trains, it’s likely implying something to do with a cross-ch...

IBC) when constructing their blockchain....Which brings us to Osmosis, the first IBC native DEX in Cosmos. ...on attracting native IBC assets into its liquidity pools....Add IBC Router to the Hub (Proposal 56) – The IBC Middleware module will enable the hub to play the role...of IBC Router.

Polymer will serve as an omni-chain hub connecting both IBC and non-IBC L1s....with both ZK-proofs (ZK-IBC) and fraud-proofs (optimistic-IBC)....Doubling down on IBC Deemed as the most secure interoperability solution by many, IBC has existing network...ZKPs can be used to extend IBC to ecosystems beyond Cosmos.

IBC Chains have implemented similar limits since the IBC-bugs uncovered last year....IBC & Atomic IBC IBC IBC is the communication standard for Cosmos based chains....Exporting IBC There are a few teams working on trying to bring IBC to other ecosystems.

At least on Cosmos they had IBC on all of them....The Cosmos Hub was meant to be a “hub” for zones (Cosmos chains linked via IBC)....to address fragmentation between IBC assets minted on different channels....IBC creates a mess with token transfers across Cosmos chains....Initia choose every moving part: LayerZero, Connect, Celestia, IBC.

USDC Consumer Chain: Solidifying the Hub as an IBC Focal Point Before diving into the ATOM 2.0 whitepaper...While IBC is generally considered to be the most secure option among existing bridges due to its security...or freeze particular USDC tokens/addresses on other Cosmos chains as they have no control over the IBC...

Not a single chain like the Cosmos Hub, but the world of interconnected blockchains through IBC built...Atomic IBC is an addition to Replicated Security and Consumer Chains....Like Shared Sequencers, Atomic IBC requires all chains to use the exact same validators/sequencers....Atomic IBC share the same mempool and blocks.

Expectations with Kevin Kelly 8:55 – Mirror & Terra Analysis with Medio Demarco 13:30 – Cosmos IBC...Our Head of Research Medio Demarco walks through his recent research on Mirror, Terra, Cosmos IBC and...

IBC’s Traction IBC had undeniable success in 2022, emerging as the canonical bridge for Cosmos....IBC to DotSama IBC’s first extension beyond Cosmos may be through the Centauri bridge developed by Composable...Augmenting IBC bridges with zk-proofs is very exciting because it can bring IBC to any smart contract...

...launch of EVMOS (previously Ethermint) via a rektdrop, which promises EVM interoperability within the IBC...As EVMOS gear up for its launch, we will likely see the IBC ecosystem pick up.

(06:18) Older vs new AMM designs (09:40) Notes on the Terra ecosystem and LFG (14:06) Cross-chain, IBC...Can IBC transport implement LayerZero Stargate, for example?...Its collaboration with IBC is a different. IBC is a messaging format and transport layer....What you can do by using IBC is that these applications don’t have to be siloed from each other.

Terra is voting on a network wide proposal to enable IBC....Delphi Institutional subscribers can read our research on Cosmos and IBC here.

Particularly in Q4 2o21, the market value of IBC-enabled L1 tokens has surged....Thanks to its value prop as an IBC-enabled DEX zone, Osmosis has become a vital Hub within Cosmos, accounting...for the largest IBC traffic amongst 37 zones with IBC support....definition applies to the particular case where *both* pairs are foreign assets ported to Osmosis via IBC...

Cosmos and IBC IBC is an asynchronous and trustless messaging protocol widely used in the Cosmos ecosystem...light clients of the chains into IBC....There is also IBC Middleware, which is IBC modules in the application layer that provide some features...instances of IBC on all the chains in tandem.

NARRATIVES TO WATCH: IBC-Enabled DeFi: We can expect the emergence of a multitude of competitor hubs...In fact, Osmosis is already competitive to Cosmos hub, facilitating 2x as many IBC transfers as Cosmos...New Liquidity Bootstrapping: The emergence of IBC-native DEXs like Osmosis will more easily facilitate...

...is in a great position to have another breakout year and last year set the foundation for this with IBC...IBC-DeFi is in a good position to grow....improving and it’ll benefit from ecosystem traction, also worth noting that ATOM % dominance vs all IBC...As the 1st IBC-native DEX on Cosmos, Osmosis has taken a commanding lead.

Currently, they are considering adding Polygon, Base, Solana, and IBC chains....It uses IBC and Axelar to communicate with other Cosmos chains....Packet Forward Middleware (PFM) forwards IBC packets between chains, making cross-chain communication...IBC Hooks let smart contracts execute custom logic when IBC packets are received.

...just because the ecosystem has seen a lot of new chains, come online over the past year, ever since IBC...And so over the past year, these chains have all been interconnected through IBC, which is their communication...mostly just been for simple things like token transfers, NFT transfers and things of that nature, but IBC...