Cosmology — Issue #3
3 min readJun 25, 2019
Hey Cosmologists!
A lot has happened since the last issue! The Interchain Conversations conference, the HackAtom hackathon, security vulnerabilities were found and fixed, LIBRA! This is a long one…
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Meme of the week
Dev update
Cosmos SDK
- Releases v0.34.6, v0.34.7 and v0.350, most notably a fix for the relegation bug found in the Cosmos SDK which allowed Atom holders to redelegate without needing to wait for the unbonding period. View the changelog
Gaia
Tendermint Core
- Releases v0.31.6 and v0.31.6 add a number of features and improvements, including some breaking changes. View the changelog
- Tendermint DEV session: Introduction to Ansible by Greg Szabo
Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC)
Security
Other
Governance
Proposals
Discussions to follow
- Limit validators from 0% commission fee
- Variable bonding and unbonding time (pre-raft)
- Variable Bounding and Unbonding Time (draft)
- Proposal to help fundraiser participants who lost their seed phrase (draft)
- Process for cosmos-sdk changes
- Adding SubKey Feature to Cosmos-SDK and apply it to the Hub (draft)
- Increase Max Validators to 150 (draft)
- Enabling transfer of delegation ownership
- Connecting Libra Network
- Making Delegation Positions Tradeable
Ecosystem
Cosmos and ICF
- What does the Launch of Cosmos mean for the Blockchain Ecosystem?
- Request for Proposals — 2019 — Expanding Environments
Validators
- Figment’s Cosmos Validator Infrastructure
- Delegation Vouchers
- Introducing the Staked Partner Program
- Staking Economy #17: Alliances and Attacks
- Staking Economy #19: Big Tech goes BFT
Hubs
- 5th IRISnet Validator Brief
- IRISnet raises the difficulty level for Validators
- The Sentinel Hub: 3rd Hub within the Cosmos Ecosystem after the Cosmos Hub and Iris Hub
- Rainbow V2.0 is Released. We Support ATOM Now!
- IRISnet AMA
Zones
Apps and wallets
Community and events
Interchain Conversations and HackAtom Berlin
- Epicenter Live and Q&A session with Jae Kwon and me
- Validator Panel moderated by Brian Fabian Crain and Governance discussions moderated by Sunny Aggarwal
- Takeaways from the Cosmos Interchain Conversations Conference
- HackAtom hackathon winners
- All talks from Interchain Conversations (via KalpaTech 🙏)
Podcasts
- Thriller Crypto: Inside the Cosmos protocol (move to 33 min)
- Conspiratus Podcast #3: A Cosmic Commotion
- Conspiratus Podcast #4: Social Contracts and Social Capital
Talks, panels, interviews
- Gautier Marin speaks at the Asseth Meetup in Paris
- Sunny Aggarwal at ILP Summit 2019
- Messari AMA: Jack Zampolin, Product at Cosmos
- Proof of stake debate between Chris Goes and Sunny Aggarwal
Upcoming events
- Cosmos HackAtom (July 19–21 — Seoul South Korea)
- Introducing New PoS Based Networks — Why Your Network Participation Matters (June 26 — Singapore)
- Cosmos Comes to GopherCon (July 24–27 — San Diego, CA)
Community calls/updates
Deep Dives
Libra
(Sorry, it needed it own section 🤷♂️)
- The Libra Masterplan
- What is the difference between PBFT, Tendermint, SBFT and HotStuff?
- A technical perspective on Facebook’s LibraBFT Consensus algorithm
- Alex Skidanov’s excellent Tweetstorm on HotStuff vs Tendermint
- Ethan Bachman’s thoughts on Libra
- Erik Voorhees’ thoughts on Libra
- BFTree — Scaling HotStuff to Millions of Validators
- A technical perspective on Facebook’s LibraBFT Consensus algorithm
Worth reading
- The Case for Incentivized Testnets
- A Decentralized Army: the Cosmos Hub Staking Defenders
- What is your best atom staking strategy?
- Downside of minimum commission rate
- Delegation, Decentralization, Minimizing Risk
- How Centralized Are Proof of Work and Proof of Stake Cryptocurrencies?
- Proof of Stake and Validators: the Long Term Vision
Originally published at https://cight.co on June 25, 2019.
