Informal Systems Q1 '24 Retro / Q2 ’24 Plan

Introduction As part of Proposal #839 ( Fund 2024 Hub development by Informal Systems and Hypha Worker Co-op ), Informal and Hypha have presented their Q1 Retro and Q2 Plan to the Oversight Committee to go over plans and reflections for the quarter. Below we share the following with the community for transparency and community input: • Informal Systems’ Q1 Retro • Our summary of the oversight committee meeting and grades • Our detailed Q2 plan for the Cosmos Hub Hypha will share their Q1 Retro and Q2 plan in separately. Informal Systems’ Q1 Retro Highlights • Completed an initial version and private testnet of Partial Set Security, the next iteration of Interchain Security. • Released Gaia v15, upgrading the Cosmos Hub to Cosmos SDK 0.47. • Completed a prototype of the Megablocks architecture. • Fulfilled testing priorities • Upgraded ICS and LSM to SDK 0.50 • Implemented ICS epochs, making the protocol much more efficient and also simpler and easier to build on • Formed a collaboration with Babylon to bring BTC restaking to the Cosmos Hub- this has already yielded our first BTC L2 consumer chain. • Completed a first draft of the ATOM wars contract,…

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This is such an extensive post that we will take the effort to share a review that honor the amount of time the authors spent into crafting it. This is testimony to the transparency commitment made by both the Hypha (which report is available here ) and the Informal team have made to the Cosmos Hub community. Before proceeding with our review, we want to remind the community that this level of transparency is unparalleled in the crypto industry. We shall all be proud to have such high level of quality builders committed to the Hub’s success. btruax: We formed a collaboration with Babylon, to bring Bitcoin security to the Cosmos Hub. This dovetails well technically with another effort to integrate Eigenlayer security, keeps the Cosmos Hub relevant as larger security providers enter the picture, and is a promising source of consumer chain leads from the Bitcoin L2 community. We are interested to have more details regarding the expected design choices currently considered by your team to implement Ethereum Security. btruax: ICS 2.0 will allow validators to opt in to secure new consumer chains, allowing consumer chains to launch fast and scale their…

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Govmos:

We are interested to have more details regarding the expected design choices currently considered by your team to implement Ethereum Security.

Details will be shared on the forum when available.

Govmos:

We were thinking about potentially initiating a debate to fund a BD/Marketing effort for the Hub’s upcoming PSS release. We would really need your input on this matter. Feel free to reach out to us via email: [email protected], or just share your thoughts as an answer to this comment!

Love this attitude. This is the kind of sense of shared ownership and leadership that the Hub needs to grow and succeed. All upcoming consumer chains, CryptoCrew, AADAO, Informal Systems and Hypha are leading individual and coordinated efforts to ensure the go-to-market for ICS 2.0 and the launch of the upcoming consumer chains is successful. That being said, more hands make light work and we always are down to collaborate. Please put your thoughts up on the forum or ping me via Twitter / TG to share the ideas you had.