Informal Hub Team Q3 ‘24 retro / Q4 ‘24 plan

Introduction This is an update for Proposal #839 ( Fund 2024 Hub development by Informal Systems and Hypha Worker Co-op ). Informal Systems and Hypha met with the 2024 Oversight Committee last week and are now ready to present reports and grades. The 2024 Oversight Committee consists of: • Stride contributor: Aidan Salzmann • Neutron contributor: Avril Dutheil • Polkachu representative: Polkachu • Jim Parillo at Figment Capital • Shane Vitarana at Stargaze • James Hinck, Product Manager at Circle This is a summary of Informal Systems’ portion of our 2024 Q3 Wrap-Up/Q4 Kick-off meeting on October 16, 2024. All oversight committee members have reviewed and approved this document before posting. Hypha has shared its report here . Q3 Retrospective Forge (ICS launchpad) • 6 chains featured on the dashboard • Only 2 consumer chains have joined at this point- more on this in the consumer chain section below. • v0.5 permissioned version deployed in early August • We shifted priorities to put our resources towards launching the full permissionless version. • v1 full permissionless version launched alongside permissionless ICS by end of quarter…

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Thanks Brian, nice write up!

We would like to begin by commending the Informal and Hypha teams for their continued high-quality contributions to the Cosmos Hub. To keep our feedback concise, we’ll address both teams here. Quarter after quarter, your teams have delivered, refined, and perfected the products essential to the Hub’s vision. Context: This year, two primary products have tasked: • The ICS upgrade to Partial Set Security and permissionless deployment, which ultimately lead to the development of the Forge platform —positioned as the preferred user interface to provide the “best place to launch a chain” experience (as @ebuchman often refers to). • The second key product is the Hydro platform , a governance-led liquidity allocation mechanism. Currently, Hydro’s v1 iteration mirrors the early stages of ICS, but we expect the upcoming v2 release to be as transformative as Partial Set Security was for InterChain Security. Essentially transforming Protocol own Liquidity (PoL) into the first ever community owned decentralized treasury management in the Crypto space. As outlined by the author, here are some of the core features anticipated to deliver on this vision with the Hydro v2 update:…

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