Testnets, Fireside Chats, Releases, and More
Co-Founder Vish Modali will be sitting Firesideš„
Later today, Quicksilver co-founder Vish Modali will be joining Billy Rennekamp in an episode of Cosmos Fireside Chats on Twitter Spaces. With only a little over a month left until mainnet launch, they will be discussing Quicksilver, the upcoming incentivized testnet, and more. Listen in here: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1YpJkZYgbqMGj?s=20
Rhapsody: A Quick Updateā
After being halted a few days, Rhapsody will be starting again today under the chain-id quicktest-4. Quicktest-4 will be a quick run of the latest release of software in preparation for Killer Queen šš½
Killer Queen is coming š
Killer Queen, Quicksilverās incentivized testnet, will be launching before the first half of June is over. This testnet will have tasks not only for validators, but also for liquid stakers, allowing future users to get familiar with the protocolās features and UI. All announcements and participation will be handled via discord. Join here: https://discord.gg/kTsQAZmmzZ
Sifchainās latest roadmap has been released š£ļø
The Sifchain team released the protocolās latest roadmap, revealing, among other things, that they will be launching a beta version of a margin trading platform in late June. The Sifchain team also plans to upgrade their DEX, as well as become an EVM-compatible chain.
The Cosmos Buildersā Foundation is a go š
Cosmos Core contributors have teamed together to launch the Cosmos Buildersā Foundation DAO, a foundation that will fund IBC infrastructure and Cosmos Stack development. Meant strictly for āpublic goods,ā the foundationās efforts will be concentrated in developing technology that will be used ecosystem-wide. The Foundation will also begin conversations with development teams across the ecosystem to ensure alignment between ecosystem builders and interchain core contributors.
Terra 2.0 š
With the passing of proposal 18498, Terra 2.0 launched 5 days ago. Through an online document written by Do Kwon and the Terra Builders Alliance, they coordinated the different aspects on the launch of the new chain, including airdrops, building, and more.
Ignite announces the creation of two entities: Ignite and NewTendermint āļø
Following Tendermintās rebrand to Ignite in February, the company has now announced the creation of two entities: Ignite and NewTendermint. NewTendermint will be spearheaded by Jae Kwon, while Ignite will remain under the leadership of Peng Zhong. Ignite will maintain its current focus, the Emeris portfolio manager and the Ignite CLI developer toolkit, while NewTendermint will focus on developing core blockchain infrastructure for Cosmos.
