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:
Analysis :
This dual-product model offers complementary (perhaps should we even say symbiotic) platforms to address some of the biggest challenges in sovereign chain launches. Once these two systems reach full maturity, we believe Informal’s primary development work will conclude, setting the stage for future expansion, maintenance, and the addition of more sophisticated features.
Conclusions:
Some community members, as well as the Informal team itself, have noted a lack of performance in business development and marketing for the Hub. At Govmos, we support Informal’s decision to conclude its technical mandate here, opting to transition toward a more robust, global marketing approach to promote Cosmos next year. We look forward to seeing where this leads in 2025. That said, Informal and Hypha’s primary goal was to deliver these key products—and it’s fair to say this work has been accomplished to the highest standards. We eagerly await Hydro V2 in the upcoming quarter(s) to complete these initiatives.
On behalf of the Govmos Initiative, our PRO Delegators’ validator team, and our community, thank you all for the outstanding work.
