Agoric, IST and whats next?
Dean Tribble gave a talk at Gateway to Cosmos covering all of the latest updates and news about Agoric, Inter Protocol, and IST. Watch a recording of the talk here:
Key points and topics:
Intro
- What’s the hardest thing to scale in blockchain? Number of programmers
- Quick summary of the current crypto developer ecosystem and how Agoric aims to scale that with Hardened JavaScript.
- Market perspective: Comparing DeFi and Web3 to Fintech
Agoric
- The General Purpose Platform
- JavaScript smart contracts
- Integrated economy
- Best in-class component model
- Components overview:
- NFT legos
- DeFi legos
- IBC ecosystem
- High level roadmap
- Mainnet 1: Economy backpone
- Mainnet 2: Permissioned apps
- Mainnet 3: Permissionless apps
- Overview of Mainnet 1B release candidate live on Emerynet
- Platform upgrades mentioned can be reviewed in depth in the previous forum post here
IST
- Explanation of of IST collaterlization (PSM+Vaults) and Reserve Pool
- Vaults contracts in-depth overview from previous forum post here
- Kado integration plans
- Instant access to IST using fiat
- API for developers to onboard new users
- IST for other chains
- Akash: Use IST to pay for cloud services as they arrange to accept new forms of payment
- Omniflix: Pay for NFTs and event tickets using IST
What’s Next?
- Mainnet 2 apps
- Calypso: Interchain Dashboard
- Crabble: NFT rental protocol
- Metamask Wallet Support
- Metamask Snaps: How Agoric’s Hardened JavaScript enables the Metamask wallet to connect to Cosmos