I understand there are a lot of moving pieces here - the sunset Inter Protocol vote was a signaling vote (as mentioned in the beginning of the post) to ensure community alignment on this direction. The “yes” vote there means DCF, the Economics Committee, and Agoric Systems are taking the necessary steps to enact the wind down,
This discussion will lead to an on-chain proposal that will actually enact the chain upgrade to switch the gas token from IST to BLD. That vote will be to make the changes to the Agoric chain code if it passes.
While your points about a platform being easy to develop on are valid, we’re very much not expecting developers to come and build on Agoric at this time. I’m not sure if you saw the recent blog post about the new direction or read any of Dean’s messages or conversations on Discord or X about it, but Agoric Systems is focusing on delivering a first party application powered by the platform. We have open communication with some teams who want to leverage orchestration, and we had teams already building on the platform, but going forward we have a new, refined direction.
Just the past week we had an internal hackathon and it’s been really awesome (from my pov at least) to see what the teams built. Stay tuned for more from that!