Moon View Vol. 1
Bi-weekly Akash News Source, March 23rd - March 31st
Welcome to Moon View your aggregated source for all things Akash. Being that this is our first release we are including relative information on an extended timeline as opposed to what we hope to typically release, bi-weekly updates. Here are the most important updates from the second half of March 2021.
- Social Media Scams
- IBC Launch Party
- Akash Proposal 5
- Akash Proposal 4
- Equinix Metal Integration / Mainnet 2 launch
Fake Facebook Page-
Scammers are asking for various amounts of AKT to be sent to wallet address’. No one, especially members of the Akash team, will be asking you to donate Akash with promises of a reward. This scam tactic runs rampant in discord and telegram communities of various different companies. There have also been past reports of scam accounts impersonating Michael Gushansky. Be sure to follow the real accounts of all team members and stay up to date on there social media posts.
Official Akash Twitter Accounts:
Michael Gushansky Global Marketing Manager
If you see what you think is a scam attempt at portraying team members or advocating for airdrops inform the community via Discord or Telegram channels.
IBC Launch Party-
On March 29th we celebrated the release of IBC on the cosmos SDK. Including guest speaker Akash CTO Adam bozanich. If you missed the live-stream you can register and watch the crowd cast replay here.
AKT related synopsis:
- IBC allowing bridges from other chains to connect to the Cosmos ecosystem
- Not having to go through centralized exchanges
- Bridging Ethereum to Cosmos via Gravity Bridge
- Future possibilities (securitizing leases on agoric via smartchains, long term leases, carbon credits - integrating PoW chains on Akash Net and last but not least using AI on the Akash Network so Adam can lipsync 😉)
The future of Akash looks bright with the integration of IBC!!🎉
Akash Proposal 5-
The full proposal can be found on any Tendermint block explorer
https://www.mintscan.io/akash/proposals/5
Stargate is one of the biggest upgrades in Cosmos’s history so some errors were expected. A number of vesting accounts from genesis were not able to perform delegation operations. No issues effect wallet balances or reward amounts. Proposal 5 will simply fix small hiccups and solidify the opportunity for IBC to be perfectly implemented on the Akash Network in the near future.
Akash Proposal 4-
The full proposal can be found on any Tendermint block explorer
https://www.mintscan.io/akash/proposals/4
Akash Proposal 4, passed on March 23rd 2021, enabling IBC on the Akash Network.
What is IBC? The inter-blockchain communication protocol (IBC) is an end-to-end, connection-oriented, stateful protocol for reliable, ordered, and authenticated communication between heterogeneous blockchains arranged in an unknown and dynamic topology. In short IBC will be utilized on Akash, in the beginning stages, to allow cross chain liquidity allowing you to exchange all IBC enabled tokens for Akash. For example exchanging ATOM — AKT, KAVA — AKT, RUNE— AKT etc.
Mainnet 2 Launch / Equinix Metal Integration-
Mainnet 2 provides a Uniswap-style experience to cloud deployments in a cost-efficient, permission less, censorship-resistant, and non-custodial way. For the first time, developers will be able to launch applications such as DeFi apps, blogs, games, data visualizations, block explorers, blockchain nodes, and other blockchain network components on a decentralized cloud.
Equinix is the world’s largest data center and colocation infrastructure provider, with 220 data centers in 25 countries. Equinix integration provides developers,companies, and projects across the blockchain ecosystem with a faster, more efficient, and lower-cost decentralized cloud alternative, with nearly unlimited use cases.
