Dev Update

Prelaunch Expectations

Here’s what we know about the mainnet launch timeline. If we are sticking to the previously agreed upon “two weeks of stability” duration for GoS, this translates into GoS lasting through mid-January at minimum (since GoS is planned to restart a few days into January). Likely, it may last longer if any more issues are discovered during the game.

We will be communicating follow-on expectations to clarify the path to launch after GoS. Get the information on-hand and subscribe to our newsletter by inputting your email at the bottom of our webpage.

To follow the progress of the prelaunch timeline, here is the full list of prelaunch issues:

And if there’s time or demand for it, we also keep a prelaunch if-have-time-prelaunch wishlist of issues:

Ethermint

Work on ingestion and storage of ETH transactions into the Cosmos-SDK application has taken longer than expected, but a final design has been decided upon and implementation is ongoing. Wiring up the Web3 RPC API will happen after the transaction work has been finalized.

Cosmos-SDK

Our focus this month has been primarily on Game of Stakes. Releases for gaia-900x (0.27.x) and GoS (0.28.x) contained numerous bug fixes and stability improvements. Check out the changelog of the latest releases for more details.

Issue #3079: The first GoS hard-fork will migrate GoS-2 to GoS-3.

Tendermint Core

TMC v0.27.0 was released with fixes to our proposer selection algorithm. Shortly afterwards, a few non-breaking releases were shipped containing bug-fixes for the mempool cache and PEX (peer exchange) address book.

🚀 Voyager

Preliminary Voyager architectural diagram.

📢 Voyager, your mission control center (GUI) for interacting with the Cosmos Hub, is currently in alpha. We are looking for alpha testers of Voyager. You could run the developer version of Voyager (unstable) to stake, vote, create proposals, and send tokens on any testnet. We welcome any feedback and are happy about any found bug.

If you want to share your experience, we would appreciate it if you would write to us at github.com/cosmos/voyager/issues/new.

Security Audits

We are undergoing a robust series of audits and assessments and we’ll be making them publicly available as soon as we can.

For general questions or concerns about ongoing security auditing activity, please direct inquiries to: security@tendermint.com.

🐞 Bug Bounty Program 💰

Please be aware that we are paying out elevated (1.5x) bug bounty rates as an added line of defense against critical vulnerabilities preceding mainnet launch. We’ve paid out over $30,000 in rewards with a round to be paid out in early January. Exterminate away!