Dear Astronauts, we’re going for a ride into space. Over two weeks, there was a lot of essential news for you!

Proposal #23 by Gavin Birch of Figment Networks for the first spend from the community pool is in the voting period. 5250 $ATOMs are requested for the creation of the first Governance Working Group. Delegators have until January 29th to cast their vote. Hurry up!

Part one of the two-blog series highlighting how Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) Protocol is relevant for Enterprise use-cases by the Persistence team is now out. The first blog introduces IBC and goes into detail of how IBC will be used at the Persistence Hub (Enterprise Hub of Cosmos) level. The second blog will present the 1st IBC transaction done by the Persistence team in late 2018. More to follow!

2020 kicks off with the first educational course from Cosmos Tendermint teams! They teamed up with Dr. Joshua Ellul, Director of the Centre for Distributed Ledger Technologies and coordinator of the Masters in Blockchain and DLT at the University of Malta, to design lectures focusing on decentralized public blockchains. During the intensive three day course, the team collected feedback from Dr. Joshua Ellul and the students in relation to the lecture material, workshops, and overall program. The team wanted to share with the community a recap of the first-ever Cosmos academic training course and feedback. The education of future users and builders is crucial to blockchain and DLT open-source technology projects. Check out the videos and materials from the course in our report below!

If you are building a dedicated network beyond Ethereum but still want to utilize the EVM, an easy way to do so is to use the Cosmos SDK and the Ethermint Module built by ChainSafe. Join their February 12th workshop at Ethereum Denver to learn how. Moreover, the Cosmos India is hosting a meetup on 2nd February 2020! Find details of the event below to discuss the developments in India and how you can be a part of it.

Last week, GoDays 2020 Pre-Conference Meetup and Cosmos Singapore Meetup took place. Zaki Manian was talking about the current and future value of Cosmos, upcoming GOZ and IBC in an interview with Messari’s Ryan Selkis. Sunny Aggarwal, a core developer at Tendermint and Cosmos and founder of Sikka Tech featured in the Solana Podcast. This episode was all about validators. Sunny and Anatoly went deep into the current models and how validation within the blockchain ecosystem is evolving. The Chorus One hosts took Terra passing the 1 million accounts milestones as a reason to bring Terra’s CTO Do Kwon on the podcast. In this interview, Brian talks to Do about payment processing and how Terra enables merchants in eCommerce and elsewhere to save on transaction fees. The two discuss the flow of how a transaction in the CHAI app gets included on the Terra blockchain, the regulatory landscape, as well as their metrics such as active users and transaction volume. Do also talks about plans to introduce a CHAI credit card and explains their cashback promotions.

It’s a new decade, and the Cosmos ecosystem is moving. A lot has happened since the last issue! Kadena launches and integrates further with Cosmos tech — smart contract environments on Tendermint continue to mature! Sentinel introduces spiderVPN in Sentinel Private Networks. The team announced that 200TB of bandwidth was exchanged on the network using the Sentinel dVPN apps for Android, GNU/Linux, Windows and Mac OS. Desktop Client v2, updated website, Cosmos IBC with ATOM along with the iOS App are all being worked on! Likecoin annual report and details on the Likecoin project built on Cosmos SDK were published. First Regen Network testnet 2000 upgrade complete. Read Regen Network’s review of 2019, and get a sneak peak into what lies ahead this year and tune into new Planetary Regeneration Podcast episode podcast with Cosmuhammad Bitcoin Jaesustein, the blockchain wizard formerly known as Jae Kwon. They cover everything from spirituality, troll art, the new Virgo project, the future, past and present and future of Cosmos and Tendermint. Moreover, Regen Network is partnering with Gaia University on an upcoming webinar! Join CEO Christian Shearer on February 27th. e-Money last testnet before mainnet launch is rolling. Forbole voted “No” to Proposal 23 of Cosmos Hub. New version of PANIC alert system by Simply VC is out. BitSong genesis file was released. Don’t forget to participate in testnet-3! Find the guide for it below. USD 1,158,500 has been allocated for the Q1 2020 Kava ecosystem grants. As well as KAVA mainnet listing now available on BitMax exchange. Check out THORChain monthly expenses, budget and runway report for January 2020. Rainbow v 2.9 was released with Red Packet (Hongbao) support. IRIS was listed on Pionex. IRISnet Research Director Jeffrey was Invited to give class for National Blockchain Technology and Application ‘Train the Trainers’ program. And many more!

Astronauts, the good news is, Cosmos (ATOM) is now available on Coinbase. These weeks, ATOM was also listed on such exchanges as Bittrex, CEX.IO, TrustShift, the Syndicate and Eterbase. ATOM on Crypto.com starting this February. In addition, ATOM is now on Blockfolio Signal. Check it out!