The Interchain Foundation (ICF) is pleased to introduce Landslide, the brilliant minds behind the IBC light client on Avalanche. This effort marks a momentous step toward strengthening the interchain, enabling improved connectivity and interoperability among diverse blockchain networks. Landslide is all set to launch its incentivized testnet on November 1.
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Landslide, a leading member of the Interchain Builders Program and a subnet on Avalanche, is proud to announce its IBC connection to Avalanche. This development opens the door to seamless interoperability between Avalanche, Cosmos Hub and more than 100 other IBC-compliant chains.
The initiative promises to revolutionize the DeFi ecosystem, allowing IBC-compliant dApps to work seamlessly on the Avalanche network. Leveraging the unparalleled security features unique to IBC, this development ensures not only interoperability, but also a level of trust and security that sets a new standard for cross-chain interactions.
The promise of avalanche
Avalanche’s innovative metastable consensus protocol addresses the challenges of sublinear scaling and minimizing communication overhead. This design allows Avalanche to support a substantial number of validators without compromising decentralization or throughput.
Additionally, the Avalanche Consensus scales seamlessly to thousands of concurrent validators without performance degradation, making it one of the most secure protocols for Internet scaling systems. The network has successfully implemented prominent EVM projects and processes an average of approximately one million transactions every day.
A unique collaboration
This IBC light client is the product of a unique collaboration between Landslide and StrangeLove, each bringing indispensable talents and groundbreaking expertise to the project. Strangelove, an ICF Distributed Development Team, specializes in IBC-focused initiatives, including the development of the IBC Go relayer and interchain testing. Landslide, using years of innovation and technological mastery, takes the project to unprecedented heights.
Together they form a powerful alliance with the skills and vision to redefine blockchain interconnectivity and scalability. Their collective efforts represent significant progress in the decentralized web and reflect a future where collaboration drives progress and transformation.
A vision for the future
Nathan Windsor, co-founder and CEO of Landslide, said: “It’s an honor to work with the Interchain community, and the ICF has been extremely helpful to us. Our team has a long history of working on the Cosmos infrastructure since the Ethermint days in 2018, and we’re excited to bring IBC to Avalanche.
IBC is fundamentally the safest bridge technology in the world. Between January 2022 and February 2023, IBC processed $29 billion in transaction volume and lost $0. Even the banking infrastructure cannot provide that kind of service; Only IBC can do that.”
“Bringing IBC to Avalanche marks a huge milestone for the future of IBC and reliable blockchain interoperability.”
Jack Zampolin
“Strangelove is pleased to be working with the impressive Landslide team on this pivotal development that furthers our mission to expand IBC across the crypto industry,” added Jack.
Ava Labs shared this comment: “Landslide brings CosmWasm to Avalanche’s new consensus mechanism, along with a gateway between the Cosmos and Avalanche ecosystems unified by IBC and Avalanche Warp Messaging. We are excited to see where this collaboration takes the technology.”
Uniting visions and technologies
Landslide’s commitment to build the IBC light client on Avalanche fits seamlessly with the ICF’s vision to promote robust connections between various blockchain networks. By leveraging Avalanche’s unique scalability features, Landslide’s project has the potential to significantly improve interchain functionality.
The expansion of the interchain to additional ecosystems marks an incredibly positive development. IBC connectivity paves the way for a diverse, sovereign and interoperable network of blockchains. This allows different consensus mechanisms, security protocols and SDKs to coexist harmoniously.
Landslide’s innovative approach to overcoming technical barriers reflects IBC’s safe, minimized ethos.
“We are optimistic that their efforts will greatly advance the continued evolution of the interchain, enabling smoother transactions and connections between diverse networks. Stay tuned for updates on these and other initiatives as we continue to work tirelessly to achieve our mission,” the spokesperson said. the team.
