IBC launched in February 2021, along with the start date upgrade for the Cosmos network. It took a few more months before people launched other chains that I think the IRIS hub had it pretty soon on. The real kind of kickstart for IBC usage came with Osmosis, right? Kind of later in the summer. So there was a, you know, a slow start, but around the time IBC launched, I kind of wanted to see that through to actual production and then that was kind of a good cadence for me to just part ways with interchange.
This week, host Anna Rose and co-host Tarun Chitra catch up with Chris Goes from Heliax, the team behind Anoma and Namada. They start with a quick retrospective about IBC, a project he formerly worked on, and how the protocol has evolved since it launched.
They dive into the concept of 'intents', exploring their origin, evolution, and discuss the intent-based systems that exist today. As well, they chat about the architectures enabled by a generalized intent-based infrastructure, the potential impacts on user experience, and the inherent trade-offs, particularly when zero-knowledge or privacy aspects are added to the mix.
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