Thread by @jack_zampolin

With the completion of the original @cosmos whitepaper (yes you read that right, a crypto project actually completed its whitepaper) a new roadmap for the Gaia (Cosmos Hub) is in process from @interchain_io under @shahankhatch in collaboration with core devs.

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TL;DR Gaia is planning to pull in modules from other SDK chains as well as develop new ones.

AMM! Derivatives! CNS! BTC/ETH interop! Cross Chain Accounts and Staking! WOW! Strap in and let's take a ride through #ATOM2021, its going to be a great year! Lets take them one by one

An Automated Market Maker, built by @B__Harvest is coming to the Hub. Pools! Swaps! It will likely be ready for deployment in mid-Feb. Check out the demo below!

swap.bharvest.io

Bitcoin Interop is on the table. No team is currently working full-time on it but there is great prior work by the Nomic and Summa One to draw from. If you are looking for a good @cosmos project you can get funded to do this one.

github.com/summa-tx/relay…
github.com/nomic-io/nomic

@ethereum interop is coming via @AltheaNetwork's Peggy implementation. @getsomm_ plans to deploy this on a separate chain sometime in February. After a period of proving, expect to see it on the Hub this year.

FWIW This is what I'm working on right now.

github.com/althea-net/peg…

Interchain Accounts is a feature enabled by IBC. It allows one chain's validator set to control an account on another chain. This code will be ready after an audit sometime in the next month.

@billyrennekamp breaks down what it means for the hub below

forum.cosmos.network/t/cosmos-hub-a…

Cross Chain Staking (shared security @Polkadot) is currently being worked on by @informalinc and @Tendermint_Core. It is currently scheduled to be complete in Q4 with a deliverable to help new zones bootstrap liquidity in Q3. Expect to hear a lot more on this in the next months

Staking Derivatives, another extension of @cosmos PoS model scheduled for this year. They help $ATOM be a better collateral for DeFi. Completion in Q4. Prior work by @B__Harvest and @ChorusOne set to inform @iqlusioninc and @interchain_io on their final implementation.

And finally, Gaia will deploy a Chain Naming Service (CNS) to prevent collision in the Interchain naming space. Think DNS for IBC. I've done some prior work on this, but the @tendermint_team under @zcpeng will pick up development. Expected in Q2.

github.com/jackzampolin/c…

Expect these features to make their way to the hub as they ship. I anticipate roughly quarterly major upgrades (#stargate in Jan, then roughly April, July and October) facilitated by the upgrade module.

The vision of Gaia has always been as a continually evolving system, pulling in the best modules from the broader ecosystem. Many blockchains have tried this, but failed. The @cosmos community is making it a reality this year.

Final note: this is from where I sit and final roadmap may vary.