Inter Blockchain Communication (IBC) entered the world with the Stargate upgrade in April 2021. 18 months since then, IBC has rapidly evolved in terms of usage, adoption & new features. Let’s dive into some of the underlying metrics to showcase this impressive 18 month journey!🧵
1/ When IBC launched in Q2 2021, there were initially 8 interconnected chains. Today the Interchain has grown Quarter-over-Quarter (QoQ) to 49 chains!👇
2/ With limited data on Daily Active Addresses/Users (DAU) - defined as the number of addresses associated with a chain that has initiated at least one outgoing IBC transfer on a given day - we see that the number peaked in March of this year at 1.3 million DAU.
4/ From Jan - Aug 2022, IBC facilitated a total of 24 million cross-chain transfers worth $34 billion! An average of 3 million transfers per month with an average value of $1,416 per IBC transfer.
5/ Breaking this down by chain, Osmosis (~11m), Band (~5m), Injective (~4.6m), Juno (~2.3m), Stargaze (~2.1m) and Cosmos Hub (~2m) accounted for the highest number of incoming IBC transfers. The number of outgoing transfers show a similar trend.
6/ From Jan-Aug this year, Osmosis recorded 62% and 43% of all incoming and outgoing IBC transfers in USD value, respectively. Followed by the Cosmos Hub and Juno.
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A highly anticipated launch, a network of 49 interconnected chains, a total of 43 million xChain transfers since launch, & a number of exciting new feature releases - the first 18 months of IBC has been promising with a growing step towards breathing the Interchain to life.
3/ Every blockchain caters to one or more specialized use cases. If these use cases cannot be leveraged across multiple blockchains, it severely handicaps their utility.
IBC solves the problem of blockchains existing as silos with limited interaction.
1/ Funded by the Interchain Foundation, PANIC by @SimplyStaking is an open-source monitoring and alerting solution for blockchain infrastructure operators - monitoring your setup and sending multi-channel alerts.
Let's explore the solution and its benefits 🧵
2/ PANIC’s main objective is to provide node operators with insights on the state of their nodes, whilst quickly flagging issues that could degrade their node availability.
We welcome @delphi_digital’s decision to join the Interchain!
2/ The team at Delphi Labs want to continue focusing on building and innovating on DeFi applications, with a belief that ‘the world will be increasingly multi-chain, and DeFi applications should architect themselves such that they can deploy natively on multiple chains”
3/ In their thorough search for a new platform to host their innovations, the Delphi Labs team evaluated the Interchain against Ethereum and Ethereum Rollups, Avalanche, Solana, Polkadot, Near and Celestia.