The ixo blockchain went offline on December 29th 2022 due to an IBC upgrade error that resulted in an application panic that halted block processing. We want to briefly share some the lessons we learned and to acknowledge the incredible support of the Cosmos core developer community. …

The ixo network has been successfully upgraded in a big step forward on our mission to build the Web3 Internet of Impact. The Mundo release After more than two years of research and development, the Mundo release of the ixo-Cosmos Blockchain SDK brings important protocol enhancements and innovations for non-fungible digital assets that…

Immunity Bonds are an application of the ixo Alphabond sustainable DeFi innovation, which we propose could finance and incentivise pupulation-wide public health interventions for the next generation of Covid epidemic control. We recently published an article introducing an initiative in which ixo is a technology partner, to create the next…

The vision of creating a digital immune system for humanity took on new meaning and relevance since the start of the global Covid-19 pandemic. Now we are making progress on implementing this vision to transform how the world senses and responds to Covid and its ongoing variant outbreaks. Covid Sense-and-Response networks We have…

Catch up and contribute! — Note: The Cosmos ecosystem is constantly growing and expanding. This article’s content is now outdated. For the latest content, see https://cosmos.network/. The InterNFT Working Group is drafting a set of Interchain standards that will advance the state of the art for Non-fungible Tokens and the Metadata associated with uniquely identified…

ixo is leading a collaboration with Persistence One, to develop Interchain Standards for NFTs and Metadata. This is relevant to further development of the ixo Protocol, for tokenising social, environmental and economic development outcomes. It will further enable the movement towards a tokenised Impact Economy. …

The rising tide of the impact economy is driven by capital flows from traditional funding sources. However, this comes with growing costs of knowing (or not knowing) whether the investments are achieving impact. …

This article continues the series of explorations into the features of the Cosmos blockchain and Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol, within the context of the ixo network, which is building on Cosmos to provide the infrastructure for a decentralised internet of impact. Electronic rights and object capabilities The Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol will enable electronic rights…

We need additional crypto-economic mechanisms for building more sustainable financing applications, such as tokenised impact bonds, that can dynamically adapt to changing risks over time within complex systems. Let’s begin this experimentation with a risk-adjusted token bonding curve pricing oracle. Are fixed token bonding curves broken? Most current implementations of Token Bonding Curves only support fixed…