

from the crypto industry’s public square. For the first year, ICNS names will be bootstrapped from Twitter names, i.e. In addition to these integrations, ICNS differs from other naming services in its stance towards discouraging speculation and domain-name squatting. ICNS is an interchain-wide name service, and as such, it has been integrated into the major interchain wallets Keplr and Cosmostation, as well as Skiff (private, encrypted email) and Commonwealth governance. The contracts are live on Osmosis (uploaded in Props 381–83), where they will likely remain during the bootstrapping phase of the project, after which they will be put on their own appchain. This makes Osmosis and Cosmos more legible, more useful, more fun to hang out in.Ĭhainapsis (the Keplr team) and some developers from Osmosis Labs have been heads-down completing ICNS since the middle of November, with the design period having started much earlier. Like DNS and ENS, ICNS allows hard-to-read account IDs to become identifiable names and brands. The InterChain Name Service is live, bringing social identity to the interchain. Since multi-hop OSMO routes now have competitive fees, they can now outperform direct pools. Further, as discussed below in the Governance Corner, the multi-hop discounts allow native incentives to non-OSMO pools to be eliminated. This will likely include a greater number of arbitrage transactions, since previously unaffordable arbs will now more easily turn a profit with the reduced fees. This will cause individual pool fees to go down, but the increased trade volume should make up for it. Previously, each pool would have charged 0.2% (other pool fee prices vary), but now only one 0.2% fee is split between the two pools. For example, there is no ATOM/WETH pool, so traders wanting to trade ATOM for WETH would first buy OSMO with ATOM in ATOM/OSMO (hop 1), then buy WETH in WETH/OSMO (hop 2). Multi-hop fee discounts: When swapping 2 nonOSMO assets through OSMO pools, users now pay only one pool fee (the higher one).At the same time, these limits should be high enough that they never affect liveness during normal trading, even in volatile market conditions. The idea is that these limits will discourage potential exploiters from either targeting Osmosis or using it to offload stolen funds from another chain. A proposal is in the works that starts these limits at 30% daily in/out (measured separately) for most major Osmosis assets, and a 60% weekly backup. IBC rate limits: These are governance-controlled parameters that automatically stop inflows or outflows of a given token past a certain threshold, measured as a percentage of the asset available on Osmosis.


While there is no current Commonwealth discussion about stableswap incentives, I would expect to see a proposal soon to add native incentives to a tri-pool of the top stables: perhaps USDT, USDC, and BUSD?
