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This blog post will share achievements in development, usage, and community contributions for the IBC Protocol in 2024.

This article aims to provide an overview of IBC and its main implementations, ibc-go and ibc-rs, as well as other components of the Interchain stack, namely CometBFT and the Cosmos SDK.

Announcing the winners of the first-ever IBC Ideathon, Ideahacker's Guide to IBC!

A walkthrough of the participation tracks for Ideahacker's Guide to IBC, the IBC Ideathon.

Learn how to use the IBC Idea Builder to visualize and ideate your IBC-powered cross-chain ideas. The IBC Idea Builder is an easy-to-use, no-code flowchart maker.

Get guidelines for creating and developing a winning idea, including the types of ideas we’re looking for, how to impress the judges, and what makes a winning idea.

Ideahacker's Guide to IBC is a blockchain interoperability ideathon for builders, entrepreneurs, and creative thinkers.

Dev Ojha's contributions to the IBC Protocol showcase the innovative thinking and problem-solving that drives the IBC ecosystem forward.

Picasso Network has developed a custom solution to integrate Solana with the Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) Protocol using an AVS.

An in-depth comparison between IBC and LayerZero, including architecture, security and trust assumptions, development expressivity, speed, cost, and extensibility to new ecosystems.

TOKI and Succinct have developed an open-source, practical Zero-Knowledge Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol (ZK-IBC) solution, combining ibc-solidity and Tendermint X.

Skip Connect helps chains relay transactions for free and improve relayer coverage.

Q2 2024 core protocol development updates and ecosystem news: Solana joins the IBC network, cross-chain NFTs, and more.

Explore how Stride built an interchain liquid staking protocol leveraging the IBC feature Interchain Accounts.

This technical deep dive explains how to implement cw-ics721, enhancing the functionality of NFTs by making them natively cross-chain.

ibc-go v7.5.0 and v8.3.0 introduce two new features: Interchain Accounts (ICA) queries and conditional clients, respectively. This post explains these new features, why they are important, and how projects can leverage them.

The Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol (IBC) is one of the most widely adopted interoperability protocols globally. This post aims to dispel misconceptions about the protocol and educate technical and non-technical users on its development and usage.

The IBC Contributor Showcase shares the outstanding work of developers who contribute to IBC. Q1's winner is Ben Luelo, founding engineer at Union Labs.

An in-depth comparison between IBC and CCIP, including architecture, security and trust assumptions, development expressivity, speed, cost, and extensibility.

In 3 years, the IBC Protocol has grown to 114 chains, $3B in monthly volume, and 8.8M transactions per month.

The IBC Developer Bulletin is a concise quarterly update covering what was shipped this quarter, and what is planned for the next quarter. It covers the IBC specifications, the Go and Rust implementations, and relayers.

The growth of the IBC Protocol relies on our community of open-source development contributors. The Contributor Showcase aims to share the stories of developers who are instrumental in the development and adoption of IBC.

TOKI developed an IBC-enabled cross-chain infrastructure that the largest financial institution in Japan has now adopted.

Built by Informal Systems, ibc-rs is a Rust library that serves as a robust implementation of IBC in the Rust programming language.

Ibc-apps is a Github repository for discovering high-quality IBC applications built by diverse teams who power interchain IBC.

IBC channel upgradability is live in ibc-go v8.1.0. Learn about the implementation of channel upgradability, use cases, and functionality.

IBC Software Engineer Charleen Fei discusses the benefits of standardizing data transport for rollup interoperability.

How IBC's two abstraction layers, the IBC transport and application layers make IBC development as easy as possible for developers.

In 2023, IBC had 107 chains, 124 contributors, and December 30d volume of $2.5B and 5.3M token transfers.

The Wasm Client Module allows IBC developers to write light clients in any language that compiles to Wasm, making it easier to bring IBC connections to new ecosystems.

Get a comprehensive overview of IBC features, plus a decision matrix to help you choose the best features for your chain or cross-chain application.

The official IBC Twitter account is a dedicated space for technical teams to stay updated on Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol development and learn how to build with IBC.

Evmos will be one of the first users of the callbacks middleware, leveraging this novel feature to simplify complex cross-chain workflows into a single action.

The Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol's architecture allows for feature-rich blockchain interoperability without any third party intermediaries.