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The v2 of the Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol, launches at the end of March 2025. This blog details the changes to the protocol and how you can benefit from the improved design.

Susannah Evans
February 20, 2025

This post discusses multiple ways teams can build IBC connections other than via light clients. We are working on an attestation-based solution to connect IBC to Base, Arbitrum, Solana, and beyond, and are seeking your feedback.

Susannah Evans
March 20, 2025
4 Min

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

IBC Protocol
December 23, 2024
3 Min

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

IBC Protocol
November 15, 2024
4 Min

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

IBC Protocol
October 14, 2024
5 Min

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.

IBC Protocol
October 3, 2024
8 Min

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.

IBC Protocol
September 30, 2024
6 Min

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

IBC Protocol
September 23, 2024
5 Min

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

Adi Ravi Raj
August 29, 2024
3 Min

Picasso Network has developed a custom solution to integrate Solana with the Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) Protocol using an AVS.
Dhruv Jain | Patrick Kondek
August 12, 2024
8 Min

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

Adi Ravi Raj
August 5, 2024
15 Min

TOKI and Succinct have developed an open-source, practical Zero-Knowledge Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol (ZK-IBC) solution, combining ibc-solidity and Tendermint X.
Jun Kimura
July 25, 2024
6 Min

Skip Connect helps chains relay transactions for free and improve relayer coverage.
Sam Hart
July 11, 2024
8 Min

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

Susannah Evans
June 27, 2024
5 Min

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

Adi Ravi Raj
June 19, 2024
5 Min

This technical deep dive explains how to implement cw-ics721, enhancing the functionality of NFTs by making them natively cross-chain.
Tai, aka "Mr T", Truong
June 13, 2024
15 Min

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.

Adi Ravi Raj
May 16, 2024
6 Min

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.

Mary McGilvray
May 15, 2024
7 Min

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.

Adi Ravi Raj
April 29, 2024
3 Min

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

Adi Ravi Raj
April 10, 2024
12 Min

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

Adi Ravi Raj
April 2, 2024
4 Min

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.

Susannah Evans
March 26, 2024
3 Min

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.

Mary McGilvray
March 18, 2024
2 Min

TOKI developed an IBC-enabled cross-chain infrastructure that the largest financial institution in Japan has now adopted.
Daiki Ishikawa
March 13, 2024
6 Min

Built by Informal Systems, ibc-rs is a Rust library that serves as a robust implementation of IBC in the Rust programming language.
Farhad Shabani
February 26, 2024
5 Min

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

MarkAnthony Vogel | Reece Williams
February 6, 2024
5 Min

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

Adi Ravi Raj
January 31, 2024
7 Min

IBC Software Engineer Charleen Fei discusses the benefits of standardizing data transport for rollup interoperability.
Charleen Fei
January 26, 2024
6 Min

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

Mary McGilvray
January 17, 2024
6 Min

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

Mary McGilvray
December 19, 2023
12 Min

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.

Adi Ravi Raj
December 18, 2023
5 Min

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.

Adi Ravi Raj
December 5, 2023
8 Min

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.

Mary McGilvray
November 28, 2023
2 Min

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.

Adi Ravi Raj
October 16, 2023
5 Min

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.

Adi Ravi Raj
September 27, 2023
9 Min

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

Mary McGilvray
September 14, 2023
5 Min
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The v2 of the Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol, launches at the end of March 2025. This blog details the changes to the protocol and how you can benefit from the improved design.

Susannah Evans
February 20, 2025
IBC Attestations: Light Clients are the Tip of the Iceberg
This post discusses multiple ways teams can build IBC connections other than via light clients. We are working on an attestation-based solution to connect IBC to Base, Arbitrum, Solana, and beyond, and are seeking your feedback.

Susannah Evans
March 20, 2025
4 Min
2024 Year in Review | IBC
This blog post will share achievements in development, usage, and community contributions for the IBC Protocol in 2024.

IBC Protocol
December 23, 2024
3 Min

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

IBC Protocol
November 15, 2024
4 Min

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

IBC Protocol
October 14, 2024
5 Min

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.

IBC Protocol
October 3, 2024
8 Min
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Ideahacker's Guide to IBC is a blockchain interoperability ideathon for builders, entrepreneurs, and creative thinkers.

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

Adi Ravi Raj
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Picasso Network has developed a custom solution to integrate Solana with the Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) Protocol using an AVS.
Dhruv Jain | Patrick Kondek
August 12, 2024

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

Adi Ravi Raj
August 5, 2024

TOKI and Succinct have developed an open-source, practical Zero-Knowledge Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol (ZK-IBC) solution, combining ibc-solidity and Tendermint X.
Jun Kimura
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Skip Connect helps chains relay transactions for free and improve relayer coverage.
Sam Hart
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Q2 2024 core protocol development updates and ecosystem news: Solana joins the IBC network, cross-chain NFTs, and more.

Susannah Evans
June 27, 2024

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

Adi Ravi Raj
June 19, 2024

This technical deep dive explains how to implement cw-ics721, enhancing the functionality of NFTs by making them natively cross-chain.
Tai, aka "Mr T", Truong
June 13, 2024

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.

Adi Ravi Raj
May 16, 2024

7 Min
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.

Mary McGilvray
May 15, 2024

3 Min
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.

Adi Ravi Raj
April 29, 2024

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

Adi Ravi Raj
April 10, 2024

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

Adi Ravi Raj
April 2, 2024

3 Min
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.

Susannah Evans
March 26, 2024

2 Min
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.

Mary McGilvray
March 18, 2024

6 Min
TOKI developed an IBC-enabled cross-chain infrastructure that the largest financial institution in Japan has now adopted.
Daiki Ishikawa
March 13, 2024

5 Min
Built by Informal Systems, ibc-rs is a Rust library that serves as a robust implementation of IBC in the Rust programming language.
Farhad Shabani
February 26, 2024

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

MarkAnthony Vogel | Reece Williams
February 6, 2024

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

Adi Ravi Raj
January 31, 2024

IBC Software Engineer Charleen Fei discusses the benefits of standardizing data transport for rollup interoperability.
Charleen Fei
January 26, 2024

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

Mary McGilvray
January 17, 2024

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

Mary McGilvray
December 19, 2023

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.

Adi Ravi Raj
December 18, 2023

8 Min
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.

Adi Ravi Raj
December 5, 2023

2 Min
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.

Mary McGilvray
November 28, 2023

5 Min
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.

Adi Ravi Raj
October 16, 2023

9 Min
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.

Adi Ravi Raj
September 27, 2023

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

Mary McGilvray
September 14, 2023