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The growth of the IBC Protocol relies on our community of open-source development contributors. This new initiative, the Contributor Showcase, aims to share the stories of developers who are instrumental in the development and adoption of IBC. It will also provide a platform for selected contributors to share their technical work with the broader IBC developer community.

The Contributor Showcase will happen quarterly after an open submission period. One contributor will be selected during each round. Submissions for Q1 are open from March 18 - 29, 2024.

The content team will get to know the selected contributor through a quick interview (video not required) and create a short blog post and social post about their work and contributions to the protocol. In addition, selected contributors will receive an IBC Contributor NFT.

We sincerely thank all contributors for their diligent work and dedication.

Click here to nominate an IBC Protocol contributor.

You can nominate yourself or someone else for consideration. For example, team leads can nominate a contributor from their team.

The Contributor Showcase will focus on contributors who…

• Write IBC code, including for modules, middleware, relayers, clients, or the IBC implementations.

• Improve tests or testing frameworks.

• Contribute to protocol feature development.

• Investigate bugs or issues on Github.

• Work on issues where external contributors’ assistance is requested.

• Build IBC developer tooling or resources.

• Submit an accepted security disclosure with a post-remediation, resolved report on HackerOne.

• Share a detailed and exhaustive write-up of an improvement or feature request as an issue on Github.

• Give thoughtful and comprehensive reviews of pull requests they collaborate on.

• Develop novel IBC use cases.

A quick note on policy: For teams who receive funding or are compensated by the Interchain Foundation, individuals cannot be nominated for contributions from their day-to-day work. They can be nominated for work performed outside of the organization, on a volunteer, uncompensated basis.

• Genuinely helpful contributions: Picking up work directly asked for within one of the IBC repos and adhering to the code of conduct for contributors.

• Quality over quantity: An individual who contributes a single, high-quality contribution is preferred over an individual who submits several less impactful contributions. Submissions for tasks like fixing typos or linting code will not be eligible for the Showcase.

• Impact of Contributions towards the IBC Roadmap Goals: Contributions that helped the protocol move towards its 2024 Roadmap goals of expanding to new ecosystems and improved protocol usability.

Do you want to nominate someone else or yourself for contributions this quarter? Please fill out this quick form to nominate them.