The Cosmos Hub Roadmap

This Cosmos Hub roadmap serves as a reference for the current planned features of upcoming releases, as well as providing a record of past releases.

Delta Upgrade (Completed July 12, 2021)

• Gaia v5.0.x
• Gravity DEX:
  • A scalable AMM model for token swaps
  • Drives liquidity for tokens on the Cosmos Hub
  • Delivers price consistency and order execution

Vega Upgrade (Completed December 14, 2021)

• Gaia v6.0.x

• Cosmos SDK v0.44

  • Fee grant module:
    • Allows paying fees on behalf of another account
  • Authz module:
    • Provide governance functions to execute transactions on behalf of another account

• Liquidity Module v1.4.2

  • The Gravity DEX with updates for dependencies

• IBC v2.0.0

• Tendermint v0.34.14

• Cosmosvisor v0.1.0

• IBC packet forward middleware v1.0.1

  • Cosmos Hub as a router

• External chain launch: Gravity Bridge

  • Transfer ATOM, ETH, ERC-20, and other Cosmos tokens between Ethereum and the Gravity Bridge Chain and by extension all IBC connected chains.
  • Fee and reward model hosted across Cosmos and Ethereum

v7-Theta Upgrade (Completed March 25, 2022)

• Gaia v7.0.x
• Cosmos SDK v0.45
  • Minimal update with small fixes
• Gravity DEX: Liquidity v1.4.5
  • Adds a circuit breaker governance proposal type to disable adding new liquidity in order to make a migration possible.
• IBC 3.0.0
  • Interchain Account Module
    • Allows the creation of accounts on a "Host" blockchain which are controlled by an authentication module on a "Controller" blockchain.
    • Arbitrary messages are able to be submitted from the "Controller" blockchain to the "Host" blockchain to be executed on behalf of the Interchain Account.
    • Uses ordered IBC channels, one per account.

v8-Rho Upgrade (expected Q1 2023)

• Gaia v8.0.x
• Cosmos SDK v0.45.12
  • Version bump with a number of fixes
  • See changelog (opens new window) for details
• IBC v3.4
  • See changelog (opens new window) for details
• IBC Packet Forward Middleware v3.1.1
• IBC Msg Whitelist to skip MinFee in CheckTX
• Global Fee Module
  • Allows denoms and min-fees to be governance parameters so gas can be paid in various denoms.
  • Visible on tgrade (opens new window) already and enabled in ante.go (opens new window)

v9-Lambda Upgrade (expected Q1 2023)

• Gaia v9.0.x
• Cosmos SDK v0.45
• IBC 4.2
• Interchain Security - Replicated Security
  • The Cosmos solution to shared security that uses IBC Cross Chain Validation (CCV) to relay validator set composition from a Provider Chain (Cosmos Hub) to a Consumer Chain. This validator set is in charge of producing blocks on both networks using separate nodes. Misbehavior on the Consumer Chain results in slashing Provider Chain staking tokens (ATOM).