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The Cosmos (ATOM) development team has finally activated the Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol on the platform following a vote by members of the Cosmos ecosystem. The team says IBC fosters interoperability between Cosmos and other blockchains, while also solving scalability issues via sharding, according to a tweet on March 29, 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n Earlier in February 2021, the Cosmos (ATOM)\u00a0 development team successfully carried out the Stargate<\/span> upgrade<\/span>, in a bid to pave the way for the implementation of the Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol – a parameter change that would enable the network to be interoperable with other distributed ledgers.<\/span><\/p>\n Fast forward to March\u00a0 29 and the Cosmos team <\/span>says<\/span> over 1500 validators and delegators in its ecosystem have signalled their support for IBC activation and IBC is now live on the platform, to make both fungible (cross-chain payments) and non-fungible token (NFT) transfers between various blockchains possible.<\/span><\/p>\n As stated on its Twitter <\/span>thread<\/span>, the activation of IBC opens up a whole new world of possibilities for blockchain applications, as blockchain networks that will integrate IBC will be able to leverage it for the execution of multi-chain smart contracts, \u201cwith logic split across blockchains,\u201d and IBC will also usher in new security features to Cosmos.<\/span><\/p>\n At a time when decentralized finance (DeFi) is gradually gaining traction, with the ecosystem now worth <\/span>$43.34 billion<\/span> in terms of total value locked (TVL), the Cosmos team has made it clear that IBC will enable Cosmos and other projects in the Hub to start playing an active role in DeFi.<\/span><\/p>\n Specifically, the Gravity DEX decentralized exchange, which the team says will initially function as an automated market maker (AMM) just like Uniswap (UNI) and others, will soon go-live on Cosmos, enabling users to trade IBC-supported tokens and provide liquidity for traders.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span>IBC Live on Cosmos (ATOM)<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
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