IBC Past, Present, Future

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Identifies IBC’s concrete bottlenecks: poor cross-chain UX, missing chain naming service (a DNS for chains), and underfunded relayer infrastructure that lacks fee mechanics. Proposes building a multisig-funded relayer DAO on Juno using community pools to pay long‑term relay operators, and shipping TypeScript/browser relayers plus Hermes and Go relayer support. Describes a working Gravity bridge to Ethereum, near‑ready interchain accounts, and a hub‑router proposal to route IBC traffic and capture fees to sustain the Cosmos Hub.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:36About Jack
3. 1:38Biggest obstacles to IBC
4. 10:49Critical pieces of infrastructure
5. 14:37Major update coming
6. 15:41Hub Router

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