IBC Connected Ecosystems
summary
Panel lays out concrete moves: Babylon launches a trustless self-custodial Bitcoin staking mainnet with $1.6 billion BTC deposits; Thorchain commits to IBC by requiring every node must run an IBC relayer to avoid flaky altruistic relayers; Cardano connects via a sidechain to leverage Cosmos SDK business logic; IBC now adds multi-token IBC and interchain accounts and plans economic relay incentives, while developers flag friction finding and operating relayers during integrations.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00IBC connected ecosystems intro
- 8:48Thorchain adopting IBC now
- 10:52Winning Bitcoin purists over
- 15:50IBC beyond message passing
- 22:12Developer experience with IBC
- 27:26IBC’s future of money
- 33:06Closing remarks & Q&A








