Seventh Meeting: Monday, Feb 1⋅3:00 – 4:00pm UTC, Focus Topic: Blockchain Explorers

Welcome new members

Mira from Map of Zones
Rick from Vulcanize
- working on Tendermint / Cosmso for a long time
- Chain registry with Auctions

first call was last week
adding new chain ids
mapping chain id and seednodes and correlating via IBC versus correlating via governance
GitHub Issue 100

mapofzones.com Mira presenting

explorer of all the zones with an IBC connection with at least one zone
only focus on IBC interactions between zones
can only show one hub of tokens
showing a single testnet right now (not a lot of activity)
Map of Zones 4 node testnet
some zones may only focus on outgoing transactions
percentage of IBC transactions vcompared to total transactions
TBD: What is most interesting to the user
number of connections
Outsider wants to see: Where can I send my tokens directly from one zone to another
- I can see there are only 3 options, can use the map of zones to see options as well as paths to a far away zone.
- Click a spceific zone to reveal more of network topology

what zones are online, what is their topology, where are the active relayers that one can use (do they do it automatically or not)
No incentive at the moment to close channels, find out which relayers are active might be difficult
Do we need a relayer registry?
Denom might be missing

token holder, intersted in looking at where they can hold / send tokens
Mira: under active discussion, hard to predict
They think right now to focus on the metrics, select one particular zone, more data and stats compared to other zones
Where is it connected and where is the zone at?
less information abuot standalond and more how it acts
also to show new people in the ecosystem how active cosmos is
network discovery
- new zone i haven’t heard of, i want to go and look at it

started as a hackatom project (hackatomV) then came game of zones
- wasn’t an actual leader board
- focus was on keeping the connection alive (needed to send a particular type of transaction that wasn’t available to the user)
- phase 2 and 3 were more relevant
  - the most amount of packets (that was a highlight for map of zones)
increased expectations on how many zones could be there
some people were blocking IPs so data wasn’t correct, reaching out to those people to get a good relationship to track the RPC endpoing
What can we do with that dry data and how to surface it to users who are less technical but interested in zones and interactions

less about token history (right now there isn’t a clear desicn for multi-hop interactions)
- not clear to track where the token came from
- hard to figure out that the token went out successfully but failed to come into zone b
- how do we surface that information to the user
- tracking token transfers historically
for developers
- i’m a new zone, where do i need to be connected
- other hubs available, or if my goal is to connect to 3 zones how do i get the best connection there
for investors
- want to see how “connected” that zone is
tool to surface information that isn’t otherwise available
much easier to tell if a chain-id is legit from looking on map of zones compared to making all of the queries necessary to do the same

set up a relayer chat on discord or telegram and invite initial group + relevant wallets

Interchain Accounts
- Keplr / Interchain Berlin
Updates from
- Chain Registry / Auction
Block Explorers
- Confio / IBC Visualizer
  - https://github.com/CosmWasm/ibc-visualizer
Asset registry (CASA / Antoine)