Terse Interchain Standards (TICS) for the Cosmos network & interchain ecosystem.
This repository is the canonical location for development and documentation of the terse inter-blockchain communication protocol (TIBC).
TIBC protocol, based on IBC protocol, simplifies and updates some IBC designs and implementations to reduce complexity of connections with heterogeneous blockchains and to enhance the abilities of cross-chain NFT, smart-contract, and services interactions.
This repository shall be used to consolidate design rationale, protocol semantics, and encoding descriptions for TIBC, including both the core transport, authentication, & ordering layer (TIBC/TAO) and the application layers describing packet encoding & processing semantics (TIBC/APP).
Contributions are welcome.
Please see ICS 1 for a description of what a standard entails.
To propose a new standard, open an issue.
To start a new standardisation document, copy the template and open a PR.
See PROCESS.md for a description of the standardisation process.
See STANDARDS_COMMITTEE.md for the membership of the core standardisation committee.
See CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution guidelines.
All standards at or past the "Draft" stage are listed here in order of their ICS/TICS numbers, sorted by category.
| Interchain Standard Number | Standard Title | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ICS Specification Standard | N/A |
| Terse Interchain Standard Number | Standard Title | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Client Semantics | Candidate |
| 4 | Port & Packet Semantics | Candidate |
| 24 | Host Environments | Candidate |
| 26 | Packet Routing | Candidate |
| Terse Interchain Standard Number | Standard Title | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | Tendermint Client | Candidate |
| 8 | BSC Client | Candidate |
| 9 | Ethereum Client | Candidate |
| Terse Interchain Standard Number | Standard Title | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 18 | Relayer Algorithms | Candidate |
| Terse Interchain Standard Number | Standard Title | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 30 | Non-fungible Token Transfer | Candidate |