Hi all. I know that there are already many integrations between projects and Axelar. Definitely, such integrations will have a good effect on both projects. I support this integration, but of course I agree with what was said above regarding complete transparency and the need to create something like a detailed roadmap. If you can call it that.
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Based on the positive feedback from the community, a referendum has been created for the Moonriver community to ratify the decision onchain:
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Just as an update - in response to the community feedback here and discussions with Axelar, it should be possible to lower the first year costs to about $350K.
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Thanks for the update, @aaron.mbf . I’ve voted yay with CertHum’s accounts and delegate accounts. Excited to see how this benefits Moonriver if fully approved by governance.
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MR 50 has passed and been confirmed. Axelar has sent an agreement for the Amplifier program to the Foundation for review.
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By way of update, the Axelar agrement was signed and we’ve had a kick off call. Currently targeting end of Q2 for launch. I will update with a new forum post in the next week or so.
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Apologies for the very overdue udpate on this topic.
There are significant delays in Axelar’s timeline and the new estimated time for a Moonriver Axelar deployment is late in Q4.
This is a major architectural change for Axelar with many technical uncertainties which has led to the security audits taking longer than expected as well as the discovery of several issues in testnet that needed to be addressed.
Axelar is working hard to launch Amplifier later this month and will learn a lot from the deployment of a few EVM chains scheduled ahead of Moonriver.
Following this, a much clearer picture of a timeline should be possible.
In the meantime, Moonbeam tech ops and devrel resources have been diligently testing the needed infrastructure and contracts in a development environment and are working to get Moonbase Alpha registered in the Axelar testnet.
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