According to TechFlow, StarkWare, a core contributor to Ethereum Layer 2 solution Starknet, announced that it will integrate the inter-chain communication (IBC) protocol of the Cosmos ecosystem and cooperate with Cosmos contributor Informal Systems.

This integration will allow Starknet to connect with any IBC-compatible chain, including all Cosmos chains and other non-Cosmos ecosystem chains that adopt the feature.

StarkWare said the collaboration aims to achieve increased decentralization and interoperability of Starknet by exploring the Tendermint consensus algorithm and the IBC protocol. A key source of efficiency for the IBC protocol is its use of light client validation.

Over the past year, StarkWare has also been committed to a number of R&D initiatives, including the introduction of STARKs to Bitcoin, the “fractal scaling” ZKThreads framework, and parallel transaction execution.