ICF has announced that Ethan Buchman, co-founder of Tendermint and chairman of its new research and development team, will serve as CEO

BlockBeats news, February 25, Interchain foundation & foundation, which supports the development and ecological construction of the trans-chain project Cosmos; An official ICF statement details the foundation's history and achievements, saying that since its inception, ICF has focused on external cooperation for development.

Starting in January 2020, ICF's research and development team is an independent Canadian company, Informal Systems Inc., which will continue to develop the software and protocols associated with the Cosmos network as an independent architecture, "to be a key contributor to the Cosmos ecosystem," according to the announcement.

根据公司官网介绍，Informal Systems 总部位于多伦多，在维也纳、卢塞恩和柏林设有办公室。 Tendermint  联合创始人 Ethan Buchman 兼 ICF 前技术总监将担任该公司 CEO，ICF 前董事总经理 Arianne Flemming 和研究负责人 Zarko Milosevic 将加入该公司。该公司主要针对分布式系统和形式化验证方向进行研发。该公司的起始资金将来自 ICF，ICF 基金会将以可转债、软件开发合同及研究资助的方式向 Informal Systems 注入资金，而 Informal Systems 则按合同及资助方向为 Tendermint 和 Cosmos 系统进行形式化验证、Rust 开发及协议方面的研究。

On February 20, BlockBeats reported that the Tendermint Inc, the developer of Cosmos, had posted a blog announcing the restart. The company will be separated from IBC and the Tendermint core team. IBC and the Tendermint core team will form a new, independent enterprise in Berlin with the support and sponsorship of the Interchain foundation (ICF). As core contributors to the ecosystem, other longtime employees of Tendermint Inc will operate under the newly formed enterprise GmbH entity. Following the spinoff, Tendermint Inc will focus on the development and operation of Cosmos community, Cosmos SDK and Cosmos ecology project Virgo. & have spent & have spent

The original link: https://medium.com/@interchain_io/past-present-future-icf-r-and-d-introducing-informal-systems-e50d14383f05

Website link: https://informal.systems/2020/02/24/introducing-informal/

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