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Four documents, the same five questions.
No throughput league table and no yield. The cells are what this library is willing to say about the text.
| Question | The Interblockchain Communication Protocol |
|---|---|
| What the text proposes | Two chains verify each other with light clients. A relayer carries packets and proofs. The relayer is not trusted to tell the truth. It is trusted to bother showing up. Security is the security of both chains. |
| Who may write | Christopher Goes and the Cosmos IBC specification |
| What is settled | A client tracks a counterparty's consensus state. |
| Load-bearing assumption | The specification is not the Cosmos Hub's current validator set, and not an assurance about every chain that speaks IBC. |
| What this library says afterwards | Light-client security collapses if the counterparty's consensus is captured. IBC does not add a third set of guardians to save you. |
| Rights | Official external source only |