Akash's codebase is production-ready after testnet, with minor issues resolved. The team is updating to the final Stargate version of Cosmos-SDK, planning a mainnet upgrade for decentralized cloud and IBC integration. Akash Network will be an early IBC adopter. Significant changes in Stargate require coordination with partners for upgrades and testing, despite previous collaboration on CosmosHub testnets.
By default, Akash offers temporary storage that is wiped clean upon worload restarts. To maintain data integrity across reboots, we propose enabling persistent storage functionality, which ensures that information written to the disk remains intact.
IBC (Inter-Blockchain Communication) is a protocol that allows different blockchain networks to communicate and exchange data with each other. In this context, IBC enables Akash to interact and share information with other blockchain networks that also support the IBC protocol.