maintenance status

[dynst]

There were zero commits from July to December 2024, and there've been barely any recently after a brief January 2025 sprint of updates.

Simon Warta mentioned in #1618 (comment) that Confio hasn't had a mandate to develop CosmJs for a very long time now, which is why issues tend to go unaddressed.

The last time Confio received general public goods funding that covered CosmJs appears to have been $1.25M from Cosmos Hub proposal 103 in early 2023. (and it looks like they never formally proposed a 2nd tranche of funding from the Cosmos Hub.) The ICF funded Confio's development of CosmWasm in 2024, but instead funded Cosmology with a paltry $155k to develop CosmJs and "rebuild CosmJS’ base functionality to make it leaner and more efficient," - and Cosmology ended up renaming themselves Hyperweb and announcing a TypeScript library that fully replaces CosmJs.

ICF dropped funding for JavaScript libraries in 2025. Should projects make plans to transition away from @cosmjs/stargate towards @interchainjs/cosmos? (InterchainJS got publicly announced by Cosmology/Hyperweb in January.)

[webmaster128]

Great summary, well researched.

The latest news is that I got a maintenance agreement with the ICF to work on CosmJS maintenance for the rest of 2025. So in June I will start going through the backlog. Maybe a handful of days per month. No team.

InterchainJS is certainly a more actively developed and more modern library. For the majority us users it is certainly wirth trying it. But we want to make sure existing CosmJS users have a solid library too.

[webmaster128]

Recently I initiated the internal disucussion for H1 2026 maintenance. I will follow up here as soon as I know something.