Uplift Andromeda

Summary

Strangelove has completed a major milestone in upgrading Andromeda to Cosmos-SDK v0.50. This marks a step forward in ensuring Andromeda benefits from the latest features, optimizations, and security enhancements available in the Interchain ecosystem. This upgrade showcases the power of our comprehensive service: Uplift, Upgrades as a Service.

What is Andromeda?

Andromeda is an all-on-chain suite of products, tools, and utilities enabled by a decentralized operating system called aOs, or the Andromeda Operating System. aOS is designed to make Web3 simpler and to build on-chain Easier, Better, Faster.

aOS allows users, creators, and developers to rapidly create and build dApps, dropping development time from months to minutes. Developers can compose ADOs and dApps across the Cosmos Ecosystem and beyond to maximize their total addressable market and interoperability with the best Web3 projects and purpose-built blockchains.

How Strangelove Helps Andromeda

A major Cosmos-SDK upgrade involves dependency updates, codebase refactors, and major testing plus quality assurance. It’s a process that can take months of dedicated work, putting significant strain on your engineering resources. This Andromeda upgrade has 250,000 line changes across 236 files.

When Andromeda decided to move forward with v0.50, Strangelove provided a comprehensive suite of services to ensure the process was seamless and efficient:

• Proactive Dependency Security Monitoring: We ensured that Andromeda’s codebase stays secure over time.

• GitHub CI Integration: By integrating continuous testing pipelines, we minimized the risk of errors for deployment.

• Interchaintest + testnet integrations: These testing frameworks were crucial to verifying Andromeda’s upgrade works flawlessly across various environments.

We also went beyond the technical upgrade by reviewing Andromeda’s overall codebase, optimizing practices, and addressing key refactors. This will reduce future maintenance burdens and ensure that Andromeda can easily adopt future upgrades with more ease.

Strangelove’s Expertise in Upgrades

By handling Andromeda’s transition to v0.50, Strangelove enables their team to focus on core application development while we manage the complexities of maintenance and upgrading. Our engineers executed the upgrade quickly, allowing the Andromeda team to remain focused on users and innovation.

Jack Zampolin, founder of Strangelove, captured the importance of this partnership:

“Our partnership with Andromeda exemplifies Strangelove’s commitment to help the Cosmos ecosystem upgrade to the latest, most secure version of the SDK. With our support, we’re empowering Andromeda’s team to focus on core development while we take care of the maintenance and upgrade complexities.”

Is your team ready to leave the stress of upgrades behind and focus on building? If you're facing the same challenges, reach out to us at hello@strange.love to see how we can help.