Overview

ICS consists of two main modules:

• x/provider
  • Provides to consumer chains updated information of opted in validators.
  • Distributes ICS rewards to opted in validators.
  • Jails and slashes validators that misbehave on consumer chains.
• x/consumer
  • Sends to the consensus engine the validator sets received from the provider chain.
  • Splits consumer block rewards and sends ICS rewards to the provider chain.
  • Notifies the provider chain of downtime infractions.

Note that x/types contains types shared by both modules.

In addition, the following modules are added to ICS to extend its functionality:

• x/democracy