The Alpha release intends to achieve the following:

• Provide a streamlined implementation of the IBC TAO layer for Cardano that implements IBC based cross chain communication between the Cardano network and Cosmos SDK based side chains using the Tendermint consensus algorithm
• Achieve a public testnet deployment
• Achieve auditability of the developed source code
• It should be feature complete in terms of the TAO layer and demonstrate feasibility by demonstrating a swap of fungible tokens in both directions