Guest: 
Justin Kilpatrick, @[ttk314](https://twitter.com/ttk314?s=20) co-founder & CTO of [Althea](https://www.althea.net/) (Gravity Bridge builders)

tl;dr
—NETA transfers to Osmosis (and pools) available in the next couple days
—Sunny is working on a Volatility AMM w. some BaB students (in the research phase, but sounds cool!) 
—Bridges as Service Providers: read the team’s [position paper](https://medium.com/osmosis/thoughts-on-osmosis-and-bridges-f8ca958b71e0)
—multiple representations of assets is bad UX & it fragments liquidity
—therefore in the short-term Osmosis governance should choose a canonical bridge
—by taking pitches from bridges, discussing their pros and cons, and voting for one
-e.g. decentralization, neutrality, inexpensive transactions, network effect, and features like Interchain Accounts, and NFT transfers, as well as connecting to other chains, esp. EVMs
—Justin Kilpatrick of Althea discussed Gravity Bridge’s benefits: batched (i.e. cheap) transactions, credible neutrality, potential network effects with the Hub
—timeline on withdrawals from GB: sounds like it may be end-of-month
—token distribution: to the validators and comm. members who helped launch: specifics yet to be revealed
—airdrop will be decided by governance: look for future proposals on-chain
—Support Lab asking for next quarter of funding: [Commonwealth discussion](https://commonwealth.im/osmosis/discussion/3621-osmosis-support-labsecond-funding-round) is up: please provide support/questions, etc.
—dedicated support chat coming online towards the end of February
—discussion of Axelar bridge: very smooth UX enabled by a cool design feature (creating new “deposit accounts” that are associated with the account to which you are sending funds

**New Format for Updates**: potentially a rotating crew of admins, maybe even give Sunny a break next week & bring on some other Osmosis devs

Notes by Steviewoofwoof:
https://whimsical-lightning-304.notion.site/Feb-2-Osmosis-Updates-from-the-Lab-w-Justin-Kilpatrick-Althea-Gravity-Bridge-d63c7b05200c4661b0773a8ea0ce75f3