THE STORY OF COSMOS

Building the

Internet of

Blockchains

THE STORY OF COSMOS

Building the

Internet of

Blockchains

Cosmos is a thriving decentralized network of independent
interconnected blockchains, with more than $140 billion of digital
assets under management and the Cosmos Hub at its heart. We
value interoperability, scalability, and usability above all. That's
why we're building a new sustainable internet—the Internet of
Blockchains—that challenges existing monopolies, enables new
business models, and allows everyone to have a stake in its
ownership.

Blockchains give us the opportunity to transfer value from peer-
to-peer, empowering people to create decentralized
communities, in which goods and services can be exchanged
beyond the limitations of today's financial system. Before Cosmos,
blockchains were siloed, unable to communicate with each other,
and difficult to build. They had limited transaction throughput,
making them susceptible to network congestion and high fees.

Cosmos is a thriving decentralized network of independent interconnected blockchains, with more than $140 billion of digital assets under management and the Cosmos Hub at its heart. We value interoperability, scalability, and usability above all. That's why we're building a new sustainable internet—the Internet of Blockchains—that challenges existing monopolies, enables new business models, and allows everyone to have a stake in its ownership.

Blockchains give us the opportunity to transfer value from peer-to-peer, empowering people to create decentralized communities, in which goods and services can be exchanged beyond the limitations of today's financial system. Before Cosmos, blockchains were siloed, unable to communicate with each other, and difficult to build. They had limited transaction throughput, making them susceptible to network congestion and high fees.

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Cosmos solves these challenging problems, enabling blockchains
to scale and connect with a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus
mechanism that achieves high performance with low energy
consumption. Through industry-leading application components
like CometBFT, Cosmos SDK, and the IBC protocol, building a
high-speed autonomous blockchain and interacting with other
chains is easy…

The world is about to get a lot more connected. Why not join us
and plug into the fastest-growing blockchain ecosystem in the
space?

Cosmos solves these challenging problems, enabling blockchains to scale and connect with a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism that achieves high performance with low energy consumption. Through industry-leading application components like CometBFT, Cosmos SDK, and the IBC protocol, building a high-speed autonomous blockchain and interacting with other chains is easy…

The world is about to get a lot more connected. Why not join us and plug into the fastest-growing blockchain ecosystem in the space?

Core contributors

Cosmos is a shared internet of independently owned and
operated blockchains connected by a decentralized network. It's a
diverse ecosystem made up of pioneering entities from around
the globe.

Cosmos is a shared internet of independently owned and operated blockchains connected by a decentralized network. It's a diverse ecosystem made up of pioneering entities from around the globe.

History of Cosmos

2014
Jae Kwon was the first person who applied Byzantine Fault Tolerance
(BFT) research in a "Proof of Stake" (PoS) public blockchain context,
and went on to found Tendermint Inc (All in Bits Inc)

Tendermint BFT is the most advanced implementation of BFT
consensus algorithm and Proof-of-Stake (PoS) crypto economics to
date. The project launched to address the speed, scalability, and
environmental issues associated with Bitcoin and Ethereum’s "Proof of
Work" (PoW)
2015
Ethan Buchman joined forces with Jae Kwon to develop Tendermint
after meeting at the Cryptocurrency Research Group and Crypto-
economics Conference

All in Bits Inc and Monax collaborated to implement the EVM on top
of Tendermint BFT (Ethermint 1.0)

Tendermint BFT is pluggable with applications written in any language
via the Application Blockchain Interface (ABCI)
2015
Ethan Buchman joined forces with Jae Kwon to develop Tendermint
after meeting at the Cryptocurrency Research Group and Crypto-economics Conference

All in Bits Inc and Monax collaborated to implement the EVM on top
of Tendermint BFT (Ethermint 1.0)

Tendermint BFT is pluggable with applications written in any language
via the Application Blockchain Interface (ABCI)

Built on top of Cosmos SDK, the world’s most popular blockchain
framework, Ignite CLI is the fastest way from zero to mainnet,
accelerating chain development by scaffolding everything you
need so you can focus on business logic.

Built on top of Cosmos SDK, the world’s most popular blockchain framework, Ignite CLI is the fastest way from zero to mainnet, accelerating chain development by scaffolding everything you need so you can focus on business logic.

LEARN

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to Cosmos

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breaking blockchain technology of
Cosmos.

LEARN

Read the Intro
to Cosmos

Dive deeper into the ground-breaking blockchain technology of Cosmos.

STAKE

Discover the
ATOM

ATOM secures and governs the
Cosmos Hub, the first blockchain in
the Cosmos Network.

DISCOVER

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Ecosystem

Browse the ever-expanding, diverse
collection of apps, services, and tools
built on Cosmos to date.

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