Announcements

New: Tendermint Blog

You may have noticed that the primary author of the Cosmos blog had changed from Tendermint to Interchain Foundation. See, part of the confusion for Cosmonauts just joining the community lies in not knowing the difference between Cosmos and Tendermint and who is behind what. Part of the work for doing a better job at communicating those distinctions is to separate the externally-facing communications assets associated with each. To be clear, Tendermint is both a software product and the name of the for-profit organization that builds protocols and blockchain applications as a service. The Cosmos Network, on the other hand, is both a platform for application-specific blockchains and an interoperability solution that the Tendermint team has been contracted to build. Sitting above Tendermint is the Interchain Foundation (ICF), a Swiss foundation. The ICF contracted Tendermint to build the Cosmos project.

This story is not immediately obvious, and to supplement the separation of concerns between Cosmos-related assets from Tendermint-related assets, Tendermint now has its very own blog. The scope of content that would go through the Tendermint blog should reflect concerns such as new hires to the Tendermint team, business partnerships, and investor updates. Whereas on the Cosmos blog, the scope of the content preserves strictly developmental updates to the protocol and communications as they relate to our userbase that of validators, application developers, and other users interested in keeping up with the fundamentals of the technology stack.

We hope that, going forward, Cosmonauts will be much clearer about what separates Cosmos from Tendermint. Newly-created communications assets:

Tendermint Blog : medium.com/tendermint

: medium.com/tendermint Interchain Foundation on Twitter: twitter.com/interchain_io

Pending: Game of Steaks

The adversarial testnet is currently pending a green light from legal to launch an environment where participants will be actively DDoS’ed. The goal of the Game is ultimately to promote highly available validators to which we set up challenging conditions for them to build resiliency against; sort of like developing immunities for the network. Gaia-8000 is not the testnet that will host the Game of Steaks.

Coming Soon: HackAtom 3

The HackAtom is back! Stay tuned for an announcement in August for the upcoming global HackAtom. Coming soon, to a terminal near you.

Launched: Interactive Visualizer of the Cosmos Network

You can now play with two different variations of network visualizers. This is a fun demonstration of BFT (Byzantine fault-tolerance) in practice! Taken from actual network data, the hope is that by making the consensus process interactive and visually tangible, we’re aiding the learning process.

Check out which validators are on the testnet: Cosmos Network Visualizer, pictured below.