New Hires

Fabian Weber: Software Engineer

Fabian is a full-stack JavaScript developer and agile coach. He enjoys chatting about tech, the current political situation or just playing a good board game.

Jordan Bibla: Product Manager

Jordan is a product manager, designer, and front end developer who enjoys building products for the internet. Offline, you can find him eating bagels and playing sports.

News

OpenMined to switch to Ethermint

The OpenMined project is using Ethermint to build decentralized artificial intelligence on top of the EVM. They are using Ethermint instead of Ethereum due to savings on the gas cost of executing their smart contracts; it is much more expensive to run smart contracts in Ethereum than it is in Cosmos. OpenMined chose to switch networks because Ethermint allows them to raise the maximum gas per block and also run logic faster due to Tendermint’s higher throughput of 200 transactions per second (thanks to our Proof-of-Stake security model).

Releases

Tendermint v0.12.0

The latest release of Tendermint is now live!

GitHub repo here: https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/releases/tag/v0.12.0

Ethermint v0.5.0

The latest release of Ethermint is now live!

GitHub repo here: https://github.com/tendermint/ethermint

Announcements

Validator Testnet

Good news is, the validator testnet went live mid-October! Bad news is, we ran into some bumps along the way. Too many people were connecting to a single node, which didn’t bode well for our testnet (oops). Fixes are underway and the testnet will be up and running again. Meanwhile, active community channels have moved from Rocket Chat!

Cosmos Validators Matrix Chat Channel: https://riot.im/app/#/room/#cosmos_validators:matrix.org

Read up on how you can run a validator node on testnet here: https://medium.com/@tendermint/validators-now-deployed-on-gaia-testnet-53d9e8b154fc

Bounty Program

Open source code and content is our ethos. And we can always use more eyes on the things we build and write. As such, we are launching a bounty program; the reward goes to anyone who fixes issues in any of our code or content. More details about prize amount and qualifications to follow.

Quick Links:

Social

We’re retiring Rocket Chat and moving the community to the following platforms:

(General) Telegram Community: https://t.me/cosmosproject

(Developer) Matrix Chat Channel: https://riot.im/app/#/room/#cosmos:matrix.org

(General) Cosmos Forum: https://forum.cosmos.network/

Conferences

Devcon3

Event link: https://ethereumfoundation.org/devcon3/

The Cosmos team is excited to be the Ecosystem sponsor of Devcon3. Most of our globally dispersed team are currently in attendance. More excitingly, we’ve summoned a special guest of the hoofed variety just for Ethereum’s flagship event, located at the Cosmos booth on the second floor of the exhibition area.

Say hello to Devcorn.

Recap: ETH-Waterloo

Event link: https://ethwaterloo.com/

We had a blast leading the developer workshop during the hackathon, but the audience (probably) had more fun during Ethan’s blockchain rap.