List of Cosmos Resources For Beginners

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Overview

The cosmos is designed to build a network of blockchains. It’s an infrastructure project that it will benefit the entire cryptocurrency community. Cosmos is based on a proof-of-stake algorithm, called Tendermint. It goes back to Byzantine Fault Tolerance research, which exists decades before Bitcoin came out. Tendermint uses messages signed by secure validators to reach consensus about the state of network. There are two kinds of blockchains in Cosmos: Hub and Zone. They are all based on Tendermint consensus. And they can talk to each other by a protocol called IBC. Cosmos will enable the deep integration of token economics.

Cosmos Resources

Community

• Tendermint Blog — Tendermint is a Byzantine-fault tolerant consensus engine. It’s an open-source project and you could read about its updates and community development
• Interchain Foundation Blog — The ICF (https://interchain.io/) is the Swiss foundation funding and pushing the frontiers of blockchain-related infrastructure. It publish the updates of Cosmos project development regularly.
• Cosmos Docs — You could read the technical specs and validator information
• Cosmos Network Chat — Discuss general Cosmos Network topics with team members
• Cosmos Validator Chat — Discussion about validating related topics: gaia testnet, game of stakes, etc
• Cosmos Dev Chat — Discuss technical topics related to the Cosmos-SDK development
• Cosmos Forum — Share content, tools, and updates.
• Reddit — All Cosmos related discussion
• Twitter — Updates on the Cosmos and community.
• Telegram — General Cosmos ecosystem related discussion.
• Youtube Channel — Watch the latest Cosmos talk and dev sessions

Read More

• Website — Overview of Cosmos, including Roadmap, Community and Docs.
• Github —Learn how to build your own blockchain in Cosmos network
• White Paper — Read about the blueprint of Cosmos
• The latest gossip on BFT consensus— The paper is a full specification of Tendermint, which formalizing the consensus
• Understand the value proposition of Cosmos — Explanation of why the value proposed by Cosmos matters
• Tendermint Explained — Bringing BFT-based PoS to the Public Blockchain Domain
• Blockchain Scaling Solutions: Cosmos and Plasma — Comparison between Cosmos and Plasma

Presentations

• Cosmos SDK Code Run — Bucky talked about the Brief History of Distributed State
• Cosmos-SDK development — Sunny, researcher and core developer of Cosmos, dives into how the Cosmos-SDK helps developers build custom transaction types, i.e. govtx, staketx, sendtx, with modules.
• Rearchitecturing the Blockchain Ecosystem — Jae Kwon, the founder of Cosmos talked about helping innovation in blockchain happen faster with Cosmos-SDK.
• IBC & Interoperability — Chris Goes explains IBC (Inter-blockchain communication) protocol, private-public blockchain interoperability and how to move between ZCash and Ethereum
• Cosmos PoS — Sunny explained Key feature in Cosmos BPoS

Podcasts

• Consensus System With Ethan Buchman — Ethan, CTO of Tendermint, talked about the history of distributed state in Software Engineering Daily podcast
• Hashing it out — Zaki Manian, Head of Tendermint Labs, gives us a glimpse into what it’s like designing a scalable, secure consensus protocol.
• Testnet with Ethan From Tendermint — Ethan (Bucky) Buchman, co-founder & CTO of Tendermint, to talk about testnets. We look into what they are, what purpose they serve and cover examples from Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cosmos and Polkadot.
• Crypto Stories — How Cosmos solve the blockchain interoperability problem

Guides

• Join the testnet — Get started on the Gaia testnet.
• Build your own blockchain — Build a customized governance module in Cosmos-SDK
• Validator Candidates — Find all the potential Cosmos Hub validators
• Sentry Node Architecture — Use sentry node to protect your validator node
• Validator FAQ — How to be a validator?
• Delegator FAQ — How to choose a delegator?