Getting Started With Cosmos — Official Links & References

Cosmos is a network of parallel, independent and interoperable blockchains. This blog covers all the important links to official documentation, forums, blogs etc. which will help you to understand the above definition of Cosmos better.

What is Cosmos?

This article explains the “what, why and how” of Cosmos — https://cosmos.network/intro

You can also watch a few introductory videos on YouTube. Start with these videos listed below -

The Vision of Cosmos —

Introduction to Cosmos —

Cosmos explained by Sunny Aggarwal, Researcher at Tendermint —

Documentation

After reading the first blog, you must know that the three working components of Cosmos are — The Cosmos SDK, Tendermint BFT consensus and ABCI (Application BlockChain Interface)

Below are the links to their documentation -

Cosmos SDK — https://docs.cosmos.network/master/

Tendermint — https://docs.tendermint.com/

ABCI — https://docs.tendermint.com/master/spec/abci/

Getting started with Cosmos SDK

Start building with Cosmos SDK with these two simple tutorials here — https://tutorials.cosmos.network/

For the Developers

Here are some important github repo links -

• Tendermint & ABCI
• ABCI
• Cosmos-sdk & IBC
• Ethermint

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