Lava Network supports Cosmos Hub RPC

We are pleased to announce that Lava Network now supports Cosmos Hub Mainnet & Testnet RPC! Cosmos Hub is the beating heart of the Cosmos Ecosystem - providing other Cosmos chains with easy cross-chain communications and security.

Lava provides decentralized and accountable RPC for Cosmos Hub data, and is helping developers to further decentralize their applications.

About Cosmos Hub

Cosmos is the Internet of Blockchains. Creator of InterBlockchain Communication Protocol IBC. Cosmos is an ever-expanding ecosystem of interconnected apps and services, built for a decentralized future.

Cosmos Hub is a chain that serves as an economic hub of the interchain and service provider to other Cosmos chains. Built with the interchain stack, the Hub is home to the ATOM token, Interchain Security, and builders of Cosmos SDK, Tendermint, and IBC.

How is Lava supporting Cosmos Hub?

Wallets and dapps built on Cosmos Hub can use Lava’s testnet to get direct access to data from Cosmos Hub using an RPC endpoint.

Here’s how any developer will be able to trustlessly access Cosmos Hub data with Lava’s SDK, currently supporting REST API, URI/HTTP, JSON-RPC.

Apply for early access to our testnet via Discord.

The benefits of using Lava RPC as a developer

Accountability benefits:

• Fast response times — On Lava, all RPC relays are off-chain (except during conflict resolution) and node runners are incentivized to offer low latency service.
• Maximum uptime — Lava incentivizes node redundancy and scales supply with demand. Applications also score node runners across multiple parameters, including their availability.
• Private user RPC queries — Lava randomizes application-node runner pairings, which eliminates the ability of profiling a specific user based on their IP, wallet address and queries.
• Data integrity — Node runners cryptographically sign their responses. There is then a Conflict Detection and Resolution process which randomly samples and compares responses against other providers. If a conflict arises, it’s resolved on-chain through an Honest Majority consensus mechanism, whereby correct voting node runners are rewarded.

Decentralization benefits:

• Chain-agnostic — Chain support on Lava is limited only by the specifications voted on by the DAO and permissionlessly supplied by node runners. Newer and smaller ecosystems are able to bootstrap their RPC nodes by implementing a spec on Lava for their chain.
• Full suite of APIs — Lava is building out support for HTTP JSON-RPC, gRPC, gRPC Web, WSS, WSS Subscriptions.
• Open-source SDK — Lava is building a completely open-source protocol, which removes the need for time-consuming procurement processes. Developers can also view the code-base to assess the security of the protocol.
• Decentralized access — Developers on Lava can leverage a permissionless SDK to maximize the benefits of using our RPC.

About Lava

Lava Network creates an open market for blockchain RPC, powering accountable and decentralized access to web3. Users privately access the state of any blockchain by fetching data from a scalable network of independent RPC node providers. Each node provider is held accountable on-chain for their service quality; they are rewarded for fast responses, high uptime and data freshness.

Lava makes it easy for developers to build permissionless, private and reliable apps on web3, with maximum performance.

The Lava Appchain acts as a settlement layer for payments made to node runners by developers. It is built using the Cosmos SDK and Tendermint Core and designed for high scalability.

You can follow Lava’s future announcements on our Twitter and our Discord. You can also read Lava’s Litepaper on our website.