Cosmos

The Cosmos Network is a decentralized network of independent, scalable, and interoperable blockchains, creating the foundation for a new token economy.

Before the Cosmos Network, blockchains were siloed and unable to communicate with each other. They were hard to build and could only handle a small number of transactions per second. Cosmos solves some of the hardest blockchain problems of scalability, usability and interoperability.

The Cosmos SDK is a developer-friendly, modular framework, each powered by a Byzantine Fault-Tolerant consensus algorithm such as Tendermint BFT, allowing developers to fully customize their decentralized applications and focus on business logic.

At Cosmos, we’re building the "Internet of Blockchains." Join our growing network and plug into the most powerful blockchain ecosystem.

There are currently more than 248 Interchain apps and services in the Cosmos network, including Binance Chain, Terra, Crypto.org, and Cosmos Hub, with over $44 billion of digital assets under management.

We believe in interoperability and autonomy over siloes and monopolies, collaboration and innovation over competition and status quo. Rather than a web in which value is created by so many yet captured by so few, that value must be exchanged, stored, and secured between parties, without relying on centralized servers. Cosmos Hub is the first fully free blockchain to enable this.

With Cosmos SDK, developers can choose to build entirely autonomous application-specific blockchains that can easily interconnect. This means that, unlike with other leading blockchains today, they are no longer forced to exist as smart contracts on someone else's chain. They can opt-out of high transaction fees and network congestion, make their own rules, and scale for mainstream adoption.

This has massive implications for the future of decentralized finance (DeFi), non-fungible tokens (NFTs), gaming, autonomous organizations, social networks, marketplaces, and the sustainable growth of blockchain technology, the internet of value, and the ownership economy in which everyone has a stake.

Instead of one million blockchain apps competing for throughput on a single base layer, why not one million blockchain apps interconnected across one million sovereign blockchains? This is what’s possible with Cosmos.