Announcing Ethermint — GoEthereum powered by Tendermint

GoEthereum powered by Tendermint BFT consensus. By Jae Kwon

While we were at the Shanghai Devcon event a little less than two months ago, we met and discovered a number of companies that were very interested in an integration between GoEthereum and Tendermint.

GoEthereum is being used by a number of consortium blockchain initiatives. But the proof-of-work component is less than ideal in consortium settings. For one, the blockchain isn’t secure until it has a sufficient amount of mining power behind it. Also, the blocks are generated stochastically, rather than at semi-regular intervals. There’s no doubt about it, consortium blockchains require Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus like that provided by Tendermint.

Today, we’re happy to announce Ethermint. It’s a minimal modification of GoEthereum that includes Tendermint consensus, compiled as a single binary. It works out of the box with standard ethereum tooling like geth attach and web3, so you can deploy contracts and interact with them just as you would with GoEthereum. See the repository for more details:

github.com/tendermint/ethermint.

Please join us on Slack at #ethermint or email us and give us feedback. We want to make Ethermint as accessible and useful for as many people as possible.

To see other applications and libraries, visit tendermint.com/ecosystem.

Many thanks to the GoEthereum team for building a fantastic state transition machine, and to Kobi Gurkan for doing most of the work integrating it with Tendermint.

Originally published at gist.github.com.