Latest in Cosmos—February Update

February 28, 2018

There has been a lot of buzz in the cryptocurrency community awaiting, with bated breath, the launch of the Cosmos mainnet. We have received reports of people investing in tokens that are completely unrelated to this project that sound, in name, very similar. As such, please be aware of the following:

IMPORTANT: Regarding Cosmos Tokens

We are not listed on exchanges yet. Please be aware that there are similar-sounding tokens out there bearing similar names. Tokens such as $CMOS (CosmosCoin) and $ATOM (Atomic Coin) are in NO WAY related to the Cosmos project.

Now, back to the regularly scheduled programming….

New Hires

Jessy Irwin—Head of Security

Jessy is a defensive security practitioner with significant experience in human-centered security strategy. In her previous work as an advisor, security executive, and Security Empress at 1Password, she has devised innovative security strategy and lead impactful programs that delivered significant improvements in product safety and security. At Tendermint, she will focus on creating a strong, proactive security posture and will be building a world-class security team to harden and protect the organization, the protocol, and the community.

Shelley Chang—Operations Manager, SF

Shelley is a non-technical tech enthusiast participating in hackathons, and has presented at Tech Crunch Disrupt. She was a QA Analyst at Sony (SCEA), Business Analyst at ASUS, and began working in operations at a variety of startups across SASS, AI and now cryptocurrency. At Tendermint, she is the copilot to the CEO, managing day to day operations, assisting in HR, compliance, financial, administrative support, business relations and event planning.

Announcements

Roadmap

• Learn how to navigate the: (Yellow Brick Roadmap)

Peggy

Peggy is the next generation implementation of ETGate. Cosmos uses the peg zone in order to connect to and transfer tokens across existing blockchains outside the Cosmos Network.

• Read about Peggy in the blog post: (The Technicals of Interoperability)

Conspiratus Podcast Ep. 1: Protocol Governance

…with Ethereum Researcher, Vlad Zamfir, and Tezos’ Arthur Breitman

Releases

Tendermint Core v0.16.0

• Read more about the release in the blog post: (here)

Cosmos-SDK v0.10.0

• Release post: (here)

LotionJS beta

Lotion is a new way to create blockchain apps in JavaScript, which aims to make writing new blockchains fast and fun. It builds on top of Tendermint using the ABCI protocol. Lotion lets you write secure, scalable applications that can easily interoperate with other blockchains on the Cosmos Network using IBC.

Lotion itself is a tiny framework; its true power comes from the network of small, focused modules built upon it. Adding a fully-featured cryptocurrency to your blockchain, for example, takes only a few lines of code.

• Write blockchain apps in JavaScript: (Just Apply Lotion)

At Cosmos, more than anything, we love to see the blossoming community of Cosmonauts using our software stacks to build on. It forms the basis of our every design decision in making the framework as general purpose and developable as possible. Thank you all for coming along on the journey with us to this point, participating in fruitful discussions, using the testnets, and engaging in everything else. We’re in the final stretches of development; we’ll all be in the Cosmos shortly.

Over & Out,

Your Friendly Fellow Cosmonauts