Latest in Cosmos—January Update
January 31, 2018
New Hires
Arianne Flemming—Finance Manager
Arianne brings a mix of startup operating experience and financial expertise to the Tendermint team. She was Associate Director at a seed-stage accelerator based at the University of Toronto, and more recently, Director of Finance at an AI water tech company. She also founded an online tutoring marketplace after college. Arianne holds a Master in Finance from Princeton University.
Alexander Simmerl—Software Developer
Alex was an early adopter of Go and co-founded the Golang meetup in Berlin. He was one of the first employees at SoundCloud, where he worked on distributed systems and developer tooling.
Frederico Kunze—Developer, Intern
Federico Kunze is a senior CS and IEOR student from Chile. During Fall ’17, he took a semester abroad at UC Berkeley, during which he got into Blockchain at Berkeley as a developer and joined an external consulting team working to build a decentralized license marketplace for Qualcomm.
Releases
Cosmos-SDK Alpha
- Learn more about the SDK: here.
Gaia-2 Testnet
Run your full node in the current testnet release, Gaia-2.
- GitHub: https://github.com/cosmos/gaia
- Testnet roadmap here: http://bit.ly/2BGqgWZ
Announcements
Cosmos Academy
Cosmos Academy will teach you everything that you need to know in order to build your own Bitcoin in less than 100 lines of code. It covers everything from Ethereum smart contracts to building an application in go-lang/rust on top of the Cosmos SDK.
- Learn more about the Academy: https://cosmos.network/academy
But first, an overview of Cosmos infrastructure by Sunny Aggarwal:
Conspiratus Podcast
Tendermint’s Sunny Aggarwal paired up with Uport’s Nate Rush to run a technical podcast covering all things blockchain. Check out the very first episode and subscribe to the Cosmos YouTube channel.
- Check out episode #0: https://youtu.be/LL5pRC87gaA
Token Summit II: Recap Video
Tendermint’s Chjango Unchained takes you behind-the-scenes to showcase the killer applications in blockchain that you don’t want to miss.
- Subscribe to the Cosmos YouTube channel
New Websites
ETGate
ETGate is the gateway between Ethereum and Tendermint-based zones to facilitate message passing between these disparate blockchains. Read more about it here.
- New website can be found here: https://ether.peg.zone/
Ethermint
Ethermint is the Ethereum Virtual Machine running on top of Tendermint’s consensus engine. Beginners, you can read a introductory post about it here and how light clients will run on Ethermint here.
- New website can be found here: https://ethermint.zone/
Partners
Cosmos Around the Globe
Our Chinese partners from Wanxiang, the largest conglomerate that is investing in the blockchain ecosystem in China, together with BianJie.ai, an AI-on-the-blockchain project, visited our office in Berkeley, CA, where we held a meetup.
- Find Cosmos China on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cosmoschina
There will be many more such meetups to come this year. Be sure to join us in person!
Over & out,
Your Friendly Fellow Cosmonauts
