At least on Cosmos they had IBC on all of them....This led to Cosmos teams inter-fighting....Cosmos ≠ Cosmos Hub....The Cosmos Hub was meant to be a “hub” for zones (Cosmos chains linked via IBC)....Initia connects to Cosmos zones (interconnected L1s) through IBC and to non-Cosmos chains like Ethereum...
Built on zrChain, a custom blockchain using the Cosmos SDK, and zrSign, smart contracts for secure cross-chain...compatible DeFi platforms enabling users to deploy BTC liquidity seamlessly within the Solana, Ethereum, or Cosmos...
CC’ txs are not executed on the Cosmos Hub and do not take Cosmos Hub blockspace despite almost every...Cosmos Hub validator securing each CC....Ethereum v Cosmos v Solana Comparison
Ethereum (EL)
Cosmos (RS)
Solana
Purpose
Secure endogenous...a portion of their revenue and token emissions to the Cosmos Hub....Ethereum, Cosmos, etc).
ICA and PFM improve interop in a Cosmos-style architecture, enabling actions and data routing between...The Cosmos Hub promised to be this coordinator layer, but it failed miserably and fell into irrelevance...t just use Celestia for DA, but also routes value back to $TIA, similar to what Neutron was for the Cosmos...
Cosmos tried first but failed due to lack of collaboration/incentives, this led to fragmentation....is essentially “if Ethereum rollups were built with 2024 hindsight”, offering the customization of Cosmos...Initia vs OP Superchain
At first glance, Initia looks comparable to Cosmos chains due to shared infra...
(Rollup-as-a-Service) solutions offer minimal customization without necessary ecosystem components
Cosmos...onboarding apps that collectively raised more funding than Initia itself
Takes different approach from “Cosmos...
Their goal is to become the largest AMM in Cosmos and eventually in the whole of crypto....Astroport has been deployed on Terra2, Sei, Neutron, Injective, and Osmosis and is a leading DEX in the Cosmos...report, we’ll dive into what makes Astroport special and its unique strategic positioning on various Cosmos...
On a high level, ZetaChain is a Cosmos SDK-based L1 using CometBFT....Agoric
Agoric is a JavaScript-based smart contract platform built using the Cosmos SDK and CometBFT....It uses IBC and Axelar to communicate with other Cosmos chains....Interchain Accounts (ICA) manage accounts on remote Cosmos chains, allowing them to hold assets and execute...
...strategically adapted through the depths of the bear market, successfully regaining traction across multiple Cosmos...Their goal is to become the largest AMM in Cosmos and eventually in the whole of crypto....Astroport has been deployed on Terra2, Sei, Neutron, Injective, and Osmosis and is a leading DEX in the Cosmos...
Initia
What Cosmos was meant to be....While Cosmos pioneered appchains, shared security, and async cross-chain messaging—trends now shaping...A key issue was the lack of coordination between appchains and the Cosmos Hub, leaving its purpose unclear...
The Cosmos community was galvanized....Cosmos Asteroids have a similar effect....With them, anyone can permanently write data to Cosmos Hub (and potentially other Cosmos SDK blockchains...Cosmos Fungible Tokens (CFT-20): A way of deploying, minting and transferring fungible tokens on Cosmos...
IBC helped developers a lot in the Cosmos ecosystem as it was widely adopted....Inter-chain Accounts: This is a feature available in the Cosmos/IBC land....Cosmos and IBC
IBC is an asynchronous and trustless messaging protocol widely used in the Cosmos ecosystem...A user is trusting the decentralization and the economic security of a Cosmos SDK chain itself.