cosmos/cosmos-sdk
Framework for building performant, customizable blockchains with native interoperability
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Where it stands
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Ranks #430 of 2,845 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 15%).
5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 47 days ago, with 394 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #90 in the weekly ranking the week of Oct 19, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a modular framework for building secure, customizable, high-performance Layer 1 blockchains with native interoperability.
- Enables rapid development of sovereign blockchains with composable modules and built-in Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol support.
- Use for creating application-specific blockchains with tailored governance, tokenization, and state management features.
- Use for integrating interoperable blockchain networks that can seamlessly transfer data and assets using IBC.
- Use for developers seeking a battle-tested Go-based SDK compatible with CometBFT consensus for scalable blockchain solutions.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
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From the README
The Cosmos SDK is a modular, open-source blockchain SDK for building secure, high-performance Layer 1 chains with full customizability used by 200+ chains in production. Developers can use the Cosmos SDK to easily and quickly spin up custom blockchains that can natively interoperate.
The Cosmos SDK is tailored for building secure, sovereign application-specific blockchains. Developers building with the Cosmos SDK can use predefined modules that cover standard blockchain functionality or create custom modules for their specific use case. This composable architecture enables robust customization. The SDK provides abstractions for permissioning, governance, state management, account abstraction, tokenization processes, application logic, and more.
Cosmos SDK blockchains get interoperability out-of-the-box via a native integration with the Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol (IBC). Ibc-go is implemented as a Go module in the Cosmos SDK.
While the Cosmos SDK is plug-and-play with any consensus engine, we recommend using CometBFT for a fast, battle-tested, high-throughput, configurable BFT state machine. CometBFT is developed as part of the Cosmos Stack and its releases are updated alongside the SDK.
WARNING: The Cosmos SDK has mostly stabilized, but we are still making some breaking changes.
To learn how the Cosmos SDK works from a high-level perspective, see the Cosmos SDK High-Level Intro.
Daily snapshots
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Forks
4.2K+18
Open issues
241+4
Compared with peers in Blockchain
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| ccxt/ccxt | 44.4K | +0 | 40 | today |
| linera-io/linera-protocol | 32.1K | +0 | 75 | 33 days ago |
| hummingbot/hummingbot | 20.4K | +0 | 64 | 20 days ago |
| hyperledger/fabric | 16.7K | +0 | 75 | 116 days ago |
| datahaven-xyz/datahaven | 7.9K | +0 | 75 | 214 days ago |
| cosmos/cosmos-sdk | 7.1K | +0 | 62 | 47 days ago |
| Category median | 20.4K | +0 | 75 | — |
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