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Cosmos SDK

Open-source framework for building application-specific blockchains, widely used across the Cosmos ecosystem, with modules like x/bank and x/staking.

Known aliases

  • SDK
  • x/bank
  • x/staking

Current stories

investOne report1 publisher

Aptos turns on Block-STM v2 by default, aimed at 256 cores where v1 was benchmarked on 32 threads

Aptos has made Block-STM v2 the default parallel execution engine on its Layer-1, with no change required from users or developers. The only throughput figures on record come from 2022 tests of version 1, so v2's gains stay a target until someone measures them on live traffic.

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence55
securityOne report1 publisher

Cosmos Labs pushed a fund-loss fix through the channel it reserves for harmless bugs

GHSA-7g4w-cg88-2cq2 was reported on April 25, judged no threat to live funds, and quietly patched on August 19. Attackers drained six chains starting the next day, and the only real fix breaks state.

Reality

Evidence64
Adoption30
Hype gap+5
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence62
investConfirmed3 publishers

ZetaChain's holders retire a $27m Layer 1 after 32 months of mainnet

Proposal 68 passed with 99.4% of a 58% turnout, so the votes against came to about 0.17% of eligible stake. ZetaChain's stated reason is the work of coordinating upstream Cosmos patches across dozens of validators.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 30%
Operator
Operator 38%
Investor
Investor 32%

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption22
Hype gap+30
Incentives60
Confidence66
investOne report1 publisher

ZetaChain shuts its Cosmos chain to follow a 300,000-user AI app onto Solana

Proposal 68 passed with 99.4% of a 58% turnout, converting ZETA one for one into a Solana SPL token and ending the Layer 1 that Blockchain.com and Jane Street Capital backed at its January 2024 launch.

Reality

Evidence48
Adoption34
Hype gap+24
Incentives60
Confidence45
leadershipOne report1 publisher

Cosmos Labs ran incident command for forty chains it does not operate

The published post mortem shows that grading one bug report as no threat to user funds is what routed the fix into a public patch, and five days later a single security team was triaging forty independent operators under live attack.

Publishers:github.com

Reality

Evidence74
Adoption66
Hype gap−10
Incentives76
Confidence58
investOne report1 publisher

A shared Cosmos module's underflow bug emptied $3.6M from MANTRA's burn address

MANTRA says the flaw sat in cosmos/evm rather than in its own code, which works as a defence and as a warning to every chain on that module. Validators halted the network only after 94.7% of the 720.9 million tokens were already gone.

Reality

Evidence38
Adoption34
Hype gap+22
Incentives80
Confidence44
securityOne report1 publisher

Provenance's marker module let anyone with zero tokens claim admin over 82 live financial assets

Trail of Bits found an authorization branch that compared a caller's balance against a supply figure the chain stops updating. Zero matched zero, and the check passed for everybody.

Reality

Evidence76
Adoption58
Hype gap−6
Incentives66
Confidence62
investOne report1 publisher

Cosmostation shuts every wallet platform on September 1, leaving 18 days and a key export

The second-largest Cosmos wallet said on August 14 that only recovery phrase and private key export survives after September 1. Leap Wallet went dark in May.

Reality

Evidence34
Adoption28
Hype gap+22
Incentives46
Confidence41