Cosmos Hub (Gaia)
The Cosmos Hub is the first of an exploding number of interconnected blockchains that comprise the Cosmos Network.
🤔 — Why should you be interested in the Cosmos Hub
The Cosmos Hub is built using the Cosmos SDK and compiled to a binary called gaiad
(Gaia Daemon). The Cosmos Hub and other fully sovereign Cosmos SDK blockchains interact with one another using a protocol called IBC that enables Inter-Blockchain Communication. In order to understand what the Cosmos Hub is you can read this introductory explanation.
⚡ — Documentation & Introduction
You can find an introduction to the Cosmos Hub and how to use the gaiad
binary as a delegator, validator or node operator as well as how governance on the Cosmos Hub works in the documentation.
👤 — Node Operators
If you're interested in running a node on the current Cosmos Hub, check out the docs to Join the Cosmos Hub Mainnet.
🗣️ — Validators
If you're running a validator node on the Cosmos Hub, reach out to a Janitor on the Cosmos Developers Discord to join the #validators-verified
channel.
👥 — Testnet
To participate in or utilize the current Cosmos Hub testnet, take a look at the cosmos/testnets repository. This testnet is for the Theta Upgrade expected in Q1 2022. For future upgrades of the Cosmos Hub take a look at the roadmap.
🌐 — Roadmap
For an overview of upcoming changes to the Cosmos Hub take a look at the Roadmap.
🗄️ — Archives & Genesis
With each version of the Cosmos Hub, the chain is restarted from a new Genesis state.
Mainnet is currently running as cosmoshub-4
. Archives of the state of cosmoshub-1
, cosmoshub-2
, and cosmoshub-3
are available here.
If you are looking for historical genesis files and other data cosmos/mainnet
is an excellent resource. Snapshots are also available at cosmos.quicksync.io.
🤝 — How to contribute
Check out contributing.md for our guidelines & policies for how we develop the Cosmos Hub. Thank you to all those who have contributed!
💬 — Talk to us
We have active, helpful communities on Twitter, Discord, and Telegram.
Cosmos Developers Discord | |
Cosmos Twitter | |
Cosmos Telegram |
For updates on the Cosmos Hub team's activities follow us on the Cosmos Hub Twitter account.