Technology

Interchain Foundation funds the development of the interchain stack: open source protocols, libraries, and tools for interconnected chains. In addition to the foundational IBC protocol, our teams maintain Cosmos SDK, CometBFT, IBC, CosmWasm, and CosmJS.

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Interchain Stack


The interchain stack is an architecture for scalable, secure, and interconnected blockchain-based apps and services. It utilizes IBC, the best-in-class bridging technology, and libraries for chain interoperability.


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Cosmos SDK

The world's most popular framework for building application-specific blockchains.

https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk

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Cosmos Hub

An ever-expanding ecosystem of interconnected apps and services, built for a decentralized future.

https://github.com/cosmos/gaia

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Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol (IBC)

An interoperability protocol for communicating arbitrary data between state machines.

https://github.com/cosmos/ibc

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CometBFT

A Byzantine Fault Tolerant state machine replication engine for applications written in Go.

https://github.com/cometbft/cometbft

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CosmWasm

The smart contracting platform for Cosmos SDK appchains, natively built for cross-chain interoperability

https://github.com/CosmWasm/cosmwasm

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