A big benefit of the crypto world is its decentralization. With its many intermediate “players,” it is more difficult to exercise market power and to have market participants follow your solutions — whatever they are. …

The basics: Validators are special full-nodes that participate in the consensus process. If you want to read more about the various types of nodes within Tendermint, you will find a nice write-up in the Tendermint Core documentation. Cosmos Code With Us — Setting Up a Cosmos Validator is another great…

Automated market makers (AMMs), such as Osmosis, have become an integral part of the blockchain world. In fact, today it would be hard to imagine what the crypto currencies would look like without them. Moreover, Osmosis is the first AMM that integrates various different Cosmos blockchains, thereby facilitating the exchange…