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- What is sharding? Sharding is about dividing the workload up into pieces for the purpose of horizontal scaling. There are many ways to handle sharding in SQL databases, but sharding for blockchains is an emerging field. The closest thing we have are the altcoins ecosystem, but…

Disclaimer: This is work in progress. Mechanisms are susceptible to change. This document describes the high-level architecture of the governance module. The governance module allows bonded Atom holders to vote on proposals on a 1 bonded Atom 1 vote basis. The governance process…

Disclaimer: This is work in progress. Mechanisms and values are susceptible to change The Cosmos Hub is based on Tendermint, which relies on a set of validators to secure the network. The role of validators is to run a full-node and participate in consensus by broadcasting votes…

A Network of Distributed Ledgers Jae Kwon [email protected]<br/ Ethan Buchman [email protected] For discussions, join our chat! NOTE: If you can read this on GitHub, then we're still actively developing this document. Please check regularly for updates! Introduction Tendermin…