Awesome Cosmos 
A community curated list of awesome projects related to the Cosmos
ecosystem
The Cosmos SDK is a modular framework for building blockchain
applications in Go. Gaia, the implementation of the Cosmos Hub, is built
with the Cosmos SDK.
Contributing: Please read the Contributing guide. Thank you to all our contributors.
Disclaimer: This community-maintained repo does not reflect
the views of any official entity.
Contents
Core Components
Documentation
Client Libraries
Go
- Ignite CLI - All-in-one
platform to build, launch, and maintain any crypto application on a
sovereign and secured blockchain. Quickly bootstraps a new Cosmos SDK
blockchain with UI and support to create new and work conveniently with
existing Cosmos SDK modules.
JavaScript
Python
- cosmpy - A Python
client library for interacting with blockchains based on the Cosmos
SDK.
- pyCosmicWrap
- A python3 wrapper around Cosmos API/RPC.
- mospy - A Python
library to create and sign transactions for Cosmos SDK based coins.
- cosmospy-protobuf
- A Python library containing all compiled protobuf files (works very
good for grpc).
- fx-py-sdk - The
Cosmos Python client library.
Rust
Block Explorers
Visual Block Explorers
View Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) transfer activity. The map
traces IBC transactions between different blockchains (called zones in
the Cosmos Hub) to display accurate aggregate information about the
pulse of the entire Cosmos ecosystem.
Terminal Block Explorers
Explore Cosmos SDK blockchains via a terminal.
- gex - GEX In-Terminal
Explorer.
- cshtop - Cosmos htop
, Blocks visualizer on terminal.
- pvtop - Consensus
visualizer on terminal.
- tmtop - Htop-like
visualiser of consensus inspired by pvtop that allows showing upgrade
info, working with consumer chains and non-Cosmos chains and way
more.
Chain Registry
A registry containing standardized metadata from most Cosmos
chains.
Validators
Popular block explorers provide a list of active validators. The
easiest entry point to view validator profiles is from a block
explorer:
DYOR when choosing a validator. Consider delegating your tokens to
validators outside of the top 20 to increase the decentralization of the
network. This is also a good practice to avoid 0% commission validators
and exchange validators.
Cosmos SDK Modules
The best place to find an accurate list of the Cosmos SDK modules is
the project repository:
- For a list of production-grade modules, see the List of
Modules.
- For a list of well-known third-party modules, see Cosmod.xyz
Monitoring
- PANIC Monitoring and
Alerting For Blockchains - An open source monitoring and alerting
solution for Cosmos SDK, Substrate, and Chainlink-based nodes.
- Prometheus
Exporter - An integrated Prometheus exporter for the Cosmos
SDK.
- Cosmos
Chains Dashboard - A Grafana dashboard to monitor Cosmos SDK and
Tendermint-based blockchain nodes.
- Chain
Pulse - Relayed IBC packets monitor with Prometheus exporter.
- missed-blocks-checker
- Monitor validators’ missed blocks on multiple Cosmos chains and send
its notifications to Telegram.
- Nodes Checker - Check your
nodes status online, receive instant notification if something is wrong
with your validator node.
- Cosmon -
Observability tool for Cosmos and other Tendermint applications.
- Tenderduty -
Comprehensive monitoring tool for Tendermint chains. Its primary
function is to alert a validator if they are missing blocks, and
more.
- UpgradesWatchdog
- SoftwareUpgradeProposal & GitHub Releases telegram monitoring
tool.
- cosmos-node-exporter
- A Prometheus exporter to scrape data on your node sync status,
Cosmovisor upgrades and GitHub version mismatches, useful for node
operators and validators.
- cosmos-wallets-exporter
- A Prometheus exporter to scrape data on wallets balance, useful to get
notified if your wallet balance is too low.
- cosmos-validators-exporter
- A Prometheus exporter to scrape data about a validator (missed blocks,
delegators count, total staked amount, rankings, etc.)
- cosmos-proposals-checker
- A bot that sends you a notification on multiple Cosmos chains if your
wallet hasn’t voted on any proposal.
- cosmos-transactions-bot
- A bot that sends you notifications on any transactions you want to be
subscribed to on multiple Cosmos chains.
Indexers
- Cosmscan - An
indexer engine for Cosmos chains.
- interchain-indexer
- A cosmos blockchain indexer in Python.
- Cosmos
Indexer - A generalized DB schema indexer with correlation and
direct database indexing in Go.
- BDJuno - All the
chains’ data that are queried from the RPC and gRPC endpoints are stored
inside a PostgreSQL database on top of which GraphQL APIs can then be
created using Hasura.
Frameworks
- Cosmos SDK - A
Framework for Building High Value Public Blockchains in Go.
- Orga - ABCI framework
for state machine transitions in Rust.
- CosmosSwift - Build
blockchain applications in Swift on top of the Tendermint
consensus.
- ABCI-RS - Rust
crate for creating ABCI applications.
- CosmRS
- Framework for building Cosmos blockchain applications in Rust.
Virtual Machines
Modules or frameworks for virtual machines that run in the Cosmos
SDK
- Agoric SDK -
Agoric JavaScript Smart Contract Platform.
- CosmWasm - WASM
Virtual Machine & Rust Smart Contracts.
- Ethermint -
Ethereum Virtual Machine.
- Polaris - Modular
Ethereum Virtual Machine.
IBC
Testing
- interchaintest
- E2E testing framework for IBC Chains.
- atomkraft
- E2E testing framework of Cosmos SDK blockchains.
- python-iavl
- IAVL inspection tool implemented in Python.
- cosmos-sdk-codeql
- CodeQL queries for common Cosmos SDK bugs.
- tm-load-test
- CometBFT load test application.
- cosmosloadtester
- Load tester for Cosmos SDK blockchains.
- CometMock
- Drop-in replacement for CometBFT in end-to-end tests.
- quint -
Executable specification language with delightful tooling.
- apalache -
APALACHE: symbolic model checker for TLA+ and Quint.
Templates
Templates to help you get started with building a Cosmos SDK
blockchain.
- ignite - Quickly bootstrap a
new Cosmos SDK blockchain with UI and support to create new and work
conveniently with existing Cosmos SDK modules.
- cosmosregistry/example
- Template and example repository of a Cosmos SDK module.
- cosmosregistry/chain-minimal
- Template and example of a minimal Cosmos SDK blockchain.
- spawn - Generate a
new Cosmos SDK blockchain with testing, GitHub integrations, and easy
instant testnets.
CLI
- tmkms - Key
Management System for Tendermint validators.
- cosmosvisor
- Automates Cosmos SDK application binary upgrades.
- cosmosvanity
- CLI tool for generating Cosmos vanity addresses.
- findaccount -
Helps identify if an account exists on multiple Cosmos chains with the
same address.
- lens -
CLI tool to interact with any Cosmos chain supporting the core
Cosmos-SDK modules.
- cosmology
- CLI tool for making cryptocurrency trades, joining liquidity pools,
and stake rewards on Osmosis.
- multisig -
CLI tool for managing multisig accounts on Cosmos SDK chains.
- cosmos-genesis-tinkerer
- CLI tool for modifying Cosmos genesis files.
- airdrop-tools -
CLI scripts to help distribute a variety of tokens from multiple
formats.
- cosmos.nix - Nix support for Cosmos and CosmWasm.
GUI
- REStake - Auto-compounder app for
Cosmos blockchains using Authz (source).
- Yieldmos - Staking and LP rewards
auto-compounder using Authz.
- Cosmfaucet -
Self-hosted faucet service for Cosmos based blockchain.
- Cosmos
Notifier - Governance notification tool for Telegram and Discord (source).
- IBC Anywhere - IBC token
transfers including multi-chain hops.
Bots
Node Operations
Utilities
- Cosmos
Cache - Optimize Cosmos queries by caching responses for predefined
sets of time (regex).
- cosmos-operator
- Cosmos Operator is a kubernetes operator for managing cosmos
nodes.
Ecosystem
The most up-to-date list of projects built using Cosmos SDK can be
found on the Cosmos
Directory.
Wallets
A list of wallets supporting Cosmos chains is https://cosmos.network/ecosystem/wallets.
Blogs
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