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The Cosmos Stack is the most widely-adopted and battle-tested Layer 1 blockchain technology stack, in production with 200+ chains today. It is performant, customizable, and EVM-compatible, offering engineers full end-to-end control of their blockchain infrastructure and implementation.

The Stack is modular by design; use pre-built code modules or integrate custom features and logic for your use case, compliance needs, governance, consensus, and performance requirements. The Cosmos Stack is open-source.

The Cosmos Stack's primary components include:

  • CometBFT, a low-latency, fast finality, and high throughput consensus engine
  • Cosmos SDK, a modular SDK for building secure, high-performance, application-specific blockchains
  • Cosmos EVM, a production-ready EVM layer with full compatibility with Ethereum smart contracts and tooling
  • Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol (IBC), the secure, industry-standard blockchain messaging protocol that enables cross-chain communication without the use of a third-party intermediary.
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Cosmos Stack Components

Cosmos SDK CometBFT IBC Cosmos EVM Testing Chain Info Frontend CosmWasm*
Blockchain SDK Battle-Tested Consensus Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol Native EVM Compatibility Utilities & Frameworks Registries & Tools TS Tooling & Utilities Rust Smart Contracts
docs docs docs docs docs
Cosmos SDK CometBFT Eureka Cosmos EVM MultiTest* Chain Registry* Create Interchain App* CosmWasm*
Ignite CLI* CometBFT DB ibc-go Interchain Test Client* Interchain Kit* TS Codegen*
Spawn CLI* Hermes Relayer* Starship* npm Module* Interchain UI* Wasmd*
ibc-rs* Rust Crate* InterchainJS* Cosmwasm Optimizer Crate*
Utilities* Telescope*

Note: Projects marked with an asterisk (*) are community or third-party maintained. They are not directly maintained by Cosmos Labs.

Maintainers and Contributors

Cosmos Labs maintains the core components of the stack: Cosmos SDK, CometBFT, IBC, Cosmos EVM, and various developer tools and frameworks. The detailed maintenance policy can be found here. In addition to developing and maintaining the Cosmos Stack, Cosmos Labs provides advisory and engineering services for blockchain solutions. Get in touch with Cosmos Labs.

Cosmos Labs is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Interchain Foundation, the Swiss nonprofit responsible for treasury management, funding public goods, and supporting governance for Cosmos.

The Cosmos Stack is supported by a robust community of open-source contributors.

Security

Read about updates and security processes in the Security repo.

Explore the Cosmos Network to learn more about the Cosmos technology stack and use cases.

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  1. cosmos-sdk cosmos-sdk Public

    Framework for building performant, customizable blockchains with native interoperability

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  2. cosmos cosmos Public

    Internet of Blockchains ⚛

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  3. gaia gaia Public

    Cosmos Hub

    Go 573 772

  4. ibc-go ibc-go Public

    Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol (IBC) implementation in Golang.

    Go 646 769

  5. iavl iavl Public

    Merkleized IAVL+ Tree implementation in Go

    Go 446 325

  6. evm evm Public

    An EVM compatible framework for blockchain development with the Cosmos SDK

    Go 164 213

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  • cosmos-sdk Public

    Framework for building performant, customizable blockchains with native interoperability

    cosmos/cosmos-sdk's past year of commit activity
    Go 7,055 Apache-2.0 4,220 171 (1 issue needs help) 53 Updated Sep 17, 2026
  • ibc Public

    Interchain Standards (ICS) for the Cosmos network & interchain ecosystem.

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    Go 1,018 Apache-2.0 456 24 32 Updated Sep 17, 2026
  • ibc-contracts Public

    This is a solidity implementation of IBC v2.

    cosmos/ibc-contracts's past year of commit activity
    Rust 105 77 4 19 Updated Sep 16, 2026
  • cosmos/chain-registry's past year of commit activity
    Python 571 CC-BY-4.0 1,525 70 (2 issues need help) 43 Updated Sep 16, 2026
  • gaia Public

    Cosmos Hub

    cosmos/gaia's past year of commit activity
    Go 573 Apache-2.0 772 16 (1 issue needs help) 15 Updated Sep 16, 2026
  • ibc-go Public

    Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol (IBC) implementation in Golang.

    cosmos/ibc-go's past year of commit activity
    Go 646 Apache-2.0 769 14 26 Updated Sep 15, 2026
  • evm Public

    An EVM compatible framework for blockchain development with the Cosmos SDK

    cosmos/evm's past year of commit activity
    Go 164 Apache-2.0 213 90 (3 issues need help) 19 Updated Sep 15, 2026
  • kms Public

    Support for secure signing solutions in Cosmos

    cosmos/kms's past year of commit activity
    Go 2 Apache-2.0 2 0 10 Updated Sep 14, 2026
  • docs Public
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    MDX 0 14 2 4 Updated Sep 14, 2026
  • security Public

    Cosmos Security contains guidelines (and tools in the future) for a responsible security incident disclosure

    cosmos/security's past year of commit activity
    Standard ML 12 5 12 0 Updated Sep 10, 2026