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Cosmos is one of the most known blockchain networks. Launched in 2017, its goal since its inception has been that of connecting blockchains among each other, allowing them to communicate and exchange information with the grand vision of an “Internet of Blockchains.”
It now counts a global ecosystem of over 250 services built and run via its protocol, through which 70 billions of dollars in digital assets are managed to date, and its governance is distributed among the ATOM token holders.
Cosmos’ complex infrastructure allows individuals and communities to build and govern blockchains according to their needs, and aims at minimizing its own role as an intermediary through small fees and radical interoperability by design. Cosmos is funded and stewarded by the Interchain Foundation, a non profit contributing to a variety of foundational protocols in the blockchain space.
Cosmos is on CER as its one of the biggest and most promising infrastructures in the context of moving internet and finance toward radical openness and interoperability on a global scale, with a well thought out use of financial speculation to fund its development.
Cosmos is governed in a distributed way very few other blockchains of this size can claim, by a global community of different stakeholders united by the goal of achieving true decentralization: not one blockchain winning over the others, but a set of foundational protocols enabling individuals and communities worldwide to govern their Commons and connect with each other without banks, tech corporations and authoritarian governments in the middle.