Cosmos (ATOM)

The purpose behind Cosmos was a little too demanding for sure. Where other crypto-technologies are trying to solve one problem at a time, Cosmos revealed that it will launch a blockchain-based interoperability platform, which will allow all the different blockchains to interact and work together. It kind of pulls all the blockchains onto one platform, and as per the latest news of February 2020, it looks like they are getting some results out of their works.

Cosmos is a platform that will allow the integration of different blockchains into one system. The product is a customizable, scalable, powerful and interoperable ecosystem of connected blockchains. The developers are working on making the Proof-of-Stake consensus more efficient. ATOM is the native token for the platform, and the delegators and valuators of a transaction will be rewarded with ATOM tokens

The Interchain Foundation is in charge of its development work. The lead project manager is Jae Kwon, serving as the CTO of Cosmos Network.

Another notable lead developer on the team is Ethan Buchman.

The current activities on Cosmos repositories reveal that the development team is on a working streak. There are a total of 86 active repositories working on different aspects of the Cosmos network. The most active repositories on Github have numerous code commits in the past days. Other than the Cosmos repositories, the project is also expanded in repositories belonging to Tendermint, which is yet another middleware that will allow the interoperability of different blockchains.

Cosmos is currently enjoying a good share of its positive developments. The token, ATOM, is also performing well on the market charts. According to analysts, ATOM may spike up to $8-$9 by the end of the year 2022.

There are a number of projects that have been announced by Cosmos on its roadmap for 2020. Among the most anticipated projects are the development of a consensus algorithm, middlewares for the mainnet, and a wallet to store ATOM tokens.

Cosmos has a lot of potentials as the project does not seem like a scam and has a trusted team working selflessly towards the development of the project. The confidence people have in the project can be deduced by its growth in the year 2019.

Cosmos was founded with the support of the Interchain Foundation (ICF); a non-commercial foundation based in Switzerland. Cosmos held the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) for its ATOM token in 2017. The ICO turned out to be successful, where the team managed to raise $17 million within the first half an hour of the ICO. A total of 168 million tokens were sold, while the team kept apart 50 million of the total supply to use for their financial and strategic goals. Cosmos, with its idea of joining all other blockchains to eliminate the problem of blockchain scalability, gained massive recognition in the year 2019. The project received countless investments, so much so that Cosmos became the 25th largest cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalization. This ranking was revealed by Coinpaper.io. The total market capital that Cosmos has attracted so far stands at about $300 million, with each token trading at about $2.16.

The community around the Cosmos project has grown exponentially. At first, the project seemed too ambitious to be actualized. However, the team has delivered steadily and has some more exciting developments on its roadmap. There is a good representation for Cosmos in terms of social platform channels, and all are being run by the community members and do not represent the official Cosmos team. Medium, Twitter, Reddit, and Youtube show good metrics confirming the involvement of community members.

Cosmos is currently focusing on developing workable algorithms for their network. Along with that, the team has announced a number of partnerships that will enable the technology to reach a wider range of users. It is listed on more than 90 crypto trade exchanges, including Changelly and Binance. It has announced some major memorandum of understandings with different blockchain-based cryptocurrencies like OmiseGO and ThetaToken. There are a large number of crypto-development organizations and firms working with Cosmos. Oracle Internal Corporation, DATA chain, IRIS, and Loom Network are just a few to mention.

Several other cryptocurrencies are working to develop a platform for blockchain interoperability. However, none of them have managed to deliver as much as Cosmos. Among the similar substitute projects of Cosmos are ARK, ICON, AION, and Wanchain.