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Cosmos Labs is the Interchain Foundation’s wholly owned commercial subsidiary, developing and supporting the Cosmos Stack and providing blockchain engineering, advisory, and enterprise digital-ledger solutions.
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IBC Protocol


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IBC Protocol enables secure communication and asset transfers between independent blockchains through standardized message passing and authentication mechanisms for cross-chain interoperability.

Category: Cross-chain Infrastructure

Neutron


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Neutron is a smart contract platform built using CosmWasm that inherits security from Cosmos Hub through Interchain Security, enabling cross-chain smart contract execution and interchain queries.

Category: Social Platform

Cosmos Hub


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A standalone proof-of-stake Layer 1 blockchain powered by CometBFT, Cosmos SDK, and IBC. ATOM supports network security and on-chain governance.

Category: L1

Skip:Go


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Skip:Go composes DEX aggregation with cross-chain messaging and bridge protocols to create multi-hop token-transfer and swap routes. Its API and tools provide route construction, transaction generation, submission, relaying, simulation, and tracking across Cosmos, EVM, Solana, and other supported ecosystems.

Category: Cross-chain Infrastructure

Cosmos SDK


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Cosmos SDK is a modular blockchain-development framework that provides pre-built and custom modules for application logic such as accounts, transactions, governance, tokenization, permissioning, and compliance. SDK-based chains can interoperate through IBC and may use CometBFT for consensus.

Category: Developer Tooling

Packet Forward Middleware


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Packet Forward Middleware is a Cosmos SDK IBC middleware module that reads forwarding instructions from ICS-20 transfer memos, forwards packets through subsequent IBC channels, defers acknowledgements until multi-hop completion, and supports retries, timeouts, refunds, and atomic forwarding. It originated in Strangelove's repository, moved to cosmos/ibc-apps, and is now consolidated in cosmos/ibc-go.

Category: Cross-chain Infrastructure

CometBFT


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CometBFT is open-source blockchain middleware that performs Byzantine fault-tolerant state-machine replication for applications written in any programming language. It provides consensus, fast finality, node functionality, and ABCI-based application integration. CometBFT is the fork and successor of Tendermint Core.

Category: Node Software

Mintscan


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Mintscan provides an explorer, data analysis and Interchain Hub views, plus indexed interchain APIs and Cosmos/EVM smart-contract verification.

Category: Block Explorer

Cosmos SDK


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A modular framework for building secure, high-performance application-specific blockchains, with documentation covering concepts, chain and module development, node operation, testing, upgrades, architecture, and production deployment.

Category: Developer Tooling

IBC Protocol


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The Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol (IBC) defines data structures, abstractions, and semantics for secure interoperability between heterogeneous blockchains. It supports cross-chain applications including token transfers, atomic swaps, multi-chain smart contracts, and cross-chain account control. The current documentation distinguishes IBC Classic from the streamlined IBC v2 protocol, and identifies IBC-Go as a Golang implementation rather than the protocol itself.

Category: Cross-chain Infrastructure