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Cosmos SDK

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The Cosmos SDK is an ABCI application designed to be used with the Tendermint consensus engine to form a Proof-of-Stake cryptocurrency. It also provides a general purpose framework for extending the feature-set of the cryptocurrency by implementing plugins.

Within this repository, the basecoin app serves as a reference implementation for how we build ABCI applications in Go, and is the framework in which we implement the Cosmos Hub. It's easy to use, and doesn't require any forking - just implement your plugin, import the libraries, and away you go with a full-stack blockchain and command line tool for transacting.

Prerequisites

• golang

Installation

go get -u github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/cmd/basecoin

See the install guide for more details.

Guides

• Getting started with the Basecoin basics
• Learn to use the plugin system
• More features of the Basecoin tool
• Learn how to use Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC)
• See more examples

To deploy a testnet, see our repository of deployment tools.