tendermint.md

Tendermint Evaluation

Summary - Tendermint is a highly scalable Proof of Stake Blockchain Platform.

Reference Material

Blockchain Explorers

• Cosmos Explorer
• nylira.net

Relevant Documentation

• Cosmos Overview
• Token Economics - Cosmos - Validator rewarded via multiple whitelisted tokens
  • Ethereum Hardspoon - Moving Tokens from Ethereum to Cosmos
• Whitepapers
  • Cosmos Whitepaper
  • Tendermint Whitepaper
• Ecosystems
  • Projects
  • Partners
  • Investments
  • Validators
• Cosmos Documentation
• Cosmos SDK Tutorial
• Cosmos vs Polkadot
• Tendermint Evaluation
• Architectural Decision Records
• Bug Bounty Program
• Token Economics
  • Validator Economics
• Cosmos Launch Schedule

Relevant Code Links

Key Repositories

• Cosmos Whitepaper
• Tendermint
  • Application BlockChain Interface (ABCI)
    • ABCI Protobuf Definition
• go-amino
• IAVL - Merkleized IAVL+ Tree implementation in Go
• HOG
• Cosmos SDK

Functional Breakdown

• Architecture
  • Architecture Design Records
• Persistence
  • Storage
    • Blockchain data is in ~/.tendermint/data/blockstore.db.
    • 488 - StateDB Refactor
    • Support multi trie in genesis generation
  • Immutable AVL Tree
    • AVL Tree is used by tendermint instead of
    • Patrica Tree which is used by Ethereum
  • Light Client
  • Node
  • Validator
    • Validator List
  • Archive Node
• Distribution
  • Discovery
    • Genesis workflow
  • Gossip
    • Amino vs Proto Encoding issue
    • Protobuf Encoding (including zigzag)
  • Consensus
    • Block Finality
      • Proposal to Optimize the Consensus
        • Core Consenus Update 2696
      • Round Robin Proposal
    • Simplify Proposal Message
• Security
  • Signing
    • 2554 -gaicli multisig ready
  • Hashing
  • Privacy
  • Key Storage
    • Private Validator
    • Encrypt the Private Key File on Disk
• Governance
  • Staking
    • Vesting Accounts
    • Proposer Rewards
    • Staking Keeper package [2598 - refactor]
    • Align Vote Proposals
    • Prpopser reward decreasing based on round proposed
  • Voting
  • Proposals
    • Governance Design Overview
    • 2385 - Coins for Deposits
• Chaincode
  • See WASM above
• Deployment
• Interledger
  • Message Format
  • Relay Chain
  • Consensus Process
• Developer Tools
  • API
  • RPC
  • CLI
  • SDK
• Off Chain Orchestration
  • Oracles
  • Workflow
• Wallets
  • Feather
• Chain Tools
  • Governance
  • Token Economics
  • Token Standards
• Business Tools
  • Analytics
  • System Monitoring
  • Deployment Tools
• Performance
  • Mempool Overload at Volume
  • Performance Testing and Stalls
  • Cosmos SDK amino Performance Enhancements

Key Pull Requests or Features

Tendermint Prototyping

Deploying a Substrate Chain

Deploying a Substrate Chain

Deploying Polkadot

Deploying a simple contract

Running a Transaction