Index

Introduction to the Cosmos Ecosystem

1. The problem of scaling blockchains
   1. Vertical Scaling
   2. Horizontal Scaling
2. Cosmos
   1. Cosmos Hub
      1. Zones
         1. Peg Zones
            1. Roles
            2. How it works
   2. Key actors
      1. Validators 2. Delegators 3. Economics and incentives 1. Atoms 2. Photons 4. IBC Protocol
   3. Governance
      1. Zone constitution
      2. Amendments
      3. Proposals
   4. Sovereignty
   5. Security in the Cosmos Ecosystem
   6. Cosmos SDK overview
      1. Basecoin
      2. Plugins
   7. Tendermint
      1. The blockchain layers stack
      2. Tendermint BFT Consensus algorithm
      3. Ethermint and Chainmint
      4. Throughput
   8. Cosmos Gaia Testnet
      1. Installation and setup
      2. Setting up a local gaia testnet

3. Cosmos for developers

4. Tendermint

   1. Tendermint Core
      1. Installation and setup
      2. Getting started
      3. Bind application layer to Tendermint Core
   2. Low level ABCI protocol

5. Ethermint

   1. Installation and setup
   2. Getting started
   3. Connect dApps to Ethermint
6. Cosmos SDK
   1. SDK components
      1. BaseApp
      2. Basecoin
      3. ABCI App
      4. Plugins
      5. Extensions
   2. Installation and setup
   3. Getting started
   4. IBC communication with Basecoin
   5. Create your own Cosmos App zone
7. Testnets with gaia
   1. Local testnet
   2. Public testnet
8. Cosmos Voyager
   1. Creating a UI for zones
9. Wrapping up