A little disambiguation:
Cosmos-SDK is a framework for building blockchains that use Tendermint consensus.
The cosmos network is a network of fully sovereign blockchains that can speak IBC to one another.
IBC (inter-blockchain communication) is a protocol that allows blockchains to exchange data and value between one another securely, and without freaky pegs.
Blurt 2.0 (Dawn? Water? Bling? Blurt? feel free to suggest names :D ) will connect to the cosmos hub, which by that time will likely have DEX features similar to Uniswap's.
We think that this move will help us by:
- Making changes to the UI and blockchain easier over time
- Go > C++
- Vue > React
- Modular Design > "Have you seen database.cpp? Where does the chain stop and the application begin? (hint: there's no clear place at all)
- Bringing us into an enthusiastic, supportive community of developers and entrepreneurs
- Allowing Blurt 2.0 to speak IBC with other Cosmos-SDK chains, resulting in multi-chain composability
- Allowing Blurt 2.0 to scale by adding chains instead of adding complexity.
- City-chains
- Language-group chains
- Special-interest topic specific chains
Key Point
Blockchains made with the Cosmos SDK are fully sovereign. They have no dependency whatsoever on the Cosmos Hub, Gaia. Gaia could fail and chains connected to it would be completely fine.
Why Cosmos for Blurt?
There are no taxes or needless abstractions to wasm in Cosmos. Everything is written in Go, and runs natively, meaning that your blockchain can do anything that your computer is capable of instead of a subset of things.
Plus, if you really need programmability there's cosm-wasm for smart contracts.
So we're starting the fast/easy way:
Scaffolding the chain using Starport, and figuring out logic (ex: reward pool) after getting the skeleton put together.