What is Gaia?

The Cosmos Hub is a public Proof-of-Stake chain that uses ATOM as its native staking token. It is the first blockchain launched in the Cosmos Network and developed using the cosmos-sdk development framework and ibc-go.

Cosmos hub is also the first security aggregation platform that leverages the interchain-security protocol (ICS-28) to facilitate the launch of cosmos-sdk blockchain projects.

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Interchain security features deployed on the Cosmos Hub blockchain allow anyone to launch a blockchain using a subset, or even the entire validator set of the Cosmos Hub blockchain.

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• gaia is the name of the Cosmos SDK application for the Cosmos Hub.

• gaiad is the daemon and command-line interface (CLI) that operates the gaia blockchain application.

For a full list of modules used on the Cosmos Hub follow this link.

Next, learn how to install Gaia.