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.
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.
gaia
is the name of the Cosmos SDK application for the Cosmos Hub.gaiad
is the daemon and command-line interface (CLI) that operates thegaia
blockchain application.
The gaia
blockchain uses the following cosmos-sdk, ibc-go and interchain-security modules, alongside some others:
cosmos-sdk
- x/auth
- x/authz
- x/bank
- x/capability
- x/consensus
- x/crisis
- x/distribution
- x/evidence
- x/feegrant
- x/gov
- x/mint
- x/params
- x/slashing
- x/staking (with LSM changes)
- x/upgrade
ibc-go
- transfer
- interchain accounts - host
- interchain accounts - controller
- interchain-security/provider
- packetforward
- ibcfee
- ibc-rate-limiting
gaia specific modules
other modules
Next, learn how to install Gaia.