The Cosmos Blockchain Stack

The Cosmos Stack is the most widely-adopted and battle-tested Layer 1 blockchain technology stack, in production with 200+ chains today. It is performant, customizable, and EVM-compatible for complete control over infrastructure, access, and data security.

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Customize your deployment

Tailor a chain to your compliance, performance, and functionality needs.

1. Build an institution-grade Layer 1 blockchain

Launch a secure, high-performance Layer 1 blockchain customized to your business requirements.

Payments

In 2025, Ripple expanded their base ledger to include a high-performance EVM side chain, built on top of the Cosmos Stack and Cosmos EVM with the assistance of Cosmos Labs.

2. Build a Consortium Blockchain

Build a permissioned blockchain consortium, run exclusively by your partners.

Payments

Progmat, Japan’s banking consortium, uses Cosmos to replace outdated payment networks with faster routing infrastructure.

3. Test & Prove with a  Proof-of-Concept

Quickly spin up a proof-of-concept private blockchain with a full feature set.

Tokenization

Progmat, Japan’s banking consortium, uses Cosmos to replace outdated payment networks with faster routing infrastructure.

Architecture of the Cosmos Stack

Core

An EVM-compatible software development kit that lets your team build Layer 1 blockchains quickly and easily.

Cosmos SDK

Cosmos EVM

Consensus

Achieve 10k+ transactions per second with a fully configurable, battle-tested consensus engine.

CometBFT

Connectivity

A suite of best-in-class tools for interoperability that allow your blockchain to securely communicate with other networks.

IBC Protocol

Skip:Go

Supported by open source tooling

Cosmos has dozens of open source utility libraries for chain management and testing.

Interchain Test

Interchain JS

Utility Libraries

The Cosmos Stack

Why choose the Cosmos stack?

Web Scale Performance

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10,000+ Transactions per Second
Sub-second transaction finality
Near-zero transaction fees (<$0.001)

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EVM Compatible

Ethereum

EVM Compatible L2s

Your Chain

Cosmos EVMWrite Solidity contracts

Cosmos SDKBuild a Custom Blockchain

Native Interoperability with Ethereum and EVM

Native Interoperability

Connect value, assets and contracts with the Internet of Blockchains Protocol (IBC)

Fully Customizable

Connectivity

Business Logic

Consensus

Compliance

KYC/KYB

Privacy

Virtual Machines

Fees

Rust

Solidity

Cosmos offers the best performance, connectivity, EVM compatibility, access control, and flexibility for enterprise and institutional use cases

Want to build a Cosmos blockchain? Cosmos Labs is here to help.

About Labs

Connectivity

Skip:Go provides a unified API to move digital assets across blockchains, driving $1Bn in monthly volume, including $600M/month in stablecoin (USDC) transfers.

Docs

Github

App

Press Release: Cosmos at Japan Stablecoin Summit

Babylon Genesis is a Layer 1 blockchain built with the Cosmos SDK.

Introducing Cosmos Labs

We are Cosmos Labs: the core team driving the development and growth arm of the Cosmos blockchain ecosystem and Cosmos technology stack.

Latest Release: Comet BFT 2.215

We committed to launching a ground-breaking product on the Cosmos Hub.

The Cosmos Blockchain Stack

Tailor a chain to your compliance, performance, and functionality needs.