Thread by @ThyBorg_

If you’re new to #Cosmos (like me), you might be surprised about the intensity of the public debate. Since it is quite useful to understand the current dispute between important ecosystem actors, here's a neutral account of some prior events 🧵

Let's start from the beginning, as it was told by @buchmanster told @Cryptocito : when the two met, @jaekwon had already started researching proof-of-work consensus algorithms in the classical literature. That was before Ethereum.

Jae was the first to work on a byzantine-fault tolerant algorithm in the blockchain space. In 2014, Ethan & Jae created a company called Tendermint, who later organised the a public token sale for $ATOM, raising 17 million in 2017.

Cosmos successfully launched its mainnet in Mar-2019. But after that, it seems Jae started working on a new project called @VirgoUDV, and was apparently looking for a co-founder in Oct-2019.

https://twitter.com/jaesustein/status/1188961555678806016

Virgo's mission is to "decentralise our financial, social, and org tech systems from open software to open hardware", but I'm not clear if the project is still active or not - maybe @gadikian can help as I see he contributed

In Jan-2020, Jae denied rumours that he was leaving the Cosmos ecosystem, and that he would stay on the board of the @interchain_io

https://twitter.com/jaekwon/status/1222457021926121472

A couple of days later, @zmanian, then Director at Tendermint, stepped down from his role as Cosmos number two, along with a number of key employees like @jack_zampolin (ex-Director of Product) and @jessysaurusrex (ex-Director of Security)

https://twitter.com/zmanian/status/1224384773587554305

In Feb-2021, about a year later, Jae announced that he was resigning from all of his Cosmos positions to focus on a new project called Gnoland

https://twitter.com/jaekwon/status/1360867477572493313

In Apr-2022, Jae started to demystify the project and introduced @_gnoland as an interoperable smart-contract blockchain in the Cosmos ecosystem, and everything was fine.

https://twitter.com/ThyBorg_/status/1515790616319438860

However, a couple of days later, #Prop69 was posted on the Cosmos Hub governance by @billyrennekamp

https://twitter.com/ThyBorg_/status/1520357302817107968

.. and Jae didn't take it lightly, immediately suggesting he would exclude @interchain_io, @ignite_com and anyone voting "yes" to the proposal from the $GNOT airdrop to $ATOM stakers

https://twitter.com/jaekwon/status/1520226368922918912

And that's where we are today. Hopeful this helps some people understand what's going on ; personally I'm happy to see this is nothing more than a regular company dispute - just happening publicly on Twitter instead of privately behind closed doors

Fortunately I'm typically not explaining drama, but instead covering the whole ecosystem through educative & digestible threads on governance proposals, airdrops, tokens, teams & projects, so consider retweeting & giving me a follow @ThyBorg_ ✌️