Thread by @Thyborg_

Unlike most (if not all) other L1s, #Cosmos doesn't have a core team ; yet over the last year, the ecosystem managed to ship ground-breaking tech after ground-breaking tech at a stunning pace. This is what decentralised software development looks like in the Cosmos 🧵

@interchain_io is a minimalistic (less than 10 persons total) Swiss foundation whose primary role is to provide funding to the Core contributors

The Foundation holds the trademark for "Cosmos", "Interchain" and a couple of terms

Key people include @billyrennekamp & @crainbf

@interchain_io @billyrennekamp @crainbf @informalinc has a team of 50 engineers working on Cosmos core features, in particular IBC & Tendermint, and is leading the charge on Interchain security

Key people include @buchmanster, @ArianneFlemming, @zarinjo & @JTremback

@interchain_io @billyrennekamp @crainbf @informalinc @buchmanster @ArianneFlemming @zarinjo @JTremback Interchain Gmbh (i.e "Interchain Berlin") has a team of 40 engineers working on Cosmos core features, in particular Cosmos-SDK modules and Interchain accounts

Key people include @hxrts & @charleenfei

@interchain_io @billyrennekamp @crainbf @informalinc @buchmanster @ArianneFlemming @zarinjo @JTremback @hxrts @charleenfei @strangelovefund has a team of 12 engineers working on Cosmos core features, specifically on Go relayers & on a CLI tool to interact w/ the chain registries github.com/strangelove-ve…

Key people include @jack_zampolin & @TylerSchmidt

@interchain_io @billyrennekamp @crainbf @informalinc @buchmanster @ArianneFlemming @zarinjo @JTremback @hxrts @charleenfei @strangelovefund @jack_zampolin @TylerSchmidt @iqlusioninc has a team of 4 engineers working on Cosmos core features, including the SDK liquid staking module and a keys management system for Tendermint

Key people include @zmanian, @bascule & @kpoldsam

@interchain_io @billyrennekamp @crainbf @informalinc @buchmanster @ArianneFlemming @zarinjo @JTremback @hxrts @charleenfei @strangelovefund @jack_zampolin @TylerSchmidt @iqlusioninc @zmanian @bascule @kpoldsam @regen_network has a team of 5 engineers working on Cosmos core features, and they've been the primary developer of the Cosmos SDK for the past 2 years github.com/cosmos/cosmos-…

Key people include @gregory_landua & Ethan Frey

@interchain_io @billyrennekamp @crainbf @informalinc @buchmanster @ArianneFlemming @zarinjo @JTremback @hxrts @charleenfei @strangelovefund @jack_zampolin @TylerSchmidt @iqlusioninc @zmanian @bascule @kpoldsam @regen_network @gregory_landua @confio_tech has a team of 3 engineers working on Cosmos core features, in particular the CosmJS client library github.com/cosmos/cosmjs

Key people include Mr Frey (CEO) again. On top of Regen & Confio, Ethan somehow found time to create CosmWasm

https://twitter.com/ThyBorg_/status/1521806856485621761

@interchain_io @billyrennekamp @crainbf @informalinc @buchmanster @ArianneFlemming @zarinjo @JTremback @hxrts @charleenfei @strangelovefund @jack_zampolin @TylerSchmidt @iqlusioninc @zmanian @bascule @kpoldsam @regen_network @gregory_landua @confio_tech Several other companies are currently receiving funding from the Interchain Foundation for core Cosmos development, including @orijtech and @HyphaCoop

And an even larger group made contributions in the past before focusing on their own Cosmos chain

https://twitter.com/ThyBorg_/status/1529417000283344896

@interchain_io @billyrennekamp @crainbf @informalinc @buchmanster @ArianneFlemming @zarinjo @JTremback @hxrts @charleenfei @strangelovefund @jack_zampolin @TylerSchmidt @iqlusioninc @zmanian @bascule @kpoldsam @regen_network @gregory_landua @confio_tech @orijtech @HyphaCoop It should be noted and honoured that some well-funded teams like @osmolabs and @CelestiaOrg are also making contributions simply because their interests are aligned with the growth of the overall ecosystem (i.e without dedicated grant from the Interchain Foundation)

@interchain_io @billyrennekamp @crainbf @informalinc @buchmanster @ArianneFlemming @zarinjo @JTremback @hxrts @charleenfei @strangelovefund @jack_zampolin @TylerSchmidt @iqlusioninc @zmanian @bascule @kpoldsam @regen_network @gregory_landua @confio_tech @orijtech @HyphaCoop @osmolabs @CelestiaOrg A big thank you to @hxrts from @interchain_io & @jelenaaa____ from @informalinc for their help in mapping that out

A basic report is already available below & I've volunteered to help make all the ICF grants details more readily available in the future
datastudio.google.com/s/hImoDRPsNqw

@interchain_io @billyrennekamp @crainbf @informalinc @buchmanster @ArianneFlemming @zarinjo @JTremback @hxrts @charleenfei @strangelovefund @jack_zampolin @TylerSchmidt @iqlusioninc @zmanian @bascule @kpoldsam @regen_network @gregory_landua @confio_tech @orijtech @HyphaCoop @osmolabs @CelestiaOrg @jelenaaa____ And since I'll be relentlessly covering the entire Cosmos ecosystem through educative & digestible threads on governance proposals, airdrops, tokens, teams & projects, you may consider retweeting & giving me a follow @ThyBorg_ ✌️