Thread by @CosmosGuides

1/ Cosmos loves to talk. In groups, in replies, but especially in community calls.

@Cosmos_Spaces is well-known for their awesome Twitter Spaces and invitees, but did you know they also run their own validator?

Let's take a look at @CS_Validator's work in the interchain 🧵⬇️

2/ Cosmos Spaces is a validator that’s trying to be so much more. It’s knitting a community around all the fantastic projects on Cosmos into one place - or should that be space?

3/ It offers a great option for those delegating their tokens for staking on Cosmos projects, including $ATOM. They pride themselves on ‘synergistic relationships’ between delegators and validators.

4/ In a recent interview, @CosmosHOSS - a member of the 18-big team - said “Cosmos SDK and the IBC protocol are the standardised way that blockchains will elect to communicate with one another”.

5/ The team regularly hosts awesome projects via Twitter Spaces, with the #IBCGang Lounge drawing luminaries from across the Cosmosphere.

@LilGainzz, @Trickycrypto2, @_erikio, @CosmoClay_ and the rest of the crew do their best to give builders a voice.

6/ They’re multi-language too. The Spanish team does mighty work in keeping the #LATAM community abreast of latest Cosmos developments, with their own Telegram and Spaces in Spanish.

Shout-out to @Antoine_chain, @cosmo_jorin, and @ciberaguila for their amazing work here.

7/ Their community outreach is broad, with an open Discord full of the latest Cosmos goss. A finger on the pulse. Contributors like @TendermintTimmy, @crypto_mayorEd, @GritzDog and @thejamhole help make this all possible.

8/ They're active on $ATOM, $JUNO, $OSMO, $DIG, $NGM, $CMDX, $EVMOS, and more. Quite the list right here, and CS is looking to expand further. They are also a Relayer - the key glue of the interchain that binds all these broad worlds together.

https://twitter.com/Cosmos_Spaces/status/1566506285796769793?s=20&t=0rXS_n-JnEEgmlYig_TwRA

9/ @cs_validator is part of the Good Validator Alliance (GVA), created by @gadikian with @notionaldao, @ConsensusOne, @getcoldy, and more. The alliance helps bring new validators to the Cosmos ecosystem and defrays some of the current risk with Proof of Stake chains.

10/ So far, CS has proposed hundreds of blocks for the Cosmos Hub, and represent 0.04% of the voting power. They are a small, vital cog of the Cosmos machine, and work on 5% commission, lower than the standard.

11/ Their devs, like @scoff60 and @FreddieMixell, have created a validator monitoring tools called Valmon - a public good to track validator activity across a multitude of Cosmos chains, and one that’s available to everyone for free.

12/ They’re also an official media partner of @CosmoverseHQ!

Cosmos Spaces is spreading the word on Twitter & Telegram, and will be at the event in person, covering the latest drops on $ATOM 2.0 and interviewing our lovely community of builders.

13/ @Cosmos_Spaces is also working on NFTFLEX, an NFT-focused sharing app that supports drag & drop to create collages that can be shared on Twitter. Currently supports @JunoNetwork, @OmniFlixNetwork, and @StargazeZone with more app-chains coming.

14/ It's always a pleasure seeing validators do community work. This instinct for the community of Cosmonauts is essential to the decentralised ethos of our ecosystem.

@CosmosGuides applauds their work and I can’t wait to tune into the next podcast!

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https://twitter.com/CosmosGuides/status/1567142276014415873