Curious Cosmonaut Research Navigation and Projects Covered

This shows how to best navigate the website and various topics covered.

The Curious Cosmonaut Research website is the premium content provider for Cosmos, aggregating public sites (projects) and various writers with their approval. Just starting at launch, the website has over 210 articles and aggregating over 90 platforms/writers just at launch.

The most recommended way to use the website is to use the search functionality to read about various projects at will or navigate to some areas of interest already up, like NFTs, Cosmos Concepts, and Product Demos.

Given the sheer number of projects, below is a running list of apps and chains already covered on the website to make searches easier if there are certain projects/topics you want to research. Below is an example of using the search tool for Osmosis.


Chains/Dapps

  • Agoric - smart contract blockchain focused on JavaScript
  • Akash - decentralized cloud and computing
  • Altered Carbon -  Altered Carbon is a platform that is seeking to allow for decentralizing carbon trading and emissions reductions.
  • Archway - incentivized launchpad ecosystem  
  • AssetMantle - NFT ecosystem
  • ATOM/Cosmos Hub - hub of Cosmos working towards being the IBC center and security of the ecosystem
  • Aura Network - blockchain built to accelerate NFT adoption
  • Axelar - bridging project for many ecosystems
  • Babylon - bringing BTC level security to the Cosmos ecosystem
  • Band Protocol - cross-chain data oracle
  • BitCanna - blockchain cannabis ecosystem
  • BitSong - connect musicians and fans directly
  • Bostrom - distributed, self-sustainable computer for answers
  • Canto - free blockchain infrastructure for DeFi
  • Celestia - blockchain with unique approach to scaling
  • Cheqd - identity on blockchains
  • Chihuahua - memecoin and smart contracts
  • Comdex - decentralized commodity trading.
  • Crescent - decentralzied exchange
  • Cronos - Crypto.com’s smart contract blockchain
  • Cudos - decentralized cloud and cloud computing
  • DAODAO - DAO tooling platform built on Juno
  • Decentr - Web 3.0 browser
  • Diffusuion - decentralized exchange on Evmos
  • Duality - decentralized exchange
  • dYdX - large decentralized exchange for derivatives migrating to Cosmos
  • Desmos - social media infrastructure
  • e-Money - building stablecoins
  • Evmos - building EVM based smart contracts and connecting Ethereum and Cosmos
  • Fetch.AI's - a project working on data and AI connectivity
  • Gravity Bridge - bridging Cosmos and Ethereum
  • Injective - decentralized exchange
  • Internet of Impact - digital infrastructure for Sustainable Decentralised Finance (Sustainable DeFi) and Impact Data.
  • Iris - hub competing against the ATOM Hub
  • Jackal - cloud dApp
  • Juno - CosmWasm/smart contract ecosystem
  • Kava - DeFi ecosystem with borrowing/lending/swapping
  • Ki Foundation - working on connecting decentralized and traditional finance
  • Kujira - decentralized exchange
  • LikeCoin - Proof of Creativity and compensating creativity.
  • Lum - Blockchain focused on reviews
  • MediBloc - blockchain-based health information system.
  • MicroTick - price discovery/speculation tools
  • OmniFlix - working on NFT and Metaverse ecosystem
  • Osmosis - decentralized exchange/DeFi ecosystem
  • Persistence - liquid staking project
  • Polymer - brining IBC to non IBC chains and connecting them to IBC chains.
  • Regen - Carbon credits and sustainability
  • Secret - privacy smart contracts
  • Sei - exchange protocol
  • Shentu (CertiK) - security research
  • Sifchain - decentralized exchange
  • Sommelier - working on deployable DeFi strategies.
  • Starname - blockchain communication protocol to standardize wallet communication and create named wallets.
  • Stashh - Secret’s NFT trading marketplace
  • Stride - building liquid staking infrastructure
  • Teritori - NFT and social ecosystem
  • Terra - previously dominant blockchain that fell hard after UST
  • Umee - borrowing/lending protocol in Cosmos connecting Comsos and Ethereum DeFi.
  • Vidulum - working on a wallet and storage solution this whitepaper was aggregated to make information more accessible on the platform.

NFTs

Cosmos Concepts - good to know

  • MEV - Miner Extractable Value
  • IBC - Interblockchain Communication
  • ICA - Interchain Accounts
  • ICS - Interchain Security
  • Tendermint
  • Mesh Security
  • ICF - Interchain Foundation
  • Aidrops