The Cosmos (ATOM) ecosystem is made up of a number of Tendermint-based blockchains, including Agoric, and Band Protocol, Binance Chain, Kava, Terra, and Thorchain. Bison Trails will offer its customers the ability to use its infrastructure to stake and delegate their tokens and earn passive income from transaction fees and validator rewards on their holdings while securing the decentralized network.
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Lucas Geiger said OpenLibra is going to hijack Libra, but in a "non-adversarial" way (Lane Rettig, via Twitter).OpenLibra plans fork to create Facebook-free version of Libra stablecoin
A group of blockchain developers threatened to split the Libra cryptocurrency’s blockchain and create a competitor free from corporate control
Facebook’s Libra stablecoin may be years from becoming a reality, but that didn’t stop a group of blockchain companies calling itself OpenLibra from announcing plans to fork the stablecoin. News of the preemptive split came at the Ethereum developer conference Devcon 5 in Osaka, Japan on October 9. Lucas Geiger, co-founder of blockchain infrastructure firm Wireline, described the OpenLibra project, as aimed squarely at the corporate control of Libra. Essentially, OpenLibra would be pegged to the Libra coin, a cryptocurrency which will be backed by a basket of fiat currencies to keep its price level. Using the tagline “lock the door open,” the newly launched OpenLibra website called itself an…