TL;DR: Compile using Golang 1.17 with make build, and run build/ag0.
Phase 0 of the Agoric blockchain's mainnet will not have
the Agoric SDK enabled until governance
votes to turn it on. Until then, validators run ag0 to bootstrap the
chain with support for Cosmos-layer validation, staking, and governance.
This repository contains sources for the ag0 program, a fork of the
Cosmos Gaia implementation.
NOTE: Remember that ag0 is the new gaiad. You will still see many
remaining cosmetic references to gaiad in this repo.
Please refer to https://agoric.com to learn about Agoric and get involved.
The rest of the original Gaia README follows:
The Cosmos Hub is the first of an exploding number of interconnected blockchains that comprise the Cosmos Network.
The Cosmos Hub is built using the Cosmos SDK and compiled to a binary called gaiad (Gaia Daemon). The Cosmos Hub and other fully sovereign Cosmos SDK blockchains interact with one another using a protocol called IBC that enables Inter-Blockchain Communication. In order to understand what the Cosmos Hub is you can read this introductory explanation.
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You can find an introduction to the Cosmos Hub and how to use the gaiad binary as a delegator, validator or node operator as well as how governance on the Cosmos Hub works in the documentation.
If you're interested in running a node on the current Cosmos Hub, check out the docs to Join the Cosmos Hub Mainnet.
If you're running a validator node on the Cosmos Hub, reach out to a Janitor on the Cosmos Developers Discord to join the #validators-verified channel.
To participate in or utilize the current Cosmos Hub testnet that upgrades cosmoshub-4 from gaia v5.0.x to gaia v6.0.x, take a look at the vega-testnet repository. This testnet is for the Vega Upgrade expected in Q4 2021. For future upgrades of the Cosmos Hub take a look at the roadmap.
For an overview of upcoming changes to the Cosmos Hub take a look at the Roadmap.
With each version of the Cosmos Hub, the chain is restarted from a new Genesis state.
Mainnet is currently running as cosmoshub-4. Archives of the state of cosmoshub-1, cosmoshub-2, and cosmoshub-3 are available here.
If you are looking for historical genesis files and other data cosmos/mainnet is an excellent resource. Snapshots are also available at cosmos.quicksync.io.
Check out contributing.md for our guidelines & policies for how we develop the Cosmos Hub. Thank you to all those who have contributed!
We have active, helpful communities on Twitter, Discord, and Telegram.
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For updates on the Cosmos Hub team's activities follow us on the Cosmos Hub Twitter account.
