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Four documents, the same five questions.
No throughput league table and no yield. The cells are what this library is willing to say about the text.
| Question | Cosmos: A Network of Distributed Ledgers |
|---|---|
| What the text proposes | The Cosmos paper: independent zones running a BFT consensus, connected by a hub, speaking a packet protocol that later became IBC. Unlike Polkadot's shared-security vision, zones here are sovereign. They choose their own validator sets. |
| Who may write | Jae Kwon and Ethan Buchman |
| What is settled | Tendermint-style BFT is the default consensus. A zone may be different if it speaks the packet protocol. |
| Load-bearing assumption | Sovereignty means a zone can fail on its own. The hub does not lend it security. |
| What this library says afterwards | A peg to an external chain reintroduces the custodian or bridge assumption the paper is trying to narrow. |
| Rights | Official external source only |