Jae Kwon
Co-Founder at Cosmos · Team at Gno.land · Founder & CEO at > Ignite
Jae Kwon is a blockchain software architect and co-founder of Tendermint, as well as the President of the Interchain Foundation. After graduating from Cornell in with a B.S. degree in Computer Science, he worked as a professional developer in Silicon Valley, including at Alexa and Yelp, where he led the mobile application development team. He also co-founded iDoneThis, a productivity service. Jae has worked on numerous open-source projects, such as a CoffeeScript compiler/interpreter written in Javascript, an end-to-end encrypted email system called Scramble.io, and a cryptocurrency exchange. These projects were inspired by the cryptopunk hacker ethos, which ultimately led to his current work with Tendermint. In , Jae created the Tendermint project, and he, along with Ethan Buchman and Zarko Milosevic, further refined the Tendermint consensus algorithm and implementation, with the aim of liberating the blockchain from the costs and drawbacks of proof-of-work mining. His mission is to make this technology more accessible, in order to accelerate the adoption of decentralized ledger technology.
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RT @TheBlockCo: Cosmos Labs acquires block explorer Mintscan, forms Korea subsidiary to expand ecosystem https://t.co/Veh3pI9OI1
RT @cosmoshub: Big news for the Cosmos Hub community and the ecosystem ⚛️ Cosmos Labs is acquiring @mintscanio. Select team members are j…
Cosmos Labs acquires block explorer Mintscan, forms Korea subsidiary to expand ecosystem
Cosmos Labs buys Mintscan and launches Korea unit to anchor ATOM’s home market
Cosmos Labs acquires block explorer Mintscan, forms Korea subsidiary to expand ecosystem https://t.co/Veh3pI9OI1
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RT @cybernetic_lab: NVIDIA Cosmos 3 isn't a robot brain you plug in and ship. It's scaffolding. Open weights, checkpoints, synthetic data,…
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RT @cosmos: With BlockSTM, you can achieve a 5-10x improvement in transaction execution time. BlockSTM is a parallel transaction execution…
With BlockSTM, you can achieve a 5-10x improvement in transaction execution time. BlockSTM is a parallel transaction execution engine built into the application layer which executes independent transactions simultaneously, For teams building on the Cosmos Ledger, that improvement directly translat