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Jae Kwon

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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Welcome to another weekly update in http://Gno.land. Let's dive right in 👇

@_gnolandJun 2026

Zooming out from the IPO noise, the stage is set for humanity’s next steps into the cosmos. Driven by an insatiable demand for energy in an ever more sophisticated civilisation, this harsh environment may well hold some of the answers we seek.

@pierskicksJun 2026

We’re pleased to report the successful execution of the following IBC transactions on testnet: • Transfer native $GNOT to @AtomOne and back • Transfer native $ATONE to Gno.land and back • Transfer GRC-20 token to AtomOne and back Please note that these are testnet transactions and that this featur

@_gnolandJun 2026

Enable 24/7 payments, instant settlement, and programmable money with the most proven blockchain infrastructure in production. With Cosmos Tokenization Suite, you can issue, hold, and transfer tokenized deposits easily: https://t.co/oSVKW0x2Sv

@cosmosJun 2026

gnodev 💻 • gnodev is a local development tool for Gno.land • Allows developers to run a full local Gno.land node on their machine to simulate the blockchain environment • Edit code live, interact with realms, build full dApps, and prototype safely before deploying to testnet or mainnet

@_gnolandJun 2026

RT @cosmos: - No third party intermediary. - Open-source and neutrally governed. - General-purpose connectivity across digital ledgers an…

@zmanianJun 2026

genAI conquered text, but embodied AI needs more than words. The world came before language, and most robotic skills are visual-motor things that are easy to show but painful to describe in words. NVIDIA Cosmos forces language, images, 3D data, and actions into a single unified representation of th

@chainyodaJun 2026

RT @RN404notfound: Robinhood just added $ATOM. Another reminder that Cosmos isn't disappearing. While most people focus on short-term pri…

@zmanianJun 2026

Take a look at the Release Date Trailer for Orbitals, a co-op sci-fi action game developed by Shapefarm. Explore and overcome obstacles in the cosmos in Orbitals, launching on September 23 for Nintendo Switch 2. #IGNSummerOfGaming https://t.co/umDgIoMsjJ

@IGNJun 2026

Ngl... we're excited about http://Gno.land

@_gnolandJun 2026