Cosmos Internet of Blockchains expressed, many developers still hold the belief that building a blockchain is hard. And that’s probably because it used to be. But with Starport, building an application-specific blockchain on Cosmos is as easy as writing a smart contract.
Pointing to the advantages of Starport for developers: Tendermint launched the first version of Starport in July 2020, thus marking a turning point for developers who are looking to build their own blockchains. Since then, Starport has undergone multiple iterations to improve developer experience and to ensure they have a production-ready blockchain that is as simple as possible.
Those who are considering to build an application using blockchain technology, the main advantage of using Starport and connecting to the Cosmos ecosystem rather than building an application on Ethereum or using Polkadot, would want to take a closer look at what Startport has to offer.
When you build with Starport you are the layer one protocol and you are building an entirely autonomous application-specific blockchain. When you build a Dapp on Startport you are the Sovereign and you can make your rules over development.
Danis Fadeev, Head of Developer Experience at Tendermint and Starport expressed, “When you build something in this industry, there are essentially two paths. It’s either a smart contract or a blockchain. Those are two very different things. And when you talk about building chains, there again, there are two different approaches. You can build sovereign chains or you can build chains that depend on a parent chain.”
When you build in Polkadot you do not build sovereign chains, rather you use their toolkit and you build a chain that revolves around the Central Polkadot Relay Chain.
In Cosmos, the very goal is to provide developers with tools to build sovereign chains. Thus, empowering people to create sovereign independent chains and this where the Cosmos truly shines.
When you are sovereign you set your own system and boundaries about how you interact with others. When you are a smart contract, you are like a tenant living in a rented house.
Sovereign applications will be able to make their own decisions over all matters which affect the network like governance, validators, when to push network upgrades, or incorporate new proposals and more.
Sovereign applications also enjoy the high throughput and scalability of Cosmos blockchain technology which will be able to connect to a vast and growing ecosystem of leading blockchains which already consist of the likes of Binance Coin, Terra, OKB, Cosmos Hub, and Crypto.com by way of the Cosmos Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol.
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