substrate VS cosmos-sdk

Compare substrate vs cosmos-sdk and see what are their differences.

substrate

Substrate: The platform for blockchain innovators (by paritytech)

cosmos-sdk

:chains: A Framework for Building High Value Public Blockchains :sparkles: (by cosmos)
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substrate cosmos-sdk
82 144
8,348 5,836
- 2.4%
8.1 9.9
7 months ago 7 days ago
Rust Go
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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substrate

Posts with mentions or reviews of substrate. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-07.
  • What to do next... Web 3, Rust, Solidity?
    2 projects | /r/rust | 7 May 2023
    To offer some perspective outside of the typical "all crypto is a scam", Parity is doing some cool stuff with a rust modular blockchain library called Substrate https://github.com/paritytech/substrate.
  • What application will make Rust its prime ?
    3 projects | /r/rust | 23 Apr 2023
    Rust takes the cake in the blockchain space: Substrate, Cosmos (CosmWasm), and Solana. All of the zero knowledge cryptography libraries used for layer 2 solutions are written in Rust, compiling to Wasm (see arkworks, Risc0). Ethereum's next version of smart contracts will even use a restricted subset of Wasm ("Ewasm") instead of EVM.
  • Polkadot Digest 17 Jan 2023
    2 projects | /r/Polkadot | 17 Jan 2023
    Fast-unstake is now available on Kusama. This allows instant unstaking if you have not participated in staking in the last 28 eras. https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/12129
  • Bill Laboon AMA - 8 Jul 13.00 - 14.00 UTC
    2 projects | /r/Polkadot | 8 Jul 2022
    Of course, like most things in Polkadot, this can be adjusted via governance, and thus a vote of the DOT holders. So if this were seen as a major problem by DOT holders, they can create a new runtime with a modified inflationary model (by changing the parameters here) and vote on it to replace the current one.
  • 6 GitHub Repositories for Web3
    11 projects | dev.to | 4 May 2022
    Polkadot, Kusama, Substrate and ink!
  • Polkadot Digest 22 Apr 2022
    3 projects | /r/Polkadot | 22 Apr 2022
  • Linux Foundation Mentorship about compilers.
    3 projects | /r/Compilers | 2 Apr 2022
    Solidity is language for smart contacts originally designed for Ethereum. If you want to execute your Solidity smart contract in a blockchain whose VM interprets WASM, then you need to compile Solidity into WebAssembly. Currently, we target Substrate (https://github.com/paritytech/substrate) and Ewasm (https://ewasm.readthedocs.io/en/mkdocs/) that need WebAssembly. This is the project's repo: https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/solang
  • How to build a blockchain in Rust
    4 projects | dev.to | 1 Dec 2021
    However, this exercise sets the stage for the topic, explaining some of the basics and showing them off in Rust, so that we can continue this journey by looking at how we would go about building a blockchain application that could actually be used in practice with a framework such as Substrate.
  • Doing M1 MacBook Pro (M1 Max, 64GB) Compile Benchmarks!
    37 projects | /r/rust | 26 Oct 2021
    I'd love to see the M1Max times for https://github.com/paritytech/substrate
    37 projects | /r/rust | 26 Oct 2021

cosmos-sdk

Posts with mentions or reviews of cosmos-sdk. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-20.
  • Create an NFT Minting dApp with Cudos NFT Native Module
    6 projects | dev.to | 20 Jun 2023
    💡 GasMultiplier Instead of specifying the gas price, you may use the "gas": "auto” so that the blockchain application automatically estimates gas for you before submitting the transaction into the network for consensus with the estimate. This is why we include the gasMultiplier. By providing the gas multiplier you are specifying that the gas estimate should be multiplied by this number to account for possible changes in the gas fee estimate and the eventual gas fee. See The estimate is not always the exact gas required for the transaction execution.
  • 🌌✨☆*:。・*・WELCOME TO COSMOS NETWORK ・*・.。:*☆✨🌌
    5 projects | /r/cosmosnetwork | 17 May 2023
    We have pinned this post to bring information front and center on the Cosmos Network Project and its evolution into the Internet of Blockchains. A new Interchain Era is here, bringing interoperability, scalability, and mass adoption to the Cosmos Ecosystem!
  • The Cosmos Ecosystem and IBC explained
    2 projects | /r/CryptoCurrency | 1 May 2023
    Cosmos (ATOM) is a dPoS blockchain. Often it is named in the list of 3rd generation blockchains like ADA, DOT, ALGO, etc. As one can already see it has a lot of competition. To be able to get a better view of ATOM it is to not describe what it is in itself but how it compares to its competitors.
  • Prop#95 - Osmosis v5 Boron Upgrade
    4 projects | /r/liquidplayground | 6 Mar 2023
    Upgrade Cosmos-SDK to SDK v0.44 from SDK v0.42 For a full list of updates in Cosmos-SDK v0.44.3 please see its changelog. Noteable highlights include:\n - Authz - Allows granting arbitrary privileges from one account (the granter) to another account (the grantee). \n- New modules:\n - Bech32IBC - Allows auto-routing of send msgs to addresses on other chains, once configured by governance. Allows you to do a bank send on Osmosis to a cosmos1... address, and it is automatically sent to the corresponding Cosmos Hub address over IBC. This is a big step in enabling more seemless IBC UX.\n - TxFees - Enables validators to easily accept txfees in multiple assets, whitelisted by governance, by declaring minimum fees in OSMO. Alternative fee assets are converted to their OSMO value, using the spot price on their primary OSMO base pair pool. This upgrade pre-whitelists all the assets currently supported on the Osmosis frontend with an OSMO basepair pool.\n- Implements Proposal 32 - Clawback of unclaimed Osmo and Ion on airdrop end date. (December 15th, 5PM UTC)\n- Upgrade IBC from a standalone module in the SDK to IBC v2. This improves the utility of Ethereum Bridges and Cosmwasm bridges.\n- Blocking OFAC banned ETH addresses \n- Numerous minor bug fixes, gas fixes, and significant speedups.
  • Introduction To Cosmos Network And Cosmos Hub
    3 projects | dev.to | 24 Jan 2023
    Instead of just imagining, Cosmos created a system that enables blockchains to connect. That system thrives on a hub - Cosmos Hub.
  • Top 10+ Blockchain Networks to look for in 2023
    4 projects | dev.to | 20 Jan 2023
    Cosmos
  • Notron: Earn more yield in a Cosmos Money Market
    3 projects | /r/CryptoCurrency | 30 Nov 2022
    Cosmos (ATOM) is a dPoS blockchain. Often it is named in the list of 3rd generation blockchains like ADA, DOT, ALGO, etc. As one can already see it has a lot of competition. To be able to get a better view of ATOM it is to not describe what it is in itself but how it compares to its competitors.
  • Блокчейн HAQQ. Погружение
    4 projects | /r/u_viktoriyazimnokh | 6 Nov 2022
  • Summary: Sei Network - A Blockchain Built For DEXs?
    2 projects | /r/SeiNetwork | 1 Nov 2022
    Built with Cosmos and Tendermint.
  • Summary: Should Cosmos Use a 2 Token Model?
    2 projects | /r/cosmosnetwork | 31 Oct 2022
    In this CryptoCito interview, host CryptoCito is joined by Jack Zompolin, Founder of Strangelove and a core developer at the Cosmos network,  to discuss the PHOTON token, ATOM as the core money of Cosmos, the various Interchain features, and more.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing substrate and cosmos-sdk you can also consider the following projects:

starport - Ignite CLI is the all-in-one platform to build, launch, and maintain any crypto application on a sovereign and secured blockchain [Moved to: https://github.com/ignite-hq/cli]

polygon-edge - A Framework for Building Ethereum-compatible Blockchain Networks

go-ethereum - Official Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol

solana - Web-Scale Blockchain for fast, secure, scalable, decentralized apps and marketplaces.

tendermint - ⟁ Tendermint Core (BFT Consensus) in Go

developer-roadmap - Interactive roadmaps, guides and other educational content to help developers grow in their careers.

rust-libp2p - The Rust Implementation of the libp2p networking stack.

go-lachesis - aBFT consensus for permission-less networks

awesome-blockchain-rust - Collect libraries and packages about blockchain/cryptography in Rust

juno - Open Source Platform for Interoperable Smart Contracts

ibc-go - Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol (IBC) implementation in Golang.