🌐Neutron Technologies
2 min readNov 20, 2022
Neutron is a blockchain network that brings smart contracts into the Cosmos family of blockchains with CosmWasm. We previously did a review on this project.
Neutron works with networks over the IBC protocol. Neutron security (blockchain verification) is provided by the Cosmos Hub network using Interchain Security.
📺Technologies used by Neutron:
- IBC (Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol) was launched in March 2021 with a single application built on top of it — interchangeable token transfers (ICS-20). A few months later, Cosmos Hub and Osmosis led the effort to bring this application to market.
- Cosmos SDK
Neutron is built using the Cosmos SDK infrastructure. A generalised framework that simplifies the process of building secure blockchain applications on top of the Tendermint BFT. It is based on two basic principles: modularity and capability-based security. - Interchain Security
Interchain Security is a technology that allows Neutron to be secured by the Cosmos Hub validator set and not have another separate validator set, especially for the Neutron blockchain. - Interchain Queries
Neutron provides smart contract developers with customisable Interchain Queries. Interchain Queries (also known as ICQs) are an important building block for developers to securely retrieve data from remote areas. - Interchain Transactions
Neutron adds interchain accounts (ICAs) to CosmWasm smart contracts. ICAs allow modules and smart contracts to perform and track transactions in foreign zones without deploying additional code. As far as ICQs are concerned, they are secret
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