The Cosmos cantankerous-concatenation network is building a new blockchain aimed at allowing developers to experiment with different protocols.

In its quarterly keynote report published on Tuesday, Creation said its Sagan blockchain was currently in development. The project teased the release of the blockchain in a video message with a quote from famous astronomer Carl Sagan and a picture of a canary among the stars.

The canary imagery may refer to the blockchain existence an experimental "canary network," the term used by interoperability protocol Polkadot to describe its Kusama test network. In Kusama'due south instance, the blockchain enables developers to build and employ a parachain or test Polkadot'due south governance, staking and other functions in a real environment.

Cosmos has been growing steadily following the March launch of its inter-blockchain advice protocol, which allows crypto assets to be transferred easily betwixt compatible blockchains, including those in decentralized finance. Co-ordinate to data from Mapofzones, there have been 1,285,426 transfers across the Cosmos ecosystem in the concluding 30 days.

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The Sagan annunciation comes as Creation is also working on rollup scaling technology to allow developers to build Cosmos-based blockchains as rollups that can be deployed equally clusters within the zones of the inter-blockchain advice protocol. The solution, called Optimint, is intended to exist a "drop-in replacement" for the Tendermint framework on which it'due south built.