CosmWasm
Smart Contract Standard
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Licença https://github.com/CosmWasm/cosmwasm
Status de Dev 🟢 Ativo
Detalhe do Status de Dev Active (maintained by Hadron Labs through Dec 2027 per ICF agreement)
Proprietário Originally Confio GmbH; maintenance transferred to Hadron Labs (2025) under Interchain Foundation funding
País Germany (Confio) / Global
Ano de Início 2019
Stack Rust (contract authoring); Go (Cosmos SDK integration via wasmd module); WebAssembly (compilation target)
Financiamento Interchain Foundation (ICF): $2.5M allocated to Confio for 2024; Hadron Labs funded through Dec 2027 by ICF; earlier ICF grants to Confio from 2020 onward
Última Investigação 9 de mar. de 2026
Smart Contract Standard Atributos
Origins Prototyped at HackAtom Berlin 2019 by Team Gaians (Aaron Craelius, Jehan Tremback, Ethan Frey); Interchain Foundation grant to Confio GmbH funded production implementation; designed to bring secure smart contracts to Cosmos SDK chains without EVM.
Data Formats JSON for contract messages (ExecuteMsg, QueryMsg, InstantiateMsg schemas); binary Wasm bytecode; IBC packet data; CW-20 and CW-721 JSON token schemas
Terms Apache 2.0
Funds $2.5M (ICF to Confio, 2024); ongoing ICF grant to Hadron Labs through 2027 (amount undisclosed)
Based On CosmWasm is original to the Cosmos ecosystem; informed by Ethereum/Solidity design lessons (reentrancy prevention); actor model influenced by Erlang/Elixir patterns
Permissions Permissioned instantiation (chain governance controls which code IDs may be instantiated); permissionless on chains that enable open deployment
Development Tools cargo (Rust build tool); cosmwasm-check CLI; CosmJS (JavaScript client library); wasmd (reference chain binary); cw-multi-test (integration testing framework); drink! (local testing)
Protocol Maturity / Standardization Production-grade; used in 30+ Cosmos app chains including Neutron, Osmosis, and Juno; IBC-integrated; ongoing active development
Trust Framework IBC light client verification for cross-chain calls; contract admin key for upgrades; instantiation permission flags (admin-only vs open); no built-in reputation layer
Target Application Domain DeFi (AMMs, lending, stablecoins), cross-chain interoperability, DAO governance, NFTs (CW-721), liquid staking, civic coordination tools
Deployment Model Code stored on-chain via wasmd; contracts instantiated per use case; a single code ID may have multiple contract instances
Standard Type Composability Standard (smart contract platform / framework)
Ecosystem Cosmos