In May 2019, the Tendermint team working on Cosmos [**announced**](https://forklog.com/v-seti-cosmos-sostoyalsya-hardfork-dlya-ustraneniya-kriticheskoj-uyazvimosti/) a successful update of the CosmosSDK following a critical vulnerability. In January 2020, Informal Systems [**spun off**](https://informal.systems/2020/02/24/introducing-informal/) from the Interchain Foundation, which promotes technologies and decentralized applications of the Cosmos ecosystem . Against the backdrop of a conflict within the team in February 2020, one of the key directors of the Cosmos developer company, the director of Tendermint Labs, Zaki Manian, [**left**](https://forklog.com/odin-iz-klyuchevyh-direktorov-kompanii-razrabotchika-cosmos-pokinet-dolzhnost-na-fone-konflikta/) his position, but continued to work on the development of the Cosmos blockchain ecosystem. The developers have formed several independent teams, refusing to cooperate with Tendermint. In February 2021, the China Blockchain Infrastructure Platform (BSN) [**added**](https://forklog.com/kitajskaya-natsionalnaya-blokchejn-platforma-vnedrila-adaptirovannyj-cosmos/) Cosmos support to the localized version of the network. With the help of the OPB initiative, developers can develop decentralized applications in the local version of BSN in accordance with Chinese law.In March 2021, the IBC interoperability protoco**l** [***began work.*** ](https://cointelegraph.com/news/cosmos-launches-inter-blockchain-communication-to-enable-cross-chain-defi)At the same time, the project announced the creation of a decentralized exchange Gravity.
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