Osmosis

Osmosis is a fair-launched, customizable automated market maker for interchain assets that allows the creation and management of non-custodial, self-balancing, interchain token index similar to one of Balancer.

Inspired by Balancer and Sunny Aggarwal's 'DAOfying Uniswap Automated Market Maker Pools', the goal for Osmosis is to provide the best-in-class tools that extend the use of AMMs within the Cosmos ecosystem beyond traditional token swap-type use cases. Bonding curves, while have found its primary use case in decentralized exchange mechanisms, its potential use case can be further extended through the customizability that Osmosis offers. Through the customizability offered by Osmosis such as custom-curve AMMs, dynamic adjustments of spread factors, multi-token liquidity pools--the AMM can offer decentralized formation of token fundraisers, interchain staking, options market, and more for the Cosmos ecosystem.

Whereas most Cosmos zones have focused their incentive scheme on the delegators, Osmosis attempts to align the interests of multiple stakeholders of the ecosystem such as LPs, DAO members, as well as delegators. One mechanism that is introduced is how staked liquidity providers have sovereign ownership over their pools, and through the pool governance process allow them to adjust the parameters depending on the pool's competition and market conditions. Osmosis is a sovereign Cosmos zone that derives its sovereignty not only from its application-specific blockchain architecture but also the collective sovereignty of the LPs that has aligned interest to different tokens that they are providing liquidity for.

System Requirements

This system spec has been tested by many users and validators and found to be comfortable:

• Quad Core or larger AMD or Intel (amd64) CPU
  • ARM CPUs like the Apple M1 are not supported at this time.
• 64GB RAM (A lot can be in swap)
• 1TB NVMe Storage
• 100MBPS bidirectional internet connection

You can run Osmosis on lower-spec hardware for each component, but you may find that it is not highly performant or prone to crashing.

Documentation

For the most up to date documentation please visit docs.osmosis.zone

Joining the Mainnet

Please visit the official instructions on how to join the Mainnet here.

Thank you for supporting a healthy blockchain network and community by running an Osmosis node!

Contributing

The contributing guide for Osmosis explains the branching structure, how to use the SDK fork, and how to make / test updates to SDK branches.

LocalOsmosis

LocalOsmosis is a containerized local Osmosis testnet used for trying out new features locally. LocalOsmosis documentation can be found here