Jae Kwon founded Tendermint and co-created Cosmos to enable blockchain interoperability with BFT-based consensus.
Despite stepping down, Kwon returned with NewTendermint and remains vocal about Cosmos governance and vision.
Not every computer engineering graduate from a top university jumps straight into crypto and creates one of the most influential consensus technologies. But Jae Kwon is no ordinary graduate.
After graduating from Cornell and joining the robot soccer team, he took a more “established” path — working at Alexa Internet, then as a developer at Yelp. But like many people who are too smart to follow the crowd, Kwon opted to go off the beaten path.
Jae Kwon: From Consensus Breakthrough to Cross-Chain Visionary
While many developers are focused on building social or e-commerce apps, he decided to create a new consensus system. It wasn’t just for fun — it was a manifestation of his concern about the energy waste of proof-of-work systems like the one used by Bit
