Gnoland is a blockchain L1 project launched in 2020 by Jae Kwon, co-founder of Cosmos and Tendermint. Its goal is to create a decentralized, secure and scalable smart contract platform for people to create important applications, especially for censorship. Gnoland was created from a fork of Tendermint called New Tendermint. It also comes with Gno Lang, an interpreted golang-like language for writing Realms (smart contracts on Gno). Gnolang is the language for writing smart contracts called Realms on Gnoland. You can think of it as an interpreted version of Golang: developers upload their domain sources to the chain and GnoVM executes its AST interpretation. This way Gnoland pushes full transparency, as it forces developers to push their source code instead of compiled bytecode. Gnolang will also introduce multi-threading (e.g. go routines and channels) in smart contract development. The main token for Gnoland is $GNOT (Gno token), which is usually used with ugnot on-chain units. The first use case for the token will be to pay transaction fees and reward verifiers. Since Gnoland is still in the beta network, the tokens are not yet live, but there have been some token distributions in the origins of the new test2 beta network. Token distribution is still ongoing and may change before the main network is launched. Another token called $GNOSH (Gno Shares) will be used to reward contributors with a mechanism called Proof of Contribution, which is still being defined. The $GNOSH will be obtained through a bounty and distributed to contributors. Transaction fees will be distributed between the verifier and the $GNOSH holder. The more $GNOSH you earn, the larger your percentage of the contributor pool. While contributors will not lose $GNOSH, they will be diluted each time a new $GNOSH is distributed. We believe Jae Kwon is building Gnoland to introduce a high-performance blockchain capable of running smart contracts that takes full advantage of Golang and the advanced hardware of modern computers.

Gnoland is a blockchain L1 project launched in 2020 by Jae Kwon, co-founder of Cosmos and Tendermint. Its goal is to create a decentralized, secure and scalable smart contract platform for people to create important applications, especially for censorship. Gnoland was created from a fork of Tendermint called New Tendermint. It also comes with Gno Lang, an interpreted golang-like language for writing Realms (smart contracts on Gno). Gnolang is the language for writing smart contracts called Realms on Gnoland. You can think of it as an interpreted version of Golang: developers upload their domain sources to the chain and GnoVM executes its AST interpretation. This way Gnoland pushes full transparency, as it forces developers to push their source code instead of compiled bytecode. Gnolang will also introduce multi-threading (e.g. go routines and channels) in smart contract development. The main token for Gnoland is $GNOT (Gno token), which is usually used with ugnot on-chain units. The first use case for the token will be to pay transaction fees and reward verifiers. Since Gnoland is still in the beta network, the tokens are not yet live, but there have been some token distributions in the origins of the new test2 beta network. Token distribution is still ongoing and may change before the main network is launched. Another token called $GNOSH (Gno Shares) will be used to reward contributors with a mechanism called Proof of Contribution, which is still being defined. The $GNOSH will be obtained through a bounty and distributed to contributors. Transaction fees will be distributed between the verifier and the $GNOSH holder. The more $GNOSH you earn, the larger your percentage of the contributor pool. While contributors will not lose $GNOSH, they will be diluted each time a new $GNOSH is distributed. We believe Jae Kwon is building Gnoland to introduce a high-performance blockchain capable of running smart contracts that takes full advantage of Golang and the advanced hardware of modern computers.