# What is Gno?

By [0x3dcC8c59548a3bc43ee1F402487C8234C6c38A2C](https://paragraph.com/@brotherlouie) · 2022-09-08

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What is Gno? Gnoland is a blockchain L1 project started 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 against censorship. Gnoland is created from a Tendermint fork, which is called New Tendermint. It also comes with Gno Lang, an interpreted golang-like language to write Realms (Smart Contracts on Gno). This project started with a fork of Tendermint, which you can find here. Jae Kwon is now CEO of NewTendermint Inc. which takes the name from the former Tendermint project, now called Ignite. The goal of New Tendermint is to create a simpler version of the Tendermint framework, and use Gno as the toolbox for new Cosmos projects. This is still early stage and we should expect a lot of new communication in the future.

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