# about GNO

By [Keith Alick](https://paragraph.com/@keith-alick) · 2022-08-31

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1/n Gnoland go to moon Gnoland is the first underlying blockchain (L1) project after the return of Cosmos and Tendermint co-founder Jae Kwon. The goal of the project is to build a decentralized, secure and scalable smart contract platform.

This project started with a fork of Tendermint, which you can find [here](https://github.com/gnolang/tendermint). Jae Kwon is now CEO of [NewTendermint Inc.](https://www.theblock.co/linked/135048/tendermint-changes-name-in-light-of-former-ceo-jae-kwons-new-project) which takes the name from the former Tendermint project, now called [Ignite](https://ignite.com/).

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.

Gnoland, the next generation of interoperable concurrent smart contracts created by Cosmos founder Jae Kwon, is a fork of the popular programming language Golang. Gno is deterministic, intuitive, and even better as a smart contract platform. A clear advantage of Golang compared to other languages is apparent when dealing with concurrency. While a majority of programming languages such as C++ or Java use multithreading for running concurrent programs, Go uses Goroutines.

As suggested by Jae Kwon, a dual token model that uses a fee token with a fixed-constant-inflation (not exponential as in staking tokens) will have the following advantages over a single token model:

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*Originally published on [Keith Alick](https://paragraph.com/@keith-alick/about-gno)*