About Osmosis

Osmosis (OSMO) is a decentralized exchange (DEX) for Cosmos, an ecosystem of sovereign, interoperable blockchains all connected trustlessly over IBC, the Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol. Osmosis also offers non-IBC assets bridged from the Ethereum and Polkadot ecosystems.

As an appchain DEX, Osmosis has greater control over the full blockchain stack than DEXs that must follow the code of a parent chain. This fine-grained control has enabled, for example, the development of Superfluid Staking, an improvement to Proof-of-Stake security.

Osmosis’s vision is to build a cross-chain native DEX and trading suite that connects all chains over IBC, including Ethereum and Bitcoin.

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How is Lava supporting Osmosis?

Developers on our private testnet will now be able to access Osmosis RPC endpoint supported by Lava Protocol. Osmosis RPC endpoints are used by developers to fetch data from Osmosis, without needing to run their own nodes, use rate-limited public endpoints or rely on centralized providers.

Here’s a sneak peek of how developers are able to generate an Osmosis RPC endpoint within the Lava Gateway. In the future, Lava will facilitate RPC access through a permissionless, open-source SDK:

We are onboarding developers and you can apply for our testnet now via our Discord.

The benefits of Lava RPC

By decentralizing RPC, Lava offers many benefits for developers:

• Decentralized redundancy for high uptime - By being connected to multiple leading RPC providers, apps benefit from 99.99% uptime. The protocol also rewards providers according to their latency, freshness, and availability.
• Open-Source - Lava is open-source and transparent, shortening the procurement process for apps looking to integrate. Anyone can also contribute to the protocol and the appchain, so developers can verify that the network is secure and reliable.
• Private relays -  Relay requests are routed per epoch to a random and constantly shuffled list of providers, so any user RPC queries going through the network cannot be profiled.
• Maximum Scalability - Lava incentivizes network redundancy and runs on a highly scalable appchain, so your app can handle high periods of traffic.
• Consensus-Based Data Integrity - Data accuracy, consistency and freshness are preserved by a consensus mechanism which detects and resolves conflicts. Poor service or attempts to manipulate data are caught and disincentivized, with providers staking and signing responses so that they can held accountable.
• Any Chain, Any API - Change your configuration to access any chain and any API served by the network.