tendermint ☆

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Description:
BFT state machine replication for applications in any programming languages

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | @Tendermint | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: blockchain consensus distributed-systems bft devp2p

Install: brew install tendermint

About:
Tendermint is a Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus engine designed for replicating state machines across distributed nodes. It provides a secure and consistent application state, enabling developers to build blockchain applications without the complexity of low-level consensus protocols. It is widely used as the backbone for Cosmos SDK-based blockchains.

Key Features:

Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus
Application-agnostic state machine replication
High performance with instant finality
Pluggable application interface (ABCI)

Use Cases:

Building custom blockchains
Securing distributed ledgers
Decentralized application backends

Alternatives:

Raft – Raft is faster but only crash-fault tolerant, whereas Tendermint handles malicious nodes (Byzantine faults).
Proof-of-Work (Bitcoin/Ethereum) – Tendermint offers higher throughput and instant finality compared to the probabilistic finality of PoW chains.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 12, 2025 3:58am		0	VERSION_BUMP	e97cfa84
Sep 12, 2024 11:22pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	28891303