Cosmos Tendermint Labs Director Resigns Due To Untenable CEO

The Cosmos Tendermint which is the core contributor to the Cosmos blockchain, had its lead labs director Zaki Manian resigning from his position as we are reading further in the Cosmos news below.

Manian tweeted before about his discontent with the Cosmos Tendermint CEO Jae Kwon saying that the co-founder was ‘’obsessively focused on Virgo while neglecting and under-resourcing IBC, threw a painstakingly planned hiring and resource improvement proposal out the window to become @bitcoinJaesus.’’

He said that the CEO was conducting with untenable distraction but Manian intends to work with Cosmos still saying:

 “There are people inside the company that want to portray this as a power struggle between me and Jae, and this as an outcome and me threatening x, y and z. But it was really me saying I don’t see a way in this arrangement to get the work done. And the best way to get the work done was for me to leave.”

Tendermint has not commented yet on this high profile departure. The vision of the company was to create open networks in order to manage conflict and empower people to align with the universal goals to enact further positive societal and environmental change which seems to have come unbearable at the workplace. However, it does have more than 100 projects in the Cosmos and Tendermint ecosystems since the Tendermint protocol is an interoperability network on which Cosmos was built.

How will the lead developer’s leave impact Cosmos and the relationship between the two networks, is yet to be seen. Previously, The Cosmos CEO and co-founder Jae Kwon revealed in a series of tweets that he will be stepping down from his role at Cosmos in order to work on another project.

His decision doesn’t mean that he will be abandoning the project at all but that he will step down once his transitions plans get finalized so he can serve as a council member of the ICF. He said he won’t be leaving even though the project is doing well without him he said that he will focus on Virgo in order to bring more people to the Cosmos ecosystem while helping Cosmos remain a sub-mission. Virgo is a foundation that wants to provide the world with the best open collaboration technology.