Berachain is a high-performance, scalable, EVM-equivalent smart-contract and cross chain interoperability platform. Berachain is an EVM-compatible layer one blockchain, built using the Cosmos SDK, and secured by the novel Proof-of-Liquidity Consensus Protocol. Berachain’s current implementation is built on the Cosmos-SDK and utilizes its native consensus mechanism Tendermint. Tendermint is trusted, high performant and most important secure implementation of Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus. As of today, over 150 billion USD of assets are secured in Tendermint based chains and it is one of the most battle-tested and production ready consensus frameworks on the market.