Gleec Goes EVM: One Account, Two Addresses

The Gleec network is preparing to launch its EVM-compatible chain - and before
it does, there is one concept worth understanding from the start: every account
on this chain has two addresses. They look nothing alike, yet they refer to
exactly the same wallet.

Built on the Evmos Stack, Powered by CometBFT

The new Gleec chain is built on the same codebase (its fork) as
Evmos - the canonical EVM-compatible
blockchain in the Cosmos ecosystem. Evmos itself is described as the flagship
implementation of evmOS, a stack for building Ethereum-compatible chains on top
of the Cosmos SDK.

Under the hood, it runs on CometBFT - the battle-tested Byzantine Fault
Tolerant consensus engine that was originally developed as Tendermint Core.

A quick note on the naming: Tendermint Core was the original consensus engine
that powered the first generation of Cosmos chains. In early 2023 it was forked
and released as CometBFT, now maintained
by Cosmos Labs, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Interchain Foundation. The core
idea remains the same - a set of validators take turns proposing blocks and vote
on them in two rounds (prevote, precommit). As long as fewer than one-third of
the voting power is faulty, the network reaches finality on every single block.
No probabilistic confirmations, no waiting for dozens of blocks - one block is
enough.

This makes Gleec fast (roughly 2-3 second block times) and final - a confirmed
transaction cannot be reversed.

Two Address Formats, One Account

Because Gleec bridges the Cosmos and Ethereum worlds, every account has
two addresses that are completely interchangeable:

EVM address - the familiar Ethereum format, a 42-character hex string
starting with 0x:

0x6BF8a7F19Af81A8503aAb46aD9F6d0177443C7Cb

Use this when interacting with smart contracts, MetaMask, or any
Ethereum-compatible tool.

Cosmos address - a bech32-encoded string with the gleec prefix:

gleec1d0u20uv6lqdg2qa2k34dnaksza6y837tzjwjc9

Use this for staking, governance, and native Cosmos SDK transactions.

Despite looking completely different, both addresses encode the same 20 bytes —
the derivation is pure math, no network required. The conversion is deterministic
and reversible: paste one format in, get the other out.

Convert Your Address

Use the tool below to convert between EVM and Cosmos formats. You can also change
the prefix field to get the equivalent address for any other Cosmos chain -
evmos, cosmos, or any other.

The exact launch date has not been announced yet. Chain testing has been
completed and the team is currently working through infrastructure preparations.
Stay tuned for official announcements on Gleec's social media channels.