Rebus is a sovereign public blockchain in the Cosmos ecosystem, aiming to provide an environment for the deployment of interoperable smart contracts. The network serves as a decentralized, permissionless & censorship resistant avenue for developers to efficiently and securely launch smart contracts using standard frameworks. Rebus blockchain is built using the Cosmos SDK framework. A generalized framework that simplifies the process of building secure blockchain applications on top of Tendermint BFT. It is based on two major principles: Modularity & capabilities-based security.REBUS, the native coin of the Rebus chain which carries a variety of use cases within the ecosystem, including:Securing the proof-of-stake networkOn-chain governance, for the Community fund pool and the Ethical fund pool.Used to pay for all the transactions, services and fees from all the dapps hosted on the Rebus chain.