COSMOS HUB
The tender mint engine is the part of the network that allows developers to build blockchains without having to code them from scratch. Think of having to develop a website off from a code that you don't know but a company like Shopify or wix.com where you can drag and drop applications. The software that Atom uses is larger and it essentially allows a network to build a bunch of codes that already exist. The end goal for the long term is that complex applications with be straightforward to build because of how the blockchain infrastructure was created.
The could less and most important feature of Atom is going to be the Cosmos hub. This hub allows the blockchain network to communicate with each other and is also known as interoperability. One of the most bull reasons and the little thing that they do is the fact that they are best known for their interoperability solutions in connecting multiple layers 1 blockchain. The Cosmos hub especially manages several other independent blockchains and access central legal for the entire system that allows anything you can think of happening on one blockchain to happen on another one.
Atom has the potential to become an infrastructure layer within the overall crypto industry to help facilitate the exchange of value and information between several blockchains. Atom and Cosmos are all about unity in the blockchain world and if you believe in the future of unity in the blockchain world, then Atom is a project you might want to check out.