Cosmoverse 2023
2023-10-02..2023-10-04
Istanbul, Turkey
[Cosmoverse 2021, Cosmoverse 2022, Cosmoverse 2023, Cosmoverse 2024, Cosmoverse 2025]
who it's for
cosmos SDK developers, decentralized finance builders, validator and operator teams, wallet and onboarding engineers, interoperability and relayer engineers, web3 media and NFT creators, enterprise blockchain product leads
topics
interchain security and staking; IBC on Ethereum via TEEs; Bitcoin header anchoring for Cosmos; offchain computed vaults; modular wallet stack and SDKs; interchain NFTs and IC-721; Polygon CDK and ZK prover aggregation; comBLS consensus for Tendermint; atomic IBC and mega block proposals; validator management and tooling; enterprise eIDAS document workflows; ATOM tokenomics and staking role
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| How Often do you think about the Cosmos Hub? | Ethan Buchman | 20m |
Cosmos Hub is repositioned as a security and capital layer: interchain security is live in a replicated form and more modes (opt‑in, mesh) are planned, a… | ||
| Unlocking 21M Bitcoins for Cosmos | Fisher Yu | 18m |
A protocol publishes Cosmos chain headers onto Bitcoin to create succinct, provable timestamps and claims to remove long‑range attacks while cutting stake… | ||
| A Vision for Decentralized Financial Systems | Charles d'Haussy | 20m |
A new Cosmos SDK-based dydx chain runs a customized order-book rollup, with a testnet recording 5 million+ transactions on testnet and block times near 1.6… | ||
| The Future of Interchain NFTs | Shane Vitarana | 17m |
Stargaze reports 1 million NFTs minted, ~$16M total sales, creators earning ~$9M and daily chain revenue ≈$2k, and a top collection up 10x. Built pieces… | ||
| A Case for Governators | Josh Lee | 22m |
Proposal to add a new on-chain role called a governator that decouples block production from governance representation, letting stakers opt to assign one… | ||
| IBC Gets Ready to Land on Ethereum | Daiki Ishikawa | 17m |
Announces a working path to run IBC with Ethereum by running an Ethereum light client inside a TEE-based light client enclave to compress verification cost… | ||
| Web3-first Media Distribution & Monetization | Sistla Abhishek, Daya | 26m |
OmniFlix describes a production-ready web3 media stack: Cosmos SDK migration to v0.47, IC-721 interoperable NFTs and the xNFT / nft-transfer modules, Wasm… | ||
| Introducing Union | Karel Kubat | 15m |
Union builds a trustless bridge between Tendermint chains, Ethereum, Bitcoin and rollups using zero‑knowledge proofs and state verification to open… | ||
| Quasar: Improving Cosmos DeFi | Laurens Kubat | 16m |
Quasar claims it already manages $2.7M managed in concentrated liquidity and can execute the same swap on under $1M of capital using roughly a tenth the… | ||
| Introducing Leap Wallet | Sanjeev Rao | 17m |
Leap Wallet presents a concrete roadmap: a modular wallet stack that unbundles wallet features into SDKs and plug‑and‑play front‑ends, plus specific components… | ||
| Polygon 2.0 | Matt Blumberg | 16m |
Polygon describes a modular ZK stack: a Polygon CDK with a fast prover, a ZKVM alternative to the EVM and DA on Ethereum, powering eight ZK layer‑2s in… | ||
| Introducing Commercio Network | Enrico Talin | 16m |
Commercio Network describes a live enterprise Cosmos chain bootstrapped by 100 companies as validators and customers since 2018, which implements legally… | ||
| IBC is coming to Ethereum! | 0xBrainjar | 19m |
Composable announces live testnet bridging Cosmos to Ethereum using two IBC connections outside Cosmos and a ZK light client design that targets cost and speed… | ||
| Stride: Proposal to Merge with the Cosmos Hub | Vishal Talasani | 12m |
Stride launches Sept 4 last year and ships a Liquid Staking Module that lets users convert ATOM to stATOM immediately, with a 25% cap safety limit; the chain… | ||
| OKP4: Unlocking Off-Chain Coordination | Théo Pelliet | 17m |
OKP4 claims to be a first settlement layer for offchain workflows that references off‑chain data, algorithms and compute while enforcing rules on‑chain with a… | ||
| Celestia’s Strategy to Defend Cosmos | Yaz Khoury | 19m |
Argues Cosmos suffers internal fragmentation, mercenary validators and costly consensus that slow app‑chain growth and produce chain stalls; proposes a… | ||
| Circle & Noble Special Announcement at Cosmoverse 2023 | Jonathan ly | 12m |
Announcement shows CCTP live on Noble testnet and promises mainnet later this month, with a demo moving 1,337 USDC from Avalanche to Noble via Metamask and… | ||
| Polkadot X Cosmos | Radha Dasari | 22m |
Polkadot and Cosmos claim interoperable multi-chain futures and show concrete mechanics: both networks have ~17 million blocks, Polkadot runs ~297 validators… | ||
| Stablecoins & Use Cases | Zaki Manian, Shamus Noonan, Greg Osuri, David Gogel, Samantha Yap | 29m |
Circle announces native USDC on Cosmos and commits CCTP and minting infrastructure; dYdX moves to an app chain where perpetuals settled in USDC will run… | ||
| Launching the Nyx Cosmos Blockchain | Harry Halpin | 20m |
Nym runs an IBC-enabled Cosmos app chain called NYX that coordinates a live, incentivized mixnet claiming resistance to NSA-level packet correlation… | ||
| Democratizing Access to Financial Opportunity | Nathan Cha | 14m |
dYdX announces V4 as a standalone Cosmos L1 moving off StarkWare ZK rollups to a Tendermint/CometBFT chain built with the Cosmos SDK and Go node binary… | ||
| Building Software for a Modular Future | Marko Baricevic | 21m |
Roadmap commits to evolving the Cosmos SDK into a true toolkit rather than a single monolith: keep Go, avoid a full rewrite, and ship SDK v1 target H1 2025… | ||
| Cross-chain Interoperability | Jack Zampolin | 27m |
Panelists outline a concrete IBC road map: push adoption across ecosystems, ship a stable Rust client and a third-language implementation, and prove IBC over… | ||
| Interchain Foundation Supporting the Interchain | Brian Fabian Crain | 20m |
Interchain Foundation reports $283 million assets and funds core stack work — IBC (IBC-go), Cosmos SDK, CometBFT, interchain security — plus programs like the… | ||
| Stride to merge with Cosmos Hub? | Ethan Buchman, Zaki Manian, Cryptocito, Thyborg | 21m |
Panel outlines a concrete plan to fold Stride into the Cosmos Hub: burn Stride tokens and replace with ATOM via newly provisioned atom, coupled to vesting… | ||
| Crescent FLIP : Disrupt Tradfi Derivatives | Hyung Yeon Lee | 19m |
Cresent FLIP claims options beat futures and targets fast, gamified intraday derivatives for young traders, citing startling comparisons: 15 million Indian… | ||
| The Rise of the AEZ Panel | Jelena Djuric, Riley Edmunds, Avril Dutheil, Shi Khai Wei, Sebastien Couture | 34m |
Panel defines the ATOM Economic Zone as a subset of Cosmos aligned by contractual replicated security, not mere token usage, with Neutron returning ~25%… | ||
| Validator Management Made Simple | Michael Greenberg | 18m |
Allnodes presents a noncustodial validator management system that runs ~45,000 nodes across 80 protocols (30 Cosmos chains) and holds ~$2B AUM, offering a… | ||
| The Future of Terra | Chris Amani | 19m |
Terra lays out concrete products and timelines: a 2‑year R&D rebuild of the chain (Project Quill) to be Cosmos/IBC compatible, a months‑away wallet relaunch… | ||
| The JavaScript Odyssey | Dean Tribble | 25m |
Agoric ships a JavaScript smart‑contract platform on Cosmos SDK with a hardened JavaScript VM and a Zoe framework for escrow, trading and composable on‑chain… | ||
| IBC Roadmap | Jack Zampolin | 20m |
Strange Love lays out an action plan: shipping a fee grant relayer feature that sends many transactions per block to boost throughput, a high-performance… | ||
| Making $ATOM Interchain Capital | David Rodriguez, Ethan Buchman | 22m |
Argues ATOM needs a fixed supply schedule instead of bond-linked inflation, moving to ~3% target inflation by 2026–27 and a ~1.5% tail emission; proposes a… | ||
| Quasar: The Interchain Yield Hub | Valentin Pletnev | 17m |
Quasar claims to be the interchain yield hub and spells that out with concrete builds: a first IBC-enabled yield aggregator, launched CL Vaults and a CL Vault… | ||
| The Interchain Account Hub | Sunny Aggarwal | 26m |
Osmosis implements native smart accounts that can originate transactions (no off‑chain bundlers), let legacy EOAs upgrade to multiple authenticators (K1… | ||
| Accelerating the Cosmos Hub | Youssef Amrani | 21m |
The ATOM Accelerator DAO wins 588,000 ATOM from the community pool and launches a grant program that receives 197 applications, accepts 26, and spends $2.5M so… | ||
| Validator Panel | Josh Heller, Dan Bryan, John Park, Steve Ngok, Thalita Franklin | 26m |
Multiple validators report concrete scale and tooling: one operator now runs ~75 proof‑of‑stake protocols, Strangelove supports ~20 networks, Dora Factory… | ||
| Community Building in the Web3 Era Panel | Avril Dutheil, Daria Chernozub, Danny Lim, Adam Wozney | 30m |
Panel lays out concrete moves: launch community grants (15 local ICP hubs created in 3–4 months, uploader claims “significant results”), run study groups to… | ||
| Web3 Gaming Panel | Liam Connor | 35m |
Chain and UX work are both underway: XPLA on Cosmos SDK launched in Aug 2021 (Tendermint/Cosmos), MPC-style wallets are "months away," and teams are building a… | ||
| BNB Chain Leveraging the Cosmos SDK | Rumeel Hussain, Marko Baricevic | 25m |
BNB Chain uses the Cosmos SDK for staking, governance and a new decentralized storage layer—BNB Greenfield mainnet soon—while BNB Smart Chain runs an EVM fork… | ||
| Shared Security Panel | Jehan Trembeck, Sam Hart, Hlib Kanunnikov, Fisher Yu | 24m |
Panel compares concrete shared security mechanisms and tradeoffs: replicated security clones the Cosmos Hub validator set so consumer chains get full execution… | ||
| Enterprises Meet Cosmos | W. M. Kraus, Adilah Hussien, Esra Özdemir, Juri Maibaum | 25m |
Enterprises describe concrete moves into Cosmos: a telecom offers 60 million assets under management across six protocols and provides validator/staking… | ||
| User Onboarding in Turkiye | Efe Bulduk, Volkan Korkmaz, Sevcan Dedeoglu, Mustafa Aksöz | 26m |
Panel discusses user onboarding for blockchain and crypto in Türkiye, with participants from Altcointurk, FirstBatch and Gate.io and moderator Mustafa Aksöz… | ||
| Cosmos DeFi in 2024 | Sunny Aggarwal, Valentin Pletnev, Hyung Yeon Lee | 31m |
A Cosmos Hub proposal asks for a 900k ATOM allocation into the stATOM pool on Osmosis with 90% in a 1–1.3 static range and 10% placed into a Quasar vault… | ||
| ATOM Tokenomics Fireside Chat | Noam Cohen, Chris Berg, Bendy | 33m |
Three research teams present modular fixes: an ATOM alignment treasury that turns the community pool into a vehicle for voting, protocol‑owned liquidity and… | ||
| Smart Money Panel at Cosmoverse 2023 | Sima Baktas, Michael Perklin | 24m |
Panelists compare hard numbers and concrete pilots: one investor reports $2 billion deployed in crypto and later-stage, large-ticket deals; a fund describes a… | ||
| Modular Privacy for the Interchain | Park Feierbach | 17m |
Namada provides an asset-agnostic anonymity set via a multi-asset shielded pool that claims privacy across IBC-connected chains by turning deposited tokens… | ||
| Mars Protocol: Awakening the Sleeping Giant in DeFi | Davide De Micco | 35m |
Mars Protocol introduces credit accounts that let any on‑chain asset — tokens, LPs, LSDs — act as collateral and cross‑collateralization across positions… | ||
| The Cosmos Development Platform | Jesse Chung | 21m |
Newmetric bills itself as an end‑to‑end Cosmos development platform with two products: Misa is a high‑performance, elastic RPC cluster claiming up to million… | ||
| Introducing Artela | Jerry Li | 15m |
A new Cosmos SDK L1 that runs EVM + WASM VMs and adds an "aspect" programming unit to inject logic at transaction stages, claiming runtime customization and… | ||
| Nomic Blockchain Launch | Matt Bell | 14m |
Nomic launches a Cosmos-native Bitcoin bridge that turns BTC into nBTC while preserving on-chain Bitcoin ownership; it runs a fully verifying bridge with a… | ||
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