Cosmoverse 2024
2024-10-21..2024-10-23
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
[Cosmoverse 2021, Cosmoverse 2022, Cosmoverse 2023, Cosmoverse 2024, Cosmoverse 2025]
who it's for
cosmos developers, blockchain engineers, crypto product managers, decentralized finance developers, enterprise architects, tokenization specialists, security engineers
topics
Cosmos IBC interoperability; Cosmos SDK app chains; CometBFT consensus integration; interchain developer experience; tokenizing real world assets; bitcoin staking on Cosmos; cross chain bridge architectures; CosmWasm smart contracting; zk paired with EVM; modular versus monolithic chains; sovereign layer one design; privacy for DePIN and payments
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Ripple meets Cosmos! | Aurelie Dhellemmes | 15m |
xrpl and Cosmos get a concrete bridge: an xrpl evm side chain launching in Q1 that uses CometBFT consensus with Tendermint fork and the Cosmos SDK, exposes EVM… | ||
| Enterprises Meet Cosmos | Brian Horn, Brian Fabian Crain, Humayun, Alexander Ebeling | 23m |
Enterprises promise concrete user scale and business cases: one telecom cites 200 million B2C users, and teams describe building permissioned to permissionless… | ||
| Bitcoin Renaissance | Fisher Yu | 15m |
Babylon releases a Bitcoin staking mainnet that makes BTC a native staking asset for PoS chains, with $1.5B staked and over $1B liquidity from more than 10… | ||
| Dubai's Web3 Transformation | Marwan Alzarouni | 10m |
Dubai commits to being a Web3 hub by embedding blockchain into government services since 2016, rolling out a UPass digital identity with Adobe‑compatible… | ||
| Token Portals: Bridging the Great Chain Divide | Sunny Aggarwal | 22m |
Polaris promises one app to trade any token across chains by aggregating aggregators (Rango, Skip, Jupiter, zerx, Alloy) and avoiding per-bridge onchain… | ||
| Mantra: Tokenize Everything | JP Mullin | 14m |
Mantra builds a purpose‑built sovereign layer‑one on Cosmos for tokenizing real‑world assets, claiming existing chains lack compliance and scalability. It… | ||
| Cosmos IBC | Gjermund Garaba | 13m |
IBC already connects 119 chains and moves about $1B 30‑day volume, and the stack shows concrete upgrades: ibc-go v9 adds native forwarding, multi‑hop and… | ||
| Habibi, come to Dubai! | Matthias Mende, Alvaro Daza | 14m |
Dubai positions itself as a practical on‑ramp: a blockchain center running security and wallet workshops, a company that relocates its HQ and says it… | ||
| Hot Takes on RWAs | Jayanth Ramanand, Ran Neu-ner | 12m |
Mantra mainnet is live after roughly four years of development and an 18‑month push, launching a module-based RWA ledger (not per-contract smart contracts), a… | ||
| IBC Everywhere! | Daniel Burckhardt, Ferran Prat, Daria Krasnova, Aurelie Dhellemmes | 24m |
Panel describes an IBC-enabled XRPL sidechain built with Cosmos SDK and EVM compatibility via Evmos, connecting XRPL’s ~$2B daily token to the Interchain’s… | ||
| Introducing Sui Network | Kostas Chalkias | 16m |
Sui introduces a Move-based chain with a built-in storage layer called Walrus (walus) as a blockchain-backed hard disk, a game-engine runtime and a new routing… | ||
| Introducing Animoca Brands | Yat Siu | 15m |
Animoca Brands explains a thesis: tokens encode measurable network effects that combine financial and application utility, creating a shared network rather… | ||
| Telekom & Cosmos: Connecting People, Empowering the Future | Alexander Ebeling, Maximilian Beyer | 14m |
Telekom claims it moved from experiments to production-grade web3 infrastructure since 2020, running validators, indexers and oracles, adding Bitcoin mining… | ||
| The Cosmos Hub | Ethan Buchman | 15m |
Cosmos Hub launches two concrete products: Forge — front end live at forge.do.cosmos.network — which enables a permissionless launch (first is the Dungeon… | ||
| Cosmos +$ATOM = The Interchain Catalyst | Carter Woetzel | 08m |
Argues that public chains leak everything and quantify harm — $675 million in MEV extracted — then shows how trusted execution environments plus Secret Network… | ||
| Bitcoin Security | Lorenzo | 19m |
Panel reports Babylon mainnet live with multiple LSTs that participated in cap1 and cap2 and together contribute 100M TVL, using a liquid staking standard now… | ||
| IBC Connected Ecosystems | Ollie Gilbey, Sankha Banerjee, Frederik Gregaard, Aurelie Dhellennes, JP Thor | 33m |
Panel lays out concrete moves: Babylon launches a trustless self-custodial Bitcoin staking mainnet with $1.6 billion BTC deposits; Thorchain commits to IBC by… | ||
| The Bitcoin Cross-Chain Era | Shashi Shekar, Louis Liu, Sunny Aggarwal | 30m |
Panelists describe a working pipeline that lets mainnet Bitcoin move into Cosmos with CK BTC custody via ICP’s on‑chain MPC/chain‑key primitive (ICP stores… | ||
| Mad, Bad and Lazy: How to ruin your Life using NFTs | Steven Kimura, Shane Vitarana, Joe Kowalski | 39m |
Panel explains concrete mechanics and results: projects mint on niche chains then bridge for liquidity using ICS-721 interchain NFTs, one collection launches… | ||
| Make DeFi Great Again! | Georges Chouchani, Mirko Schmiedl, Sunny Aggarwal, Zion Schum, Charles d'Haussy | 34m |
Panelists argue DeFi needs concrete fixes: one platform reports 225 billion USD trading volume in the past year as evidence that on‑chain markets scale… | ||
| The Cosmos-SDK | Julien Robert | 18m |
Cosmos SDK v2 roadmap shows concrete changes: Cosmos SDK v2 replaces the BasApp monolith with a state transition function (STF) API, a split runtime v2 and… | ||
| The Interchain Developer Experience | Ollie Gilbey | 17m |
Launches a 30-minute IBC tutorial that spins up a local custom chain with a name-service module and becomes the highest-impression video for the interchain… | ||
| Big Omniflix Announcement | Sistla Abhishek, Dayakar Reddy | 10m |
Omniflix unveils a self‑hosted streaming node: Omniflix Media Node is already deployed on Akash and is running the conference livestream as a proof of… | ||
| Why DeFi is getting Worse | Georges Chouchani | 10m |
Claims that liquidity fragmentation across dozens of chains is killing DeFi: competing protocols run unsustainable incentive races, users pay many fees and… | ||
| Dora Vota | Eric Zhang | 14m |
Dora Vota launches a General Anonymous M interface on dVota that packages a portable Mesay stack: an open source voter front end, operator setup scripts that… | ||
| Comet BFT | Anton Kalyaev | 12m |
Comet BFT is a battle‑tested consensus framework (consensus, p2p, ABCI) used by most Cosmos chains and claiming ~500 TPS in a 200‑node test; recent releases… | ||
| Enabling Trading for All Tokens Across All Chains | Alpin Yukseloglu | 14m |
Claims a DEX that hits 250 milliseconds or better, near-zero per-operation cost, and tens of thousands of trades per second by pushing order books off‑chain… | ||
| Integrated Applications | Avril Dutheil | 17m |
Neutron builds supervolt market-making vaults that combine high-performance on‑chain order books with an enshrined oracle per-block updates to tighten spreads… | ||
| Introducing dYdX Unlimited | Charles d'Haussy | 21m |
dYdX reports a $225B on‑chain trading history after a $1T Ethereum chapter and claims real staking payouts: ~38M USDC distributed to stakers, ~11–12% APR… | ||
| IBC coming to Cardano | Sebastian Bode | 16m |
Announces a 10‑month project that wires Cardano to Cosmos by building an app‑chain SDK on Cosmos SDK and implementing IBC incubator work including two light… | ||
| The Bull Case for BTCFi | Jeroen Develter | 21m |
Persistence deploys an intent-based swaps bridge on testnet, executing the first cross-chain transactions between Bitcoin L2s and six EVM L2s (including Base… | ||
| Bitcoin L2s | Belinda Zhou, Samy Karim, Bart Van der Voort, Sunny Aggarwal | 29m |
A new ZK rollup copies Bitcoin’s security and launches a public testnet now with mainnet slated for Q1, plus a trust‑minimized bridge that removes… | ||
| Tokenizing Real Estate | Peter Loo, Riz, Kunal Savjani, Parv Prabhakar | 19m |
Panel claims tokenization now works in practice: smart crowd already has over 10,000 investors and “tens of millions” AUM per quarter using an SPV regulated… | ||
| Bitcoin Finance | Ran Neu-ner, Sankha Banerjee, JP Thor | 30m |
Panel argues Bitcoin becomes the shared security layer while Cosmos app chains and connectors capture yield; Thought Chain claims the live system routes across… | ||
| RWA Made in Cosmos | Joshua Maddox, Jayanth Ramanand, Georgios Vlachos, Guy Tuner | 30m |
Cosmos-based stacks aim to host real-world assets with concrete wins: Provenance reports $14 billion TVL and claims ~20B of tokenized assets touch the chain in… | ||
| RWA Regulation | Irina Heaver, Anthony Day, Dyma Budorin, Chad | 31m |
Panel reframes the issue as the lack of RWA regulation and gives concrete experiments: a cybersecurity firm converts 10% of equity tokenized via Spanish SPV… | ||
| RWAs or the Lack therof | CJ Fond | 18m |
Claims that tokenizing bonds or equities changes nothing for retail because accredited investor limits force the same minimums, shows tokenized treasuries… | ||
| The Supercloud | Greg Osuri | 16m |
Akash runs a marketplace that schedules containerized workloads on underutilized servers where providers bid to fulfill orders, claiming a decentralized… | ||
| AI Made in Cosmos | Greg Osuri, Murthy Vitwit, Valery Litvin, Dean Tribble | 35m |
Cosmos panel lays out concrete work: Akash runs permissionless GPU rental and claims it already hosts distributed training efforts (examples cited include a 10… | ||
| The Zero Trust Bitcoin Platform | Robert Zaremba | 19m |
Claims a zero trust architecture for Bitcoin by combining IBC full verifiability with MPC/2PC signing so custodyless cross‑chain transfers verify on‑chain… | ||
| Bitcoin: From Renaissance to Revolution | Mihailo Bjelic, Nic Puckrin, Fisher Yu | 21m |
Babylon reports $30 million in a single deposit and roughly 22,000–23,000 stakers, claiming BTC can become a first‑class staking asset without losing… | ||
| Hydro: What's in it for me? | Mitya, Vishal Talasani, Metodi Manov, Ethan Buchman | 21m |
Hydro auctions Hub ATOM to protocols that bid for temporary liquidity, with a pilot offering one-month pilot loans and requiring bids in ATOM that may be… | ||
| Cosmology's New Consumer Chain | Dan Lynch | 18m |
Announces a concrete stack that converts chain protocols into usable frontends: Telescope reads on‑chain protobufs and generates a unified SDK, Interchain JS… | ||
| CosmWasm | Simon Warta | 22m |
CosmWasm v2 (released earlier this year) runs Rust WASM contracts that connect to IBC and the Cosmos SDK, adds optional and asynchronous acknowledgements for… | ||
| Introducing Midnight | Anthony Day | 17m |
Midnight presents a concrete architecture that keeps sensitive data on-device and publishes only ZK proofs to smart contracts, claiming this send proofs not… | ||
| Introducing Quasar | Valentin Pletnev | 13m |
Quasar claims it will replace spot ownership by issuing a Layer Staked Asset (LSA): a liquid vault share that auto‑deploys across staking, DEX, and… | ||
| Cosmos Hub in 2025 | Mitya, Noam Cohen, Joni Z, Ethan Buchman, Carter Woetzel | 28m |
Panel describes concrete 2025 plans: turn the Hub into a service layer that makes chain launch trivial, with Halo helps launch light chains, Forge for… | ||
| Launch everything on $ATOM | Milos Brajovic, Noam Cohen, Vishal Talasani | 33m |
Forge now boots chains from a single transaction and can bootstrap validators, dramatically cutting setup steps — Forge simplifies bootstrap. Hydra, a planned… | ||
| DeFi 2.0 | Mayur Relekar, Ben Weiss, Jeet Raut, Kseniia, Kamen Trendafilov | 34m |
Panelists argue DeFi 2.0 fixes liquidity fragmentation by building cross‑chain bridges, account‑level aggregation (users spend assets across chains without… | ||
| Modular vs. Monolithic | Anurag Arjun, Mustafa Al Bassam, 0xMert, Charles d'Haussy | 52m |
Panel argues modular means separating consensus from execution and enabling rollups and app chains while monolithic/integrated chains keep more in-house… | ||
| DePIN & Privacy | Zac Winstrom, Zach Horn, Antonio Pitasi | 28m |
Panel argues that a working decentralized compute marketplace already surfaces H100-class GPUs at lower cost and on-demand, enabling smaller AI teams… | ||
| Bitcoin: From Renaissance to Revolution | Nic Puckrin, Mihailo Bjelic, Fisher Yu | 26m |
Babylon launches a self‑custodial Bitcoin staking protocol that sees unexpected demand — a $30 million single deposit and roughly 22–23,000 stakers sign up —… | ||
| Introducing Arka Network | Murthy Vitwit | 22m |
Arka Network presents a decentralized AI execution layer and agent marketplace that claims a verifiable AI execution engine with proof of inference and aims… | ||
| Superintelligence | Valery Litvin | 16m |
2018-founded project launches the Bostrom bootloader (live since 2021) and a Moon Network State with ~30,000 passports, runs a bare-metal GPU network of 80+… | ||
| Cosmos +$ATOM = The Interchain Catalyst | Carter Woetzel | 14m |
Cosmos reports $40B total market cap, 100+ chains and roughly $1B monthly IBC volume while hub metrics show 20–150k monthly active accounts and a $45M… | ||
| Zk x EVM | Antoni Zoiciak, Karel Kubat, Sandeep Nailwal | 25m |
Union describes a bridge that uses client-side ZK proving to cut destination gas by about 90% gas reduction versus light‑client verification, reports an… | ||
| Is Cosmos Dead? | Joniz, Zac Wickstrom, Cosmos Hoss, Candice Teo | 29m |
Cosmos registers roughly $1B IBC volume and rising dev activity, but growth concentrates on chains and infra rather than consumer apps. Builders ship app… | ||
| Introduction to Tangled NFTs | Nestor Jnr Sanchez | 12m |
A creator launches Cosmic Cats (one of the first MP4 NFT drops on Cosmos) and a flagship trading card game IBC launched May 2022, which runs 14 players in the… | ||
| Introducing CryptoDungeon | Lee Berman | 11m |
Two and a half years of grassroots work yields a playable early build of Cosmic Quest: a mobile RPG that uses mutable NFTs on Stargaze to store character… | ||
| nothing matches | ||