Cosmoverse 2025
2025-10-30..2025-11-01
Split, Croatia
[Cosmoverse 2021, Cosmoverse 2022, Cosmoverse 2023, Cosmoverse 2024, Cosmoverse 2025]
who it's for
blockchain protocol engineers, fintech and institutional product managers, crypto infrastructure operators (validators and node operators), decentralized finance developers, security engineers, compliance and legal teams (AML/KYC specialists), AI and ML engineers for web3
topics
digital euro and CBDC integration; tokenized capital markets and RWAs; Cosmos SDK EVM compatibility; inter-blockchain communication (IBC) rails; on-chain orderbook performance tuning; device-to-device offline payments; trusted execution environments for LLMs; cross-border stablecoin payment rails; privacy-preserving smart contracts; mesh security and EU compliance
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The Digital Euro in the Age of On-Chain Finance | Jürgen Schaaf, Linardo Martinčević, Maghnus Mareneck, Ivan Vrdoljak | 30m |
European central banks expect a realistic 2029 launch but require co-legislators to finish a legal framework first, then ~2.5–3 years of technical work… | ||
| The Future of Payments | Andrius Bičeika, Ivan Vrdoljak | 23m |
Revolut reports ~66–67 million users, 1+ million merchants and moves ~$1T of volume last year (maybe ~$2T this year), and argues that growth comes from… | ||
| Autonomous Everything: AI, Agents & Mobility | Alex Zaildelson, Peter Busch, Antonio Peric, Ivan Zhelev | 26m |
Claim that Secret Network runs a confidential smart contract mainnet since 2020 and already runs LLMs inside trusted execution environments (Intel/NVIDIA TEEs)… | ||
| Building Trust in Tokenized Markets | Sima Baktas, Dr. Bernhard Kronfellner, Anina Milanović, Ivan Vrdoljak | 29m |
Serbia implements a flexible token law (2020–21) with a 3 million issuance threshold and regulatory pre‑approval that yields ten approved white papers — nine… | ||
| How CBDCs and Stablecoins Redefine Monetary Sovereignty | Erwin Voloder, Nikola Škorić, Maximilian Pfeifer, Roberto Cassa | 28m |
Europe plans a retail Digital Euro (2029) while a wholesale bridge called Pontes pilot end of next year aims to tokenise central‑bank money for capital… | ||
| Imagination and Vision: where small dreams have no place | Dragan Primorac | 55m |
Claims rapid, concrete wins: develops DNA extraction and matching methods that yield the first DNA identification of skeletal remains (1996) to return bodies… | ||
| Cosmos: Powering the New Era of Global Finance | Maghnus Mareneck | 24m |
Claims that Cosmos now underpins enterprise finance with over 200 chains, ~$70 billion market cap on Cosmos-based chains and ~$1 billion 30-day IBC volume… | ||
| The Cosmos Stack: The Road Ahead, and the Opportunity for Builders | Barry Plunkett | 18m |
Cosmos Labs lays out a concrete roadmap: networking + parallel execution to hit 10,000 TPS benchmarks already demonstrated by tuned chains, a new tokenization… | ||
| The Hub and ATOM: Powering the New Economy | Nico Poggi | 22m |
Cosmos Hub and ATOM get reframed as infrastructure: a neutral interoperability layer that supports CBDC and stablecoin rails, an asset issuance platform (token… | ||
| From Stack to Speed: Engineering High-Performance Trading | Jeongho Yeo | 15m |
Claims that the Cosmos stack — CometBFT, Cosmos SDK, Cosmos EVM — already powers an ultra‑fast, fully on‑chain orderbook that runs live high‑frequency… | ||
| Beyond the EVM: How the Cosmos SDK Brings New Features to Ethereum | Vlad Jidkov | 11m |
Cosmos EVM on the Cosmos SDK claims full Ethereum compatibility while letting teams spin up an EVM chain in minutes with node ownership, customizable gas and… | ||
| Inside the XRPL EVM: 100 Days on Mainnet | Ferran Prat | 16m |
A sovereign Cosmos EVM sidechain launches with XRP as native gas and runs 100 days on mainnet, using Cosmos EVM, Blockscout, Big Dipper, GoldSky indexer… | ||
| Building the Future of RWAs on Cosmos: The ZIGChain Approach | Abdul Rafay Gadit | 15m |
ZIGChain launches a Cosmos sovereign chain mainnet one month ago and already shows organic traction with mainnet live, $20M TVL. The project provides an open… | ||
| Why Japan's Financial Institutions Demand IBC | Daiki Ishikawa | 13m |
Japanese banks and securities firms are already wiring real deployments that stitch SWIFT APIs to IBC for bank-to-bank cross-border payment and a bespoke… | ||
| Cronos’s Golden Age of On-Chain Dominance | Leslie Cheung | 16m |
Cronos claims a production stack of a Cosmos SDK layer zero plus an EVM layer handling 0.5s block times and subsecond confirmations, 100 validators, and 100%… | ||
| Building the Future of Intelligent Infrastructure | Vincent Chui | 15m |
Lumera builds a Cosmos layer‑1 that combines Cascade storage shards—files split into thousands of overlapping, redundantly replicated pieces with automated… | ||
| Thinking Hard is not Enough | Ivan Gavran | 15m |
Claim: thinking hard alone fails for complex blockchains, so a spec-first workflow pairs formal specs with executable checks. Quint uses temporal-logic-style… | ||
| The Future of Staking is AI | Elay Carmon | 12m |
Polli.co builds an AI yield optimizer that sits between wallet and validator, noncustodial and automating redelegations and real‑time compounding. Claims: up… | ||
| The AI Keys to the Multi-Chain | Dean Tribble | 17m |
Agoric demonstrates that orchestration contracts plus chain abstraction let AI propose multi‑chain DeFi moves while smart contracts enforce strict guardrails… | ||
| RIV Chain: Internet of Validations | Enrico Talin | 15m |
RIV Chain claims a purpose-built, quantum-resistant ZK blockchain that turns off‑chain assertions into tamper‑proof receipts verified on chain; it verifies… | ||
| Capital Markets in a Digital Era | Miroljub Ristić | 14m |
Frontier markets lose capital because settlement frictions, fragmented regulation, and failed regional integrations (four to five attempts like T-Rex) scare… | ||
| Institutional Tokenization: Are we ready to scale? | Miroljub Ristić, Marina Markezic, Filip Saravanja, Rupert Pickering | 28m |
Institutions aim to move securities on-chain to cut chains of intermediaries (typically two or three global custodians), use stablecoins as a settlement layer… | ||
| What DeFi Needs to Grow Up | Filip Saravanja, Daniel Schrader, Federico Tocanne, Tashina Jackson | 27m |
Regulation remains fragmented and unpredictable, so the panel argues for legal and enforcement certainty and staged rulemaking rather than blanket bans… | ||
| Orchestrating Yield: What DeFi Should Look Like in the Multi-Chain World | Dean Tribble | 17m |
Agoric ships YMAX – Yield Maximizer, a cross‑chain command center that automates capital flows between Base, Arbitrum and Avalanche, creating on‑chain… | ||
| Crossing Chains, Losing Gains | Philip Offtermatt | 15m |
Claim: crossing chains often erodes on-chain yield unless fund management is natively cross-chain and verifiable. Hydro builds Inflow, a cross-chain… | ||
| Crypto Wallets and Mass Adoption | Maryna Nesterenko | 09m |
Trustee reports 1 million users in three years, built a custodial product called Trustee Plus that adds IBANs, fiat balances, a crypto card with Apple Pay and… | ||
| On-Chain Truth: Why Prediction Markets Are Crypto’s Killer App | Ali Habbabeh | 09m |
Prediction markets claim to deliver truth on chain by making people risk money rather than voice opinions, and historically they outperform polls (the speaker… | ||
| Bitcoin in Motion | Nikola Škorić, Zoran Balkic, Ivana Drijle, Michael Cito | 31m |
Panel details heavy operational history: early mining runs ~200,000 miners across hundreds of megawatts and supported 28–29 coins, serving several million… | ||
| The Rise of Bitcoin Finance | Robert Zaremba, Rupert Pickering | 26m |
Panelists argue Bitcoin is moving from speculation to plumbing: ETFs hold 1.3 million BTC while only 1.1% of BTC is used in DeFi, so the work is at the access… | ||
| Mad and Bad (II) | Ivan Titov, Joe Kowalski | 28m |
Bad Kids adds wallet login and alternate PFP variants (black & white) while Mad Scientists runs deployed yield strategies including a Neutron farm tied to… | ||
| Designing the Next Monetary Layer | Mykolas Majauskas, Roger H. Hartmann, Dejan Davidovic, Robby Schwertner | 27m |
European firms pursue MiCA licenses while struggling to open bank accounts so they convert incoming euros into euro stablecoins to safeguard customer funds… | ||
| Financial flows, sanctions and sovereignty | Ilija Rilakovic, İrem Yıldız, Sime Jozipovic | 20m |
Serbia reports 10 token emissions approved by the securities regulator, of which nine are digital bonds, and three centralized exchanges hold licenses (one not… | ||
| From E-Money to On-chain Euros | Jón Helgi Egilsson, Roger H. Hartmann, Guido Rocco, Artem Sinyakin | 27m |
Claims that a licensed euro stablecoin handled 54% of euro volume last year and that a new Layer‑1 on Cosmos ships this year with a hybrid collateral model set… | ||
| AI for Web3 Security: Real-World Use Cases — Dr. Stefan Beyer | Dr. Stefan Beyer | 14m |
Company uses AI to speed audits with a co-pilot model that runs LLMs (GPT‑4 class) for surface scanning, code comprehension, fuzzing and report drafting… | ||
| When Institutional Money Flows on-chain | Robby Schwertner, Andrea Calandruccio, Ivana Drjle, Matteo Branchetti | 25m |
Institutions connect to on‑chain yield via ETFs, robo‑advisors and custodian-to‑DeFi plumbing that uses MPC/HSM key management and custody partners to access… | ||
| Bridging the Cosmos Ecosystem to its Institutional Future | Daniel Schrader | 13m |
Finoa presents concrete progress: a regulated custody plus staking arm running validators with 2 billion assets under delegation, a launched stake desk UI for… | ||
| The Modular Future of Ethereum | Michael Zaikin, Nhu Viet Nguyen, Vlad Jidkov, Muriel Medard, Ivan Zhelev | 23m |
Cosmos EVM is a module on the Cosmos SDK that brings EVM compatibility to sovereign chains; Celestia provides a separate data availability layer; Optimum is… | ||
| Building the Fastest Decentralized Internet Protocol for Web3 | Muriel Medard | 13m |
Claims a coded networking layer that achieves provably optimal data propagation using randomized algebraic recombination so nodes forward linear equations… | ||
| Evolve your chain | Julien Robert | 14m |
Evolve replaces traditional PoS validator sets with a single-sequencer architecture that posts blobs to Celestia’s data availability layer, cutting validator… | ||
| EVM - Cosmos Convergence Research From Security | Matt Wang | 14m |
CertiK’s research shows concrete failures when EVM logic runs inside Cosmos: EVM precompiles become stateful and can update Cosmos modules without committing… | ||
| From Code to Capital | Juergen Hoebarth | 15m |
Argues that blockchain will not replace banks but must become compatible with them by delivering regulated custody and documented governance, citing an… | ||
| CometBFT for Cross-Chain Communication in Polygon | Marcello Ardizzone | 13m |
Migration rewrites Heimdall v1 to Heimdall v2 by swapping Tendermint for CometBFT and upgrading to Cosmos SDK 0.50, wiping historic blocks but preserving… | ||
| Sentinel P2P: Blockchain Complexity to Mass Adoption | Alexander Litreev | 13m |
Sentinel claims a million+ unique users by turning a blockchain dVPN into a one‑button product: a global network of user‑run nodes, a consumer brand Norse with… | ||
| From Surviving to Thriving: Sustainable Developer Economies | Nhu Viet Nguyen | 13m |
Argues that Celestia’s modular data-availability stack lets developers launch chains with one API call instead of months of coordination, citing Celestia’s… | ||
| Why Privacy Matters | Alex Zaidelson, Alexander Litreev | 15m |
Secret Network encrypts smart contract state with trusted execution environments (TEEs) so token balances and transaction graphs stay hidden, and it builds… | ||
| Lessons from Building with Cosmos | Yaron Schwarcz, Vicent Chui, Dean Tribble, Artem Sinyakin | 29m |
Projects choose Cosmos SDK for immediate cross-chain connectivity via IBC relayer and for fast finality; teams migrate from UTXO or bespoke L1s to get… | ||
| Policy meets protocol | Bojan Petrovic, Roger H. Hartmann, Stipe Plejić, Sheraz Ahmed, Laurence Wolf | 24m |
Europe’s MiCA framework is the clearest landscape claim but is already comprehensive but outdated on day one, while Bosnia is actively drafting a crypto law… | ||
| Interoperability Between Fiat, Stablecoins, and Crypto | Onur Özdemir, Nikola Škorić | 22m |
Visa describes Visa Direct as a money‑movement network that handled about 10 billion transactions last year and reaches roughly 3.5 billion bank accounts and… | ||
| Mesh Security For EU compliant chains in the Cosmos Ecosystem | Enrico Talin | 15m |
A Cosmos SDK chain called Theorem aims to issue a 1:1 euro e‑money stablecoin backed by a licensed Italian e‑money institution and to launch THRM, TIME and an… | ||
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