The incoming Cosmos Interchain Security (ICS) module will allow project teams to access an extensive pool of reputable validators to grant their fledgling blockchains rock-solid security and block production, as well as immediate access to hundreds of thousands of active users from day one. In doing this, ICS will provide one final piece in the…
Category: Crypto
DeFi-ing Bitcoin on Cosmos with Nomic
This space has moved so rapidly that sometimes it’s important to stop for a moment and look how far we’ve come. 1. Bitcoin and crypto have emerged from the fringes and are well and truly in the mainstream. 2. We’ve seen the first ‘Killer App’ with NFTs. 3. DeFi logic is now more sophisticated than…
Incoming Cosmos DeFi Summer: Supported by Sei
Sei is one of the most important things being built in the Cosmos ecosystem right now as it has the capacity to accelerate Cosmos’ DeFi capabilities and attract major liquidity to the Network. The DeFi game remains a contest for liquidity, with lenders balancing risk exposure against promised gains, and all protocols offering a unique…
Exploring the ‘Passage’ to the Cosmos Metaverse
Due to huge user growth and exposure for market leaders such as The Sandbox and Decentraland, Metaverse projects became one of the most popular new plays throughout 2021. Virtual land sales repeatedly hit new highs in terms of volume and price, and metaverse project native tokens did multiple x, further attracting speculators to this promising…
DeFund: Decentralized ETFs on Cosmos for Easy-mode Passive Investing
Coming soon to Cosmos, DeFund is developing tools to support decentralized cross-chain ETFs. As an idea, dETFs are not the most innovative or breakthrough of DeFi products on offer, but the real value of DeFund and the dETF infrastructure they are building lies in how the protocol leverages the power of the Cosmos open-source ecosystem…
Sci-fi Mystery Thriller: Reading the SIGNALs of the Cosmos
Truly pushing the boundaries of art, puzzles, and technology, Signal is one of the most interesting and innovative projects in the Cosmos ecosystem. Essentially, community members set about unraveling a series of unusual and time-staggered clues to work out the mystery at the heart of the game, learning and earning as they do so. The…
Shopify for NFTs: AssetMantle is Making NFTs Even More Accessible
After the long-awaited airdrop for validators and liquidity providers on Cosmos, the team behind AssetMantle is getting ready to launch the platform’s first two applications. AssetMantle will provide the Cosmos ecosystem with an entirely new toolset for creators and collectors to securely mint, own, and trade NFTs and other digital assets. Key to the platform’s…
Web 3.0 Will Completely Change Our Sense of Identity
The semantic web is being heralded by many future-thinking individuals and businesses as the future of the Internet and as the next big step in humanity’s digitization of the world and everything in it. Now, while Web 3.0 does appear to be the next big step in our digital evolution, it’s still largely abstract and…
The Metaverse is Not a ‘Tool’ or ‘App’, But a ‘Time’
The metaverse is an umbrella term for a time when our lives are lived more online than offline.
Turning Vitalik’s “Endgame” Vision Into a Reality
Different from most thinkers, Vitalik believes that the solution does not rest with any single blockchain. He envisions a multi-chain, multi-rollup, future in which rollups are an integral part of cross-chain migration and algorithms efficiently delegate transaction processing as part of a greater system. This system would effectively still have centralized block production, but with highly decentralized, trustless, and uncensorable block validation.