Cosmos Bites #30: Market Leader are choosing Cosmos
Leading RWA and BTC-Fi projects build in Cosmos 🌌
Permissionless $BTC staking on Babylon 🪙
300M $OM burn initiative 🔥
$INIT Tokenomics revealed 🪢
1M agents on Fetch_ai 🤖
$HYPER and $PASG airdrops 🪂
Date
Apr 23, 2025
Why are market leaders building in Cosmos?
Because real validator decentralization allows these teams to issue and move billions on chain with confidence.
• Fast finality for web2 UX without risk.
• Government-resistant liveness.
• Max security by stacking PoS and PoA.
• Onchain multi-party computation for programmable custody.

Cosmos is also pioneering Privacy Tech
Most of the leading privacy-focused chains are built on Cosmos tech like:
Namada, Penumbra, Nillion, SecretNetwork, Shade_Protocol, SentinelDVPN, NYM

Permissionless BTC Staking
• On April 24 (12pm UTC) $BTC staking will become permissionless.
• Lifting Phase-1 Cap-1 staking restriction.
• Accepting both new $BTC and all remaining Phase-1 stakers.
• Phase-1 stakers that transition may be eligible for a bonus airdrop.

Initia Tokenomics revealed
• Fixed supply of 1B $INIT.
• 5% Airdrop, 25% VIP, 25% Staking rewards, 15% VCs, 15% Team.
• 6% is allocated towards Binance’s Launch Campaign.
• Release Schedule: 4-year vesting for team members and VCs.


1M agents are live on Fetch
With over 113M messages exchanged.
What's next for Fetch?
Agent Launchpad
No Code Agents
Hugging Face Agents

300M $OM burn initiative
JP Mullin committed to burn 150M $OM of his team allocation, to rebuild trust in the project.
• These tokens have been unstaked and will be burned once liquid.
• Permanently removing 150M $OM from the total supply.
• Lowering total supply by 8.2% from 1.82B to 1.67B.
• Increasing staking APR, as bonded ratio decreases.
Additionally, there are conversations with key ecosystem partners to burn another 150M $OM.

dYdX Surge is live!
• Compete for your share of $2M monthly trading rewards.
• Trade smart, stay consistent, and farm points.
• Climb the leaderboard and claim your share.
• dYdX Surge unfolds over the next 9 months.

Happy 2nd $FLIX-versary!
Introducing OmniFlix Media Node.
FrameFest: Media DePIN incentivized testnet (250K $FLIX).
• April 20th – May 5th
• Be a creator, host a media node, watch, tip, and earn
OmniFlix Super App has been released on Android.
$HYPER airdrop is live!
Claim your airdrop here: Hyperlane Foundation
Bonus $PASG airdrop for The Strange Clan holders
• The $PASG airdrop for SC NFT holders will go live on April 24.
• Everyone that staked the initial airdrop for 14 months is eligible.
• Town 1: 4,661 $PASG per NFT
• Town 2: 2,331 $PASG per NFT
Claim here: airdrop.passage.io

Stargaze enables GAS
• Enabling a smoother and safer experience for users
• More intentional, higher-quality NFT activity
• Genuine, usage-driven rewards for $STARS stakers and validators
• Fees will be a fraction of a cent, users will not even notice it

That's it for today, thanks for reading folks.
We hope this article helped you stay up-to-date with the latest developments in the Cosmos ecosystem.
Disclaimer
This article is intended to educate readers about certain topics and should not be considered financial advice in any way.