Cosmos Bites #46: The EVM is taking over Cosmos
The Rise of Stablecoins in cosmos 🪙
Highlights from the Sovereign EVM DAY ⚛️
$OSMO Tokenomics Revamp 🧪
$dYdX launches Builder Codes 🛠️
Eclipse Airdrop Checker is live $ES 🪂
500K $STRD burned & much more 🔥
Date
Jul 5, 2025
The Rise of Stables in Cosmos
Stable: Stablecoin chain powered by USDT
Noble: Cosmos’s stablecoin issuance layer (USDC, USDN)
Ondo Finance: RWA tokenization, especially U.S. Treasuries (USDY, OUSG)
Shade Protocol: Privacy-preserving & basket-pegged stablecoin SILK
Pryzm: IBC access to sUSDC from SKY on Ethereum

Highlights from Sovereign EVM Day
18 projects building on sovereign EVM tech on Cosmos
Mainnet launch of XRPL EVM Sidechain
Showcasing Stride DEX powered by IBC Eureka
Bringing 1B Telegram users on-chain via TAC
Babylon Dual VM (CW + EVM)

The EVM is tacking over Cosmos
Ripple (XRPL EVM Sidechain; live on mainnet)
Sei Network (Parallelized EVM, live on mainnet)
TacBuild (Telegram DeFi chain; live on dev mainnet)
MANTRA (MultiVM L1 for RWAs; live on testnet)
Injective (The unified EVM layer; live on testnet)
Babylon (Center for BTCFi; under development)
Cosmos Hub (Cross-chain interop Hub; under development)

Every real business will have its own blockchain
And Cosmos offers the best tech to build a sovereign chain:
It gives businesses full-stack control
IBC Eureka lets you connect everywhere
Cosmos EVM opens the ecosystem to millions of developers

Osmosis Tokenomics Revamp
Shift from inflation-based rewards to real protocol revenue
Gradually reduce token emissions to near-zero
Increase burn rates to make $OSMO deflationary
Daily burn > daily emissions

Tokenized Stocks are live on Polaris
Polaris just integrated xStocks
Trade all coins across all chains
Polaris is the everything (finance) app @sunny
Builder Codes are live on dYdX
The easiest way for devs to monetize onchain order flow
Apps, wallets, bots, and trading terminals can route trades through dYdX
And generate revenue with every executed trade
Fully permissionless, onchain & transparent

Crypto.com integrates dYdX Perps
Trade crypto with up to 50x leverage on dYdX
Directly from the Crypto.com onchain wallet
Enabled by dYdX Builder Codes

First Nillion Mainnet upgrade is live!
Introducing a powerful privacy layer leveraging blind compute tech
Unlocking encrypted storage (nilDB),
Private AI inference (nilAI), and
Scalable access control (nilAuth) for devs.

Injective introduces iBuild
dApp development enabled by natural language prompts
Making Web3 app development easier than ever
Deploy your dApp to the world with just one click
Lotus is live on Mocha Testnet
Integrating TIA with Hyperlane
Cutting inflation by 33%
Moved from Devnet (Arabica) to Testnet (Mocha)
Mainnet upgrade most likely later this month

XO Market raises $500k in Pre-Seed round
Led by Delphi Ventures and Cyber Fund
Building a “conviction” market leveraging Celestia for DA
Permissionless markets: allowing anyone to open a market
The pump, fun of prediction markets

Eclipse Airdrop Checker is Live!
Check our airdrop allocation here:

500K $STRD Burned
That’s 0.5% of the total supply burned (in only 3 months)
80% of protocol fees are used to buy back & burn $STRD
What will happen if Stride Swap goes live later this year?

ICF Treasury Snapshot June 2025
💰 Total Treasury Value: $254M 💰
▶️ $71M in Fiat (28.1%)
▶️ $71M in $BTC (28%)
▶️ $61M in $ATOM (23.9%)
▶️ $42M in $ETH (16.6%)
▶️ $8M in $TIA (3.1%)

Manic.Fun Secret Revealed
Not an infrastructure project but an NFT collection
Introducing Maniacs, an NFT community for Cosmonauts by Cosmonauts
Supply: 10K
Mint Price: 1 $ATOM, Mint date: tbd
100% of royalties will be sent to a burn addy

Spice Agents Website is live!
NFT staking rewards and Akash Deployment Points
Climb the spice ranks to unlock bonus rewards
Spice Paper
Mission Roadmap

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.