$BABY Digital Asset Treasury (DAT)

• Babylon Labs is the first Cosmos chain to announce a DAT

• Baby BTC Strategic Capital acquired ATA Creative Global (AACG)

• $100M deal ($30M in equity, $70M in warrants)

• AACG will adopt a $BTC and $BABY treasury

Trustless Bitcoin Vaults

• The easiest way to use BTC in DeFi

• No wrapping, no bridging, no middleman

• BTC vaults interact with DeFi protocols using BitVM3

• Native BTC can act as collateral in smart contracts on other chains without wrapping or leaving Bitcoin

Noble Phase2: Expanding to Hyperliquid

🔸 Noble Points Season 1 ended (Bootstrapping phase)

• Season 1 points holders are allocated a fixed 5% of the token supply

🔸 Season 2 is now live! (Expansion phase)

• Points vault will transition into a managed vault

• Active strategies deploying USDN across various trading venues

• Deposit USDN, earn fees + Noble Points

• Fixed token allocation of 2%

• Up to 5% if TVL surpasses $500M

=> $USDN Everywhere, starting with vaults on HyperliquidX

Ondo Finance: Leading the RWA charge on Cosmos

• $1.4B TVL makes Ondo Finance one of the largest RWA chains

• Offering tokenized U.S. Treasuries, money markets, and soon stocks & ETFs

• Built on the Cosmos SDK with EVM compatibility for institutional-grade DeFi

• Ondo Chain is shaping up to be the institutional bridge between TradFi & DeFi

Mantra Comeback Season

• New Strategic Partner: InveniamIO

• EVM Mainnet Launch in September 2025

• MultiVM Strategy (EVM, SVM, CW & Move VM)

• Stablecoin Strategy => Mantra native stablecoin

• New $OM value accrual mechanisms

MetaMask is live on Sei

• Connecting 100M+ users to the Sei Network

Dfns integrates with the Cosmos Hub

• Providing devs and institutions secure wallet infrastructure

• Support for other Cosmos chains like dYdX, Ondo & Osmosis is underway

• Dfns is a Wallet-as-a-Service provider helping institutions manage digital assets

New Consumer Chain is launching on the Hub

• Intento Consumer Chain has been created on the Cosmos Hub

• Using Interchain Security (ICS), Intento will be secured by $ATOM

• Launching an intent-orchestration chain

Stargaze launches Superstar Program

• New SG fee structure is live to strengthen $STARS and reward holders

• Up to 50% fee discounts with a Superstar NFT

• 2% fee for STARS trades (on top of royalties ~5%)

• 3% fee for non-STARS trades

• Marketplace STARS fees => burned 🔥

Payy Card is live!

• Payy introduces a Visa debit card to spend stables privately

• Easy setup and crypto/USDC deposits

• Virtual card via Apple Pay / Google Pay

• With Celestia underneath

USDT0 is now live on Berachain

• It can be used as collateral to mint $HONEY

• USDT0 in, HONEY out!

The Future of Stride

• The Stride team has negotiated a settlement with the ICL

• Cleared all obligations and extended their runway

• Liquid Staking continues operating like before

• The team is exploring new revenue lines for Stride outside of Cosmos

AA DAO is winding down

• Atom Accelerator DAO is officially sunsetting

• Core contributors have concluded their roles

• Funds are being returned to the Hub's CP

• Remaining active grants have been handed over for oversight to ICL

• Achievements: 400+ props reviewed, 143 grants issued, $8.7M deployed

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.