Cosmos Hub announced that Proposal #895 has been approved, and the community has confirmed support for implementing permissioned CosmWasm on Cosmos Hub.

Cosmos Ecology Security Platform Range announced the completion of a $2.7 million seed round of financing, with participation from Robot Ventures, Fenbushi Capital, Bitscale, Informal Systems, Volt Capital, and Chorus One. Range mainly helps blockchain and Rollup avoid smart contract and cross-chain bridge traps and attacks, and plans to expand to other Ethereum L2 platforms such as Arbitrum and Optimism in the future.

According to official sources, the Cosmos Hub community has started voting on proposal #885 "v15 software upgrade" and is expected to end on March 16. If approved, the software upgrade proposal is expected to go live on the mainnet on March 20. The focus of version v15 is a major upgrade of Cosmos SDK to version v0.47, which uses v0.47.8-ics-lsm, a unique branch of Cosmos SDK that includes support for ICS and LSM.

Cosmos Hub has released a tweet indicating that Partial Set Security (PSS) has entered the specification stage. PSS simplifies the launch of new consumer chains by allowing a portion of validators on the Hub to provide protection. The specification stage means that the ADR (design document) has been released, providing detailed information about PSS. At this stage, work on implementing the feature has begun.

Cosmos ecological liquidity staking protocol Stride announced the completion of a $4 million strategic financing round led by DBA, with participation from 1confirmation, Road Capital, Modular Capital, Imperator, Chorus One, and others. The purpose of this financing round is to promote the development of Stride in the Celestia ecosystem.

The Cosmos ecological liquidity collateral protocol Stride has launched a new LST asset stTIA, and 5 million STRD (5% of the maximum supply) will be airdropped to early stTIA holders. STRD will be distributed daily based on the holding ratio, with a total of 150 days of distribution. 3 million STRD will be distributed in the first 60 days, with 50,000 STRD per day, and 2 million STRD will be distributed in the later 90 days, with 22,000 STRD per day.

Cosmos announced the launch of the Cosmos Hub improvement process in 2024, in which Partial Set Security is a concept that rethinks the choice of security (Opt-in Security), allowing Hub validators to run physical nodes for each consumer chain subset. The concept aims to provide a more scalable and cost-effective approach through validator delegation while maintaining a high level of decentralization and security.

Cosmos has now opened proposal #868 voting, aiming to "reduce the minimum inflation parameter from 7% to 0%". Once the ATOM bond ratio reaches 67%, the inflation rate will gradually approach 0%. Proposal #868 is said to be a follow-up to proposal #848, which has already passed by setting the maximum inflation parameter to 10%.

Zhu Su, the founder of Three Arrows Capital, stated in X Space that Mingwen is mainly popular in the East (everyone was talking to me about Mingwen after I was released from prison), while similar Solana ecosystems are mainly popular in the West, and Ethereum is popular in both the East and the West.In addition, he said that he is most interested in the Cosmos ecosystem in the field of altcoins. He believes that the current price of Bitcoin has already reflected expectations for ETFs, and approval will attract a lot of traditional funds to enter. He also believes that there will be a big bull market in 2024, but risks should be controlled.

On December 31, the Cosmos Hub officially announced that the Cosmos community voted in favor of the proposal "seeking 975,811 ATOM to provide funding for ATOM Accelerator DAO (AADAO)".<br>AADAO will be established as a persistent organization dedicated to protecting and promoting Cosmos Hub and its ATOM tokens, fully funded and owned by the Cosmos Hub community.

Cosmos Ecology Chain Neutron announced that it is undergoing a Neutrality upgrade. The network is currently suspended during the upgrade period. 47% of the voting rights have already supported the upgrade. Once 67% of the voting rights on Cosmos Hub complete the upgrade, the chain will resume normal operations.

The long-term quadratic funding for expanding the Cosmos application chain ecology and the ATOM special economic zone (AEZ) will be launched on the global geek platform DoraHacks.io on December 20th. ATOM users can support public goods and emerging application chains in the Cosmos ecology through Dora Vota. Currently, the IBC channel between Dora Vota and Cosmos Hub has been opened.

Cosmos Ecology Foundation ICF announced its 2024 funding plan, which has reserved $26.4 million for the development and adoption of Interchain Stack. The goal is to provide funding for Interchain Stack's functionality to best meet the needs of various sovereign communities supported by these technologies. In order to promote long-term sustainability and growth, the 2024 financing strategy focuses on addressing key delivery outcomes for Interchain Stack.

Cosmos announced on the X platform that it has completed the v14 upgrade. V14 introduces ambiguous cryptographic verification, an automated feature that is expected to more effectively prevent double-spending and light client attacks.

According to official sources, Binance will support the upgrade of the Cosmos (ATOM) network. The specific arrangement is as follows: the project party will upgrade the network at block height 18,262,000 (expected to be at 19:00 on December 13, 2023, Eastern Time); Binance is expected to temporarily suspend token deposit and withdrawal services for the above network at 18:00 on December 13, 2023, Eastern Time.

The Cosmos ecosystem is renowned as a hub of crypto innovation, pioneering many now widely adopted technologies. Notably, Cosmos founders were the inventors of the proof-of-stake consensus mechanism, exemplifying the ecosystem’s knack for trailblazing new technology. But despite this strong technical ingenuity, Cosmos has lost momentum.

On December 10th, Eclipse Fi, a Cosmos ecological modular token issuance platform, announced the ECLIP token economics on social media. The specific contents are as follows:

On December 9th, Atomicals Market officially announced on social media that the 24-hour trading volume of Bitcoin Atomicals ecological token ATOM reached 31.63 BTC, setting a new historical record for the platform.

On December 6th, Cosmos officially announced on social media the launch of CometBFT V1 Alpha version. It is reported that the features of this version include reducing bandwidth consumption, achieving modularity, enhancing the experience of integrators, and improving development speed.

On December 6th, Cosmos announced the release of CometBFT V1 Alpha version, which features reduced bandwidth consumption, modularization, enhanced integration experience for developers, and increased development speed. This Alpha version allows breaking changes to the Go API until the final candidate version is determined.