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While Cosmos goes through another wave of turbulence, it’s worth zooming out and remembering the teams that helped shape the Interchain vision but ultimately chose to leave or shut down 🔒 From OGs like @EvmosOrg and @akashnet to DeFi powerhouses like @elys_network, and top-tier wallets like @leap_wallet ↴

Lumera is an infrastructure L1 for Web3. Decentralized storage, verification, and AI compute. one protocol, built for the ecosystem. We've announced our first major integration: @Injective. Injective builders can now store application data permanently on Cascade. Here's what that looks like in practice. 🧵

Lately in crypto ↴ ○ @injective hit a major institutional milestone as regulated INJ futures officially launched in the U.S. via a CFTC-licensed platform, placing INJ among a select group of digital assets accessible to institutions and U.S. users ○ @lumera integrated with Injective through IBC, enabling builders to access Cascade, Lumera’s decentralized storage layer. Developers can now store app data, NFT assets, metadata, and proofs using INJ or LUME ○ @NEARProtocol ecosystem introduced confidential withdrawals on near.com, allowing swaps across 35+ blockchains while keeping source wallet addresses private from public explorers ○ @berachain announced a listing on OKC Japan, with trading and deposits starting May 20, expanding access o one of Asia’s regulated crypto markets ○ @GenLayer partnered with Alt AI (infrastructure behind Alt LLM & 8004 Scan) to bring trust, identity, and verifiable AI judgment to autonomous on-chain agents ○ Origins partnered with @Conflux_Network to advance infrastructure for scalable coordination, verifiable computation, and secure execution for autonomous AI systems Be sure to follow us for more updates 👀

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⚛️ Cosmos Ecosystem Update: Momentum is building across the $ATOM network 👇 💰 $1.01B+ total market cap 🔒 $314M staked 🔗 94M+ transactions 📊 $67M+ total volume 📰 Ecosystem highlights: ⬜ Figure cuts HELOC costs using Provenance Blockchain ⬜ Cosmos Hub opens Ecosystem Delegations via ICF ⬜ AtomOne explores auto-staking rewards & v4 upgrade ⚙️ Secured by validators like @CosmostationVD, @encapHQ, @everstake_pool, @Kiln_finance, @P2Pvalidator, @ChorusOne, @CitadelOne_, @Stakely_io, @imperator_co +191 more securing the network @provenancefdn | @cosmoshub | @_atomone

@lumera @injective Something huge is coming, huh?

Even ninjas need somewhere to store their secrets. 👀 @injective

In crypto, transaction fees are the engine that keeps everything running. But when fees get too high, they start hurting the blockchain’s usability and overall utility 𝗧𝗶𝗽𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝘀 ○ Time your transactions
Transacting during off-peak hours can help reduce fees ○ Batch transactions
When possible, combine multiple actions into a single transaction to avoid paying separate base fees ○ Adjust wallet settings
Many wallets let you customize gas settings or choose a lower-priority transaction speed ○ Use L2 solutions and lower-cost networks 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗽𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄? ○ @injective 
Average Fee: $0.00024 Transaction finality: ~1 second ○ @SeiNetwork Average Fee: $0.00027 Transaction finality: ~0.5 seconds ○ @solana 
Average Fee: $0.00046 Transaction finality: ~2–5 seconds ○ @Ripple 
Average Fee: $0.0011 Transaction finality: ~3–5 seconds ○ @Polygon 
Average Fee: $0.00384 Transaction finality: ~2–5 seconds ○ @SuiNetwork 
Average Fee: $0.006 Transaction finality: ~0.4 seconds ○ @NEARProtocol Average transaction fee: $0.1699 Transaction finality: ~2–3 seconds

Big news you don’t want to miss… Native USDC is live on Injective 👀

Everyone wants to use AI without worrying about data leaks or misuse. With @NEARProtocol AI Cloud and Private Chat, that’s becoming a reality ○ NEAR AI Cloud As its core, NEAR AI Cloud is a secure environment for running AI models without exposing sensitive data. It delivers verifiable private inference via hardware-level protection, giving you access to advanced AI models while keeping every computation confidential ○ NEAR Private Chat NEAR Private Chat brings the privacy-first infrastructure of NEAR AI Cloud directly to end users. It’s essentially a chat interface similar to mainstream AI chat tools, but built on top of NEAR’s verifiable, hardware-backed privacy architecture That means when you chat: 1. Your conversations remain end-to-end encrypted 2. The inference happens inside a TEE, protected, isolated, and invisible to external parties 3. You can get a cryptographic proof that the computation ran securely ○ TL;DR Today, many AI services require users to send sensitive data to third-party servers. Even when they claim “private mode,” there’s often no way to verify whether data stays private or is reused. In contrast, NEAR AI Cloud and Private Chat give you real control over your data by using Trusted Execution Environments, hardware-enforced security, and cryptographic verification

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HAPPY MAD BIRTHDAY #2 2 years of experiments, madness & science 🧪 looking forward to many more with all you scientist🎉

ICYMI: We’re now live on @GenLayer As AI agents evolve into everyday tools, the need for a reliable, scalable trust system has never been more urgent. That’s exactly where GenLayer comes in We’re excited to support its mission to build trust infrastructure for the AI age and to contribute to the network’s security A big thank you to the GenLayer team for this opportunity!

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What matters most to you in cross-chain:

@DPodocasts @EvmosOrg @akashnet @elys_network @sifchain Totally forgot about Sifchain

@CitadelOne_ @EvmosOrg @akashnet @elys_network OMG, whatever happened to those guys? @elysorg? Remember @sifchain? They went from scam to scam...it was SO crypto!

While Cosmos goes through another wave of turbulence, it’s worth zooming out and remembering the teams that helped shape the Interchain vision but ultimately chose to leave or shut down 🔒 From OGs like @EvmosOrg and @akashnet to DeFi powerhouses like @elys_network, and top-tier wallets like @leap_wallet ↴

@TendermintTimmy Good point. Juno was a crucial part of the ecosystem

@CitadelOne_ I guess juno doesn't fit cleanly into either of the categories you went with. But it deserves remembrance as much as, if not more, than many of the others listed imo. Who remembered $Neta?

@pasdec0 @GenLayer Happy to be on board

🧵 @GenLayer Validators Just Leveled Up: Here’s Why It Matters GenLayer just onboarded 4 new validators, bringing the total from 35 → 39 👀 But this isn’t just a numbers game… it’s a deeper expansion of how intelligence reaches consensus onchain. Let’s break it down 👇

4/ Big shoutout and huge respect to all the builders! Is there a product you genuinely miss using? And do you think any of these could have turned things around with a different strategy? Share your thoughts in the comments below 👀

3/ 𝗦𝗼 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝘀𝗺𝗼𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸? ○ Unsustainable appchain economics: dedicated validators and infrastructure costs far exceeded revenue for most teams ○ Fragmented liquidity across 100+ IBC chains, making it difficult to compete with unified liquidity on EVM chains and Solana ○ Low user growth, TVL, and fee generation ○ Developer attrition: many teams migrated to ecosystems with better tooling and larger audiences ○ Consequences of the 2022 Terra collapse, which damaged trust and momentum across the entire Interchain ○ Intense competition and macro conditions that dried up funding and user activity