Cosmos Hub’s Stargaze Acquisition, On-Chain AI in Cosmos, Native Rollups on Celestia, and More!
This week’s report highlights major updates from across the Cosmos ecosystem:
Cosmos Hub’s proposal to acquire Stargaze
Cosmos as the epicenter of on-chain AI
Celestia's Lotus upgrade
Latest THORChain stats
Apps to try: Namada, Embr on Initia, Scope on Eclipse
And more. Let’s dive in!
Major News
Stargaze x Cosmos Hub M&A Proposal
TL;DR:
Stargaze proposes a strategic acquisition by the Cosmos Hub
The Stargaze team will migrate its core apps, NFTs, and users to the Hub
Buyout price: $0.004 per $STARS (200-day moving average)
Total funds requested: $16M in ATOM, covering token migration, SG frontend license, and team funding
By buying out Stargaze, Cosmos Hub will have:
The best NFT marketplace in Cosmos
A strong team with a proven track record of shipping
A loyal user base with a 40% monthly retention rate
More details can be found here.
Celestia: Native Rollup Ecosystem Is Coming
The Celestia Lotus upgrade is now live on testnet and is expected to go live on mainnet in June. This upgrade will bring several key changes:
Integrates Hyperlane into Celestia as a Cosmos SDK module, enabling direct TIA transfers between Celestia’s rollups and Celestia itself
Reduces TIA inflation by 33%, from 7.2% to 5%
Locks staking rewards for locked tokens into vesting accounts
Read the details here.
Interesting Numbers & Charts
THORChain: Real Yield for Liquidity Providers
THORChain generates real revenue for liquidity providers from users who rely on native cross-chain swaps.
Since the beginning of 2025, THORChain has generated over $16.86 million in fees for its liquidity providers.
Cosmos Is The Epicenter of On-Chain AI
Cosmos is the leader in in decentralized and on-chain AI development. Over five AI-related projects are currently being built using the Cosmos tech stack:
Fetch.AI: An AI agents platform with 2.3M+ live agents and the first Web3-native LLM (ASI-1 Mini)
Akash Network: A decentralized compute marketplace with 325K live leases, 21K CPUs, 768 GPUs, and 1.62 PB of storage
Nillion: A blind computing platform that has processed 195M secrets and secured 1 TB of data
Oraichain: AI oracle infrastructure with 100+ curated APIs listed on its marketplace
Allora Network: A collective intelligence protocol with 692M+ inferences generated and 288K nodes
DeFi, NFTs, and Apps: Have You Tried These?
Shield Tokens On Namada
Namada added four new tokens to their shielding pools, including USDC, NYM, UM, & NTRN.
Namada Mainnet is progressing towards This will enable shielding rewards. Phase 5 is when the network will be fully functional, and $NAM transfers will be enabled.
Namada has added four new tokens to its shielding pools: USDC, NYM, UM, and NTRN.
The Namada mainnet is progressing toward Phase 4, which will introduce shielding rewards. In Phase 5, the network will become fully functional, and $NAM transfers will be enabled.
Watch our tutorial by Seppmos on how to shield your tokens on Namada here:
Embr Is Live On Initia Mainnet
Embr is a meme launchpad and gamified battlefield built on Initia, with Celestia as its underlying data availability layer.
Launch, trade & battle other memes to win liquidity
Earn $EMBR and Initia VIP points through trading and in-game performance
Check it out here.
Scope: NFT Trading Platform on Eclipse
Scope Pro is an NFT trading platform offering smarter tools, faster execution, and a clean user experience, all designed to level up your NFT trading on Eclipse SVM.
Check them out here.
Good Reads, Minor News & Podcasts
Minor News
$OM can now be sent directly from Binance to Mantra Chain. Read the announcement here.
Mew, a token launchpad, is coming to Saga soon. Check it out here.
Demex lending market was exploited. More details on it here.
Portal to integrate with Babylon Genesis. Read the announcement here.
Mantra is partnering with Win Investments to tokenize the football transfer market. Read the details here.
Good Reads
Key Insights into Stride Swap by Cito Zone. Read it here.
Sei Giga Whitepaper is out. This upgrade will enable <400ms finality and 5 gigagas/sec throughput (~200K TPS) for the Sei Network. Read it here.
Thorchain ecosystem recap. Read it here.