New Cosmos whitepaper repurposes ATOM token and refines vision

CointelegraphОпубліковано о 2022-09-27Востаннє оновлено о 2022-09-27

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The new Cosmos whitepaper was released on Monday at the Cosmoverse conference in Medellin, Colombia.

Interoperability-focused blockchain network Cosmos has dropped a new whitepaper proposing a revamped Cosmos Hub aimed at strengthening interoperability and security, along with key changes to its native ATOM token.
The new Cosmos whitepaper was released on Monday at the Cosmoverse conference in Medellin, Colombia. The upgrades outlined in the whitepaper are still technically in “proposal” status but changes are expected to be made on-chain on Oct. 3.
Cosmos is an ecosystem of blockchains designed to scale and interoperate with each other. Cosmos Hub was the first blockchain to be built on Cosmos, which initially served as an intermediary between other interconnected blockchains.
The ATOM token is used to transact within the Cosmos ecosystem, which can also be used for governance and staking purposes.
Under the proposed changes, Cosmos will become a more interoperable, decentralized, and secure ecosystem.
One of the changes outlined is the reinvention of the Cosmos Hub as the “Interchain” web, which will enable other Cosmos blockchains to borrow the Hub’s validator pool to secure its network rather than having to find their own.
Billy Rennekamp, the Cosmos Hub Product Lead added that the value proposition behind this transition to Interchain Security would also make the Cosmos network “legally, defensibly decentralized.”
According to the whitepaper, Interchain Security will also enable Cosmos Hub to “host a novel category of applications with complementary functionality,” stating:
“Interchain Security gives consumer chains a faster, easier, and cheaper path to market [and] the development platform afforded by Interchain Security allows [...] third parties to utilize the Hub’s essential infrastructure to build commercial applications.”
The whitepaper also proposes a new issuance model for the native ATOM token, with the aim to strike a better balance between ecosystem growth and interchain adoption “while still preserving the security afforded by the original regime,” according to the whitepaper.
The new monetary policy will see two phases: “transition” and “steady state.”
The transition phase will see 10,000,000 ATOM issued in the first month, which will then decrease at a declining rate until it reaches the steady state phase 36 months later.
Cosmos co-founder Ethan Buchman said this new token issuance model would enable other Cosmos blockchains to become more interconnected with the Cosmos Hub and ATOM, noting:
“It gives them direct alignment with Cosmos with the ATOM. It allows them to inherit the security of the ATOM and be part of this sort of economic community being built around the Cosmos blockchain, the ATOM token, and the superior security that that chain provides.”
The whitepaper also outlined a plan to further accrue more value to the ATOM token by enabling leveraged liquid staking.
This will allow ATOM holders to unstake ATOM tokens as easily as they staked them, which will soon be enabled by the Cosmos “liquid staking module."
“The user experience and capital efficiency improvement offered by liquid stalking is so substantial” that it required “full economic integration” into the new Cosmos interchain-oriented ecosystem, according to the whitepaper.
Intern notes on Cosmos’ new 27 page whitepaper

TL;DR
- Secure economic scaling ⛓
- $ATOM as reserve currency
- New economic engine

Definitely worth a read!

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— (Delphi, Intern) (@delphiintern) September 26, 2022
The release of the whitepaper comes a few weeks after research and investment firm Delphi Labs announced a shift of its R&D efforts to focus on the Cosmos ecosystem.
The research firm outlined network speed, chain liquidity, sufficient decentralization, and cross-chain interoperability as the key factors behind its decision to provide R&D efforts to help further the growth of Cosmos.

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