Osmosis has operated as the primary liquidity venue for the Cosmos ecosystem since 2021. It has reached operational maturity, with established revenue, adoption, and deep roots across the Cosmos ecosystem.
The broader Cosmos ecosystem is entering a new phase. After years of sovereign experimentation and expansion, it is increasingly clear that stack usage alone does not guarantee economic gravity. Recent ecosystem contraction highlights the need to strengthen alignment between the liquidity and security layers across the ecosystem.
This proposal positions Osmosis for its next phase of growth by embedding its mature infrastructure within the Cosmos Hub. By integrating Osmosis into the Cosmos Hub, we eliminate redundant security costs, concentrate capital formation on a single economic domain, and value accrual from ecosystem activity becomes aligned behind a single coordination asset for the ecosystem.
Rather than maintaining parallel centers of gravity, this merger embeds the ecosystem’s primary liquidity engine directly into the Cosmos Hub’s core. It aligns security, liquidity, and governance around a unified economic framework and brings Osmosis’s full support behind ATOM as the Schelling point asset of Cosmos.
Osmosis does not disappear; its infrastructure and product identity continue under an expanded economic framework, while redundant security overhead is removed.
Full proposal text will be posted for review before going onchain. Until then, to keep the discussion focused, please leave comments on the Cosmos Hub forum post rather than in this thread.