Cosmos Labs laid out a big vision at the recent Cosmoverse 2025 event, enterprises and institutions are increasingly building their own layer-1 blockchains and the Cosmos SDK stack is being pitched as the best foundation for them. According to the company, its flagship network, the Cosmos Hub and its native token ATOM, are poised to benefit significantly as global finance moves on-chain.
Why Enterprises Are Building Their Own Chains
For many large organisations the need is simple: they want blockchain infrastructure they can control, customize, and connect across other systems. Rather than piggy-backing on shared networks, they’re interested in crafting independent layer-1s. Cosmos Labs argues that its technology stack hits the sweet spot: modular, interoperable and built to scale. In that keynote, Cosmos executives noted that many enterprise chains are asking for things like asset issuance capabilities, RPC-services, and neutral interoperability platforms and they believe the Hub+ATOM can serve these roles.
What Cosmos Labs Is Doing to Capture the Opportunity
To position ATOM and the Hub as central pieces in this shift, Cosmos Labs announced three core pillars of work:
- Expand the dedicated Hub team
A new team led by ecosystem-growth lead Robo McGobo with technical input from Hypha Coop will focus on executing the Hub’s roadmap. A key milestone: enabling the feature called Tokenfactory and rolling in performance upgrades from the engine known as Comet. - Revise delegation programme
The updated programme will aim to make the network healthier, boost validator stability, and introduce mechanisms to reward both technical and non-technical contributions. Cosmos Labs emphasised it wants feedback from validators on what’s worked and what hasn’t. - Re-think ATOM tokenomics with the community
Recognising that as adoption grows, ATOM’s underlying token model needs to evolve, Cosmos Labs is launching a joint research effort with community builders, validators and researchers to design a tokenomics model that aligns with the emerging use-cases.
The Tech Focus: Five Big Areas
Beyond those three pillars, Cosmos Labs also described how the underlying Cosmos stack will adapt to meet enterprise needs via five major focus areas:
- Performance: Improving the core engine CometBFT so networks can handle global-finance scale.
- Connectivity: Extending interoperability via IBC to more chains offerings like integrations with Solana, Base and others, and enabling native tokenisation across chains.
- EVM compatibility: Making sure older chains built on Cosmos can still run EVM-style smart contracts, with full support and parallel execution.
- Control: Offering options like proof-of-authority (PoA) so institutions can run chains that meet compliance or counterparty requirements.
- Operation experience: Historically Cosmos chains have been harder to run. The team is building an enterprise-grade “fleet manager” for chains, validators and services.
Why This Matters
If enterprises succeed in building their chains, and if the Cosmos stack becomes the de facto choice, then the Hub and ATOM stand to benefit both from increased usage and from being the neutral piece that connects those chains. For users of ATOM, upgrades to tokenomics, better validator engagement and stronger ecosystem fundamentals can translate into stronger network health and potential upside.
Bottom Line
Cosmos Labs, by reinforcing the Hub, updating ATOM’s fundamentals and reaching out to validators and the community, is trying to lay the groundwork for a bigger role as global finance transitions on-chain. For anyone tracking the future of enterprise blockchain infrastructure and the role of ATOM/Hub in that, this roadmap deserves attention.
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