At Cosmoverse 2025, Cosmos dove deep into its strategic move into enterprise and global finance, positioning itself as the foundational blockchain stack for banks, payment networks, and Fortune 500 companies building real-world tokenization and payment systems. The announcements of the week marked a turning point for Cosmos as it builds on its developer-led roots to become a core layer of institutional blockchain infrastructure.
Over three days, Cosmos Labs leadership, Co-CEOs Maghnus Mareneck and Barry Plunkett, and Chief Marketing Officer Nico Poggi, outlined a new vision for Cosmos – one where it is now the enterprise-grade blockchain stack of choice for real-world finance.
In his keynote address, “The Future of Cosmos in Global Finance,” Maghnus Mareneck described how enterprises, central banks, and financial institutions are adopting Cosmos to build out their owned tokenisation and payment infrastructure. In a feat to achieve sovereignty, scalability, and control rather than dependence on another blockchain, this talk outlined how banks, governments, and Fortune 500 companies are now building with Cosmos, and teased two upcoming central bank digital currencies set to be built on Cosmos in cooperation with Cosmos Labs and Peersyst, joining ongoing CBDC projects in Latin America.
Maghnus Mareneck, Co-CEO of Cosmos Labs, said, “The world’s largest financial institutions are realizing they need sovereignty, scalability, and control, and Cosmos offers them a platform that combines institutional trust with true interoperability. This is evident as we continue to see companies such as Figure, Progmat, and Ondo using or forking Cosmos technology to power enterprise and financial use cases as Cosmos cements its position as the preferred stack for real-world finance. ”
In his “Tech and Infrastructure Vision” talk, Barry Plunkett provided an in-depth overview of upcoming Cosmos technical developments, such as chain interoperability via IBC expanding to Solana and Ethereum Layer 2s, the Cosmos SDK now supporting Proof of Authority networks for regulated deployments, and a roadmap for BFT Comet to reach 10,000 transactions per second. Furthermore, Barry announced a new tokenization layer built on IBC, which will enable native asset issuance, unlocking new enterprise-grade use cases across industries, along with the introduction of a platform for institutions to deploy and manage custom blockchains, complete with ready-to-go modules for tokenization, escrow, and other financial applications.
“Tokenization and payments are the primary use cases driving Cosmos forward. These markets require sovereign L1s, not L2s, for compliance, control, and performance. From fast, deterministic settlement to full regulatory control, Cosmos is now the infrastructure of tokenized finance,” Barry Plunkett, Co-CEO of Cosmos Labs, said. Barry also presented a platform for launching and managing blockchain networks on Cosmos, with ready-to-go tools for use-cases such as escrow, tokenization, and banking.
In a presentation on the “Hub and ATOM: The Path Forward,” by Cosmos Labs’ CMO, Nico Poggi, Cosmos Labs outlined how the Hub and its native token, $ATOM, are evolving to meet real-world enterprise needs. As part of this new roadmap, Cosmos Labs will focus on three core pillars to strengthen the Cosmos Hub and $ATOM.
First, the expansion of the Hub Unit will establish dedicated teams leading ecosystem growth, development, and new community initiatives. Second, a new delegation program is being introduced to improve validator incentives, reward tools, and promote overall Hub health. Third, the ATOM tokenomics design is being reevaluated with input from multiple research firms and the Cosmos community, ensuring a transparent, data-driven process supported by testing and open feedback. The goal is to align $ATOM’s tokenomics to Cosmos’ new market, enterprises, and adapt the model for a sustainable product-token integration.
Hosted in Split, Croatia, from October 30 to November 1, Cosmoverse 2025 brought together the global Cosmos community, institutions, and builders to explore the future of Web3 and the role of sovereign blockchain infrastructure in connecting global finance.
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