Cosmos Signals Its Enterprise Era at Cosmoverse 2025

Split, Croatia — Cosmos used the stage at Cosmoverse 2025 to make one thing unmistakably clear: the network is no longer just a developer-friendly ecosystem — it is positioning itself as the enterprise-grade blockchain stack for banks, payment networks, Fortune 500s, and global financial institutions entering real-world tokenization.

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Across three days of keynotes, Co-CEOs Maghnus Mareneck and Barry Plunkett, alongside Cosmos Labs CMO Nico Poggi, revealed an ambitious shift: Cosmos is becoming the foundation for institutional blockchain infrastructure, where sovereignty, performance, and interoperability are non-negotiable.

A Strategic Pivot Toward Banks, Governments & Fortune 500s

In his keynote, “The Future of Cosmos in Global Finance,” Maghnus Mareneck detailed how central banks, enterprises, and financial institutions are now choosing Cosmos to build tokenization and payments systems they fully control — rather than relying on someone else’s chain.

He hinted at two upcoming CBDCs to be built on Cosmos in collaboration with Cosmos Labs and Peersyst, joining existing deployments in Latin America. Major enterprise adopters like Figure, Progmat, and Ondo are also building or forking Cosmos tech for regulated financial use cases.
“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.”

Maghnus Mareneck, Co-CEO, Cosmos Labs
Cosmos’s long-standing architecture — sovereign appchains connected by IBC — has now become the exact structure enterprises need for regulated real-world assets.

Technical Roadmap: IBC Expansion, PoA Support & a New Tokenization Layer

Barry Plunkett took the stage with a detailed technical roadmap that pushes Cosmos toward enterprise-scale deployments:

Key upgrades announced:

IBC expanding to Solana and Ethereum L2s
Strengthening Cosmos as the interoperability backbone of Web3.
Proof-of-Authority support in the Cosmos SDK
Enabling compliant, permissioned networks for banks and regulated enterprises.
A new IBC-native tokenization layer
Supporting asset issuance and enterprise-grade modules for escrow, settlement, and financial operations.
A platform for institutions to deploy custom chains
With ready-to-go modules for tokenization, escrow, and banking — turning Cosmos into a no-code infrastructure layer for global finance.

Plunkett framed it bluntly:
“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, Cosmos Labs
Reinventing the Hub and ATOM for Enterprise Use

In “Hub and ATOM: The Path Forward,” CMO Nico Poggi outlined how the Cosmos Hub and its native token, $ATOM, will evolve to support institutional needs.

The new roadmap focuses on three pillars:

Expanding the Hub Unit
Dedicated teams will now support ecosystem growth, developer relations, and institutional integrations.
A new delegation program
Improving validator incentives, supporting tooling, and strengthening network health.
A full reevaluation of ATOM tokenomics
With multiple research firms and the community collaborating on a transparent, data-driven redesign aligned with enterprise adoption and sustainable long-term economics.

Cosmos Labs — the ecosystem’s growth and engineering arm — is steering these changes to ensure the Hub becomes a reliable settlement and coordination layer for the future of onchain finance.

Cosmos: Now the Institutional Stack for Real-World Finance

Cosmos wasn’t pitching a vision — it was presenting a transformation already underway. Enterprises are adopting appchains because they need:

Sovereignty (full control of their chain)
Deterministic performance (no shared blockspace congestion)
Interoperability (IBC across networks)
Regulatory compliance (permissioned PoA support)

Cosmos — an ecosystem of sovereign, interoperable blockchains connected by IBC and supported by the Interchain Stack — has become the natural foundation for that model.

The Interchain Foundation, a Swiss non-profit that funds and coordinates the development of Cosmos Labs, the Cosmos Hub, and the Interchain Stack, continues to support this shift as the ecosystem matures into institutional infrastructure.

A Turning Point for the Cosmos Ecosystem

Hosted in Split, Croatia, Cosmoverse 2025 united developers, institutions, central banks, and enterprises — all aligning around a shared understanding: Cosmos is entering its enterprise era. As Maghnus Mareneck summarized during his keynote:
“Cosmos is becoming the preferred stack for real-world finance.”

Maghnus Mareneck, Co-CEO, Cosmos Labs
And this year, the industry saw exactly how that future will be built.

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