Interchain Foundation

We are pleased to share the Treasury Snapshots for August. This initiative is part of our ongoing commitment to transparency, providing a clear view of the ICF's holdings. You can find the Snapshot for August 2025 below: https://lnkd.in/d4xFz6hn

Stablecoin adoption keeps trending up, with Japan soon to approve its first yen-denominated stable: JPY Coin Join us this September, with Toki, Progmat , and JPYC in Japan's Stablecoin Summit to go over this, and other Cosmos developments in the world of stables. https://lnkd.in/gQh9jiv9

Ripple, one of the biggest payments and tokenization blockchain networks has expanded the utility of its XRP Ledger by launching a Cosmos EVM Sidechain. This highly customizable chain, purpose-built to extend Ripple's core chain, brings programmability and native connectivity to the ledger - exposing Ripple's +100b market to new applications, and use-cases. https://lnkd.in/dMyaQvHD

With Circle and Stripe both revealing they are building Layer 1 blockchains, more than ever we are seeing businesses, institutions, and governments solving real infrastructure problems and improving their products with purpose-built blockchains. Sovereign, with complete technical freedom, yet still open to interoperate freely. That’s the Internet of Blockchains.

Digital Asset Treasury Companies (DATCOs) are on the rise — and Injective is taking them fully on-chain. With the Cosmos stack, players like Injective bring new markets and asset classes from TradFi, like $SBET, can interoperate across the entire on-chain/off-chain economy, and reach millions. https://lnkd.in/dZWSmsbE

"The opportunity for us at Warden is to make crypto feel seamless and easy." – says Josh Goodbody, Co-founder of Warden The flexibility & modularity of the Cosmos stack enables Warden Protocol to customize their setup from the ground up to build AI-powered tech that abstracts away all the UX fuss. https://lnkd.in/desGK9uE

Japan is setting the pace for stablecoin innovation. With clear regulations and cross-border payment projects, momentum is building fast, and Cosmos & IBC are leading the way. We’re excited to join Progmat, Inc. and TOKI at the Japan Stablecoin Summit this September. From the JPY stablecoin to payments, Japan is turning stablecoin policy into practical solutions. For example, with Project Pax — a cross-border stablecoin payment platform built on Cosmos and IBC - a collaboration of TOKI, Datachain, and Progmat (a consortium of Japan’s largest banks and financial entities). Read more, and join us in September: https://lnkd.in/gQh9jiv9

Trustless Bitcoin vaults: No bridges. No custodians. Just proofs and native BTC. Babylon Labs latest whitepaper brings the key missing primitive for BTCFi to flourish: trustless management of BTC, powered by ZK Proofs. This will enable a new native option for institutions and builders to leverage BTC natively anywhere in their systems and applications. Congratulations to the Babylon team, and David Tse! Read the whitepaper below: https://lnkd.in/dP-gMirC

With a current TVL of $1.39 billion, Ondo Finance has established itself as a leader in tokenizing real-world assets, building institutional-grade platforms and infrastructure to bring financial markets and services onchain, including: - Tokenized U.S. Treasuries. - Borrowing and lending platform. - Bridging Infrastructure - Soon, tokenized stocks and ETFs Learn how they built this on Cosmos, and the steps they are taking to bringing capital markets onchain: https://lnkd.in/dtGjX9Vp

▚▚ SOVEREIGN SERIES ▚▚ “The Cosmos SDK is by far the most robust stack for building application blockchains" Zon, co-founder of Initia. Initia uses our stack to: ✦ Build a Cosmos chain as a rollup ✦ Support multiple VMs ✦ Interop via @IBCProtocol ✦ Easily connect wallets across ecosystems.