Cosmos Ecosystem Wealth Effect Rises: What Airdrop Opportunities Remain?
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Cosmos Ecosystem Wealth Effect Rises: What Airdrop Opportunities Remain?
The existing staking platforms for Cosmos ecosystem tokens are mainly divided into three categories: wallet staking, ecosystem liquidity platform staking, and protocol official website staking.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsAuthor: 1912212.eth, Foresight News
Outside of Ethereum, if one considers wealth effects alone, Solana and Cosmos are nearly unavoidable blockchains. Both have been heavily favored by capital. On Solana, meme coins alone have produced three major winners—BONK, SILLY, and WIF—while select DeFi projects such as Jupiter and Jito conducted airdrops that allowed participants staking within the Solana ecosystem to earn substantial returns.
The Cosmos ecosystem has also spawned a series of remarkably high-return projects, including Celestia, Injective, Neutron, and Sei. Recently, popular projects like Dymension and Altlayer have rewarded Cosmos stakers with token airdrops. Notably, modular blockchain Celestia allocated 20 million TIA tokens to stakers on Cosmos Hub and Osmosis, as well as IBC relayers. It’s time to take a closer look at airdrop opportunities within the Cosmos ecosystem.
It's worth noting that in addition to staking certain Cosmos ecosystem tokens, actively engaging with protocol testnets is also highly important.
Potential Airdrop Opportunities
Polymer Blockchain
Polymer Labs is a modular networking protocol built on IBC, aiming to enable decentralized, secure, and permissionless cross-chain communication.
In March 2022, Polymer raised $3.6 million in a seed round led by Distributed Global and North Island Ventures. In April of the same year, Polymer Labs partnered with Celestial to bring IBC to Optimistic rollups.
Berachain Blockchain
Berachain is an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain built using the Cosmos SDK, secured by a Proof of Liquidity consensus mechanism. It recently launched its testnet, allowing users to claim test tokens for hands-on experience.
In April 2023, Berachain raised $42 million in funding, led by Polychain Capital, with participation from OKX Ventures, Hack VC, Dao5, Tribe Capital, Shima Capital, Robot Ventures, Goldentree Asset Management, Dragonfly Capital’s former partner, Celestia founder Mustafa Al-Bassam, Tendermint co-founder Zaki Manian, and 20 other DeFi project founders.
SquidSquid Cross-Chain Trading and Liquidity Routing Protocol
In February 2024, SquidSquid raised $4 million in strategic funding, led by Polychain Capital, with participation from Nomad Capital, North Island Ventures, Maelstrom, Chorus One, and others.
Noble Application-Specific Chain for the Cosmos Ecosystem
Noble is an application-specific chain built for native asset issuance within the Cosmos and IBC ecosystems. In October 2023, NASD, Noble’s development company, announced a $3.3 million seed round led by Polychain Capital, with participation from Borderless Capital, Circle Ventures, Wintermute Ventures, and others.
Initia Blockchain
Initia is a Layer 1 blockchain on Cosmos. Although developed using the Cosmos Software Development Kit (SDK), it will utilize MoveVM—a computational framework based on the Move smart contract language.
In October 2023, Initia received funding support from Binance Labs during its Pre-Seed round.
Fairblock Privacy-Focused Blockchain
Built using the Cosmos SDK, Fairblock aims to make conditional decryption and pre-execution privacy possible. Conditional decryption allows users to set conditions under which protocols can execute transactions without revealing any on-chain information prior to execution.
In October 2023, Fairblock completed a $2.5 million pre-seed round led by Galileo, with participation from Lemniscap, Dilectic, Robot Ventures, GSR, Chorus One, Dorahacks, and Reverie.
Tabi Chain Gaming Blockchain
In January 2024, Tabi (formerly Treasureland), a GameFi gaming service platform, announced plans to launch Tabi Chain—an EVM-compatible gaming blockchain on Cosmos. The testnet is scheduled for release in February this year.
In May 2023, Tabi raised $10 million in an angel round, with investors including Animoca Brands, Binance Labs, Draper Dragon, HashKey Capital, and individual investors such as Feng Bo (Dragonfly), Riyad AD (Saudi Arabia), and Suji Yan (Mask Network).
Eclipse Modular Settlement Layer
Eclipse is a modular settlement layer that enables the creation of custom execution chains by selecting desired consensus and data availability (DA) layers. Eclipse supports both EVM and SVM execution environments and plans to support additional virtual machines in the future. On the DA layer, it already integrates with Celestia.
In 2022, Eclipse completed a $15 million Pre-Seed and seed funding round, including a $6 million Pre-Seed round led by Polychain and a $9 million seed round co-led by Tribe Capital and Tabiya.
EigenLayer Ethereum Restaking Protocol
On its Twitter homepage, a pinned short video features three words—one of which is "Cosmos." Participating in staking activities involving Cosmos ecosystem tokens may still qualify users for a potential EigenLayer airdrop.
In March 2023, EigenLabs, the developer behind restaking protocol EigenLayer, raised $50 million in a Series A round led by Blockchain Capital, with participation from Electric Capital, Polychain Capital, Hack VC, Finality Capital Partners, Coinbase Ventures, and IOSG Ventures. Prior to this, EigenLabs had already completed a $14.5 million seed round co-led by Polychain Capital and Ethereal Ventures.
Wormhole Cross-Chain Bridge
Recently, Wormhole unveiled its zero-knowledge (ZK) roadmap. By integrating zero-knowledge proofs, Wormhole aims to make significant progress in reducing trust assumptions and improving overall blockchain interoperability. Over the coming months, ZK light clients for various blockchains—including Ethereum, Sui, Aptos, NEAR, and Cosmos—will be deployed and integrated with Wormhole, enabling trustless two-way data transfers.
In July 2023, Wormhole launched its interchain bridge for application-specific chains within the Cosmos ecosystem.
In November 2023, Wormhole raised $225 million at a $2.5 billion valuation. This round had no lead investor and included Brevan Howard, Coinbase Ventures, Multicoin Capital, ParaFi, Dilectic, Borderless Capital, Arrington Capital, and Jump Trading. This was the largest single fundraising round for a cryptocurrency project in 2023.
Participation Strategy
Generally, projects do not impose strict minimum requirements on staked token amounts. For example, Celestia and Altlayer did not specify exact thresholds. However, exceptions exist: Dymension requires users to stake at least 1 ATOM before the deadline, or at least 1 token on Stride. Additionally, staking at least 10 OSMO tokens qualifies users for an airdrop. Saga’s airdrop criteria include staking more than 25 ATOM or over 23 TIA. A few protocols may also require participation in governance voting. Therefore, the safest approach is to stake as many different tokens as possible and actively participate in governance votes.
Staking Platforms
Current staking platforms fall into three main categories: wallet-based staking, ecosystem liquidity platforms, and direct staking via protocol websites.
ATOM
Keplr Wallet, Leap Wallet, liquid staking protocols Stride or StaFi
TIA
Keplr, Leap, Stride
Keplr, Leap, Stride, dYdX Chain V4 official website
Keplr, Leap, Stride, Osmosis official website
Keplr, Leap, Stride, Injective official website
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