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Neutron has a new upgrade coming that brings a lot of Neu (pun intended) features to the chain along with them leaving the COSMOS ICS security model. [https://np.reddit.com/r/cosmosnetwork/comments/1joa2ps/neutrons\_mercury\_upgrade\_hits\_april\_9th\_and\_its/](https://np.reddit.com/r/cosmosnetwork/comments/1joa2ps/neutrons_mercury_upgrade_hits_april_9th_and_its/)
When Neutron launched it was secured by COSMOS Interchain Security (ICS), meaning it didn't have it's own validator set and it got its security through the COSMOS network. While a great idea on paper, relying on large centralized validators like Coinbase always stalled chain upgrades. So Neutron is now breaking from ICS and going independent on security. Still part of the IBC and whatnot. The IBC just connected to Ethereum with a few test sends happening this week. Soon all cosmos chains can easily interact with ETH and other EVM chains. Cosmos itself is open sourcing the EVMOS EVM bridge However I feel the sleeping giant is very much Neutron especially with their new "roadmap" [https://x.com/0xSpaydh/status/1905289462034403835](https://x.com/0xSpaydh/status/1905289462034403835) Mars Protocol just launched Perps, Jade has USDC yield in a novel way that's 1:1 backed, Bull vs Bear is so freaking fun to put alt tokens against each other in combat. DROP is bringing the LIDO Liquid Staking Alliance to the entire cosmos.
What does “doing something” in crypto even mean? ~90% of the market is based on not doing anything. You’re here talking about a project, clearly with zero insight, just beefing due to price action from 2021. Am I right. Polkadot today actually achieved what many now see as the “endgame.” It introduced shared security and solved sharding—both data and execution, and hosting +50 chains on its cores which host dapps on them—and meantime identified its biggest pitfall: fragmentation. This is the very issue Ethereum has only started experiencing. For Polkadot it is like watching the movie that you already know how it will end. On Polkadot’s side, fragmentation is being tackled head-on with the ongoing JAM development. + 30 teams are already building clients, competing for a prize pool nearing $80-90M. Cosmos? Recognized the issue and introduced ICS and other solutions, but it is not the same when you try to patch things later on and likely to remain trapped in persistent fragmentation. The Cosmos SDK will continue as a useful tool for sovereign chains, despite its limitations. On the other side, you’ve got the integrated approach—Sui, Aptos, Solana. Sure, they will have a demand from this space for long, but this path will hit a ceiling. Vertical scaling has hard limits—in life, biology, and modern tech. And back to the reality: outside of DeFi and stablecoins, the crypto space has mostly been about running casinos. This is not Polkadot, a crypto problem that we are all in the same boat. The future? For the infra side it is about who can deliver the most flexible, accessible, high-performing systems while still staying resilient—delivering Web3 maxims.
There’s two stops 175k which is what I promised myself when I first got in this is what I would the LEGO Star Wars ICS Millennium Falcon. Other than that I’m going to keep stacking for a minimum of 30 years.