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Cosmos ecosystem liquid staking protocol Stride has announced plans to wind down the Stride chain's operations in an orderly manner. Users can redeem stTokens through Stride before October 12, after which the redemption function will be suspended; once the underlying staked assets are fully unlocked, a redemption pool is expected to go live on Osmosis around November 20.stTokens will not expire, users do not need to take action before the migration, and stTokens already deployed on other chains do not need to be bridged back to Stride. stTokens such as stATOM and stOSMO, along with their corresponding underlying assets, will be migrated to Osmosis's Transmuter pool and exchanged at a fixed redemption ratio; reward accrual will cease after the migration is complete. Stride stated that Stride Labs and Stride Association have limited financial reserves, and at the current burn rate, funds are expected to be depleted by February 2027.
Cosmos Hub officially stated that validators have successfully restarted the Cosmos Hub network as planned, block production has resumed, and the network is operating normally. The team will continue to monitor the network status and release further updates.
Odaily News: The ZetaChain community has passed Proposal 68 with a voter participation rate of 58%, exceeding the 40% quorum threshold; both against votes and abstentions accounted for 0.3%.ZetaChain stated that the project will shift its focus to Anuma, an AI application launched in February this year, and will no longer maintain its independent Layer 1 built on Cosmos SDK. Anuma claims to have over 300,000 users and has processed 1 million requests from 35 AI models.According to the proposal, ZETA will be converted to Solana-native SPL tokens at a 1:1 ratio, retaining the original token ticker and total supply, with the existing unlock schedule unchanged; ZETA on Ethereum and BNB Chain is not included in this migration. The shutdown timeline has not yet been determined, and a second vote will be held to determine the balance snapshot block, shutdown block, token claiming, and asset withdrawal plans. The project team will not initiate the second vote until trading platforms confirm the exchange arrangements; during this period, ZETA staking will continue.
The venture capital firm Cosmos Ventures has been launched, aiming to support entrepreneurs who are both philosophers and builders, and are committed to creating various institutions for the AI era. The firm was founded by Brendan McCord and Matt Mandel, who have jointly launched a $77.6 million initial fund (Fund I).
Odaily News: SemiAnalysis posted on X that AMD middle managers are spending the time of more than 20 engineers trying to expand their sphere of influence and secure promotions through a useless side project called the "ATOM Inference Engine," rather than allocating those resources to inference engines actually being used by real customers like Meta and xAI, such as SGLang and vLLM.SemiAnalysis said that dozens of AMD engineers, including principal engineers and AMD Fellows, have privately contacted the firm, stating that due to internal office politics at AMD and support from some middle managers, they are unable to discuss their concerns internally. Middle managers are consuming the time of more than 20 full-time engineers to develop this side project with almost no customers, and the engineers involved are all "10x engineers" who should have been dedicated to developing customer-facing inference engines like vLLM and SGLang.SemiAnalysis said that middle managers will likely respond by pointing to the only customer using the project in a production environment—Alibaba, based on Qwen—but further investigation shows that this is merely a limited deployment of ATOM by Alibaba's enterprise business unit, not the main business unit behind Qwen.SemiAnalysis stated that AMD management has diverted resources and limited internal GPU R&D clusters away from engineers supporting production-grade inference engines such as vLLM and SGLang, instead using them to expand their own influence and engage in office politics, showing a profound lack of respect for AMD engineers.
Cosmos Labs stated that a security incident is occurring in the Cosmos EVM module and has already affected relevant users. Its security and engineering teams are addressing the situation and have advised the contacted Cosmos EVM chains to require validators to suspend chain operations. Cosmos Labs has not yet disclosed vulnerability details, the affected chains, or specific losses, stating that an incident report will be published after the matter is resolved.
RWA Layer 1 blockchain MANTRA Chain announced that the vulnerability in the Cosmos-EVM module has been patched, the network has resumed operations and block production, and the incident did not affect user funds. The team will release a complete post-incident analysis report in the coming days.
According to the official announcement from Cosmostation Wallet, the team has announced that it will officially discontinue Cosmostation Wallet services. Starting from September 1, 2026, the iOS, Android, and Chrome extension versions will retain only the "Export Mnemonic Phrase" and "Export Private Key" functions, while the remaining functions will be taken offline sequentially. As this wallet is a non-custodial wallet, user assets remain stored on their respective blockchains; holding the mnemonic phrase or private key allows users to import the wallet into other compatible wallets to continue using it. The official team strongly advises users to complete secure backups of private keys or mnemonic phrases before September 1.