Interchain Labs, a team born from the Interchain Foundation’s acquisition of SKIP protocol, has a long-standing responsibility for building the Core Cosmos infrastructure, but has a new name. The group today announced that it will operate as Cosmos Labs. It says the organization shows its role as a key engineering, product and growth flock for Cosmos Ecosystem and Technology Stack.
The brand is framed as more than a change of signage. Cosmos Labs places new identities as recommendations for core papers. A customizable blockchain built with a purpose connected through secure interoperability is the most practical path to moving commerce on-chain. The announcement points out the size of the network as evidence. Among the over 200 production chains running Cosmos stacks and chains opting to IBC, the average monthly transfer amounts to $1 billion, presenting a name change as a way to increase Cosmos’ visibility with customers, developers and the wider industry.
The backstory is simple. At the end of 2024, the Interchain Foundation integrated strategic product and growth efforts across the ecosystem, gaining skip protocols and folding its efforts into Interchain Labs. Currently, as a subsidiary of Cosmos Labs Banner and Interchain Foundation, the team focuses on product distribution, engineering, marketing and growth initiatives that expand Cosmos Stack, Cosmos Hub and Atom Economy, with the foundation continuing issues of Steward Governance, Treasury and Ecosystem-Wide.
Major Product Progress
Cosmos Labs points to specific product progress made since the transition. The team is launching IBC Eureka, a generated optical client-enabled path aimed at extending IBC to Ethereum, reducing costs and increasing security for cross-system forwarding, facilitating deployment as a key step to connecting the cosmos chain to Ethereum and other ecosystems. The same year also brought the release of Cosmos SDK v0.53. This is an update and accusation that the team has highlighted, and aims to upgrade and adopt developers.
At the forefront of compatibility, Cosmos Labs helped develop and release standard COSMOS EVM frameworks to enable EVM-based projects to leverage Cosmos tools and complexity. The movement of these products is intended to reduce friction for developers and projects that require sovereign chains but also Ethereum compatibility and cross-chain fluidity.
Cosmos Labs is now available for integration and end users, with Skip:Go, Skip’s cross-chain API and user-friendly transfer widgets, presented as part of the Cosmos stack. Core pieces from other stacks, including the Cosmos SDK, IBC, CometBFT, and Cosmos EVM, are under Cosmos Labs’ development delegation, and Cosmos Github will continue to function as a central code repository.
The announcement also reveals that future product and strategy communications will come from Cosmos Labs, with governance and foundation updates being made public by the Interchain Foundation. Cosmos Labs says it is a globally distributed, mission-driven team working at the intersection of technology, community and customer recruitment.
We openly recruit engineers, builders, marketers and business development experts who want to help shape the future of interoperable blockchains. For Cosmos Ecosystem, the brand is a general bet. By unifying products, engineering and markets with a single recognizable name, the team aims to reduce the brands of potential enterprise customers and developer teams and accelerate the use of the real world chain.
The adoption signal will allow you to measure how the name actually plays. This means that if more teams are adopting the COSMOS stack, how much liquidity flows through IBC and Eureka, and the Cosmos EVM and SDK upgrades will make projects much easier to ship. For now, the transition from Interchain Lab to Cosmos Labs is a clear indication that the group plans to double Cosmos’ vision for the dedicated blockchain web, connected.
