Interchain Labs, the team born from the acquisition of Skip protocol by the Interchain Foundation and for a long time charged with building core Cosmos infrastructure, has a new name. The group today announced that it will now work as Cosmos Labs, a movement that, according to the organization, shows its role as the primary engineering, product and growth arm for the Cosmos ecosystem and technology stack.
The rebrand is framed as more than a change in signage. Cosmos Labs positions the new identity as a right to a core thesis: that specially built, adaptable block chains connected by safe interoperability are the most practical path for moving trade on the chain. The announcement points to the size of the network as proof, more than 200 production chains that the Cosmos stack manages and, under chains that have chosen in IBC, an average monthly transfer volume to the north of $ 1 billion, and presents the name change as a way to raise the visibility of Cosmos, developer and developer’s developer.
The background story is simple. At the end of 2024, the Interchain Foundation moved to consolidate strategic product and growth work in the ecosystem, to acquire the Skip protocol and to fold that effort into some breakdown laboratories. Now, under the Cosmos Labs Banner and as a subsidiary of the Interchain Foundation, the team says that it will focus on product delivery, engineering, marketing and growth initiatives that expand the Cosmos Stack, Cosmos Hub and the Atom-economy, while the Foundation continues Mattesury, Treasury.
Important product progress
Cosmos Labs points to the progress of a concrete product that has been booked since the transition. The team launched IBC Eureka, a produced, light-client-compatibiel path that expands IBC to Ethereum and aims to reduce costs and to increase the security for cross-ecosystem transfers, and has promoted the rollout as an important step in the direction of connecting Cosmos-Ksens with ethereals. In the same year, the release of Cosmos SDK V0.53, an update that the team emphasized, was also not fragile and focused on the flattening of the upgrades and adoption of developers.
In the field of compatibility, Cosmos Labs helped to develop and release a canonical Cosmos EVM framework to make it easier for EVM-based projects to use Cosmos tooling and composability. These product movements are intended to reduce friction for developers and projects that want sovereign chains, but also need Ethereum compatibility and cross-chain liquidity.
Cosmos Labs says Skip: Go, Skip’s Cross-Chain API and user-oriented transfer widget, is now being presented as part of the Cosmos Stack and remains available for integrations and end users; Other core pieces of the stack, including the Cosmos SDK, IBC, Cometbft and Cosmos EVM, remain under the development mandate of Cosmos Labs, where the Cosmos Github continues to serve as the central code repository.
The announcement also clarified that future product and strategy communication will come from Cosmos Labs, while the updates of Governance and Foundation will be published by the Interchain Foundation. Cosmos Labs describes itself as a worldwide distributed, mission -driven team that works at the intersection of technology, community and customer adoption.
It is open to recruiting engineers, builders, marketers and professionals in the field of business development who want to help shape the future of interoperable block chains. For the Cosmos ecosystem, the Rebrand is a public bet: by uniting product, engineering and go-to-market under a single, recognizable name, the team wants to sharpen the brand for potential business customers and developer teams and to accelerate the use of Real-World on-Chain.
How the reconstruction in practice takes place will be measurable in adoption signals: whether more teams De Cosmos Stack will use, how much liquidity flows through IBC and Eureka, and whether Cosmos EVM and SDK -Upgrades make it material for projects to send. For the time being, the transition from Interchain Labs to Cosmos Labs is a clear signal that the group is planning to double the vision of Cosmos on a connected, specially built web of blockchains.