The inflation of $ATOM is high, given the high yield that $ATOM staking has and the limited utility of $ATOM, therefore generating high selling pressure; for this reason, I propose the following:
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Any blockchain that has a minimum amount of $ATOM locked in a validator or has a validator can belong to Cosmos Hub
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Any blockchain voted by the DAO to belong to Cosmos Hub may be excluded from this mandatory lockup
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The DAO can expel blockchains if they break the Cosmos Hub rules, and the $ATOM they have locked will be confiscated and passed to the $ATOM community
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Blockchains are prohibited from selling the $ATOM generated by staking; these will be automatically reinvested
This proposal aims to reduce the selling pressure on $ATOM, ensure Cosmos Hub projects are more involved with the community, speed up the integration of new projects into Cosmos Hub, and provide more utility to $ATOM through use cases. It makes perfect sense that if a project wants to use the Cosmos infrastructure, they should demand $ATOM in some way.