Let us rephrase our position with the clarity it deserves.
We believe that the funding for this initiative would be more appropriately handled by the Foundation and/or direct clients of the work involved. Given the Cosmos Hub’s evolving role as a service-provider chain, as outlined in its updated roadmap, it is important that community funding in ATOM remains closely tied to the delivery of concrete interchain services.
These services include, but are not limited to:
- Liquidity deployment and coordination
- Shared Security mechanisms (e.g. ICS and PSS)
- Interchain Virtual Machine (VM) offerings
- Oracle infrastructure and related data services
From our perspective, ATOM’s community pool should prioritize funding that enhances and supports these core services, especially when they drive utility and adoption directly aligned with the Hub’s mandate.
That said, we respect the importance of your work and invite continued dialogue on how it can be integrated within the broader interchain ecosystem—potentially under the support of those who benefit most directly from it, or through the foundation which is in charge of supporting the Cosmos SDK as a whole, which your contributions seems to be much more aligned with.