[DRAFT] Suggestion for a potential direction

I’d like to share a conceptual suggestion that might be worth exploring during the ongoing research and design efforts around the Hub and the broader Cosmos ecosystem. Cosmos has built the strongest interoperability layer in Web3, but there is still a major opportunity that remains untapped, turning interoperability itself into a source of sustainable economic value. Not through inflation, but through real activity and cross chain flows. A direction that could be worth investigating is the idea of an Interchain Revenue Layer a standardized framework where networks, applications, and services connected through IBC can route fees, data services, or economic flows through the Cosmos Hub in a transparent and modular way. This would allow ATOM to act as a settlement asset for interchain activity, giving the Hub a clearer economic role beyond issuance based security. Such a model wouldn’t need to replace anything that currently exists. It could simply sit alongside the existing architecture as an optional pathway for chains that want to take advantage of shared liquidity, shared routing, shared data, or shared infrastructure. The value of ATOM would then come from usage and economic…

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