"dM dM! Iโm Mitya, co-founder of Drop. I started in crypto in 2021 for P2P.ORG, one of the leading validators. Since then, I became a CPO at P2P.ORG, and worked a lot on establishing P2P Staking platform, helping it become the largest node operator on EigenLayer and starting the first institutional cluster on SSV network. This was a very satisfying period for me, but I always wanted to focus on the Cosmos / Interchain ecosystem as it always seemed very appealing to me. From P2P, I know the Neutronโs team really well, and in discussion with them we realised that launching what used to be โLido on Cosmosโ idea under a separate brand was a very promising project. This is how Drop started."
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"๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ Drop ํ๋ก์ ํธ์ ๋ํด ๊ฐ๋ตํ ์๊ฐ ๋ถํ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค."
"Drop is a liquid staking protocol for the Interchain, backed by Lido and deployed as an Integrated Application on Neutron. Drop was launched in mid-2024 with dATOM as the first asset, followed by dTIA launch in late 2024. Currently, Drop has more than 3.5 Million ATOM and more than 0.5 Million TIA staked, and has the highest amount of DEX liquidity among the Cosmos LSTs and the biggest lending and perps market on Mars protocol among all the LSTs."
"We believe that Cosmos has the best tech stack, and a very passionate community. Cosmos is the ecosystem that started working on the Interop, cross-chain use cases the earliest, and is home to IBC, the leading Interop technology in blockchain. Therefore we believe that Cosmos or Interchain (depending on the name you prefer) has a bright future. Drop and liquid staking in general is also very important for Cosmos, because most of the assets in Cosmos Hub, Celestia, etc. are locked in native staking, and cannot be used in the economy in the most productive way. We are looking to change it with wider adoption of Drop LST."
"Drop is laser-focused on one goal: build the most liquid, and the most adopted LSTs. This is why we did different architectural choices than other LSTs: we are smart-contract based, which allows us to iterate on the product quickly; we are co-hosted on the same chain with the key DeFi partners such as Astroport, Mars, Duality, etc.; and we plan our technical and business roadmap focused on the DeFi integrations, how to make them scalable, useful and easy for the users. This is why, for instance, dATOM has the biggest market on Mars (~$5M), so that you can use it for leveraged staking, and even perps trading on any pairs now - which is unique for any LSTs in blockchain."
