As a value-bridging protocol, IBC has been a massive boon to the Cosmos ecosystem. So valuable that development is widely occurring from blockchains such as Ethereum, Avalanche, Polkadot, NEAR Protocol, and Penumbra to integrate with the trust-minimized bridging protocol. — The Cosmos ecosystem has rapidly been growing over the past two years. The early years of the IBC ecosystem have seen blockchains with the Cosmos-SDK connecting to the trust-minimized bridging protocol.