Osmosis to Exit Maintenance Phase, Target Lower Inflation and Cut Active Validators to 30

ChainCatcher reports that Osmosis, the decentralized exchange protocol in the Cosmos ecosystem, said it is wrapping up its recent maintenance phase and will return to active development. The team said its first priority is to simplify the core product. Planned work includes streamlining tokenomics, narrowing the treasury's focus, and ensuring the network can move faster when required. Osmosis will submit three OSMO-related changes to on-chain governance. The first proposal would further reduce inflation by cutting new OSMO issuance and stopping the deposit of newly minted OSMO into the community pool, shifting the network toward greater reliance on real revenue. The second would burn most of the OSMO currently held in the community pool, along with OSMO previously allocated from that pool. The third would limit treasury-provided liquidity to core liquidity pools only; the full list of eligible pools will be released before implementation. Osmosis also plans to shrink the active validator set to 30, arguing that a smaller set improves incident response and coordination for chain upgrades while fitting a low-inflation approach. The team said protocol simplification is intended to support future expansion, reiterated Osmosis's role as a central hub for IBC asset trading, and invited community feedback on the next phase of development.