Today I want to raise a very urgent topic for the development of the Cosmos @cosmos ecosystem. There’s a large and active Russian-speaking community that, surprisingly, often goes unnoticed or unacknowledged. It feels like there's a sort of ignorance or silence around the fact that the crypto space includes a massive number of Russian-speaking users — founders, developers, NFT creators, marketers, influencers, bloggers, stakers, validators, builders, and a vast army of users and community members. Let’s take a closer look at how many of them are involved in Cosmos. First of all, I’d like to highlight that the first team to notice and start building bridges with the Russian-speaking community was @madscientists_x . Special thanks to @Rekt_Zerker, @_TrendyTech, and @rektcudo for their openness, for listening and paying attention, and for leading the charge in engaging with the Russian community. Today, more than 500+ people are active in Mad Scientists alone. Key pioneers of the movement: Cosmos Ecosystem Telegram - 6,400+ users t.me/CosmosEcosystem_ru Cryptobase on YouTube - 12.1K subscribers m.youtube.com/@CRYPTOBASED Telegram chat - 3,700+ users t.me/Crypto_Base_Chat A huge amount of educational material, tutorials, video content, chat support, and multiple visits to @CosmoverseHQ and other crypto events. RPDAO @Red_Planet_Dao - A Bitcoin mining project utilizing @StargazeZone, with collections launched on Osmosis @osmosis, and using vaults on Nolus @NolusProtocol showcasing synergy between three Cosmos projects. It’s an offline mining project that distributes $BTC and altcoins monthly to NFT holders. X: 1,750+ followers Telegram: 450+ members - t.me/rpdao Discord: 540+ members - discord.gg/pGX8PYqY4G Broxa Community - Over 2,100 users. An OG NFT community mostly focused on Stargaze and other Cosmos chains. Very active during mints, their participation has made or broken multiple collections. t.me/Girls_In_NFT Expedition - The strongest CIS Russian-speaking NFT collection in the Cosmos ecosystem. An OG Stargaze project born from the Broxa community. @Puuf_DeFi is the project CEO and an active Cosmos influencer. X: 2,350+ followers - @expedition_pics Discord: 2,000+ members - discord.gg/yTmGRqTJ Telegram: 520+ members - t.me/expedition_pics DefiGeeks @DeFiGeeksNFT - A whole NFT-gated ecosystem on Discord with special trait-based features (giveaways, VPN access, DAO, etc). Regular YouTube coverage of Cosmos updates, and three NFT collections on Stargaze that give access to their server. YouTube: 10,000+ subscribers - m.youtube.com/@defigeek Discord: 7,000+ members - discord.gg/3VSPwftA Sin Garden - An OG NFT collection with its own comic release system, tokens, DAO-based staking rewards, and the native $SIN token. @singardenNFT X: 1,270+ followers Discord: 850+ members - discord.com/invite/SpYeucDne… Cryptogopniks - Developers and creators behind NFT collections on Stargaze and Injective. They’ve built platforms, smart contracts, and games. @StarGops_nft NFT staking platform: nftgang.net X: 1,400+ followers Weird Friends - An NFT collection with the $WEIRD token. The founder is Orion (@s_orion), an influencer and creator of the Weird Friends collection, as well as an ambassador and active community member in various projects. Validators - @Bro_n_Bro, @rekt_dao , @CitadelOne_, @POSTHUMAN_DVS And many other influencers and active members of different levels. There are ≈ 6,000+ active Russian-speaking users in the Cosmos ecosystem.When I say Cosmos, I also mean Celestia @celestia Have you ever seen the largest community in Cosmos actually represented or highlighted anywhere? Even just mentioned? I haven’t. And yet, there is no other community in Cosmos that is larger or more active than the Russian-speaking one. I’m a part of it too. Not engaging with people who are already here - who are building communities, creating products, and are deeply involved in the ecosystem - is a huge missed opportunity for any project or network. Let’s do something about it. Cosmos has already lost too many people. Let’s not lose more. @0xMagmar @qxnico @dogemos @sunnya97 @zmanian @nickwh8te @ssaintleger @musalbas @jadler0 @BasedBBU @thetashis @SignalSGNL @shan3v @MammothOverlord