The Interchain Foundation, the foundation that supports Cosmos, said in its 2023 funding budget that an estimated $40 million is needed to fund various engineering teams to develop and maintain Interchain's core stack, including supporting projects that drive adoption and use cases. The Interchain Foundation is currently in the final stages of finalizing key contracts for 2023. Since its inception, the Interchain Foundation has funded different engineering teams to develop and maintain Interchain's core infrastructure, including Tendermint Core (and now CometBFT), Cosmos SDK, Cosmos Hub, and Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol (IBC). Support the development of CosmWasm and Ethermint.