The Interchain Foundation (ICF), which supports the development and ecological construction of the cross-chain project Cosmos, released its 2023 expenditure budget, and it is expected that approximately $40 million will be spent in 2023 to fund different engineering teams to develop and maintain the core stack of Interchain, including supporting projects that promote adoption and use cases. Key funding areas in 2023 include consensus, interoperability, App framework and client, Cosmos Hub, security and testing framework, DevRel, communication and growth. ICF is currently in the final stages of finalizing key contracts for 2023.