According to BlockBeats, on October 18, the Cosmos Hub passed the "Support Liquidity Staking Module (LSM)" proposal. Officials said that because the initial LSM proposal had editorial components from North Korean IT personnel, Informalinc and ATOM Accelerator are conducting a third-party audit of LSM and have postponed the Hydro project originally scheduled to launch this week. Hydro is an upcoming liquidity distribution platform developed by Informal Systems for the Hub, which uses LSM to enable ATOM stakers to participate in the voting process without canceling the stake, giving up the stake rewards, or favoring any single liquidity stake provider.