Cosmos ecosystem developer Jacob Gadikian, who shared the findings in an X post on October 16, said that part of Cosmos' Liquid Staking Module (LSM) may have been built by North Korean developers. Cosmos co-founder Ethan Buchman said in an X post on October 18 that Cosmos was previously unaware of North Korean contributions to LSM. Melody Chan, head of research at Redecentralise, a non-profit organization for sustainable development at DeFi, said malicious North Korean actors could be behind the Cosmos LSM code, which could introduce hidden vulnerabilities like secret backdoors in the ecosystem's code.