Cosmos’ cross-chain network has grown steadily with the projects it runs on top. It just hit a major milestone in terms activity.

Over the past month, the Inter Blockchain Communication protocol (IBC), the backbone of Cosmos’ ecosystem, saw a surge in activity with over one million transactions.

Cosmos introduced the IBC in March, to allow cross-chain decentralized financing and interoperable token transfers. It has seen a significant increase in its growth over the past six months as it has added new projects to the ecosystem and blockchains.

Terra, Band and Kava are just a few of the notable projects that use the protocol.

One million IBC transfers in 30 days…

The Mapofzones Cosmos ecosystem explorer shows that there have been 1,071,132 transfers over the past 30 days and 45,738 transfers on IBC over the past 24 hours.

The Osmosis automated market maker is responsible for the lion’s share of those IBC protocol transfers with 44% of the total, with the Cosmos chains recording 307,855 transfers, or 29% of the IBC total, over the past 30 days.

The IBC standard provides a secure method of exchanging data between independent blockchains while scaling through sharding and sidechains for various applications. Cosmos is just one network of many operating on the IBC protocol.

The digital asset payments and wallet provider Crypto.com also runs on the Cosmos network. In late September it launched its own NFT platform and marketplace which has driven further momentum.

In June, the Kava DeFi platform launched on Cosmos enabling Binance Coin deposits to collateralized loans in its USDX stablecoin.

Cosmos is also working on rollup scaling technology to allow developers to build Cosmos-based blockchains as rollups which can be deployed as clusters within the IBC zones. In a tweet on Oct. 6, it explained that the scaling tech called Optimint would be a “drop-in replacement” for the current Tendermint framework that it is built on.

Cosmos has its own native token called ATOM which has fallen 5.1% over the past 24 hours to trade at $35.39 according to CoinGecko. The token has made a solid 37% gain over the past month, however, and is just 19% down from its Sept. 20 all-time high of $44.42.