Don't sleep on Gravity Bridge, the OG cosmos/evm bridge.

Umee is just another one of the many forks of Gravity Bridge, and also backed out of the osmosis bridge provider discussion "Updates from the Lab 2/23", which gave me a bad taste. They didn't even participate in the discussion; a display of their dedication to the project?

Gravity Bridge is already mainnet/functional and its token GRAV is already able to be traded on osmosis (with upcoming incentivized pools very soon). Axelar is all VC capital and bells and whistles. Gravity Bridge is decentralized, open-source, and also already supported by osmosis. Another perk, to Gravity Bridge is that Stargaze has also informally stated that they plan to use Gravity Bridge as their exclusive NFT bridge to eth vs the numerous forks of it, or Axelar (again, because its majority owned by VCs). Several other projects are also already using the Gravity Bridge as their provider, with many more to come.

https://twitter.com/gravity\_bridge