Since the beginning of this series, we have tried to separate facts from noise. Several attacks have been presented as “Cosmos hacks” even though they involved smart contracts, bridges, or independent applications. The Cosmos Hub, ATOM, and IBC were not necessarily...
The snapshot taken on Saturday, August 22 at 00:00 marks a first since the launch of Crypto Race 2026: all fourteen tracked assets advanced simultaneously over the week. And this was no minor move. Ethereum gained 34.2%, Osmosis 26.2%, and Bitcoin 24.8%. Even the...
For a long time, the Cosmos Hub relied on an implicit promise: the more the Cosmos ecosystem grew, the more ATOM would eventually benefit. The first six parts of this series exposed the limits of that reasoning. Blockchains can use the Cosmos SDK, connect through IBC...
After the fairly broad rebound seen last week, the Crypto Race 2026 is returning to a much more selective pattern. The snapshot taken on Saturday, August 15 at 00:00 highlights two particularly clear moves: Akash is accelerating again at the top, while ATOM has almost...
Since the beginning of this series, we have tried to separate two things that are often mixed together: the state of Cosmos as a technology and the state of the Cosmos Hub as an economic product built around ATOM. The hacks did not demonstrate a widespread failure of...
