Developing technology, attracting users and funding operations over time: the projects we follow need to make progress on all three fronts. This week, the Cosmos Hub community call shed more light on ecosystem funding and the institutional strategy. Provenance also...
Blockchain
Crypto Race 2026: ATOM returns to the podium, but who can beat Bitcoin?
AKT maintains a commanding lead, ATOM delivers the strongest comeback of the week, and FLUX moves closer to break-even with rewards included. Behind these moves, let’s remember the challenge at the heart of our Crypto Race: which assets in the Snow-Fall ecosystem will...
Cosmos Hub Flux Avalanche and Algorand face the challenge of usage and revenue
A Snow Fall Chronicle 9 October 2026 review — key developments from 1 September to 9 October. Since the beginning of September, the networks covered in this review have moved in different directions. Cosmos Hub is refining its financial ambitions. Lava is pursuing a...
Crypto Race 2026: Akash leads as the final quarter begins
The Crypto Race is entering its final quarter. After nine months of tracking, the October 3, 2026 snapshot shows substantial gaps: Akash maintains a strong lead, Bittensor remains in positive territory, and Nolus still tops the second category. Algorand is also...
Cosmos Hub: a clearer economic ambition as the ecosystem reorganises
Week of 28 September–2 October 2026 This week, Cosmos outlined several elements of its evolution: a product direction for the Hub, recommendations under review for ATOM’s economics, and a Cosmos Labs announcement about banking connectivity with Swift. Meanwhile, the...
Crypto Race 2026: Akash pulls away, TAO accelerates and Flux climbs back
Snapshot: September 26, 2026 After TAO returned to break-even and Nolus moved into positive territory last week, the Crypto Race has picked up speed. Twelve of the fourteen assets we track rose between the September 19 and September 26 snapshots. The gains were far...
Cosmos This Week: USDC Changes Course, Paxos Moves Forward, and Validators Keep Pace
Three developments this week tell three different stories about Cosmos. One affects users and their USDC. Another concerns ATOM’s ambition to reach new markets. The third shows what that ambition also demands from the people running the infrastructure when events move...
Crypto Race 2026 — TAO Returns to Break-Even as Nolus Moves into Positive Territory
Last week's move was not simply a brief bounce. For the first time in several weeks, every participant in Category 1 moved higher together. Bitcoin climbed back above $80,000, the altcoins accelerated, and two competitors crossed an important threshold: TAO virtually...
Nolus Wants to Make DeFi Leverage Less Brutal — Here Is How
Fixed rates, spot assets and partial liquidations: Nolus does not promise to eliminate the risks of leverage, but it is trying to prevent one bad market sequence from immediately turning into a disaster. In DeFi, leverage promises greater exposure and potentially...









