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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Over the past several weeks, Nolus governance has processed an unusual number of proposals: closing markets on Osmosis, authorizing Solana relayers, deploying contracts, registering oracles, and adding new assets. Behind this succession of votes lies a major strategic...
Over the course of eight articles, we have tried to separate facts from noise. The hacks attributed to Cosmos did not necessarily involve the Hub or IBC. Several projects presented as pillars of the ecosystem actually brought almost no value to ATOM. Cosmos technology...
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...
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...