The Interchain Foundation announces an updated version of its ATOM delegation program.

A vulnerability allows validators to manipulate chain timestamps to obtain infinite inflation token rewards.

Speaking at Web3 Banking Symposium in Zurich on 2026-03-02, with Co-CEO, VP of Operations, and Skip Protocol discussing digital ledger technology applications for banks, payments, and market infrastructure.

A sovereign Central Bank referenced Cosmos in a CBDC feasibility report.

Wells Fargo builds Cosmos-based blockchain to tokenize $2 trillion in deposits, using Cosmos SDK with compliant privacy features (Pedersen Commitments, Bullet Proofs, Homomorphic Balances).

Preparing hard fork and SDK upgrades including IBC groundwork, Cosmos Hub compatibility, and X upgrades in version 130.

Achieved $4.6M in IBC transfer volume for ATOM, ranking second among all IBC assets.

Achieved 1,800 transactions per second on the Cosmos stack.

Canceled the planned EVM L2 launch on top of the existing L1 implementation that was announced in April 2025, citing operational complexity, regulatory challenges, and insufficient security guarantees compared to the L1.

Abhishek departed from Omniflix within the Cosmos ecosystem and is moving to a new project called FLIX.fun.

Forged IBC messages exploited on Saga bridge resulted in $7 million minted from thin air, traced to Ethermint codebase vulnerability affecting Cosmos EVM chains.

Listed on Bitstamp by Robinhood for trading in the US on February 9, 2026, with the ticker $ATOM.

Achieves $1.2 million weekly volume between Cosmos Hub and Ethereum powered by IBC v2 (IBC Eureka).

Native, trust-minimized cross-chain swaps are being enabled between Solana assets and Cosmos chains through THORChain's Solana integration, allowing assets to remain native while liquidity pools facilitate swaps.

FetchCoder V2 ships with native Cosmos support for building autonomous agents that can operate across Cosmos-built networks.

Experienced a 71.5% increase in weekly Github development activity events following the holiday period.

Native Proof of Authority feature is scheduled for first release in the Cosmos SDK during H1 2026, enabling fully-permissioned enterprise blockchain deployments without staking token dependencies.

Achieved $9.4M in weekly IBC transfer volume, ranking second among IBC assets.

Anoma co-founder characterized the Cosmos ecosystem as nearly dead, citing Penumbra's shutdown, Osmosis entering maintenance mode with resource redirection, and Noble's departure from the network.

A high-severity vulnerability was confirmed on HackerOne through the bug bounty program.

Coinbase increased its ATOM stake, pushing the bonded ratio above 59% and now controls approximately 17.6% of voting power while running 4 validators.

Reached $976 million market capitalization and ranked #97 on CoinGecko.

Memo-less swaps are planned for late Q1 2026 after unifying the Cosmos operator upgrade path.

$ATOM is a top 10 gainer by token mindshare in the past 7 days.

Cosmos Labs releases Request for Proposal (RFP) to fix ATOM tokenomics as phase 2 of a multi-phase strategy following enterprise pivot.

MANTRA Chain launches official bridge tool enabling bidirectional $OM token transfers between Cosmos and EVM chains.

Commonware represents the biggest Cosmos upgrade in years, drawing inspiration from Patrick Sirer's work on Avalanche Subnets.

ATOM is included in the CoinShares Altcoins ETF (DIME, U.S.) plus 2 more ETFs.

ADGM-licensed firms in Abu Dhabi can now use Tether's USDT on Cosmos following regulatory approval.

Bitget removes ATOM/BTC spot trading pair on December 12, 2025 at 10:00 UTC.

Akash Network completes three major deliverables: Cosmos SDK v0.53 upgrade, managed AI inference service showing increased demand and revenue, and WASM smart contracts deployment. Burn Mint Equilibrium infrastructure completes with code finalization expected within two weeks.

Hamilton Lane launches $1B+ SCOPE credit fund and Apollo deploys $1.2B ACRED fund on Sei Network (built on Cosmos SDK), alongside tokenized funds from BlackRock, Brevan Howard, and Laser Digital.

POKT Network launches bridges connecting Cosmos to Solana and Base chains, enabling wPOKT transfers from Cosmos through Ethereum to these networks.

Fee sponsorship feature launches on Keplr Extension and Mobile across Cosmos, Osmosis, AtomOne, Noble, and Celestia chains.

Sei Network crosses 4 billion transactions milestone (3.48b on Cosmos) with native USDC now live, integration with PayPal and Mastercard payment rails, and tokenized funds launching on the platform.

A new staking promotion offers a 40% rewards rate boost for ATOM staked by December 2, 2025, with weekly rewards on up to 200 ATOM until January 3, 2026.

The Cosmos community releases a proposal to research a new revenue/fee-based tokenomics model for ATOM, including reduced inflation, gradually increasing staking rewards for long-term stakers, and unifying ATOM as the reserve, gas, and settlement asset across the ecosystem.

Stargaze migration proposal voting to Cosmos Hub concludes today, integrating complete application suite including marketplace, launchpad, and creator studio with new ATOM utility for trading and minting. The proposal includes RWA strategy partnership with cosmoslabs_io and milestone-based funding structure with community oversight.

Flash Rewards staking opportunity launches for ATOM with 22% p.a. returns, 14-day lockup period, and 60,000 ATOM capacity limit from November 27 to December 11, 2025.

Velocity DeFi launches with architecture enabling multichain collateral, real velocity, and fully onchain economic flow.

THORNode releases emergency mainnet fix for version 3.13.0 to resolve block production halt caused by Cosmos store upgrade issue in the x/scheduler module. Non-active validators must run make set-version after upgrade height to remain eligible for subsequent churn.

Stride deploys 5,000 STRD token bid on Hydromarkets for ATOM liquidity, with ATOM holders eligible for STRD rewards through staking and voting participation.

Ranks #5 among top daily crypto gainers on November 20, 2025, with ATOM positive while broader crypto market declined 2-4%.

A Cosmos validator increases commission from 5% to 8% effective December 1, 2025, impacting staking rewards for delegators.

Sovereign Day Buenos Aires event features participation from Solana, McKinsey, Lombard Finance, Ripio, Celestia, Anchorage, Pacific Meta, Osmosis, RAILGUN Project, Injective, and Ondo Finance alongside Cosmos at EFDevcon.

Drop Money cancels its TGE and winds down operations; dATOM is in discussions with potential partners to continue the project.

Nillion migrates from Cosmos to Ethereum; nilChain halts 2026-03-23, ceasing $NIL token transfers.

Injective launches native EVM support on its Cosmos-based chain, enabling Ethereum compatibility.

Cosmos Labs Co-CEO keynote announces partnerships with Noble, Ondo Finance, Figure, Polygon, and Ripple for onboarding payments, fiat, and commodities at scale in the ecosystem.

Sovereign Day Buenos Aires event scheduled for November 18 at Malloy's Costanera from 9-19hs, featuring talks, shows and presentations with live performances by Malevo and Marcos Ayala Tango.

Noble claim portal is open until December 31st for cross-chain airdrops connecting Cosmos to EVM chains.

Cosmos Labs hosts a live discussion at 2PM UTC covering the Cosmos roadmap, ATOM, cosmoshub, and a Cosmos event at EFDevcon.

Cosmos Labs leadership will discuss a Cosmos event at EFDevcon during the 2PM UTC stream, alongside updates on the roadmap, ATOM, and cosmoshub.

Updated Cosmos roadmap and community involvement initiatives will be discussed on Nov. 6th at 2PM UTC during a Sovereign Day Buenos Aires countdown event.

Protocol v.125 goes live today with full shielded memo support, Cardano integration launches on mainnet in v.126, and a hard fork upgrade is scheduled for v.127.

Sovereign Day Buenos Aires event scheduled for Nov. 6th, 2PM UTC will preview Devconnect and recap Cosmoverse announcements including stack roadmap, recent wins, and ATOM community initiatives.

Governance vote activated to list dATOM-ATOM and dATOM-USDC Supervault LP tokens as collateral on Red Bank.

Mars Protocol governance vote is active to list dATOM-ATOM and dATOM-USDC Supervault LP tokens as collateral on Red Bank.

New Cosmos wallet creation on Sei Network is reducing hard ahead of SIP-3, with "Sei GIGA" phase set to begin after SIP-3 completion.

PEAQ establishes cross-chain bridge between Polkadot, Cosmos, and Fetch AI for multi-chain Machine IDs and AI-powered data exchange across ecosystems.

Sovereign Day Buenos Aires event announced for 3 weeks from now at EFDevcon, featuring tier-1 speakers from web3, finance, and government with RSVP available.

Keplr Extension launches fee sponsorship feature live for Cosmos, Osmosis, and AtomOne, enabling users to pay transaction fees without holding native fee tokens.

Cosmos Hub announces three new initiatives: a new tech roadmap, an updated delegation program, and a tokenomics research stream in collaboration with the community.

Sei Network's SIP-3 full rollout timeline set for completion within 6 months, with ecosystem dApps already migrating and exchanges/custodians next in sequence before final validator upgrade to complete the EVM-only transition removing CosmWasm.

SEI deploys SIP-3 wallet upgrade adding full EVM support, requiring Cosmos-only wallets to migrate.

Akash Mainnet 14 upgrade to Cosmos SDK v0.53 completes successfully. Cosmoverse25 event takes place in Split, Croatia from October 30 to November 1.

Cosmos experiences decline in developer numbers over past two years per Electric Capital data, contrasting with growth seen in Solana, Base, Bitcoin, and Move ecosystems.

Cosmos hosts 'Sovereign Day' at EFDevcon in Buenos Aires on November 18th, focusing on institutional blockchain use cases including finance, identity, payments, credentialing, and trade.

Figure's DSCR lending platform operates on a Cosmos blockchain, cutting loan origination costs by 80% and reducing funding times from months to days.

Akash Proposal 308 for Mainnet 14 upgrade is live on-chain, upgrading to Cosmos SDK v0.53 at block 23939793 with IAVL storage upgrades, expedited governance proposals, multi-depositor escrow accounts, and lease termination reason tracking.

Fetch.ai launches FetchCoder, an AI-native coding assistant for Cosmos and Web3 development with agentic reasoning and autonomous agent deployment capabilities.

Sentinel Hub v12 upgrade proposal launches featuring 3-second block times, USD-based pricing via oracles, automated lease renewals, and upgrades to Cosmos SDK v0.47 and CosmWasm v0.46.

Noble provides USDC liquidity to Cosmos, with various ecosystem airdrops active including Theo Network and Noble.

Mars Protocol's circuit breaker mechanism froze the market and prevented liquidations when Pyth reported ATOM at sub-dollar prices during the Binance crash. Sentinel makes DEX feeds available.

Featherlend implements ATOM as its OEV solution for its platform and curated Morpho Labs markets on Sei Network, partnering with RedStone as blockchain oracle provider.

Bridge between Cosmos and Saga opens with stATOM launching as live collateral on Mustang Finance's stablecoin protocol, enabling liquid staking yield and stablecoin borrowing capabilities.

Akash announces upgrade to Cosmos SDK v0.53 with governance proposal launching Oct 20th and upgrade expected Oct 27th, addressing 8 years of legacy debt with monthly feature releases planned.

ATOM becomes available for deployment into Mars Protocol lending pools via Hydro, offering yields and MARS token rewards for voters.

Binance accused of altering ATOM's historical price data, changing the crash low from $0.001 to $2.703 in internal charts.

THORChain, built on Cosmos, generates $50k-$100k in daily fees and actively recruits new participants. ATOM recovers +354,000% from liquidation lows as best performing asset post-crash.

Maya Protocol announces hard fork to enable IBC for Cosmos connectivity and CosmWasm smart contracts, launches gasless swaps and completes Cardano integration preparation with EDDSA cryptography live.

Fetch.ai launches FetchCoder, an AI coding assistant that writes, tests, and deploys autonomous agents, powered by ASI:One and Cosmos infrastructure.

CoinShares, a global asset manager with over $10 billion in AUM, launches an Altcoins ETF offering exposure to ten altcoins including ATOM.

The flash crash attack vector exploited Binance's use of USDe, wBETH, and BNSOL as collateral instead of oracles, with manipulators dumping 60-90 million USDe to trigger cascading liquidations; Binance announces compensation for affected users and accelerates oracle integration with minimal price thresholds. Crypto whale Garrett, who profited $192M from the crash, currently holds $163M+ in bearish positions on BTC and ETH.

Akash names Solana as a potential migration destination and attributes the move to Cosmos' stagnant economic security model over six years, failed shared security efforts, and resulting ecosystem liquidity flight.

Akash announces plans to deprecate its own L1 chain and move to a different chain for security, evaluating options within or outside Cosmos while maintaining IBC compatibility, with an RFP to be published in coming weeks.

The flash crash resulted in $19B+ total liquidations across exchanges, triggered by Trump's 100% China tariff announcement as the macro catalyst, with Binance acknowledging system overload that prevented stop-loss orders from executing while automatic liquidations continued.

Active hiring for Cosmos SDK engineer and senior devops roles at $15k/mo signals ongoing development activity in the ecosystem.

Oracle infrastructure failures during the flash crash raise concerns about DeFi readiness, with analysts suggesting a coordinated actor with sophisticated capabilities may have exploited the vulnerabilities to enable the extreme price wick to $0.001.

ATOM flash crashed to near-zero prices ($0.01-$1.00) on Binance during massive market-wide liquidations, dropping -99.55% in 2 hours, while Osmosis DEX maintained significantly higher liquidity with a floor around $2.70.

Mars Protocol temporarily pauses certain Red Bank operations and stToken interactions (including stATOM) on Osmosis outpost due to stale redemption rate affecting Stride asset pricing feed, though funds remain secure and functionality will automatically resume.

Dango completes Sherlock DeFi audit contest and announces mainnet will launch mid-November with spot trading for ETH, SOL, SUI, TIA, and ATOM, featuring integrations with Privy (social login), TradingView, Hyperlane (bridging), and Galxe (limited edition NFT with mainnet benefits). Detailed roadmap includes Q4 2025 BTC/DOGE/LTC/BCH listings, Q1 2026 perpetuals for crypto and RWAs (US stocks, ETFs, commodities, forex) plus mobile apps, and Q2 2026 spot margin with fiat on/off-ramp.

Two ETF filings from 21Shares and Rex-Osprey include $ATOM among 21 altcoins, with 21Shares offering staking functionality.

ATOM longs on Mars Perps currently earn ~228% APR from negative funding rates as shorts pay longs.

European Central Bank and Croatia's National Bank join Cosmoverse 2025 next month to discuss the Digital Euro Project, marking significant institutional engagement with central banks and policy leaders.

dropdotmoney posts 20M Droplets bid in Hydro's Pilot Round 11 to deploy dATOM-ATOM liquidity to Astroport.

Current financial metrics show $2B market cap with only $397K TVL and $495 in 30-day revenue, leading to criticism as a 'ghost project' with weak value capture and low app-chain activity.

Stripe, Paradigm and Circle have revived the ecosystem with renewed support.

WisdomTree Funds joins Ondo's Global Markets Alliance powered by Cosmos infrastructure, coinciding with NASDAQ's request for SEC approval to tokenize stocks.

ATOM is included in Bitwise's new MSCI Digital Assets Select 20 ETP (DA20) that launched on the SIX Swiss Exchange.