Cosmos Hub ATOM
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Cryptominium Profile. What we have established, measured and written about ATOM, and what we have not.
- Measured
- Selling $100,000 on 2 exchange order books lost between 0.44% and 0.50%, on 8 October 2026.
- Its price, recorded by us every day since 9 August 2026.
- Written, with sources
- Not established
- What an on-chain sale would return on BNB Chain. It trades mostly off-chain there, so we do not measure it on-chain.
- 9 of its chains are not among the 3 we read.
- Whether it can be held without a company. We have no sourced answer yet.
- 5 other questions about what it can do have no written answer. Some may not apply to it.
Read from our own records when this page was made. It describes what we know, and is not a view on whether to hold ATOM. How each part is worked out
What changed
Week to 8 OctoberNothing we measure moved much this week: trading volume, reported supply and price are all within their usual range.
From our own measurements only, each against the month before. We do not say why a price moves. How this is worked out · Every coin this week
What it actually costs to sell ATOM
Selling $100,000 of ATOM into each exchange’s resting bids, measured against the mid price:
| Exchange | Lost | Got back | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coinbase ATOM/USD | 0.44% | $99,561 | 2026-10-08 |
| Kraken ATOM/USD | 0.50% | $99,498 | 2026-10-08 |
Exchange figures need an account there (and KYC, a permitted country, the tokens already deposited), are before trading fees, and are never averaged with the on-chain figure. Binance is not included: it refuses requests from the region our servers are in. How this is measured →
Watch this number instead of remembering it. A free account keeps ATOM on a list, records where it stood the day you added it, and emails you if selling it on these exchanges gets materially harder — one message, not a series. The measurement itself stays public; the account is for being told when it moves without you looking.
What Cosmos Hub is
The Cosmos Hub launched in 2019 as the first chain in a wider project, and ATOM is its native token. The idea behind it has been unusually influential: rather than everything running on one blockchain, developers should be able to build their own sovereign chain and connect it to the others through a shared messaging standard.
The tooling that came out of this — a development kit, a consensus engine with fast finality, and the Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol — is used well beyond Cosmos itself. Chains built with it run their own validators and set their own rules while remaining able to move assets between each other.
The uncomfortable part is that this success did not accrue to ATOM. Sovereignty was the point, so chains built with the toolkit owe the Hub nothing: they do not pay it fees, do not need its security, and do not need its token. The ecosystem grew substantially while the asset at its centre captured very little of that growth — a case study in the difference between a widely adopted technology and a valuable token. Direction has also been contested, with several public governance fights over issuance and the Hub's purpose.
What Cosmos Hub can do
Selling $100,000 on Coinbase lost 0.44% against the mid price, before trading fees. Check your own amount →
Our own measurement · measured 8 October 2026
ATOM can be staked by delegating it to a validator, which takes a commission that is known beforehand. Taking it back out takes 3 weeks, and if the validator misbehaves, the ATOM delegated to it can be partly confiscated.
Source: Cosmos Hub docs: delegator FAQ · checked 2 October 2026
ATOM has no cap. New ATOM is created as staking rewards, at a yearly rate that moves between 7% and 20% depending on how much of the supply is staked.
Source: Cosmos Hub docs: delegator FAQ · checked 2 October 2026
What a coin can do is not a reason to buy it or to sell it. Each answer names its source and the day we read it; where we could not source one, the row is left out. How these are written · Every coin we have written up
Where ATOM lives
On Ethereum, Base and BNB Chain, GoPlus's analysis of each contract is read weekly: whether it has a function to block addresses or pause transfers, and whether an owner holds it. That is GoPlus's reading, not ours. Where a token exists on several chains, one copy's settings say nothing about the original coin.
Always verify a contract address against the project's own site before sending anything. Addresses are shown as published by CoinGecko, not as an endorsement — and identical-looking tokens on other chains are the most common way people lose money here.
Price change
Cosmos Hub data synced 2m ago from CoinGecko. Figures shown in USD. This page is market information, not financial advice — and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell ATOM.