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ATOM — Cosmos
A construction kit with which anyone can build their own blockchain that understands others.
What it is for
- Set out to
- Independent chains connected via IBC and based on the Cosmos SDK.
- Today in addition
- IBC v2 without handshakes, an EVM module, planned connections to Ethereum and Solana.
- Notable
- The transfer protocol IBC, which is also used outside its own construction kit.
- Strength
- Widely used construction kit with more than 200 chains.
- Weakness
- Revenue arises at the individual chains, not at the hub.
Contract address
Cosmos Hub — its own chain, no contract.
The asset is the currency of its own chain and does not sit as a token on someone else’s. An empty field here would stand for a missing figure — but nothing is missing.
Score
49of 93
Market capitalization
$788Mas stored
against Bitcoin, 90 days
—not against the dollar
CoinMarketCap
#3794numeric identifier
This asset is not in the sector barometer.
The four cycles
Measured on daily closing prices, never on daily highs or lows. The cycle boundaries are Bitcoin’s own highest and lowest daily closes: January 14, 2015, December 16, 2017, December 15, 2018, November 8, 2021, November 21, 2022, October 6, 2025 and the current low on June 30, 2026. A day counts only if at least ten thousand dollars were traded on it. The price against Bitcoin is given in satoshi — one satoshi is one hundred-millionth of a bitcoin.
| Cycle | Lowest daily close | Highest daily close | Rise low → high | Fall high → low |
|---|
| 2015 to 2017January 14, 2015 to December 16, 2017 | did not yet exist |
| 2018 to 2021December 15, 2018 to November 8, 2021 | $1.6734,383 satMarch 12, 2020 | $44.3193,758 satSeptember 19, 2021 | in dollars +$42.64 (+2,553%)against Bitcoin +172.7%from $1.67 on March 12, 2020 to $44.31 on September 19, 2021 | in dollars -$13.85 (-31.3%)against Bitcoin -20.2%from $44.31 on September 19, 2021 to $30.45 on September 21, 2021 |
Only partly measured: reliable trading only from January 14, 2020. What lay before that in the window is not recorded; the figures above are the endpoints of the measured part, not those of the whole cycle. |
| Year by year |
| 2020: in dollars +42.3% (from $4.56 to $6.49) · against Bitcoin -56.7% |
| 2021: in dollars +522.9% (from $5.88 to $36.62) · against Bitcoin +171.2% |
| 2022 to 2025November 21, 2022 to October 6, 2025 | $3.584,555 satMarch 10, 2025 | $15.1565,954 satFebruary 8, 2023 | in dollars +$1.81 (+50.5%)against Bitcoin +12.8%from $3.58 on March 10, 2025 to $5.38 on May 10, 2025 | in dollars -$11.57 (-76.4%)against Bitcoin -93.1%from $15.15 on February 8, 2023 to $3.58 on March 10, 2025 |
| Year by year |
| 2022: in dollars +3.8% (from $9.00 to $9.35) · against Bitcoin -1.0% |
| 2023: in dollars +12.1% (from $9.46 to $10.60) · against Bitcoin -56.0% |
| 2024: in dollars -44.9% (from $11.21 to $6.17) · against Bitcoin -73.9% |
| 2025: in dollars -34.5% (from $6.53 to $4.27) · against Bitcoin -50.5% |
| since 2026, ongoingJune 30, 2026 to September 17, 2026 | $1.231,955 satJuly 31, 2026 | $1.862,368 satSeptember 8, 2026 | in dollars +$0.6294 (+51.3%)against Bitcoin +21.1%from $1.23 on July 31, 2026 to $1.86 on September 8, 2026 | in dollars -$0.3405 (-18.3%)against Bitcoin -15.2%from $1.86 on September 8, 2026 to $1.52 on September 15, 2026 |
| Year by year |
| 2026: in dollars +4.2% (from $1.51 to $1.58) · against Bitcoin -20.1% |
If the high of a window comes before the low, the rise is calculated from the low to the next interim high within the same window.
The four questions that are always answered
Net supply and issuance pressure8 of 20
Starting valuation and size leverage8 of 14
Survivability10 of 12
Relative strength against Bitcoin3 of 6
11 of the twelve criteria collected individually, nothing extrapolated. What the twelve questions measure and what has been corrected about the measurement is on the method page.
The remaining criteria are not recorded individually for this asset; the total comes from the assessment of September 5, 2026.
For User growth per valuation it says “not determined” – that does not count.
The figures in detail
Price, as stored$1.49
against Bitcoin, 7 days—
against Bitcoin, 30 days—
listed on CoinMarketCap sinceMarch 2019
Age since listingnot researched
Fees relative to valuationnot determined
Supply still lockednot researched
hard supply capnot researched
Carried by Nexocarried
Trading venues of 15 checked14 of 15
The fifteen largest centralized exchanges by the CoinMarketCap ranking were counted, as of September 5, 2026. Decentralized exchanges do not count. Bybit is not included in any figure, because the venue was not reachable through sixteen address forms. Which five venues are the best for each asset has not been collected yet.
Finding
No supply cap, annual issuance ten percent according to the chain’s mint module — hence capped at eight points. Note for December 8, 2026: the scale cannot tell ten percent annual issuance from around five and a half percent at Stacks, both end up at eight; that is too coarse. The highest supply lock-up in the field, read directly from the chain state: 62.78 percent locked — bought with ten percent dilution a year. The structural problem that no score reflects: the connecting layer works between Cosmos chains without ATOM, the hub is not a mandatory passage.
Investors and partners: not researched — awards no points, because projects with large backers did not perform better.
Nexo: Carried by Nexo — purchase page documented on September 1, 2026.
No investment advice, no price forecast, no buy or sell recommendation. A high score does not mean “will rise”. It means the asset scores better on these questions than the others.