Cosmos Recovers $2.2M in Stolen ATOM After Restart, But 169K Tokens Flee
Cosmos (ATOM)
Editor:
Eugene Serbin
cryptocurrency.com.tr reports that the Cosmos Hub network resumed block production after a coordinated halt of nearly 25 hours. Validators stopped the chain to freeze and recover assets from a governance exploit against the Neutron network. This action prevented the stolen funds from dispersing across the ecosystem via inter-blockchain communication (IBC) bridges.
How the market reacted
Whalio's own Binance spot order flow for ATOM, measured when this story was written up on 24 September 2026. Not the outlet's figures.
ATOM is trading at $1.70, with a 1-hour buy ratio of 64.2% compared to a 49.2% ratio over the past 4 hours. This shift indicates that buying pressure is building in the short term, as the immediate buy ratio is significantly higher than the 24-hour average of 46.8%. The 1-hour volume delta is positive at +$8,543, contrasting with a negative -$4,630 over the last 4 hours. A positive volume delta means more money is flowing into spot buys than sells, while a buy ratio above 50% shows buyers are currently dominant.
The latest daily buy ratio of 44.7% sits at the 9th percentile of the last 322 days, against a median of 49.8% - among the weakest buying days it has had.
Was that an ordinary day?
The same Binance spot measurements for ATOM, averaged over the days leading up to the story.