Hub Weekly Update #20: October 15, 2026

hub-weekly-20-landscape 1500×600 303 KB This is the twentieth of Hub Weekly Thursday recaps, straight from the Hub Unit team, per the cadence we committed to in the From Chaos to Stability to Growth post. Every Thursday, we will call out significant Cosmos Hub updates on the forum, with a short companion thread on X, recapping announcements, live events like validator or community calls, and ecosystem updates! For more info, see the linked posts, and contact @RoboMcGobo on Telegram to submit news for the weekly. This week: Proposal 1058 passed and the recovered ATOM is back on Neutron, which closes the Hub’s part of the Neutron recovery. The ICF joined this morning’s community call to explain how it operates and who sits on its council. The monthly validator call covered the reshaped delegation program and a new Ecosystem Growth delegation for an institutional ATOM staking API. ATOM is now listed on Paxos’ supported assets page. The USDC migration passed 12 million, and a short tokenomics status. • Neutron recovery, closed out : Proposal 1058 passed on Monday with about 60 percent of bonded ATOM voting, and the Hub recovery multisig sent the recovered ATOM to the…

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• Did the ICF Q&A answer any of the questions the community raised?
• Where are the ATOM buybacks that were teased multiple times by ICF employees Magmar and Robo?
• If the ICF has no control over how the community pool is used, why did Barry Plunkett, the Co-CEO of Cosmos Labs, a wholly owned subsidiary of ICF, send out secret letter to validators to shut down the Osmosis proposal, and deny the Hub of a working DEX?

The community needs answers to those questions, not an education on bureaucracy or legality.

I’ve been keeping this to myself but hey… Why not share it with the rest of you: I’m thinking of attempting the cosmosis merge proposal again considering the slow progress on the hub. Besides there’s more value now because Stride will integrate there and we’ll gain native LSTFi in addition to a native DEX. I also feel guilty for opposing the merge initially.

Why not? It’s ridiculous how they shut down the original proposal by giving the community more fake promises and still 0 progress late October.