diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8e018df1..8e0a6877 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ Ref: https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/
 - Worker pool abstraction implementation & tests
 - Switch prices to worker pool and remove concurrency for quotes since we support only one quote denom atm.
 - Switch ingest block processing system to rely on worker pool with 2 block processing workers.
+- Wait for cold-start (first block) to be processed before starting the next block to avoid overloading the system.
 
 ## v25.2.0
 
diff --git a/docs/architecture/ingest.md b/docs/architecture/ingest.md
index 2478ff8c..da53961e 100644
--- a/docs/architecture/ingest.md
+++ b/docs/architecture/ingest.md
@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@ under a few seconds.
 
 Additionally, this mechanism helps to control resources and avoid overloading the system at cold start with many pre-computation requests.
 
+We keep a wait group in the `mvc.IngestUsecase` implementation to wait for the first block to finish processing before starting the next one.
+
+Given the above architecture with block process jobs being queued up during start-up, the workers must differentiate updates by height.
+That is, if a block process job for height X is being processed to compute a price for uosmo when uosmo already has a price for height X+1, the worker must discard the update for height X.
+
 ## Parsing Block Pool Metadata
 
 Since we may push either all pools or only the ones updated within a block, we
diff --git a/domain/pricing.go b/domain/pricing.go
index 804b77bd..9f24cdcd 100644
--- a/domain/pricing.go
+++ b/domain/pricing.go
@@ -120,10 +120,16 @@ func FormatPricingCacheKey(a, b string) string {
 }
 
 type PricingWorker interface {
-	// UpdatePrices updates prices for the tokens from the unique block pool metadata
+	// UpdatePricesAsync updates prices for the tokens from the unique block pool metadata
 	// that contains information about changed denoms and pools within a block.
 	// Propagates the results to the listeners.
+	// Performs the update asynchronously.
 	UpdatePricesAsync(height uint64, uniqueBlockPoolMetaData BlockPoolMetadata)
+	// UpdatePricesSync updates prices for the tokens from the unique block pool metadata
+	// that contains information about changed denoms and pools within a block.
+	// Propagates the results to the listeners.
+	// Performs the update synchronously.
+	UpdatePricesSync(height uint64, uniqueBlockPoolMetaData BlockPoolMetadata)
 
 	// RegisterListener registers a listener for pricing updates.
 	RegisterListener(listener PricingUpdateListener)
diff --git a/ingest/usecase/ingest_usecase.go b/ingest/usecase/ingest_usecase.go
index b222948d..4f4d6db6 100644
--- a/ingest/usecase/ingest_usecase.go
+++ b/ingest/usecase/ingest_usecase.go
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"fmt"
 	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"sync/atomic"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/codec"
@@ -36,6 +38,11 @@ type ingestUseCase struct {
 	// Worker that computes prices for all tokens with the default quote.
 	defaultQuotePriceUpdateWorker domain.PricingWorker
 
+	// Flag to check if the first block has been processed.
+	hasProcessedFirstBlock atomic.Bool
+	// Wait group to wait for the first block to be processed.
+	firstBlockWg sync.WaitGroup
+
 	logger log.Logger
 }
 
@@ -63,6 +70,8 @@ func NewIngestUsecase(poolsUseCase mvc.PoolsUsecase, routerUseCase mvc.RouterUse
 		logger: logger,
 
 		defaultQuotePriceUpdateWorker: quotePriceUpdateWorker,
+
+		hasProcessedFirstBlock: atomic.Bool{},
 	}, nil
 }
 
@@ -95,9 +104,26 @@ func (p *ingestUseCase) ProcessBlockData(ctx context.Context, height uint64, tak
 
 	p.sortAndStorePools(allPools)
 
-	// Note: we must queue the update before we start updating prices as pool liquidity
-	// worker listens for the pricing updates at the same height.
-	p.defaultQuotePriceUpdateWorker.UpdatePricesAsync(height, uniqueBlockPoolMetadata)
+	if !p.hasProcessedFirstBlock.Load() {
+		// For the first block, we need to update the prices synchronously.
+		// and let any subsequent block wait before starting its computation
+		// to avoid overloading the system.
+		p.firstBlockWg.Add(1)
+		defer p.firstBlockWg.Done()
+
+		// Pre-compute the prices for all
+		p.defaultQuotePriceUpdateWorker.UpdatePricesSync(height, uniqueBlockPoolMetadata)
+
+		p.hasProcessedFirstBlock.Store(true)
+	} else {
+
+		// Wait for the first block to be processed before
+		// updating the prices for the next block.
+		p.firstBlockWg.Wait()
+
+		// For any block after the first block, we can update the prices asynchronously.
+		p.defaultQuotePriceUpdateWorker.UpdatePricesAsync(height, uniqueBlockPoolMetadata)
+	}
 
 	// Store the latest ingested height.
 	p.chainInfoUseCase.StoreLatestHeight(height)
diff --git a/tokens/usecase/pricing/worker/pricing_worker.go b/tokens/usecase/pricing/worker/pricing_worker.go
index 75548d9c..b5d7c8b6 100644
--- a/tokens/usecase/pricing/worker/pricing_worker.go
+++ b/tokens/usecase/pricing/worker/pricing_worker.go
@@ -38,10 +38,10 @@ func New(tokensUseCase mvc.TokensUsecase, quoteDenom string, minLiquidityCap uin
 
 // UpdatePrices implements PricingWorker.
 func (p *pricingWorker) UpdatePricesAsync(height uint64, uniqueBlockPoolMetaData domain.BlockPoolMetadata) {
-	go p.UpdatePrices(height, uniqueBlockPoolMetaData)
+	go p.UpdatePricesSync(height, uniqueBlockPoolMetaData)
 }
 
-func (p *pricingWorker) UpdatePrices(height uint64, uniqueBlockPoolMetaData domain.BlockPoolMetadata) {
+func (p *pricingWorker) UpdatePricesSync(height uint64, uniqueBlockPoolMetaData domain.BlockPoolMetadata) {
 	baseDenoms := domain.KeysFromMap(uniqueBlockPoolMetaData.UpdatedDenoms)
 
 	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), priceUpdateTimeout)