Cronos
CROLive. Checked by a person on 13 September 2026.
Cronos is a blockchain network that records and settles trades in stocks, crypto, and prediction markets. Of the 4 things it promised, it delivered 1, 3 are still open (3 with no date); nothing dated is coming up. It trades at $0.0572, #36 of all coins by size, 94% below its highest ever price.
This week in the news: ETF or institution.
A real job, real backing. Delivered 1 of 4, none late. Nothing dated ahead. #4 of 20 exchange tokens. 1 reason to be careful.
Is it real?
Reasons to be careful:Half the supply still to come
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Passes all four
- ✓A real-world jobReal-world purpose: a platform other apps build on
- ✓Real backingBacking: in the GMCI 30 Index; trades on Coinbase, Crypto.com, Kraken; worth $2.78B
- ✓Something aheadAhead: 1 of 4 promises delivered
- ✓Room to growRoom: worth $2.78B, 34 times smaller than BNB, the biggest coin within reach doing the same thing (Centralized Exchange (CEX) Token)
In the GMCI 30 Index
- Origin14 November 2018about about 7 yearscronos.org, GitHub, Whitepaper
- DevelopersNot namedNeither Wikidata nor its listing names the foundersCode activity not checked
- BackingIn the GMCI 30 IndexListed on Coinbase, Crypto.com, Kraken, OKX
- Standing on the record1 of 41 confirmed by outside news93 headlines last month, 5 about government322,764 people keep it on a CoinGecko watchlistNo corrections needed so far
- Real-world purpose: a platform other apps build on
- Backing: in the GMCI 30 Index; trades on Coinbase, Crypto.com, Kraken; worth $2.78B
- Ahead: 1 of 4 promises delivered
- Room: worth $2.78B, 34 times smaller than BNB, the biggest coin within reach doing the same thing (Centralized Exchange (CEX) Token)
It is already worth more than the typical coin in Centralized Exchange (CEX) Token ($201.3M). To match the leader, BNB ($95.27B), its price would need to rise 3330%, to about $1.96.
Still to check
- No named investor among its tags
What to do It has delivered 1 of 4 dated promises and nothing dated is ahead. Add it to My coins and come back when it posts a new date; until then the record has nothing new to say.
A gap is not a forecast. Most small coins never close it. The site never picks.
Four tests, printed. Passing all four means a real job, real backing, something ahead, and a price far below the leader of its group. A filter on facts, never a verdict.
Every line has a source: the coin's own listing, CoinGecko's tags, the record, or the news feed. Reputation here is a count, never an opinion.
Does it deliver?
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Every line is quoted from the project's own pages, with the copy we stored and, where one exists, the article that reported it
1 of 4
promises delivered, by the project's own pages
1 of those confirmed by an outside news report
Promises by the year they were due
delivered open past due
delivered open past due, not yet checked today. Click a point to open that promise.
- Openno dateCronos says it will shut down its zkEVM Alpha network in 2027 and put all future development into the Cronos EVM network instead.
- Openno dateCronos says real-time trading of every stock, in fractional amounts, 24 hours a day, is coming soon to its app.
- Openno dateCronos says a desktop version of its app is coming, with no specific date given.
- Deliveredno dateCronos said it would add native USDC, EURC, and the CCTP cross-chain transfer system to its network.delivered 29 June 2026Confirmed by Crowdfund Insider, 25 June 2026Proof Circle Expands Regulated Stablecoin Infrastructure to Cronos with Native USDC, EURC, and CCTP Crowdfund Insider, 25 June 2026
What is next, and when?
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Nothing dated
The project has not put a date on anything still open. That is a fact worth knowing.
How big is it next to its rivals?
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Only coins within a hundred times its worth; a coin a thousand times bigger is another world
A platform other apps build on
35 coins we checked say they are for a platform other apps build on, worth $393.62B together. #8 of 35 by worth.
Centralized Exchange (CEX) Token: this coin next to BNB, the biggest rival within reach. People go to the bigger coin unless the smaller one does something it does not.
- Cronos says
- Cronos is a blockchain network that records and settles trades in stocks, crypto, and prediction markets.
- BNB says
- BNB is the native utility token of the BNB Chain ecosystem.
Two claims, side by side, in their own words. Whether the difference is real is for the record to show over time, and for you to judge.
Cronos is a blockchain network that records and settles trades in stocks, crypto, and prediction markets.
Its listing puts it this way: Cronos is an institutional-grade, high-performance, EVM-compatible Layer-1 blockchain built on the Cosmos SDK and integrated with the Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol, designed as the backbone for open, compliant, and AI-accessible tokenized markets.
Problem it says it solves: a platform other apps build on. 52 coins we have checked say the same; together they are worth $408,727,547,844.
Where it trades: Coinbase, Crypto.com, Kraken, OKX, KuCoin
Each bar is a coin's worth today (price × coins out), longest first. The lit bar is this coin; grey bars are the others doing the same job.
Bars are market cap. Order is size, nothing else. Differences are measured from the coin you are looking at.
What should make me careful?
1 reason to be careful
- Half the supply still to come51% of the maximum supply is still to come
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Centralized Exchange (CEX) Token: this coin next to the group's largest, BNB.
| Cronos | BNB | |
|---|---|---|
| Years trading | 8 years | 9 years |
| Major exchanges | 6 | 6 |
| Named backers | 0 | 0 |
| Headlines, last month | 93 | 68 |
| Promises delivered | 1 of 4 | no record |
What it says is different: Cronos is an institutional-grade, high-performance, EVM-compatible Layer-1 blockchain built on the Cosmos SDK and integrated with the Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol, designed as the backbone for open,…
It is 2.9% the size of BNB. On the facts above it is behind on years trading. Nothing here says it will; the site does not predict.
Printed the same way as the reasons for: facts from the record, the tags and the market feed. Never a verdict, never the word sell.
The homework: the coin itself, the news, the record
The coin itself
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The last 7 days
Where today sits against its highest ever price
Highest ever: $0.8915 on 23 November 2021. Today is 6% of that.
49%
of all CRO that will ever exist is already out in public hands: 48.56B coins.
51% (51.44B coins) is already created but not in public hands, held by the project or locked in escrow. That is a majority. Those coins can be sold later, which can push the price down.
out held back. Each dot is 1%.
Perks on its own exchange
Fee discounts and access on the exchange that issued it. Its demand follows that exchange.
- Fee discounts and access on the exchange that issued it
That is all a market cap is: today's price times the coins in public hands. It moves every time the price does. It says what buyers are paying, not what the coin is worth.
- of the maximum supply is in circulation: 48.56B of 100B.
- 51.44Bcoins still to be released, 51% of the maximum. Releases can add selling pressure.
- 2.0×fully diluted value versus today's market cap. The gap is coins not yet released.
- of its all-time high of $0.8915 on 23 November 2021. That is −93.6% from the top.
- #36by market cap, $2,777,389,494.
- 14 November 2018first block, as listed by CoinGecko.
- Not checkedwho holds the most coins, and how much has been burned. Those need on-chain data this site does not read yet.
Supply and value figures from CoinGecko, refreshed hourly. Not part of the record.
- $152.96M is locked in apps built on it right now
From DefiLlama, refreshed nightly. Fees are what people paid to use the thing; value locked is what they trust it to hold. Facts, not a score.
What the news says
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Headlines per day, last 30 days
93 headlines named this coin in the last month.
What they were about
- Hack54
- Price9
- ETF7
- Partnership4
- Treasury3
- Upgrade3
- Regulation1
- [Today’s Key Economic and Crypto Events] Upbit to Delist Jasmy; Cronos to Unveil Roadmap, Tokenomics Part 1Upcoming
- Trump's Truth Social Files Two New Crypto ETFs - Including One For Crypto.com's CRO Token
- Cronos (CRO) Surges 5% on DeFi Integrations and Exploit Recovery
- Trump's Truth Social Files Two New Crypto ETFs - Including One For Crypto.com's CRO Token
- Crypto News Today: Cronos Reverses $111M Hack as Pepeto, ETH and BTC Shape September
- Trump Media Scraps $6.42B Cronos Treasury Deal With Crypto.comGovernment
- CRO's Meteoric Rise: Three Factors Fueling Cronos's 50% Surge
- Cronos (CRO) Drops 4% After Tectonic Exploit, Rollback
- Cronos blockchain rolled back 10,961 blocks aft...
- Cronos Rollback: Is Your Transaction Gone? How to Check Your Balance
- Cronos Halts Network After $75M Tectonic Exploit
- Cronos rollback recovers $111M after $120M Tect...
- Sandbox opens SAND payouts as Cronos recovers and Ledger warns bug hunters
- Crypto.com keeps rewriting terms for CRO holders
- Cronos Erased Two Hours of Transactions to Reverse $111 Million DeFi Exploit
- Cronos Erased Two Hours of Transactions to Reverse $111 Million DeFi Exploit
- Cronos Reports $9.1 Million in Unrecovered Funds After Tectonic Exploit
- Cronos Reports $9.1 Million in Unrecovered Funds After Tectonic Exploit
- CRO Rockets as Robinhood Takes Stakes in Crypto.com and OG.com
- Cronos Rolls Back Chain After $120.4M Tectonic Exploit, $9.19M Remains Unrecovered
- REALITY CHECK | Cronos Reveals Over $120 Million Was Actually Stolen
- Cronos executes controversial blockchain rollback to recover crypto worth $111 million
- Cronos erases two hours of transactions to recover $111M in Tectonic hack
- Cronos (CRO) Surges 3.9% on Bullish Tokenomics and Exploit Clarity
- Cronos confirms $9.2M slipped away before Tectonic exploit rollback
- Cronos recovers $111.2M after $120.4M Tectonic exploit; $9.19M remains unrecovered post-rollback
- Cronos says $9.19M remains unrecovered after $120M Tectonic exploit
- Trump's Truth Social Files Two New Crypto ETFs - Including One For Crypto.com's CRO Token
- Polymarket targets $1B funding at $21B valuatio...
- Trump's Truth Social Files Two New Crypto ETFs - Including One For Crypto.com's CRO Token
- Cronos rolled back its own chain to undo a $75 million hack. that should terrify you.
- Cronos rolled back its own chain to undo a $75 million hack. that should terrify you.
- Cronos (CRO) Drops 3.02% After Tectonic Exploit and Chain Halt
- Ontology keeps mainnet paused over confirmed attack while Cronos, Injective returnUpcoming
- Ontology keeps mainnet paused over confirmed attack while Cronos, Injective returnUpcoming
- Cronos Partners With OG and PYMNTS Intelligence
- Cronos Freezes Block Production After $75M Tectonic Exploit Strands Funds Chain-Wide
- Cronos validators erase transaction history to contain massive $75 million lending protocol exploit
- Truth Social Files for Bitcoin ETF and Cronos Staking FundGovernment
- Cronos Halts Chain After $75M Tectonic Exploit [2026]
93 headlines in the last month.
Headlines are the publishers' own. News is never placed next to price.
The record itself
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Six facts, the project's own replies, its peers, contract facts, references and every stored copy
Cronos is a blockchain network that records and settles trades in stocks, crypto, and prediction markets.
“Cronos is a blockchain network where stocks, crypto, and prediction markets trading settle on a shared ledger.”source · snapshot · captured 2026-09-10
Live. The record does not yet cite when this stage began.
1 of 4 promises delivered. 3 open.
Others in smart-contract platforms: Internet Computer 20 of 23, Ethereum 15 of 20, Ozone Chain 13 of 30, Starknet 10 of 24, and 28 more.Others in asset tokenization: Zano 51 of 69, Chiliz 3 of 15, Algorand 2 of 7, XRP 2 of 3, and 14 more.
No public code repository is listed in this record.
The project's blog page last changed on 14 September 2026.
Nothing further to flag from the record as it stands.
Every entry on this page has been checked by a person against its snapshot.






