Announcing Batch 6 of Cronos Ecosystem Grants
We are excited to announce the sixth batch of the Cronos Ecosystem Grant Recipients!
We are excited to announce the sixth batch of the Cronos Ecosystem Grant Recipients!
We established the Cronos Ecosystem Grants Program back in December 2021 with two clear goals in mind:
To support early-stage projects on Cronos by bootstrapping initial product development and providing monetary, technical, and marketing support
To align incentives together with new builders and teams by helping their projects grow together with the broader ecosystem
One key criterion of the grants was that projects had to build innovative products, especially within an underserved vertical within Cronos. For this sixth batch of Cronos Ecosystem Grant, we received a total of 150 applications and have narrowed it down to 5 projects.
Read on to find out more!
Cronos Ecosystem Grant Recipients: Batch #6
Grant Recipient #1: NFTScan
Category: NFT Infrastructure
NFTScan provides developers and users with a professional NFT explorer with asset data search and query functions. NFTScan allows users to perform multi-dimensional data search queries for various NFT Collections, NFT Contracts, Wallet Addresses, NFT TxHashes, and many more.
NFTScan will be integrating Cronos where Cronos users will be able to use the NFT Explorer to query Cronos NFT data. Cronos developers will be able to utilise NFTScan’s OpenAPI platform.
Grant Recipient #2: Snook
Category: Games
Snook is an online, multiplayer, Snake-like IO game. It is a kill-or-be-killed, adrenaline-charged, multiplayer game that is pioneering NFT game characters, where players’ performance directly affects the NFT face value.
Snook will be integrating Cronos for #Crofam users to start utilising the snake NFTs to battle against other players.
Grant Recipient #3: Transak
Category: Infrastructure
Transak is a developer integration toolkit that enables app developer to onboard users to buy/sell crypto in any blockchain app, website or web plugin.
Transak has integrated FIAT on-ramp with Cronso where users are now able to seamlessly purchase CRO and on-ramp onto Cronos using >40 fiat currencies. Transak will be integrating FIAT off-ramp and Transak One on Cronos in the coming months.
Grant Recipient #4: Footprint Network
Category: Infrastructure
Footprint Network is a powerful and flexible blockchain data analysis platform built on the most relevant data science frameworks and tools. Footprint allows users and data analysts to query blockchain data and build insightful charts and dashboards. Footprint allows for a no-code experience, where users can easily analyse the data on the chain without writing SQL.
Footprint will be indexing Cronos blockchain data and integrating Cronos NFTs, NFT Marketplaces, GameFi, and DeFi-related data on the Footprint platform.
Grant Recipient #5: Legends of Bezogia
Category: Games
Legends of Bezogia by Bezoge Earth is a play-and-earn MMORPG based in the world of Bezogia. Users will be able to pillage enemies in the game and mint powerful NFT weapons and items.
Legends of Bezogia will be integrating its game and tokens with Cronos where #Crofam will be able to play the MMORPG game natively on the Cronos chain.
About Cronos Ecosystem Grants
The Cronos Ecosystem Grants program aims to support early-stage projects on Cronos by bootstrapping initial product development and providing monetary and technical support. We aim to align incentives together with new builders and teams by helping their projects grow together with the broader ecosystem.
We warmly welcome any talented individuals & teams who are passionate and committed to building incredible products within the Cronos ecosystem.
Find out more about the Cronos Ecosystem Grants and how you can apply here.
About Cronos
Cronos (cronos.org) is the first EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain network built on the Cosmos SDK, supported by Crypto.com, Crypto.org, and more than 400+ app developers and partners. Cronos is building an open ecosystem where developers can create their own DeFi and GameFi applications, targeting a base of 70+ million users globally. Earlier this year, Cronos Labs launched a $100M Accelerator program to help developers build new projects and the future of Web3 within the Cronos ecosystem.
When developers build on Cronos, they can leverage all Ethereum developer tools (i.e. Solidity, Truffle, Hardhat, OpenZeppelin, Web3.js, ethers.js, ChainSafe Gaming SDK); leading crypto wallets (i.e. MetaMask, Crypto.com Defi Wallet, Trust Wallet); wrapped versions of the world’s top 50 cryptocurrencies; Cronos Play, a suite of developer tools for Unity, C++ and Unreal engine; and inter-blockchain communication (IBC) cross-chain connectivity to Cosmos chains; and as well as a rich ecosystem of composable DeFi and GameFi dApps.