Cronos Collaborates with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to Accelerate Institutional Adoption of Tokenization and RWA
Cronos, the leading blockchain ecosystem, has announced an agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to make Cronos data, infrastructure, and AI tools more accessible to developers, helping institutions and enterprises build the future of onchain finance.
Through this collaboration with AWS, Cronos is working on ways to make Cronos data available via AWS Public Blockchain Data. The intention is to build a trusted and reporting-ready pipeline that could support AI agents with analytics and complex queries, while offering financial institutions a pathway to simplify workflows through reporting templates.
To further accelerate ecosystem growth, AWS will provide selected Cronos builders with up to $100,000 in AWS credits per startup. These resources will help early-stage and institutional projects scale tokenization pilots, RWA platforms, DeFi protocols and AI-powered applications built on Cronos.
The announcement follows Cronos’ recently unveiled 2025–2026 roadmap, which outlines an ambitious strategy to cement its position as the blockchain of choice for institutions. The roadmap includes a purpose-built tokenization platform for equities, funds, commodities, insurance, forex, and real estate.
Core objectives include seamless distribution of DeFi services to over 150 million users through Crypto.com and stronger institutional demand for CRO via ETFs and treasury integrations. Cronos has already begun executing on this vision, with recent upgrades delivering 10x faster block times (0.5s) and 10x lower gas fees, resulting in a 400% increase in daily transactions. By 2026, Cronos targets $10 billion in tokenized assets deployed and 20 million users across CeFi and DeFi.
Mirko Zhao, Head of Cronos Labs, said: “The next growth cycle will be defined by tokenization and real-world assets. Cronos is uniquely positioned with distribution through Crypto.com, liquidity anchored in CRO and a roadmap that ties tokenization and AI into one interoperable system. Building on AWS extends this foundation, giving institutions a secure, scalable pathway to bridge traditional and decentralized finance.”
“Financial institutions require robust, secure, and compliant technology solutions as they explore innovative approaches to asset tokenization,” said AWS. “By leveraging AWS’s robust security controls and compliance frameworks alongside Cronos’s blockchain technology, we’re enabling both innovative startups and established institutions to build tokenization solutions that meet the highest standards of security and regulatory requirements. We’re excited to support Cronos’ vision for institutional-grade tokenization while ensuring enterprise-grade security and compliance.”
The development highlights the growing intersection of blockchain, AI and cloud technology to provide developers and enterprises with the tools required to advance tokenization and institutional use cases on Cronos.
About Cronos
Cronos is a leading blockchain ecosystem that has partnered with Crypto.com and more than 500 application developers and contributors representing an addressable user base of more than a hundred million people around the world. Cronos’ mission is to build the DeFi infrastructure that makes tokenized markets open, compliant and usable by billions.
The Cronos universe encompasses 3 chains: Cronos EVM, the leading Ethereum-compatible blockchain built on the Cosmos SDK; Cronos POS, a leading Cosmos chain for payments and NFTs; and Cronos zkEVM, a new high performance layer 2 network secured by Ethereum.
Cronos ranks among the top 15 blockchain ecosystems, encompassing more than 6 billion dollars of user assets. Since inception, it has securely settled more than 100 million transactions.
Transaction fees are paid in Cronos ($CRO), a blue chip cryptocurrency.
Cronos is supported by Cronos Labs, a Web3 start-up accelerator focused on DeFi, GameFi and the development of the Cronos ecosystem.
For more information, visit https://cronos.org or follow @cronos_chain on X.