Crypto's best kept secrets: new launches and events during the holiday season

Dec 26, 2023

Welcome to the December 2023 Cronos newsletter and, from our families to yours, happy holiday season!

Cronos is on its way to achieving a second consecutive month of 25% growth of the number of Monthly Active Users. It’s time to head to Cronos Discover to reacquaint yourself with the top dapps and opportunities... In this newsletter, we highlight some of the dapps worth knowing for their high staking yields and vibrant user communities.
Cronos announced the Cronos zkEVM public testnet, laying the foundation for a new Cronos layer-2 chain deployed in partnership with Matter Labs, Crypto.com, VVS, Veno and Fulcrom. The Cronos zkEVM chain will coexist with Cronos and Cronos POS chains. Read about it here and watch the AMA session.

VVS, Ebisu’s Bay, Veno, Minted, and newcomer rocketship Corgi AI are currently in the top 5 most used dapps on Cronos. Check them out!
Cronos POS chain completed the scheduled burn of 50 M CRO as part of the existing burn program. Read the explainer article here.
Cronos launched IBC bridges to Canto and Celestia, strengthening its interconnectivity with the Cosmos SDK ecosystem.
VVS launched Flawless Farms (V3). Flawless Farms adopt the concentrated liquidity model, which is more efficient for liquidity providers.
Cryptoblades, one of the most popular Web3 games, now supports Cronos.
The inscriptions craze has arrived on Cronos: 21 million mints took place in a few days from Dec 12 onward. You can visit Croscribe, a newly launched inscriptions minting and marketplace platform, to learn more and past and future mints.
CRO is now available on OKX On-Chain Earn.

Cronos celebrated 100 million transactions!
Crypto.com launched the Cronos-mas festive campaign with US$ 500,000 in rewards.
Veno is hosting a series of events including a giveaway campaign for users who deposit $10 into Veno Gardens or Liquidity Strategy, and a $3,000 reward pool for completing Veno quests. Also, a content bounty contest.
Tectonic has announced a $20$24 Countdown Celebration. Participants who supply $20 or stake $24 of TONIC from 26 - 31 December are eligible for a mystery reward.
Kaching! has revamped its reward protocol to offer daily opportunities instead of the previous weekly schedule.
Fulcrom Finance now offers a referral program, providing user rebates on trading fees. Concurrently, they're hosting a $100k trading event until January 5th to commemorate their launch on zkSync, allowing participants to earn points and a portion of the $100k in FUL token rewards.
Furrend, a Cronos accelerator start-up, organized a heartwarming charity event combining pet videos and digital collectibles. For all pet lovers!
Listen to the recorded X/Twitter Space “NFT & Gaming on Cronos” with Kairos, Ebisu’s Bay and Ballies. On a related note, Kairos now supports Cronos.

The new Cronos Explorer was launched on Mainnet. It is now the recommended block and transaction explorer.
SupraOracles decentralized Verifiable Random Function service now supports Cronos.
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