Discover the latest crop of dapps on Cronos 📱

April newsletter - CRO supply, accelerator program, grant program, CroSkulls, Cronos ID, Dora Factory, Blockdaemon, Cronos Play

• Are you curious to better understand how much CRO supply there is, where it is and at what rate it is being emitted? Check out the latest update posted on Twitter.

• The US$100M-backed Cronos Accelerator Program has now closed applications until the next cohort. Recent accelerator partner announcements include: Footprint Analytics, Moralis, Covalent, Paladin blockchain security, Cre8r DAO, Blockdaemon, Cronos ID, Mixpanel, Crypto.com DeFi Wallet, Altcoin Buzz, Metaverse Post, Tenderly, Airfoil Studio,

New dapps and features are launching on Cronos every month.

• The pipeline of innovative dapps continues to be solid: the list of Top 10 Dapps by TVL now includes 3 apps that were just launched in the last 3 months (Fulcrom Finance, Veno Finance, Mad Mex).

• The 7th batch of Cronos ecosystem grants has been announced, with new crop of dapps, especially games, expected to launch in the coming months:

  • Crypto Blades: a multi-chain play-and-earn web-based RPG.

  • Ryoshi Tales by Ebisu’s Bay: a mobile resource management game.

  • Atlantis by Argo Protocol: a web-based resource strategy game.

  • Kingdom Karnage: a multi-platform play-and-earn trading card game.

  • Skybandit: a play-and-earn fantasy hero-like parkour fighting mobile game.

  • Revomon: an online RPG metaverse game with play-and-earn elements.

  • See the full announcement here.

• Why did Cronos ID and CroSkulls choose Cronos chain and how have they benefited? Visit the Cronos ID spotlight interview and the CroSkulls spotlight interview to learn more.

• Cronos Play, the suite of development tools and integrations that makes Web3 game development easier on Cronos chain, released significant upgrades of Cronos Play plugin for Unreal Engine and the Cronos Play for C++ SDK (Software Development Kit). This update includes a new demo project for Unreal Engine 5.1, dynamic contract support, secure storage of crypto wallet credentials, and iOS support. Read the full announcement.

• Dora Factory and Dora Hacks have established a multi-faceted partnership with Cronos Labs. DoraFactory is joining Cronos chain as a node validator, will dedicate 70% of validator revenue to fund ecosystem development initiatives, and Dora Hacks will support the developer community by organizing hackathons. Read the full announcement.

• Blockdaemon, a leading provider of enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure, now supports Cronos with its Ubiquity API for JSON-RPC access (in addition to the existing Node as a Service offering). Read the full announcement.

• Learn how Tenderly's tools can help you to accelerate dapp development on Cronos. Watch the workshop here.

• The latest Cronos Stream took place on Twitter Spaces on April 4 with Cronos Labs, Fulcrom Finance, Marbleverse and Moonflow NFT. You can listen to the recording here.

• You can now follow Cronos chain updates in Italian language - click here to visit the Twitter account (and still in Korean too).

• We participated in a AMA session with Hacken. Read the summary here.

• Kudos to BubbleMaps, Cronos Accelerator graduate, who won the Paris Blockchain Week start-up competition!

• The Cronos Labs team and several dapp developers were at the Game Developers Conference (#GDC2023) in San Francisco on March 22-24. 2023. The world’s largest game conference is definitely warming up to Web3! Read the summary of the panel discussion.

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