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August 2023 Cronos blockchain newsletter - Cronos Summer Cruise, Layer 2 scalability, Cronos Discover, Ubisoft joins the ecosystem, Loaded Lions identities, Korea.
The Cronos Summer Cruise is under way until August 26th! We are thrilled to introduce the Cronos Summer Cruise campaign, powered by Galxe. This interstellar campaign unveils a constellation of rewards, boasting cosmic prizes from USD$1 to USD$1,000 in CRO airdrops and 7 exclusive NFTs for the top 10,000 participants.
This is a great opportunity to win airdrops and prizes while discovering or rediscovering some of the most active participating dapps like VVS, Tectonic, Ferro, Veno, Minted, Fulcrom and Cronos ID.
Hurry up and visit the Galxe page and read the blog post for details.
Cronos Discover is officially launched, as the improved portal to showcase the most popular Cronos apps to new and seasoned users alike.
Once in a while, we all need to be reminded of the richness of the Cronos application system in order to discover DeFi, NFT and Gaming apps that we haven’t tried yet. Read the latest report: “A World of Opportunities: Your Guide to the Expansive Cronos Application Ecosystem”.
Ubisoft, a leading video game creator and publisher, joins the Cronos ecosystem as a validator. Ubisoft continues its exploration of blockchain technology through its Strategic Innovation Lab, whose mission is to anticipate the future and to help Ubisoft get ready for it by exploring the opportunities offered by innovative technologies. Click here to learn more.
What are the stories behind the top dapps and how are they benefiting from being part of the Cronos ecosystem? Read the latest spotlight interviews with Tectonic and Argo Atlantis.
Cronos Labs announced the latest batch of Cronos Ecosystem Grant recipients: CroSkull, Ballies and Marbleverse. Read about what these teams have achieved so far and what they have in store.
Carbon browser now supports Cronos, $CRO, and several Cronos dapps including VVS, Tectonic, Minted, Ebisu’s Bay, Ferro, Veno.
CoinSender offers an innovative multicast transaction platform for cryptocurrency payrolls, airdrops, and more. Now available on Cronos.
Bounce Finance, a real-world collectibles marketplace, now supports Cronos.
Codename:Renegades will launch their new game on Cronos.
Loaded Lions partners with Cronos ID to offer a loadedlions.cro subdomain to all Loaded Lions NFT holders.
Kaching x Tectonic partnership (ends on 14th Aug) - USD200 worth of $KCH in rewards, 4 winners to be randomly drawn for $50 in $KCH each.Also, Kaching Zealy campaign - USD3k worth of $KCH in rewards for top 50 participants & 10 randomly selected winners.
CorgiAI x Argo Protocol partnership (ends on 12th Aug) - Atlantis Spaceship giveaway for 1 randomly drawn winner.
Fulcrom trading competition (ends on 16th Aug) - USD10k worth of $FUL for the top 20 traders on the leaderboard.
$CRO is now available for on-chain staking in the Crypto.com app. In other news, Crypto.com and LINE Xenesis have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to drive crypto technology across Asia Pacific and beyond.
$CRO is now available for on-chain staking in the Trust Wallet app (on the Crypto.org chain)
Congrats to Earn Network, a member of the Cronos accelerator program, for their 2.7 M$ fund raise! Also, Earn network announced a partnership with CroSkull.
The 2nd Cronos Accelerator Program is complete! Omnus, DeMe, Furrend, Solace, Sakaba, Eisen Finance, Earn Network and CorgiAI are on to the next steps of their product development and fund raising journey. Contact Cronos Labs if you would like an introduction.
Cronos Labs was honored to partner with the City of Seoul for the Seoul Web3 Festival and hackathon! Read the recap here and follow the Cronos community Twitter account in Korean language.
Cronos will participate in Korea Blockchain Week, taking place from September 5th to 6th at The Shilla Seoul. Visit the booth and discover the world of Cronos while grabbing some awesome swag!
Cronos Labs participated the EthCC conference in Paris. Relive the conference here, here and here.
Watch the latest recordings of Cronos Stream on Youtube, with Cronos Labs, Ebisu’s Bay, Ballies, Crowboy Labs, Boomer Squad, Chiverse, Footprint Analytics, Bitquery, Cronos Chimp Club, Single Finance, Unmarshal, Bubblemaps.
On-demand optimistic layer-2 rollups are now available to application developers building on the Cronos chain with high throughput requirements. This is made possible by Caldera, whose technology and support are now commercially available to application creators. The Cronos ecosystem can now support hundreds or even thousands of transactions per second (10 to 30 times the current TPS), with an ecosystem of Caldera-enabled layer-2 chains sharing Cronos as the layer-1 settlement layer.
What are the latest updates on the Cronos protocol roadmap? Read the update here to learn about recent or planned improvements:
30% increase of transaction execution speed.
More consistent public blockchain endpoints, between 20% and 50% faster.
General availability of optimistic rollups on top of Cronos Mainnet.
2X increase of transaction per second (TPS) throughput on Layer 1.
>95% faster to load and export node snapshots.
We are thrilled to announce the launch of Cronos Explorer on the Cronos Testnet. Cronos Explorer is available at https://explorer.cronos.org/testnet. It is a new block explorer developed specifically to help users and developers to access information from both the Ethereum and the Cosmos layers of Cronos. Click here to learn more.
The Cronos Accelerator Program announced a partnership with Protocol Labs, the team behind IPFS and Filecoin. Protocol Labs will provide startups with the resources needed to develop innovative Web3 applications.
Are you considering building on the Cronos blockchain? Contact Cronos Labs with any question.