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March 2024 Cronos newsletter: gas price reduction, Titan upgrade, meme galore and so many DeFi and Gaming updates!
Welcome to the March 2024 Cronos newsletter! This post recaps the latest launches and campaigns announced by apps in the #CROFam ecosystem. Not financial advice.
After a successful governance vote, the minimum gas price has been reduced by 50%, and Cronos gas price has already dropped from 10,000 to 5,000 GWei.
The Titan mainnet upgrade went smoothly on March 26th. This upgrade delivers major performance improvements, enabling nodes to more easily stay in sync when traffic is high. Also, foundational modules to enable future end-user features like Interchain Accounts and Account Abstraction.
Cronos.meme launched last week and is a compilation of initiatives spearheaded by builders on Cronos, bringing the meme ecosystem together.
Fulcrom and VVS Finance partnered to launch a 14-day “Bulls to the Bone“ trading competition with prizes up to US$2,500! Also, Fulcrom exceeded $1.5B in cumulative trading volume across Cronos and zkSync Era, and partnered with Cronos ID to integrate Telegram notifications for on-chain trading. Fulcrom’s croMania trading and staking competition is still ongoing till 28 May 2024, with US$50,000 of $FUL to be won.
Orby introduced Orby Airdrop Campaign Season 1, which offers various opportunities to earn $ORB. Also, they announced stablecoin $USC listing on Wowmax's aggregator, allowing for efficient trade routes.
Kaching exceeded a new TVL milestone of $1.25M in their Turbo Vault and announced a 38X Base Yield APY boost.
Exchange Aggregator Eisen integrated Crypto.com Price API with higher accuracy price feeds and charts on their website.
Tectonic and Argo further solidified their partnership with a boosted $TONIC farm for the $bCRO token in Tectonic.
Check out Single Finance’s guide on various yield farming strategies that utilize both Single Finance and Tectonic Finance.
XY Finance shared a comprehensive guide on Cronos, its growing ecosystem, and how their bridge protocol works. Check it out.
Minted introduced “Memeted” tool, a free Make-Your-Own-Meme CRC-20 token printer.
Cronos ID announced a partnership with Wingalaxy, integrating the .CRO domain within the game.
Bored Candy City launched the Watermelon Game Tournament with a prize pool of $10,000!
Midle, a quest-to-earn platform with off-chain and on-chain tasks, integrated Cronos
Crow Boy Labs teased the upcoming launch of their wild-west shooter game "WANT3D", built on Unreal Engine 5.
Earn Network, Ballies, and Ebisus Bay collaborated to allow users to stake Ebisu's $FRTN token to earn Ballies NFT and additional token rewards.
Boomer Squad teased the upcoming launch of Survivor Playground Season 4, an on-chain game filled with risk based game-theory offering attractive $CRO rewards.
Croskull NFT achieved a huge burning milestone for their in-game token $GRVE.
Official DGPals collaborated with Bored Candy City to provide additional utility for the DGPals NFTs in the Bored Candy City game.
Corgi Studio NFT Marketplace recently launched Creator Lounge which empowers creators to seamlessly launch and manage their NFT collection.
Chiverse, a play-to-earn football game, announced the launch of their CHI token available to trade on VVS.
Cronos Cro Crow had a successful launch of the $CAW token and partnered with Ebisus Bay to incentivize trading of the Cro Crow NFT collection.
Doo NFT successfully launched the $CHUCKY token, a hybrid meme / utility token for the Doo NFT ecosystem. The presale was sold out within 45 seconds.
CorgiAI exceeded $1B in marketcap, and took the spot as the largest memecoin on Cronos. Also, CorgiAI launched the 100M CORGIAI Meme Vision Fund to be awarded to Memecoin projects selected by A.I. every week.
VVS announced a “Meme of the Week Farms” series with the first farm CRO/CAW being launched and running till 1st April.
Two other popular memecoins launched on Cronos this month: $KREESCOIN & $NUTS.
Cronoscan's support of Cronos is extended for one year while we continue to build Cronos Explorer, especially contract verification.
Covalent’s partnership with Cronos zkEVM is live. Developers can get access to rich on-chain data directly via Covalent's Unified API.
In support of the Cosmos ecosystem, Cronos Labs is a gold sponsor at Cosmos Seoul, held on 1 April 2024. Catch the team at the event: lu.ma/cosmosseoul
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