Cronos CRO
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CM Profile: Cronos
Cryptominium Profile. What we have established, measured and written about CRO, and what we have not.
- Measured
- Selling $100,000 on 2 exchange order books lost between 0.73% and 33.09%, on 8 October 2026.
- Its price, recorded by us every day since 9 August 2026.
- Written, with sources
Read from our own records when this page was made. It describes what we know, and is not a view on whether to hold CRO. How each part is worked out
What changed
Week to 8 October- Price down 11.6% since 1 October.
From our own measurements only, each against the month before. We do not say why a price moves. How this is worked out · Every coin this week
What it actually costs to sell CRO
Selling $100,000 of CRO into each exchange’s resting bids, measured against the mid price:
| Exchange | Lost | Got back | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coinbase CRO/USD | 0.73% | $99,269 | 2026-10-08 |
| Kraken CRO/USD | 33.1% | $66,906 | 2026-10-08 |
Exchange figures need an account there (and KYC, a permitted country, the tokens already deposited), are before trading fees, and are never averaged with the on-chain figure. Binance is not included: it refuses requests from the region our servers are in. How this is measured →
Watch this number instead of remembering it. A free account keeps CRO on a list, records where it stood the day you added it, and emails you if selling it on these exchanges gets materially harder — one message, not a series. The measurement itself stays public; the account is for being told when it moves without you looking.
What Cronos is
CRO is the token of Crypto.com, one of the larger centralised exchanges, and the gas token of Cronos, its associated Ethereum-compatible blockchain. It began in 2018 as an exchange token and its main uses remain tied to the company: trading fee discounts, and the staking tiers that determine the rewards on the company's debit cards.
Cronos itself is a straightforward EVM chain, which means Ethereum tooling and applications work on it with little modification, and CRO pays the fees.
Like every exchange token, it is closer to a proxy for one company than to a neutral protocol asset — its value tracks that company's volumes, marketing spend and continued operation. The card rewards that drove much of the early demand were cut sharply in 2021, and holders discovered that the benefit underpinning the token was a policy rather than a property. More instructively, seventy billion CRO burned in 2021 — described at the time as permanent and irreversible — were restored by a governance vote in 2025. Whatever the merits of that decision, it demonstrates something worth generalising: a supply cap is only as fixed as the process capable of changing it.
What Cronos can do
Selling $100,000 on Coinbase lost 0.73% against the mid price, before trading fees. Check your own amount →
Our own measurement · measured 8 October 2026
CRO can be staked by delegating it to a validator on Cronos POS Chain, a separate chain from Cronos that is used mainly for staking. Taking it back out takes 28 days.
Sources: Cronos POS docs: delegation guide, Cronos docs: general FAQ · checked 2 October 2026
Cronos runs the same kind of programs as Ethereum, and CRO pays the fee on every transaction there. Each app is its own code with its own flaws.
Source: Cronos docs: general FAQ · checked 2 October 2026
What a coin can do is not a reason to buy it or to sell it. Each answer names its source and the day we read it; where we could not source one, the row is left out. How these are written · Every coin we have written up
Where CRO lives
On Ethereum, Base and BNB Chain, GoPlus's analysis of each contract is read weekly: whether it has a function to block addresses or pause transfers, and whether an owner holds it. That is GoPlus's reading, not ours. Where a token exists on several chains, one copy's settings say nothing about the original coin.
Always verify a contract address against the project's own site before sending anything. Addresses are shown as published by CoinGecko, not as an endorsement — and identical-looking tokens on other chains are the most common way people lose money here.
Price change
Cronos data synced 54s ago from CoinGecko. Figures shown in USD. This page is market information, not financial advice — and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell CRO.