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Cronos ranks #22 of 484 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #41: 19 of the 40 assets ahead of it are not native coins but tokens or claims. A token is issued on a host blockchain rather than running its own; a claim stands for an asset already counted. Of the 27 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 74% are claims on other assets, 22% are tokens and 4% are memecoins.

CoinSpectrum Grade	A · 64/100 · provisional, B to A
Rank among cryptocurrencies	#22
Rank counting claims	#41
Market capitalisation	$2.4B
Price	$0.0470
Circulating supply	50,769,102,696 CRO
Maximum supply	100,000,000,000 CRO
Consensus family	Proof of Stake
Consensus mechanism	Tendermint (Ethermint, exchange chain)
Network purpose	Exchange chain
Ledger type	Multi-asset ledger
Launch distribution	Premine

Market figures from the 10 November 2026 build. Open the live view for every exchange's price, and charts.

CoinSpectrum Grade (Source)

A — 64 out of 100, provisional (from 10 of 10 sections, 10 November 2026 build). With what is not yet measured anywhere from nothing to full marks, the score would be 60 to 69 (B to A).

Section and criteria	Score	Basis
Consensus	9.1	average of 2 criteria
By leader (its largest chain's market cap) (Source)	9.1	Proof of stake: 9.1 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap
By family (all its chains' market cap) (Source)	9.1	Proof of stake: 9.1 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains
Supply	5	the supply scale times 0.9, and a point for a fixed cap that holds
Supply (21 million scores 10)	5.6	fixed maximum supply of 100 billion
Distribution	6.7	average of 3 parts
Holder concentration (Source)	–	Not yet measured
Active addresses	–	Not yet measured
Premine (allocated at launch)	0	100% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. All 100B CRO were created by Crypto.com at issuance in 2018. 70B were burned in 2021 and re-minted to a company-controlled Strategic Reserve after the March 2025 governance vote. Current total supply is about 99.0B CRO (CoinGecko, 2026-10-23); none of it came from open minting. source
Fundraising (share sold) (Source)	10	No sale of the coin source
Developer share (after launch)	10	No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. Treated as no cut. On the Cronos POS chain (formerly Crypto.org Chain, where native CRO is minted) inflation (now about 0.7%/yr and decaying to zero under the May 2026 v7 upgrade) goes to stakers, with a 15% community tax sent to the community pool; since governance Prop 16 (May 2023) that pool is explicitly a burn mechanism, emptied by repeated 50M-CRO burn proposals (Props 18, 26, 28, 30), so it works as a burn rather than a treasury. If the pool were counted as a treasury, rewardCutNow would be 15; its current balance is only about 13.5M CRO (~0.01% of supply). The 70B March 2025 re-mint is a discretionary mint (premine), not a cut. source
Decentralisation	1.7	average of 3 parts
Governance (Source)	0	An authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: In August 2026 validators halted the chain and restarted it from a pre-exploit state, discarding about two hours of every user's transactions. source
No central team (Source)	0	A central team directs it: Cronos Labs / Crypto.com develops the only client in the crypto-org-chain/cronos repository. source
Who can mint (Source)	5	Gated by stake rank: only a capped set of the largest stakes produces blocks
Nodes (Source)	–	Not yet counted
Security	6.8	5.4 of 8 points source
Pool diversity (Largest pool 50% 0 to 20% 10, largest three 90% 0 to 50% 10; 2 points)	6	largest 40.2%, largest three 55.4%
Network activity (Transactions a day, 250 0, 500,000 or more 10; 2 points)	7.1	about 54,152 transactions a day
Hashrate (Own work 5, its power 1 kW 0 to 10 GW 5; 1 point)	1	not mined: another consensus, 1
Clients (Separate code and teams 10, separate code or teams 9, a fork by the same team or a stale second 8; one client: a new version within 12 months 7, 24 months 6, none in 24 months 5, none in 48 months 3; a second in development +0.5, a second seen running +1, 8 at most with one client; chain ended 0; 1 point)	7	one client, latest version Sep 2026
Open source (Node software)	✓
No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years)	✓
Scalability	8	average of 5 parts source
Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0)	10	typical fee $0.0008
Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 121, the median of the ten busiest, 5)	10	about 6,000 simple transactions a second
Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side)	0	a block every 0.48 seconds
Block space per 10 minutes (24 MB or more 10: the ten busiest networks' median demand, 16.4 MB, and half again for growth)	10	1.05 MB limit, 1310 MB per 10 minutes
Features (3 checks)	10	3 of 3 passed
Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper abstract, §1, §2 and §11)	✓	CometBFT gives single-block deterministic finality with sub-second blocks.
Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7)	✓	Cosmos SDK pruning strategies plus min-retain-blocks let nodes drop old state and blocks.
Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8)	✓	CometBFT light client verifies headers from validator signatures (also the basis of IBC).
Privacy	3.5	3.5 of 10: whitepaper privacy 3.5 of 7, extra features 0 of 3, 1 not yet researched source
Protocol level privacy (Keys not tied to an identity · Whitepaper §10)	10	Any secp256k1 key can hold and send CRO; the chain's account and transfer rules carry no identity check.
UTXO ledger (Separate outputs, change to a new address · Whitepaper §2, §9)	0	An account ledger: one running balance for each address, so the remainder stays at the sending address and its payments share one public history.
HD addresses (A new address for each payment, unlinked · Whitepaper §10)	–
Hidden amounts (Amounts confidential)	0	No confidential transactions.
Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden)	0	No sender or receiver hiding.
Network privacy (Origin hidden by default)	0	CometBFT mempool gossip relays transactions directly; no Dandelion or Tor.
Programmability	10	9 of 9 points source
Token issuance (At protocol level)	2	CRC-20 (ERC-20) contracts on the Cronos EVM chain, open to any account.
Smart contracts (General-purpose)	2	Cronos EVM runs Solidity contracts deployable by any account, with DEXs and lending on mainnet.
Multisig and time locks (Without a third party)	✓	Multisig and timelock contracts on the EVM.
Atomic swaps (With other chains)	✓	EVM HTLC contracts (hash lock plus timelock refund).
Native DEX (Trades the coin itself, not a claim)	✓	Traded as itself, not as a wrapped token or a claim: its own chain's DEXes (Cronos, DefiLlama).
Cross-chain messaging (Verified by the chain itself)	✓	IBC (ibc-go) with light-client channels, including ICS-27 interchain accounts, open on the Cronos chain.
NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules)	✓	ERC-721 (CRC-721) contracts on the EVM.
Demand	5.5	average of 7 measures
Exchanges (10 or more: 10)	10	35 exchanges
Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10)	4.9	$2,541,309 traded in 24 hours; #328 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $2,742,273)
Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10)	1	0.10% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days
Order-book depth (±2% of the price ÷ market cap, 1%: 10)	4.1	$402,542 within 2% of the price on 6 exchanges, 0.02% of its market cap, median of the last 15 days
Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10)	8.4	$2.4B, 8.4 on a scale of 2.5 points per tenfold
Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0)	9.3	futures, options and margin positions 0.50% of its market cap
Wallet support (wallets that hold it, 10 or more: 10)	1	its own node and wallet, counted as 1: no wallet in the site's directory lists it yet
Record	8	average of 3 criteria
Age (years since genesis) (Source)	7	7 full years since 2018-12-14, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated).
Development (work, fixes, vulnerabilities)	8	3 positive, 0 negative, 1 not yet researched source
Positive
Steady work, 6 of 6	✓	594 commits in 12 of the last 12 months (github.com/crypto-org-chain/cronos); cronos v1.8.0, 24 Sep 2026; 28 stable releases in the last 24 months.
Shipped a scaling upgrade in two years, +1	✓	Jun 2025: base gas fee cut 10x; 3 Jul 2025 mainnet upgrade: block time from about 5.6 s to under 1 s.
Shipped a new capability for users in two years, +1	✓	Smarturn upgrade, 2025: EIP-7702 smart accounts on Cronos EVM.
Not yet researched
Shipped a security fix in two years	–
Conduct (origin, claims, halts)	9	2 positive, 1 negative source
Positive record
Launched with a stated purpose, not as a joke	✓
No claims by its founders that contradict its own design	✓
Negative record
Halt, freeze or reversal, 2026-08-30	✗	Validators halted the whole chain after the Tectonic exploit (first put at ~$75M, later $120.4M) and restarted it from a state before the attack, discarding 10,961 blocks (about two hours of all users' transactions); block production resumed later on 30 Aug. cointelegraph.com theblock.co

Ten sections, weighted equally, each 0 to 10: consensus (the two ladders), supply (the supply scale and a fixed cap that holds), distribution (premine, fundraising, developer share, holders), decentralisation (governance, no central team, who can mint, nodes), security, scalability, privacy, programmability (what the scripting layer can do beyond the whitepaper's payment system), demand, and record (age, development, conduct). They are built from the criteria in the second table: privacy, scalability, security and decentralisation are the Cryptocurrency Standards among them, as follows: privacy (the whitepaper's three checks a base of 7 of 10, three extra features up to 3 more), scalability (four measures and three features), security (pool diversity, network activity, hashrate, clients and two checks) and decentralisation (governance, no central team, who can mint, nodes, holders, premine, fundraising and developer share); programmability (token issuance, smart contracts and five checks) follows them, and supply and demand are two: the supply, scored against 21 million, and demand, the average of seven measures of the market and the wallets. Provisional: parts marked — are not yet measured and are left out of the average. A rating of structure and market depth, not a price forecast or investment advice. How the grade is built · Highest-graded cryptocurrencies.

Proof of Stake coins

Proof of Work coins

Supply

50,769,102,696 of a maximum 100,000,000,000 CRO are in circulation — 50.8% of the total that will ever exist.

Launch and allocation

Premine (allocated at launch)	100% of today's supply
Developer share received since launch	0% of today's supply
Developer share of new coins today	0%
Fundraising	No sale and no investor round

All 100B CRO were created by Crypto.com at issuance in 2018. 70B were burned in 2021 and re-minted to a company-controlled Strategic Reserve after the March 2025 governance vote. Current total supply is about 99.0B CRO (CoinGecko, 2026-10-23); none of it came from open minting.

No ICO, pre-sale or public sale of CRO; the coin was distributed through secondary distribution and launch incentives on Crypto.com's platforms. See the note on Crypto.com's earlier MCO token.

Treated as no cut. On the Cronos POS chain (formerly Crypto.org Chain, where native CRO is minted) inflation (now about 0.7%/yr and decaying to zero under the May 2026 v7 upgrade) goes to stakers, with a 15% community tax sent to the community pool; since governance Prop 16 (May 2023) that pool is explicitly a burn mechanism, emptied by repeated 50M-CRO burn proposals (Props 18, 26, 28, 30), so it works as a burn rather than a treasury. If the pool were counted as a treasury, rewardCutNow would be 15; its current balance is only about 13.5M CRO (~0.01% of supply). The 70B March 2025 re-mint is a discretionary mint (premine), not a cut.

Sources: rest.mainnet.crypto.org · rest.mainnet.crypto.org · rest.mainnet.crypto.org · github.com · theblock.co · docs.figment.io. Researched 2026-10-24, medium confidence.

What a regulator has said

No SEC/CFTC determination — unclassified.

The regulator's position, reported as stated, not CoinSpectrum's. Assets nobody has ruled on are left unclassified rather than sorted by a guess.

How CoinSpectrum ranks Cronos

Cronos is #22 among cryptocurrencies and #41 in the market ranking, which lists wrapped coins, staked derivatives, stablecoins and tokens alongside them. CoinSpectrum counts an asset once, and counts only cryptocurrencies: assets with their own blockchain and their own consensus. A wrapped coin, a staked derivative or a stablecoin is a claim on something already counted; a token, memecoin or otherwise, runs on another chain's blocks. All of them are listed, each in its own section, and none is added to the total. The 19 places between Cronos's two ranks are held by claims and tokens, not by other networks. The methodology sets out the rule and the counting rule argues for it.

The price above is the median of the exchanges the site reads live, checked every minute and cross-checked against a market snapshot (how market data is gathered). The grade is scored on published criteria, each with its source (the method). The site is independent, nothing on it is a paid placement, and its statements are signed (about CoinSpectrum, the manifesto).

See the 2 wrapped and staked claims on Cronos →