Cronos Last Week: Key Updates and Reactions (17-23 Feb 2025)

Whether you’re a builder, investor, or enthusiast, staying up to date with the latest Cronos  updates is crucial to making informed decisions, leveraging new opportunities, and staying ahead of the curve. 

Here’s a recap of everything that happened in the past week:

1. Cronos EVM gas price reduction

On 14 February 2025, a governance proposal to reduce the Cronos EVM base gas price by 25% was opened for validator voting. This week, Cronos announced that the deal was completed, reducing gas prices to 3,750 Gwei, from 5,000 Gwei. 

By making transactions more affordable, the move is expected to improve conditions for Cronos builders and enhance user adoption. 

Great news! Now it will be even cheaper for users and builders to come here. Keep up the strong work!

— Trevor | lord_jaster (@TechLordJaster) February 17, 2025

Exciting developments! Cronos delivering for the community.

— Clips | Unruggables (@Clips_ETH) February 17, 2025

2. Meme City’s integration of Cronos

Meme City has integrated Cronos, enabling meme analytics, seamless trading, and fair launches for Cronos coins. This collaboration brings one of the largest DeFi & gaming chains into the meme economy, expanding liquidity and user access.

Stay tuned for upcoming trading and fair launches on Cronos EVM

Collab we are waited 4, MemeCity shows amazing stats now, Cronos W collab

— Daniel (@Hihihaha2005) February 17, 2025

3. Crypto.com Becomes the Fastest Growing Centralised Exchange of 2024 

Based on data from CoinGecko, Crypto.com announced that its  trading volume was up 960% YoY, rising from $120.6B to $1.29T. The exchange ended the year as the world’s third largest centralized crypto exchange. However, CroFam questioned when this growth would translate into gains for Cronos. 

Great success! Can some of this success flow into CRO please?

— Andy Satstacky (@hilldini13) February 18, 2025

4. Stargate DAO Proposes ETH and USDC Pools on Cronos zkEVM

A governance proposal to establish ETH and USDC liquidity pools on Cronos zkEVM to to enable seamless transfer of the tokens between Cronos zkEVM and other supported chains via Stargate, is currently under consideration by Stargate DAO. 

Read More Here.

Would be nice to see, ETH and USDC are strong assets to enter the pools

— Zan Rogan (@ZanRogan) February 18, 2025

5. Cronos Meme Pitch Session:

Responding to demands of giving more clarity and voice to the community, a community-building session was held on 18 February 2025. Since an increasing number of meme tokens are graduating on Cronos, the special stream session was focused on meme coin project pitches and re-building community trust in these projects. 

Access it here.

However, several members of the CROFam were disappointed with the focus on memecoins and the panel chosen:

Meme pitch… 🤦 have you not heard that memes are over… for now

— Steve (@steve_mayc) February 18, 2025

No thanks. Huge fumble.

How do you not have crow with knife, croginal, puush, and many other great projects, on this panel??

There is no hope for this chain..

— Money Printer Go Brrr 🐦‍⬛🔪 (@FederalRaserve) February 18, 2025