{"id":35038,"date":"2025-07-03T13:16:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T13:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=35038"},"modified":"2025-07-03T13:16:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T13:16:57","slug":"cronos-now-amongst-top-10-fastest-chains-achieves-sub-second-block-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=35038","title":{"rendered":"Cronos Now Amongst Top 10 Fastest Chains, Achieves Sub-Second Block Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This revamp aligns with Cronos\u2019 overall roadmap, which prioritizes effectiveness, affordability, and AI agent readiness. The last boost in productivity was just last month, when there was a 10x reduction in gas fees, making the network more accessible for users and developers alike.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Climbing The Finality Leaderboard\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a press release shared with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CryptoPotato,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the update is scheduled to go live on the mainnet today, reducing the average Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) block interval from over 5.5 seconds to under one second.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This achievement solidifies its position as one of the most compatible and low-latency EVM chains. With this finality time, Cronos ranks in the top 10 fastest blockchains for on-chain finality, bringing it on par with competitors such as Aptos, SEI, SUI, Solana, and others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This jump in speed is also aided by recent scalability modifications, including <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cosmos.network\/blockstm-and-memiavl-boosting-cronos-chain-e6baa779c679\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BlockTSM,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the parallel execution engine, which was introduced in the Pallene upgrade released in December last year. It enabled multiple transactions to be processed simultaneously within each block.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both of these upgrades combined are expected to:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Increase transaction throughput (TPS)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enable near-instant responsiveness<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Improve developer user experience (UX)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reduce latency for real-time interactions on-chain<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mirko Zhao, Cronos Labs Lead and Head of Product &amp; Engineering, commented:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBy unlocking sub-second performance, we\u2019re not just making the network faster \u2014 we\u2019re enabling a new class of ultra-fast blockchain applications. This upgrade reinforces our long-term commitment to developer experience and performance at scale.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Cronos ecosystem comprises three chains: Cronos EVM, an Ethereum-compatible blockchain built on the Cosmos SDK; Cronos POS, a chain dedicated to payments and NFTs; and the Cronos zkEVM, a high-performance Layer 2 (L2) network secured by Ethereum.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its native cryptocurrency, CRO, is currently ranked among the top 50 by market capitalization, according to the latest data from CoinGecko, with a total capitalization of over $2.5 billion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/cronos-delivers-sub-second-block-time-cementing-status-among-top-10-fastest-chains\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cronos Now Amongst Top 10 Fastest Chains, Achieves Sub-Second Block Times<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This revamp aligns with Cronos\u2019 overall roadmap, which prioritizes effectiveness, affordability, and AI agent readiness. The last boost in productivity was just last month, when there was a 10x reduction in gas fees, making the network more accessible for users and developers alike.\u00a0 Climbing The Finality Leaderboard\u00a0 According to a press release shared with CryptoPotato, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-35038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}