Key Notes
- The newly proposed reserve will be subject to strict control mechanisms and an extended five-year lockup period, bringing the total vesting timeline to 10 years.
- This strategic move aligns with Crypto.com's 2025 growth strategy as the US regulatory landscape evolves under Trump's vision to establish America as the "World Capital of Crypto." As part of its expansion plans, Crypto.com is developing a CRO-tracking ETF and recently launched a dedicated platform for institutional investors featuring over 300 trading pairs.
Cronos , the native token of leading digital asset trading platform Crypto.com, soared 40% on Monday following the company’s announcement of plans to establish a Cronos Strategic Reserve for its layer-2 blockchain infrastructure.
The Cronos network revealed the proposal on X, outlining that the reserve would be created by reversing the February 2021 token burn, which eliminated 70 billion CRO. This move aims to restore the total supply to 100 billion CRO.
Today, an ambitious proposal was published for voting on the Cronos POS governance forum.
The community is invited to vote on a bold plan to restore Cronos' Golden Age, with a massive investment allocated to support Cronos Roadmap (incl. its ETF) and America’s ambition to become… pic.twitter.com/7i06DnTx7T— Cronos (@cronos_chain) March 3, 2025
Buoyed by the news, CRO spiked over 40%, reaching a high of $0.10 before retracing to its current price of $0.084.
Community Backs Strategic Reserve Proposal
The strong market response suggests that the community is supportive of the proposed reserve. In an official blog post , Cronos confirmed that a dedicated wallet will be created for the reserve, operating under strict control mechanisms.
The wallet will also be subject to a new five-year lockup period, extending the total vesting period to 10 years, as the token was already under a five-year lockup since its issuance on the Ethereum blockchain.
According to the blog post, “vesting will be applied linearly every month and managed via a native Cosmos SDK vesting account mechanism on the Cronos POS chain (technically, vesting is applied every approximately 30.4 days or 2628000s).”
Cronos has opened voting on the proposal starting today, March 3, 2025, with the process running until March 17. At press time, 86.81% of votes favor launching the strategic reserve.
A World Capital of Crypto
The proposed reserve aligns with Cronos and Crypto.com’s 2025 growth strategy as the United States moves toward reshaping the regulatory landscape for cryptocurrencies and related services.
With Donald Trump aiming to establish the country as the “World Capital of Crypto,” companies are rethinking their strategies to better position themselves for growth. For Crypto.com, this includes plans to launch an exchange-traded fund (ETF) designed to track its native token, CRO. The initiative is part of the company’s broader effort to bridge the gap between the crypto sector and traditional finance.
If approved, the exchange will join an expanding roster of asset issuers — such as BlackRock, Fidelity Investments, and Grayscale Investments — offering crypto-related ETFs in the US and attracting institutional investors to the space.
In January, Crypto.com introduced a dedicated platform for institutional investors in the US to complement its retail-focused crypto trading app. The new exchange will feature over 300 trading pairs and support advanced trading strategies for institutional firms, reinforcing the company’s expansion into Wall Street.
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