How much is 1 CRO?
One CRO is worth $0.0541 — the CRO-to-USD rate as of 2026-08-01 19:21 UTC, −0.57% over the past 24 hours. The figure on this page refreshes hourly from CoinMarketCap data.
BAKED FROM THE HOURLY RATE AS OF 2026-08-01 19:21 UTC · NOT A LIVE CALCULATOR
CRO vs. other Layer 1 coins
| Asset | 24H | 7D | 30D | 90D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cronos CRO THIS PAGE | −0.57% | −4.56% | −3.58% | −20.63% |
| Bitcoin BTC | −0.75% | −2.84% | +1.68% | −20.55% |
| Ethereum ETH | −1.56% | −1.85% | +8.36% | −21.05% |
| BNB BNB | −1.89% | +1.55% | +3.22% | −6.82% |
AS OF 2026-08-01 19:21 UTC · DATA: COINMARKETCAP · DEEPER TINT = LARGER MOVE · 90D IS OUR LONGEST SNAPSHOT WINDOW
CRO price context
Cronos's all-time high is $0.9698, reached on November 24, 2021. At today's price of $0.0541, CRO trades 94.4% below that peak. Its lowest recorded price was $0.0115 on December 17, 2018.
Over the past 30 days CRO has moved −3.58% and over the past 90 days −20.63%.
Circulating supply is 47,293,597,605 CRO , against a maximum supply of 100,000,000,000 CRO. CRO launched with 100 billion tokens. In February 2021 Crypto.com burned 70 billion of them — then the largest token burn in history — but a March 2025 governance vote re-minted the full 70 billion into a 'Cronos Strategic Reserve' under a 10-year escrow, restoring total supply to roughly 100 billion. About 46 billion CRO circulate; the reversal of a supposedly permanent burn is the defining fact of CRO's tokenomics.
Cronos all-time high
The gap to the record
Getting back to $0.9698 from here would take a 17.9× move — that multiple, not the percentage, is the honest way to read a drawdown. The figure above updates every hour as our price snapshot refreshes; the record itself is an editorial fact recorded from CoinMarketCap - Cronos.
All-time low
Cronos's recorded all-time low is $0.0115, on December 17, 2018 (CoinMarketCap - Cronos). From that low to today's price is the other end of the same story — aggregators differ on launch-era data, so we name the source we cite.
Cronos price history
Our sourced price record for Cronos begins in 2021 — the coin may have traded earlier, but we list only years we can back with a citable source. Its all-time high is $0.9698 (Nov 24, 2021), its recorded low $0.0115 (Dec 17, 2018), and it trades at $0.0541 today. Every row below names where its figures come from.
Cronos price by year
Rows from 2021 through 2023 are editorial records — each cites the source it was taken from. Rows from 2024 onward are computed from our licensed CoinMarketCap daily data; for those years, high and low are the highest and lowest daily closes in our series, not intraday extremes.
| Year | Open | High | Low | Close | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | $0.2550 | $0.9889 | $0.2500 | $0.5561 | Coinbase (CRO-USD) |
| 2022 | $0.5563 | $0.5900 | $0.0550 | $0.0554 | Coinbase (CRO-USD) |
| 2023 | $0.0554 | $0.1230 | $0.0487 | $0.0989 | Coinbase (CRO-USD) |
| 2024 | $0.0985 | $0.2080 | $0.0711 | $0.1394 | Our CMC data |
| 2025 | $0.1426 | $0.3538 | $0.0703 | $0.0918 | Our CMC data |
| 2026YTD | $0.0896 | $0.1097 | $0.0537 | $0.0541 | Our CMC data |
What moves Cronos's price
- The March 2025 burn reversal, stated plainly: a governance proposal re-minted the 70 billion CRO burned in 2021 into a 'Cronos Strategic Reserve'. Crypto.com's own community poll ran roughly 86% against, and the on-chain vote reached its 33.4% quorum only when about 3.35 billion CRO of votes from Crypto.com-controlled validators — which command an estimated 70–80% of voting power — arrived on the final day. CRO fell about 6% on the outcome, and the episode remains the standing critique of Cronos governance and of any future supply promise.
- The Trump Media relationship: in September 2025 Trump Media closed a purchase of 684.4 million CRO (about $105 million) in a half-stock, half-cash swap with Crypto.com, integrated CRO into Truth Social rewards, and — through a SPAC vehicle dubbed 'Trump Media Group CRO Strategy' — announced a treasury plan targeting up to roughly 19% of circulating supply (about $6.4 billion). The deal is a large mechanical bid and an equally large political headline risk.
- The ETF race: multiple staked-CRO ETFs are on file with the SEC — Trump Media's 'Truth Social Cronos Yield Maximizer' and Crypto Blue Chip ETF (5% CRO), plus the Canary Staked CRO ETF — and Crypto.com's Foris Dax won conditional OCC national trust bank approval in February 2026, the qualified-custodian piece. As of mid-2026 none is approved; filings and SEC delays both move the price.
- Crypto.com's business: like BNB with Binance, CRO demand tracks its exchange — card staking tiers, app lockups, trading benefits, and marketing cycles. The November 2021 all-time high coincided with the Crypto.com Arena naming-rights deal and the 'Fortune Favours the Brave' campaign; retrenchment in 2022 marked the low end of the range.
- Thin open-market liquidity: CRO's 24-hour volume runs in the single-digit millions against a multi-billion market cap — a volume-to-market-cap ratio near 0.3%, among the lowest in the top 50. With most supply in the Strategic Reserve escrow, staking, or Crypto.com's orbit, relatively small flows move the price sharply in both directions.
- Cronos network usage: CRO is gas and the staking asset for the Cronos EVM chain and Cronos POS chain, and zkCRO — liquid-staked CRO — is the gas token of Cronos zkEVM, the Ethereum layer-2 launched on ZKsync's stack in August 2024. On-chain activity is a modest driver next to exchange and treasury news.
“a governance proposal re-minted the 70 billion CRO burned in 2021 into a 'Cronos Strategic Reserve'.”
About Cronos
CRO launched in late 2018 as Crypto.com Coin, the ERC-20 loyalty token of the Crypto.com exchange, and was rebranded Cronos in February 2022. It is now the native asset of a family of networks: the Cronos POS chain (formerly Crypto.org Chain, live March 2021), the EVM-compatible Cronos chain built on the Cosmos SDK (live November 2021), and Cronos zkEVM, an Ethereum layer-2 on ZKsync technology (August 2024) where liquid-staked zkCRO pays gas. Within the Crypto.com app, holding and staking CRO earns Visa card tiers, fee benefits, and rewards.
CRO's history is a study in exchange-token reflexivity. It rode Crypto.com's 2021 marketing blitz — the $700 million Crypto.com Arena naming deal, the Matt Damon campaign — to a $0.97 all-time high, then fell more than 90% as the 2022 bear market forced retrenchment. In February 2021 Crypto.com burned 70 billion CRO as it decentralized its chain; in March 2025 a governance vote re-minted those same 70 billion for a 'Cronos Strategic Reserve' over broad community objection, a reversal that still shadows the token. Since then the story has been institutional: Trump Media's CRO treasury and Truth Social integration in September 2025, and a multi-issuer race for a US staked-CRO ETF that remains pending.
CRO tokenomics
All 100 billion CRO were minted at the 2018 launch — there is no mining issuance. February 2021's burn of 70 billion (59.6 billion immediately, 10.4 billion as allocations unlocked) cut total supply to 30 billion, but the March 2025 governance vote restored it to roughly 100 billion by re-minting the burned tokens into the Cronos Strategic Reserve, escrowed on a stated 10-year schedule for ecosystem investment and institutional products. About 46 billion CRO circulate today; holders stake CRO with validators on the Cronos POS chain for rewards, and the concentration of validator voting power with Crypto.com is the network's standing decentralization critique.
How to buy Cronos
CRO's natural venue is Crypto.com itself, where holding and staking it also unlocks card and fee benefits; it is also listed on other major exchanges including Coinbase, OKX, and KuCoin, though order books outside Crypto.com are thin relative to its market cap. Coins can be held on-exchange, staked on the Cronos POS chain, or withdrawn to a self-custody wallet, where CRO doubles as gas on the Cronos EVM chain.
Cronos FAQ
What happened to the 70 billion burned CRO?
They came back. Crypto.com burned 70 billion CRO in February 2021 — then the largest burn ever — but a March 2025 governance vote re-minted the full amount into a 'Cronos Strategic Reserve' under a 10-year escrow. The vote passed only after Crypto.com-controlled validators, holding an estimated 70–80% of voting power, supplied the quorum on the final day, over a community poll that ran roughly 86% against.
What is the Trump Media CRO deal?
In September 2025 Trump Media bought 684.4 million CRO (about $105 million) from Crypto.com in a half-stock, half-cash swap, integrated CRO into Truth Social rewards, and announced a SPAC-funded treasury vehicle targeting up to roughly 19% of CRO's circulating supply. Crypto.com provides custody and staking for the holdings.
Is there a CRO ETF?
Not yet. Several staked-CRO ETFs are on file with the SEC — including Trump Media's 'Truth Social Cronos Yield Maximizer' and the Canary Staked CRO ETF — and Crypto.com's Foris Dax received conditional OCC trust-bank approval in February 2026 to act as custodian. As of mid-2026 the SEC has not approved any of them.
What was Cronos's all-time high?
About $0.97 in November 2021, per CoinMarketCap, at the peak of Crypto.com's marketing push — the arena naming deal and Matt Damon campaign landed the same month. The hourly-refreshed price at the top of this page shows where CRO trades relative to that level.
What is Cronos zkEVM?
An Ethereum layer-2 launched in August 2024 on ZKsync's ZK Stack, separate from the main Cronos chain. Its gas token is zkCRO, a liquid-staked version of CRO, which extends CRO's utility into the Ethereum ecosystem alongside its roles on the Cronos EVM and POS chains.
What is Cronos's all-time high?
Cronos's all-time high is $0.9698, reached on November 24, 2021 (source: CoinMarketCap - Cronos).
How far is CRO from its all-time high?
As of 2026-08-01 19:21 UTC, CRO trades at $0.0541 — 94.4% below its all-time high. Reaching the ATH again would require a 17.9× move. This figure refreshes hourly with our CoinMarketCap data.
What was Cronos's lowest price ever?
Cronos's recorded all-time low is $0.0115, on December 17, 2018 (source: CoinMarketCap - Cronos). Aggregators can differ on launch-era data; we cite the source shown.
Will CRO reach a new all-time high?
We don't publish predictions. What can be said factually: CRO trades 94.4% below its all-time high, and this page tracks that gap with hourly-refreshed data.
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Price data: CoinMarketCap, refreshed hourly. Last updated: August 1, 2026, 19:21 UTC. Historical figures (all-time high/low) are recorded at page creation and reviewed periodically.
This page is factual information, not financial advice.