This makeover is in line with the overall route map of Cronos, which gives priority to effectiveness, affordability and AI agent readiness. The last boost in productivity was only last month, when there was a 10x reduction in gas costs, making the network more accessible to both users and developers.
Climbing the culmination of finality
According to a press release shared with Cryptopotato, The update is planned to go live on the mainstet today, which reduces the average Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) block interval from more than 5.5 seconds to less than a second.
This performance strengthens its position as one of the most compatible EVM chains with low latency. With this finality time, Cronos is in the top 10 fastest block chains for finality on the chain, making it equal with competitors such as APTOS, SEI, SUI, SOLANA and others.
This speed jump is also helped by recent scalability adjustments, including Blocktsm, The parallel implementation engine, which was introduced in the Pallene Upgrade that was released last year in December. With this, multiple transactions could be processed within each block at the same time.
Both upgrades combined are expected:
- Increase transaction supply (TPS)
- Make near-instant reaction capacity possible
- Improve Developer User Experience (UX)
- Reduce the latency for real -time interactions on the chain
Mirko Zhao, Cronos Labs Lead and Head of Product & Engineering, Comment:
“By unlocking the performance of the Subsecond, we not only make the network possible faster-We make a new class ultrasnelle blockchain applications possible. This upgrade reinforces our long-term commitments to developer experience and performance.”
The Cronos ecosystem consists of 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.
The native cryptocurrency, CRO, is currently in the top 50 of market capitalization, according to the latest data from Coetecko, with a total capitalization of more than $ 2.5 billion.