Cronos EVM v1.5.0 was officially released today, October 30th. This upgrade introduces new EVM opcodes, smart accounts, and improved interoperability. Smarturn targets blockchains that are more flexible, faster, and developer-friendly.
Khronos Blockchain announces the launch of its anticipated Smarturn upgrade, ushering in a new era of network evolution.
This update brings significant improvements across Khronos’ Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), including improved interoperability, enhanced ecosystem performance, and smoother wallet functionality.
According to the announcement:
This mainnet upgrade marks a major leap forward in the evolution of Cronos, unlocking smart accounts, delivering new EVM features, and improving performance for both developers and users.
🚀 Cronos EVM upgrade complete — “Smarturn” is here!
This mainnet upgrade marks a major leap forward in the evolution of Cronos, unlocking smart accounts, delivering new EVM features, and improving performance for both developers and users.
Here are the new features 👇 pic.twitter.com/6Vi4K8BUbL
— Cronos (@cronos_chain) October 30, 2025
The blockchain temporarily ceased operations for approximately 60 minutes to integrate new components.
Meanwhile, services are gradually being restarted as the Cronos ecosystem reaches important milestones.
Smarturn aims to revolutionize Kronos through speed and compatibility using unique innovations.
Smarter accounts now available on Kronos
Support for high-end EIP-7702 smart accounts is at the core of Cronos’ latest upgrade. This feature allows a regular user’s wallet (Externally Owned Account (EOA)) to function like a smart contract wallet.
This allows you to take advantage of features that were previously possible via a separate account. According to the official blog,
EIP-7702 bridges this gap by making EOAs work like smart contracts. The assigned contract code remains valid until the account issues a new authorization and can be applied to one chain or multiple chains at the same time.
Individuals can now perform a variety of activities, including using flexible gas payment methods, personalizing permissions, batching large numbers of transactions, and programming wallet behavior without changing their account type.
With EIP-7702, Cronos joins the few EVM-compatible platforms that boast this level of account abstraction, blending automated control with simplicity.
This feature advances DeFi platforms and decentralized applications (dApps) on the Cronos blockchain through efficiency and ease of use.
Significantly improved performance
Additionally, Khronos has upgraded EVM’s VM to run on go-Ethereum v1.15.11, in line with Ethereum’s Prague and Cancun upgrades.
This update aims to make contract conclusion and transactions cheaper and faster.
Additionally, comprehensive client improvements and new EVM opcodes on Cronos enhance efficiency, developer experience, and debugging. The team added:
Combining these opcodes makes contract execution more efficient for complex DeFi, game contracts that handle multiple operations per transaction, and other compute-intensive applications.
These upgrades make the Cronos EVM runtime faster, lighter, and more developer-centric.
Enhanced interoperability and tools
Smarturn also improves the infrastructure for cross-chain builders and developers.
For example, the new RPC endpoint allows you to fetch complete block data in a single query.
This is an advantage for dApp backends, analytical dashboards, and blockchain explorers.
Additionally, mempool now allows users to cancel or speed up pending transactions.
This improves responsiveness during large network loads.
Cronos also adopted IBC v2 to ibc-go v10.1.1 to enhance cross-chain communication.
CRO price outlook
The alto market is trading at $0.1470 after falling about 1.5% in the past 24 hours.
Daily trading volumes have fallen by more than 60%, indicating waning enthusiasm.
Nevertheless, CRO reflects a broader sentiment.
Bitcoin is trading below the key $110,000 mark after dropping nearly 3% of its value in the past 24 hours.
Markets lost momentum following Chairman Powell’s cautious comments regarding a rate cut in December.
