Cronos (CRO) launches “Smarturn” upgrade for expanded EVM features

• Cronos EVM v1.5.0 was officially launched today, October 30th.
• The upgrade introduces new EVM opcodes, smart accounts and improved interoperability.
• Smarturn aims for a more flexible, faster and developer-friendly blockchain.

The Cronos blockchain has announced the launch of its anticipated Smarturn upgrade, ushering in a new era in network development.

The update brings significant improvements to Cronos’ Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), including increased interoperability, improved ecosystem performance, and smooth wallet functionality.

The announcement states:

This mainnet upgrade marks a major leap in Cronos development – ​​unlocking smart accounts, new EVM features, and improved performance for developers and users alike.

🚀 Cronos EVM upgrade complete — “Smarturn” is here!

This mainnet upgrade marks a major leap in Cronos’ evolution — unlocking smart accounts, new EVM features, and improved performance for developers and users alike.

Here’s what’s new 👇 pic.twitter.com/6Vi4K8BUbL

— Cronos (@cronos_chain) October 30, 2025

The blockchain temporarily paused operations for approximately 60 minutes to integrate the new components.

In the meantime, services will gradually resume as the Cronos ecosystem reaches an important milestone.

Smarturn aims to revolutionize Cronos through speed and compatibility with its unique innovations.

Smarter accounts arrive on Cronos

High-end support for EIP-7702 Smart Accounts is at the heart of Cronos’ latest upgrade. This feature allows regular user wallets (External Account (EOA)) to function like smart contract wallets.

This helps unlock features that were previously possible across different accounts. According to the official Blog:

EIP-7702 closes this gap by making EOAs act like smart contracts. The assigned contract code remains valid until the account grants a new authorization, which can apply to a chain or to multiple chains at the same time.

Individuals can now perform various activities without changing account types, including using flexible gas payment methods, personalizing permissions, bundling many transactions, and programming wallet behavior.

With EIP-7702, Cronos joins the ranks of the few EVM-compatible platforms that offer this level of account abstraction, combining automated control with simplicity.

The functionality will advance DeFi platforms and decentralized applications (dApps) on the Cronos blockchain through efficiency and ease of use.

Performance is massively increased

Additionally, Cronos has upgraded its EVM’s VM to run on go-Ethereum v1.15.11, aligning with Ethereum’s Prague and Cancun upgrades.

The update aims to make contract processing and transaction processing cheaper and faster.

It also offers comprehensive client improvements and new EVM opcodes on Cronos to improve efficiency, developer experience and debugging. The team added:

These opcodes make contract execution more efficient for complex DeFi contracts, gaming contracts that handle multiple operations per transaction, and other compute-intensive applications.

Together, these upgrades make the Cronos EVM runtime faster, leaner, and more developer-focused.

Improved interoperability and tools

Smarturn also improves the infrastructure for cross-chain builders and developers.

For example, a new RPC endpoint allows full block data to be retrieved in a single query.

This is a win for dApp backends, analytics dashboards and blockchain explorers.

In addition, the mempool now allows pending transactions to be canceled or accelerated.

This improves responsiveness under massive network load.

Additionally, Cronos has introduced IBC v2 to ibc-go v10.1.1 to support cross-chain communication.

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Daily trading volume has plunged by more than 60%, indicating waning enthusiasm.

Nonetheless, CRO reflects the general sentiment.

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