Company Update
Cronos EVM Mainnet v1.8 Upgrade
Cronos Labs announces the v1.8 upgrade for the Cronos EVM mainnet, scheduled for October 22, 2026. The upgrade adds application‑side mempool management, full‑maturity parallel EVM execution, raises EVM API compatibility above 90%, incorporates the Osaka hardfork via go‑ethereum v1.16.9, and introduces experimental libp2p networking. Core frameworks (Cosmos SDK, IBC‑Go, CometBFT, RocksDB) are updated, over 40 bugs are fixed, and several breaking changes affect validators and node operators, including restrictions on SendCroToIbc, removal of Interchain Accounts, and new gas cost enforcement.