CRO · Strategic Reserve vesting is the whole story.
70B CRO was reissued in March 2025 into a 60-month linear-vest contract — three monthly cliffs of 1.167B each land in every 90-day window. Plus ~243M of POS chain inflation. Native fee burn is zero (whitepaper-explicit); only ~50M of community-pool burns offsets. Net runs at about +8% of supply per 90 days, and ~46 monthly cliffs remain.
Cosmos POS chain inflation pinned at 1%/yr (V5 governance change froze min = max). Annual provisions ~972M CRO/yr → ~243M per 90D, all distributed as validator rewards.
70B CRO reissued March 2025 into a 60-month linear-vest contract → 1.167B CRO unlocks per month → 3 monthly cliffs per 90D window ≈ ~3.5B. ~14 of 60 periods done; ~46 monthly cliffs (~53.7B) remain. This is the dominant sell row.
No public evidence of release in window — monitored. §0.45.3.4 enumeration: Crypto.com (corporate) wallets are NOT publicly disclosed (proof-of-reserves does not include native CRO); Cronos Labs ecosystem treasury opaque. Vested portion of the Reserve already counted in Row #2 to avoid double-counting.
No bankruptcy estate. Long-term lock lives in the Strategic Reserve vest contract (counted under Row #2); no separate long-term lock applies in window.
No protocol-level buyback. The TMTG CRO Strategy SPAC (~756M CRO pre-accumulated, close slipped to Q2 2026) is a potential structural buyer when listed; in-window pace unverified, flagged but not credited.
Whitepaper-explicit: the fee market module does NOT burn any base fees on Cronos EVM. Validators collect both base + priority fees. The only structural burn is community-pool governance burns (~50M per proposal, ~1 per 90D) — trivial vs Reserve vesting.
No structural Foundation buying programme. Crypto.com exchange does not run a published CRO buyback.
No scheduled new lockup programme. Existing staking is operational; V7 upgrade (if activated) would introduce tiered staking — pending governance verification.
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