A monthly reserve unlock dwarfs new staking coins and burns.
CRO runs the Cronos chains: 49.76B coins circulate, about half the supply. A 70B reserve unlocks on a monthly clock, and stakers earn new coins.
Sell pressure. The reserve opened 3.50B CRO in 90 days, and staking minted 195.7M more at a rate that shrinks every month. Three more 1.17B tranches open by Dec 16 2026.
Buy pressure. Only 4,500 CRO was burned. A vote closing Oct 3 2026 burns 228M next, still far short of the unlocks.
Net. Net, supply grows about 7.43% in 90 days and 6.90% next.
Every block mints new CRO for stakers, and since the May 2026 upgrade the rate shrinks 6.8% a month. It fell from 0.90% to 0.73% a year inside this window. Supply read at both ends grew by 195.67M CRO; 15% of that goes to the community pool. At the falling rate the next 90 days add about 159.7M.
The 70B CRO Strategic Reserve, re-created in March 2025, unlocks 1.17B CRO on a fixed monthly clock until March 2030. Three tranches opened in this window (Jul 17, Aug 17 and Sep 16 2026) and three more open on Oct 17, Nov 16 and Dec 16 2026. The reserve still has 49.0B CRO locked, and it sent 4.67B CRO to its main spending wallet this window.
Unlocked reserve coins sit in team wallets: about 12.62B CRO in the main spending wallet, 5.83B in an older wallet that did not move, and 500M in a wallet funded Sep 13 2026. The community pool holds 235.2M, and Trump Media reports 756M CRO, mostly under a sale lock until 2029. All of these already count as circulating, so selling them adds nothing new here.
No estate or trustee pays CRO out. The only long lock is the reserve's monthly schedule, counted in row 2.
Nothing was bought back yet. A vote ending Oct 3 2026 would send all revenue from the Ult and Cronos Launch apps to buy CRO each month and burn it, but the contract is still being built and no revenue figure is published, so no amount is counted.
There is no automatic fee burn. Only 4,500 CRO reached the burn address this window. Next comes a much bigger one: a vote to burn 228M CRO from the community pool closes on Oct 3 2026 with 48.5% of the stake voting and no votes against, and the burn runs by itself when the vote passes.
No team or partner buying is on record this window. The planned CRO treasury company with Trump Media was called off on Aug 7 2026.
Holders can now lock staked CRO for 1, 2 or 4 years for a bonus, and 14.47B CRO is staked in all. Staked and locked CRO still counts as circulating, so these locks take nothing out of the float.
Two sides: how much people want CRO right now, and how much buying could come later.
This part is based on social media. It shows how hot CRO is right now. A better rank means more people are talking about it.
Today, people are talking about CRO for two reasons:
The Cronos Strategic Reserve is set to release about 1.17 billion CRO on Oct 17 2026, worth roughly $70 million at today's price. That is far more than the 228 million CRO the community voted to burn earlier this month. People ask whether the burn means anything next to a release this size.
CRO went from about $0.069 on Oct 6 2026 to about $0.060 on Oct 12 2026, and it is trading below its recent averages. Reports found no single news event behind the drop. People ask if the coming reserve release is already weighing on the price.
Checked Oct 12 2026
By the law of supply and demand, Cronos's long-run signal is negative (Oct 13 2026, score 3.5/10). New supply: +6.90% in the next 90 days. Demand: moderate (3/5). Cronos's price drivers: 0 ▲ price up, 1 ▼ price down.
Three things stand out. The Cronos chain was rolled back on Aug 30, the Trump-linked CRO ETFs were pulled, and a US House probe wants answers from Crypto.com by Oct 13 2026. Trump Media also holds 756M CRO and may sell up to 68M of it since Aug 26 2026. Our supply-and-demand read for Cronos stays negative.
At $1, Cronos would be worth about $49.8B in total — about 14 times its $3.47B market cap today (Oct 13 2026, about 6.97 cents a coin). Cronos's supply also grows +28.66% in the next year, so every extra coin needs buyers too. Our supply-and-demand read for Cronos stays negative.
Cronos's signal is negative for now. Cronos's signal would turn if new supply keeps arriving (+6.90% in 90 days), or demand falls from moderate, or CRO ETFs keeps pointing down. The next date on Cronos's calendar: Oct 13 2026 — Probe answers due.
Cronos sits at 3.5/10 today (Oct 13 2026): supply 0.5/5, demand 3/5. One more year adds +28.66% to Cronos's supply. Long-run signal: negative.
By the law of supply and demand, the better time to buy Cronos is when its new supply is low, demand is high and its price drivers point up. Cronos today: +6.90% new supply in 90 days (flooding), demand moderate (3/5), drivers 0 ▲ / 1 ▼.
Right now 3 things drive Cronos's price (0 ▲, 1 ▼). • Trump Media's CRO: Holds 756M CRO; may sell up to 68M since Aug 26 2026. • Crypto.com itself: House probe answers due Oct 13 2026; chain rolled back Aug 30. ▼ CRO ETFs: Trump-linked CRO ETFs pulled; Canary and 21Shares still wait.
Side by side on Oct 13 2026: Cronos at 3.5/10 with a negative signal, Bitcoin at 8.5/10 with a positive signal. By supply and demand, Cronos is the weaker of the two.
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We look at two things, half each: supply and demand. Fewer new coins mean less selling pressure. A meme coin scores 1.5 at most on supply: its team got its coins for free, so no new supply does not make it safe. We also show each coin's age, with a warning when it is younger than 1 year. Demand looks at how much people want the coin now and how much buying could come later. Price Drivers (Beta) are the 2 or 3 things that can move one coin's price that supply and demand miss; they have no score. CRO supply grows +6.90% in the next 90 days, so it shows in red: more CRO reaches the market than is removed. Zero or falling supply is always green, any growth is red.
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