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Jessie A Ellis
Oct 16, 2025 05:44

Cronos (CRO) is set to introduce its ‘Smarturn’ upgrade on October 30, 2025, enhancing the EVM mainnet with new features like smart accounts and improved interoperability.

The Cronos (CRO) EVM Mainnet is preparing for a significant enhancement with the upcoming v1.5 ‘Smarturn’ upgrade, which is scheduled for release on October 30, 2025. This update promises to introduce substantial improvements across the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), including the introduction of smart accounts, new opcodes, and enhanced interoperability with the Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol, according to Cronos. Key Features of the Smarturn Upgrade One of the central features of the Smarturn upgrade is the support for smart accounts through EIP-7702. This proposal allows Externally Owned Accounts (EOAs) to function similarly to smart contract accounts, offering enhanced flexibility and functionality for decentralized applications (DApps) and users. Traditionally, EOAs could only handle simple transactions signed with a private key. In contrast, smart contract accounts could execute custom logic but required separate contract deployment. With EIP-7702, EOAs can now mimic smart contracts, enabling programmable wallet logic and the ability to bundle multiple transactions into a single operation. This upgrade supports custom permission rules and offers flexible gas payment management without requiring users to migrate funds or change account types. Enhanced Protocol Performance The upgrade also aligns Cronos’s EVM with Ethereum’s Cancun and Prague forks by updating to go-ethereum v1.15.11. This update introduces new EVM opcodes such as TSTORE, TLOAD, and MCOPY, which enhance efficiency and developer experience. TSTORE and TLOAD allow for transient storage, reducing gas costs for contracts needing temporary data storage. MCOPY optimizes memory operations, significantly lowering gas costs for array and buffer operations. Improved Interoperability and Transaction Management In addition to protocol improvements, Cronos is enhancing its…

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