Overview

• Cronos Labs announced on Oct. 2 a strategic collaboration with Morpho and Crypto.com to expand on-chain lending on the Cronos blockchain.
• Crypto.com will integrate Morpho Vaults into its app and exchange, giving users direct access to decentralized borrowing and lending.
• Morpho Vaults are slated to debut on Cronos in Q4 2025 with stablecoin markets backed by Crypto.com wrapped assets such as CDCBTC and CDCETH.
• Cronos cites network upgrades that cut fees roughly tenfold, reduced block times to under one second, and increased daily transactions by about 400% to support higher throughput.
• The partners plan to explore tokenized real-world asset collateral as a next phase, and CRO gained more than 13% after the announcement.