Cronos Accelerator Program: Cohort 1 Announcement
With over 300 applications across the verticals of DeFi, Web3 Gaming, Social Fi, and Infrastructure, Cronos has selected 9 promising projects to be the inaugural participants in the $100M Cronos Accelerator Program.
We are thrilled to announce the nine participants selected for the first cohort our $100M-backed Cronos Accelerator Program. The Cronos Accelerator is a 10-week program designed to accelerate the growth of top project teams building on the Cronos chain.
Since our official announcement of the Cronos Accelerator Program in June, we have received over 300 applications across a variety of DeFi, Web3 Gaming, and infrastructure projects. Applicants were assessed based on their market potential, product attractiveness, team experience, and the synergies they have with Cronos Chain.
After a rigorous selection process, we have selected the following nine participants for its inaugural accelerator cohort. Let’s dive right in!
Cronos Accelerator: Cohort 1 Projects
1. D.G.Pals
Genre: Web3 Gaming
D.G.Pals is an interoperable multi-game, multi-genre NFT Web3 Gaming Project across V-pet simulator, 5v5 auto-battler, Virtual town, Simulation SLG Tower Defense.
2. Eyeball Pool
Genre: Web3 Gaming
Eyeball Pool is a multiplayer skill-based mobile game that lets players utilize NFTs across Pool events, tournaments, and head-to-head games to earn rewards.
3. Harbor
Genre: Web3 Gaming
Harbor aims to be a web 2.5 multi-genre mobile gaming platform amplifying Free-to-Play experiences with a crypto-economic layer.
4. The New Resistance
Genre: Web3 Gaming
The New Resistance is a First Person Shooter game offering both a Multiplayer PvP experience with custom game modes and a Co-op PvE Generative Dungeon.
5. Wild Forest
Genre: Web3 Gaming
Wild Forest is a Free-to-Play & Play-to-Earn mobile real-time strategy game with direct unit control, and deep card collecting elements.
6. Bubble Maps
Genre: Infrastructure Analytics
Bubblemaps is a supply auditing and analytics visualization tool for tokens and NFTs. The platform’s unique and colorful bubbles make on-chain data easy to understand.
7. Meshlink
Genre: Infrastructure Analytics
Meshlink is the first all-in-one smart-contract management and transaction analytics platform for Web3 teams.
8. ReferReach
Genre: Social Fi
ReferReach is the first-of-its-kind referral platform that lets users easily discover, organize and prioritize business referrals. The platform integrates artificial intelligence with users’ network knowledge to create more business opportunities.
9. Glass Finance
Genre: DeFi
Glass Finance is a DeFi protocol offering an innovative Discretized-Liquidity-AMM DEX model that maximizes capital efficiency by allowing users to deploy liquidity in certain price ticks and enabling non-custodial on-chain limit orders.
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These nine participants will be matched with reputable industry mentors who will be providing them with dedicated mentorship. Furthermore, these participants will benefit from weekly workshops led by Cronos labs and external subject matter experts, covering key topics relating to early-stage protocol building.
Prominent line-up of Partners and Mentors
The Cronos Accelerator features a prominent line-up of venture funds, gaming guilds, and infrastructure partners who will be providing best-in-class support to the participants through workshops and panel discussions. Partners include: Spartan Labs, Mechanism Capital, Crypto.com Capital, Ubisoft, IOSG Ventures, OKX Blockdream Ventures, Lingfeng Innovation Fund, Protocol Labs, Altcoin Buzz, Dorahacks, NGC Metaverse Ventures, AP Capital, Simmons & Simmons, AvocadoDAO, PathDAO, Re:base Ventures, Faculty Group, and many more.
Additionally, the Cronos Accelerator has also onboarded several mentors who will offer dedicated mentorship and tailored advice to the participants.
Mentors include:
- Benson Yan (Partner, OKX Blockdream Ventures)
- Eric Yang (Managing Partner, Fundamental Labs)
- Eugin Lee (Angel Investor)
- Eva Wu (Principal, Mechanism Capital)
- Jon Russell (Partner, Crypto.com Capital)
- Josh Wang (Venture Investor, PathDAO)
- Ken Timsit (Managing Director, Cronos Labs)
- Nicole Zhang (Partner, Lingfeng Innovation Fund)
- Queenie Wu (Partner, IOSG Ventures)
- Shashwat Gupta (CEO & Founder, Altcoin Buzz)
- Shaun Heng (Head of Spartan Labs)
- Usman Choudhry (Head of Crypto, AP Capital)
- Zihao Chen (Managing Director, NGC Metaverse Ventures)
Today officially marks the start of the first cohort of the Cronos Accelerator Program. The Cronos Accelerator Program is funded by the $100M Cronos Ecosystem Fund and will feature 3–4 Accelerator cohorts per year as part of the chain’s ongoing commitment to supporting the best Web3 projects and teams.
About Cronos
Cronos (cronos.org) is the first EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain network built on the Cosmos SDK, supported by Crypto.com, Crypto.org and more than 300+ app developers and partners. Cronos is building an open ecosystem where developers can create their own DeFi and GameFi applications, targeting a base of 50+ million users globally. Earlier this year, Cronos Labs launched a $100M Accelerator program to help developers build new projects and the future of Web3 within the Cronos ecosystem.
When developers build on Cronos, they can leverage all Ethereum developer tools (i.e. Solidity, Truffle, Hardhat, OpenZeppelin, Web3.js, ethers.js, ChainSafe Gaming SDK); leading crypto wallets (i.e. MetaMask, Crypto.com Defi Wallet, Trust Wallet); wrapped versions of the world’s top 50 cryptocurrencies; Cronos Play, a suite of developer tools for Unity, C++ and Unreal engine; and inter-blockchain communication (IBC) cross-chain connectivity to Cosmos chains; and as well as a rich ecosystem of composable DeFi and GameFi dApps.
