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🚨Dev Updates – October Ahead of next week’s Smarturn EVM upgrade, here’s a deep dive into the Cronos protocol team’s progress this month 👇 Cronos EVM This month’s work delivered major improvements in performance for EVM, with a special highlight on optimizing the Cosmos staking module alone, reducing endblock execution time by up to 10x, drastically speeding up network sync! 🚀 Shipped ✅ –(EVM) Pre-install support: Developers can now access pre-defined contracts such as CREATE2, Multicall3 and Permit2 without manual deployment. –(EVM) EIP-2935: Cronos clients can store & serve the last 8,191 block hashes in a system contract, enabling more efficient, stateless execution. –(DB) RocksDB v10.4: Improved storage performance with enabling async I/O & multi-get support. –Cosmos Staking Module 🚀: Significant improvements in code & caching reduce storage overhead at endblock, achieving up to 10x faster execution on archive nodes, drastically reducing sync time. Cronos POS Cronos-store goes open-source for reusable core storage, with performance improvements at the database layer. Shipped ✅ –Cronos-store: Core storage logic has been modularized into a separate repository, embracing open-source principles and enabling reuse across projects. –(DB) RocksDB v10.4: Storage & performance gains as EVM. Cronos zkEVM – Security & v29 rollout 🔒 Last month we focused on security improvements, releasing v29.2 to patch an operator wallet vulnerability and v29.3 to fix the EC pairing precompile bug –(Contracts) v29 deployed on private testnet — rigorous testing underway. Mainnet rollout expected next week Stay tuned—new updates and improvements are coming next month!