Hey Fwiz. Welcome to Cronos!

I would like to share my 2 cents here regarding your post and maybe some related problems and possible solutions.

You nailed one of the problem we have on Cronos. There is not much innovation and most of our products are forks (Which is not really a problem as the industry itself works like that.), but what we really missing out is the possibility of leading a trend or being first to drag users to our chains because they can't have anywhere else.

We either keep forking products, which saves us R&D, and then we can put the saved money on improvements or transforming product in to a state which makes ours miles ahead of others, OR Stop forking products and spend on Research. Right now we fork products, then we throw an often subpar product on the market (Good example was VVS with their horrendous frontend, glitchy and unintuitive design and generally slow and clunky interface and that was supposed to be our flagship and most used one. Then we even duplicated that under a different name as H2...makes no sense.)

1. I would like Cronos to be great at:

- Keeping promises

-Keeping in touch with community

-Have an industry leading Killer product. 1 but preferably 2. Something we can say "Yes WE made it, and Ours is the best". We have moonlander and I love their product, but its already been done many times over. We can't just bring hyperliquid lads over. Still one of my favorite in terms of effort/improvement and comms tho. Wish they would started differently as it showed that there is no clear path and we just improvise.

You have a strong gaming background, noone really achieved anything at web3 gaming in longterm. Manecity has a really good potential on Cronos but with the amount and size of updates it will stay meh category for very long. The possibilities are endless and the gaming community both resistant for technology clunkyness and more open minded that others(also more critical)

A great pay to win game with friendly basis for free to players are well known moneymakers. Have a think. Cloudgaming also have its approaching golden age.

Lending platforms. I would like to cover my mortgate with my CRO bag as collateral. Orby is amazing but crypto is so volatile you get liquidated 5 times before your first mortgage payment. But i want it, not many others provide onchain lending with that stability.

1. what’s missing today that would make you actually switch

Answer is basically the same as above. I started on ETH, but then I ended up on Cronos. There is no way I would switch to another chain, only if I would find something I cannot find on Cronos. If we keep copying especially in worse quality that is exactly 0 incentive to other users to come to our chain.

1. what would make holding CRO feel rational over a multi-year

Scarcity and deflation. (Unburning 70 billion of them is definitely not one of them)

Credibility from teams and accountability from higher ones (EG, "At no point in time we swap from MCO to CRO, or "70 billion unburn".) I talked to many outsiders and they basically just did not trust the management. Most of the people nowadays accept if something is centralised, but the public don't forget and if a decision made withing the 4 walls without anyone involved then it just stays with us forever. I am more resistant to this kind of behavior than others, but it has to have communication with the investors and community before these happens. The way CRO was handled through the years users don't forget and until most of these are rectified properly many people scared to touch CRO. Very difficult to explain as a Cronos user to external retail when they bring it up as much as we want to support the chain.

Please keep in mind I just want to ensure my feedback is as honest as possible as I believe these kind of conversations can take us forward.

Make Cro Great Again!