Cronos Investment Calculator
What would buying CRO have been worth? Pick a plan and a start date and this replays it against real daily Cronos closes.
What CRO actually did, in the data this page replays
Measured from the 365 daily closes this page replays — 14 September 2025 to 13 September 2026, from CoinGecko. Figures are bounded by that window, not by the asset’s whole life.
| History available | 12 months (from CoinGecko) |
|---|---|
| Bought on the first day, held to the last | 0.241× — a loss of 75.9% |
| Highest close in this window | $0.2495 on 14 September 2025 |
| Where it sits against that high | 75.9% below |
| Deepest fall | −81.5%, 14 September 2025 → 19 August 2026 |
| Time to get back to that peak | still below it |
| Separate falls of 50% or more | 1 |
| Days spent more than 20% below a previous peak | 95.1% |
| Best calendar year (partial) | 2026: -33.6% |
| Worst calendar year (partial) | 2025: -62.9% |
| Annualised volatility | 74.5% |
CRO year by year
First close to last close each year. 2025 and 2026 are partial — the data starts mid-2025 and 2026 is still running.
| Year | Change | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | -62.9% | partial year |
| 2026 | -33.6% | partial year |
The part the calculator does not show you
Cronos has a particular shape in this data: its highest close is the very first one we hold, on 14 September 2025, and the 81.5% fall from it is not an event inside the series — it is the series. Any start date you pick above sits somewhere on that decline, which is why almost every plan you can configure here comes back negative. That is not a flaw in the backtest. It is what buying and holding CRO over this window did.
One caveat specific to CRO: we only hold 12 months of daily closes for it, which is not enough to cover a full cycle. Any result the calculator gives you is a statement about one short stretch of an unusually eventful market, and the confidence you can place in it is correspondingly low. The coins on this site with six or more years of history give far more meaningful answers.
Note that CRO's best calendar year in this window is still a negative one (2026, -33.6%). There is no year in the data where holding it for the twelve months made money.
74.5% annualised volatility is at the calmer end for this market, which says more about CRO's short record than about its risk. All CRO calculators →
Frequently asked questions
＋Would buying CRO on the first day of this data and holding have made money?
No. Held across the whole window the position ended at 0.241× — a loss of 75.9%. That is worth stating plainly because "hold long enough and it recovers" is the usual advice, and over the 12 months we hold for CRO it did not happen.
＋What is the worst CRO has fallen?
81.5% in this data, from 14 September 2025 down to 19 August 2026 — 11 months of falling. It has not returned to that peak since, so anyone who bought at the top is still waiting. Bear in mind our CRO series starts in 2025; a deeper fall before that date would not appear here.
＋How much time does CRO spend below its previous high?
95.1% of all days in this window sat more than 20% below a previous peak. Put another way, for most of the time you would have owned it, the screen showed a number lower than one you had already seen — which is the part of a backtest's headline return that the headline never conveys.
＋What were CRO's best and worst years?
2026 was the best at -33.6% (a partial year in our data), and 2025 the worst at -62.9% (also partial). The gap between those two is the reason a single average annual return is a poor description of this asset: almost nobody experiences the average, they experience one of the two extremes depending on when they bought.
＋Is 12 months of data enough to trust this backtest?
No, and that is the honest answer for CRO specifically. 12 months does not cover a full market cycle, so any result here describes one short stretch rather than a pattern. Treat it as a record of what happened, not as evidence about what tends to happen.
What to keep in mind for CRO
CRO responds to Crypto.com's own announcements — listings, sponsorships, supply votes — more than to broad crypto moves.
Cronos transactions cost cents. CRO is not listed on Binance, so most liquidity is on Crypto.com itself — check the spread before assuming a quoted price is achievable.
A backtest is one path that already happened. It shows what this plan produced through the exact sequence of prices CRO went through — not what a similar plan will produce through a sequence nobody has seen yet.