Cratos (CRTS) Price

CRTS is a utility token used by the CRATOS real-time voting app. The project positions it as part of a Vote-to-Earn mechanism rather than equity in the app. Its role is to connect actions such as registering in the app, creating or participating in votes, and commenting with token rewards and community-participation mechanisms. CRTS should therefore be understood as a token within the app's participation mechanism: when users complete actions that meet the rules in effect at the time, the project may distribute tokens from a reward pool to them. This differs from holding company shares or automatically obtaining rights to the app's revenue.

CRTS Vote-to-Earn is a mechanism that distributes tokens according to in-app actions and the reward criteria in effect during a given period; it is not interest generated automatically by holding CRTS. For example, under the standards reviewed in CIP-40 for August 1, 2022 through April 30, 2026, registration could earn 500 CRTS once; participating in a vote could earn 2 CRTS per vote, up to 140 CRTS per day; creating a vote could earn 25 CRTS per vote, up to 25 CRTS per day; and posting a comment could earn 5 CRTS per comment, up to 10 CRTS per day. In other words, both the reward per action and the daily cap determine the maximum number of tokens that can be settled for that action on a given day. Those historical standards also provided for rewards to halve every six months to manage market supply. Reward amounts are therefore not permanently fixed parameters: for the same participation activity, the unit reward may differ depending on the applicable period. CIP-40 states that CIP-39 had extended the then-current daily reward caps through April 30, 2026; CIP-40 itself proposed extending the end date of the above standards further to May 31, 2026. It was a proposal, so that announcement alone cannot establish that the extension was approved or that subsequent new standards were actually implemented.

The maximum supply listed in the CRTS white paper is 100 billion tokens. Maximum supply is a cap on the total token amount, not the amount that users can freely trade on the market at a given time. For CRTS, unlock schedules, custodial balances, and reward distributions can each affect different measures. Even if some tokens are “unlocked” according to a schedule, they may remain in designated addresses, custody arrangements, or reward pools. They may become actual tradable market supply only when they enter wallets that can be controlled by their holders and those holders transfer or sell them.

CRTS previously automated part of its vesting unlocks. According to the project's description, Chainlink Keepers continuously checked preset conditions; once 30 days had elapsed since the previous execution, the contract executed an unlock function and transferred the scheduled amount to a designated wallet address. This process links the maturity condition, on-chain execution, and transfer to the designated address, reducing reliance on manually triggered scripts. This automation explains only how vesting unlocks were executed; it does not mean the tokens were necessarily sold afterward. Whether the designated address continues to hold the tokens in custody, uses them for rewards, transfers them, or sells them is a separate matter after unlocking. Automated vesting therefore should not be equated with immediate market selling pressure.

The revised unlock notice published in 2022 defined “calculated circulating supply” as total supply minus designated balances for the reward pool, KODA custody, ecosystem, foundation, development, and marketing, among others. The foundation balance was also described as being automatically vested through Chainlink Keepers. This methodology shows that circulating supply was an indicator calculated under the notice's classification rules, rather than simply the total amount already unlocked. The schedule in that notice lists calculated circulating supply as reaching 100 billion tokens in January 2025, but also expressly states that this figure includes 30 billion tokens in KODA custody and that the schedule may change. It further states that a combined 6 billion tokens in ERC-20 and BEP20 reward pools were treated as unlocked and intended for distribution as app rewards, with the balances changing as tokens were distributed to user wallets. This historical table therefore cannot substitute for real-time freely circulating supply or the amount available for sale on the market at a particular time.

The CRTS white paper proposes a governance design in which Cratos DAO allows token holders to participate in project proposals and voting. This describes the governance use in the project's design; it does not mean that every future proposal has been approved, nor that every proposal will automatically be implemented in the app or contracts. The governance process should be separated into at least four stages: proposal, voting, approval, and implementation. Using CIP-40 from 2026 as an example, the announcement proposed whether to extend the end date of the then-current reward standards to May 31, 2026, and offered yes, no, and abstain options. This demonstrates that there was a proposal awaiting a vote at that time, but the announcement itself cannot prove that the new standards had been approved or taken effect.

The ERC-20 version of CRTS runs on Ethereum, while the BEP20 version runs on BNB Smart Chain (BSC). They are token versions deployed on different networks, not network labels that can be exchanged solely because they share the same token name. The white paper identifies CRTS as an ERC-20 token and states that a BEP20 version may be provided; BNB Smart Chain's official documentation explains that BSC is an independent blockchain network, although it is compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine. When transferring CRTS, the native asset of the network on which the transaction is initiated must be used to pay the on-chain fee: Ethereum transactions involving the ERC-20 version use ETH, and BSC transactions involving the BEP20 version use BNB. Fees are not automatically deducted in CRTS. If the sending wallet lacks sufficient ETH or BNB, the transaction will generally be unable to be submitted or executed. Both networks commonly use account addresses beginning with “0x”; a similar-looking address does not prove that the networks are the same or that the recipient supports that version. Before sending, select Ethereum/ERC-20 or BNB Smart Chain/BEP20 according to the network explicitly provided by the recipient, then confirm that it supports the corresponding CRTS version. Sending tokens to a mismatched or unsupported network should not be treated as an ordinary same-chain transfer; whether recovery is possible depends on whether the recipient or the party controlling the address can handle assets on that network.

No. The white paper explicitly describes CRTS as a utility token in the app and states that it does not represent ownership of or rights in the CRATOS app; holding CRTS does not constitute company equity. Likewise, the token-reward mechanism does not constitute guaranteed returns. Whether rewards can be earned depends on the participation conditions, caps, and settlement rules set by the project for a particular period; the white paper provides no guarantee of the token's market price, value, or principal.