CROSS

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Rank #429•Smart Contract Platform, Gaming (GameFi), BNB Chain Ecosystem

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CROSS: moving game items while studios keep control of their servers

CROSS launched on 23 April 2025 with a draft promise of one billion coins and no additional issuance. It sold access to a game economy where players could hold tokenized items themselves. By Mainnet 2.0, the official staking interface exposed block rewards and emissions, while the reviewed primary materials still did not reconcile them with that cap. At the same time, consensus nodes remained Foundation-owned and each game kept its own server authority. CROSS therefore tells a sharper story than ‘true ownership’: the wallet owns a token, but usefulness still crosses several controlled gates.

A billion-coin promise meets a later reward meter

The April 2025 draft fixes supply at one billion. Weeks later, OGF (BVI) Ltd.’s sale terms offered 96 million at US$0.10 and promised to burn the unsold portion; the MiCA paper separately described 350 million for admission to trading.

Current StakeHub documentation exposes block-reward and emission data. That may reflect Mainnet 2.0 policy, but the reviewed primary documents do not say how new rewards coexist with ‘no additional issuance.’ Supply analysis should keep the conflict visible rather than choose a convenient number.

The open endpoint stops before consensus

Anyone can operate an endpoint node and read or relay the chain. Consensus and proxy nodes are different: the network guide says the Foundation owns them, even where a third party operates one under Foundation policy.

Finalized roots can be signed by validators and anchored to BNB Chain by a designated leader. That checkpoint improves external verifiability, but BSC does not validate every CROSS transaction, and the proof documentation is still explicitly unfinished.

A wallet item still asks the game server

RAMP does not discover ownership by magic. A game server verifies the account, deducts or restores the internal asset and signs the minting path. The game company manages the owner wallet and fee settings.

The player can hold and transfer the resulting token without Nexus custody. Yet another game must choose to integrate it, and the first game can still change its own rules. The enforceable ownership is the on-chain token, not permanent gameplay utility.

One ticker, two staking clocks

StakeHub is native security staking: one contract pool, no effective validator choice and a 14-day cooldown. Its current interface bundles rewards into stake-changing flows.

Game staking is an application pool that attributes RAMP activity fees by share and documents immediate claim and exit. Neither mechanism creates a general legal claim on OGF, Foundation or game-company revenue; each depends on its stated contract and service remaining available.

How the project changed

2025-04-23
Mainnet begins
The MiCA record dates the production network launch to this day.
2025-04-30
A fixed-billion design is recorded
The v1.5 draft says supply is capped at one billion with no further issuance.
2025-05-14
Public-sale terms take effect
OGF (BVI) Ltd. defines eligibility, delivery discretion and excluded jurisdictions.
2025-05-15
Scheduled opening of the 96-million sale
The terms scheduled a seven-day sale from this date at an initial US$0.10 per CROSS; they do not establish the actual opening.
2025-05-22
Scheduled sale deadline
The terms set this deadline unless all 96 million allocated tokens sold earlier, and required any unsold portion to be burned. They do not establish the actual closure or a completed burn.
2026-06-01
Mainnet 2.0 enters its Breakpoint campaign
An ecosystem announcement presents PoSA, halving rewards and fee burning. The reviewed primary materials do not reconcile the current emission fields with the 2025 no-issuance draft.

What to verify before relying on the token story

The unreconciled difference between the fixed-billion draft and Mainnet 2.0 emission fields can make supply and valuation calculations wrong.
Foundation ownership of consensus and proxy nodes concentrates liveness, censorship and upgrade dependence beyond what an open endpoint-node option implies.
A 14-day StakeHub cooldown can trap users through volatility or a protocol incident.
A BNB bridge failure, validator-signature error or leader outage can delay or strand the represented asset even when the source chain remains live.
RAMP token ownership does not force a game to preserve gameplay utility, restore an account or accept the asset in another title.
Game-company server keys and owner wallets can block minting or mis-handle the off-chain deduction that precedes it.
Virtual reserves can make a Forge market look deeper than its withdrawable liquidity, increasing slippage and exit risk.
Gas-sponsored play can stop if the allowlist, simulation service or FeePayer declines a transaction.

Evidence and primary sources

Last evidence review: 2026-09-05

What is CROSS?

CROSS is the native gas coin of EVM-compatible CROSS Mainnet, chain ID 612055, with 18 decimals. The same economic asset also appears on BNB Chain at 0x6bf62ca91e397b5a7d1d6bce97d9092065d7a510; users must distinguish this representation from native CROSS and from unrelated projects using the word cross.

The network packages three different products around that coin. StakeHub handles native network staking. Gametoken Forge pools price game tokens against CROSS. RAMP lets a game operator turn an in-game asset into an on-chain token. Their custody, withdrawal and reward rules are not interchangeable.

What problem does CROSS solve?

A sword or currency earned in a game usually remains a database row controlled by its publisher. CROSS tries to give it a wallet address, a market pair and a route across applications. The chain can make transfer ownership verifiable, but it cannot make another game honor the item or stop the original operator changing its game logic.

That gap makes control more useful than the slogan. The Foundation owns the documented consensus and proxy nodes. Game companies keep server checks and signing keys. A fee sponsor decides which contracts qualify for subsidized transactions. Bridge validators decide which finalized roots reach BNB Chain.

How does CROSS work?

CROSS transactions settle on Mainnet and pay native CROSS unless a supported application uses the chain’s delegated-fee transaction. The gas-abstraction service checks an allowlist, simulates the call and adds a FeePayer signature; the user experience is cheaper, but it still relies on an operator and backend.

For game markets, a Forge pool pairs CROSS with one game token. Virtual reserves can seed the curve without becoming withdrawable liquidity, so the displayed price is not a treasury promise. RAMP calls the game server to verify and deduct the off-chain asset before minting; the company-managed wallet and validator key remain part of the trust path.

Native staking routes all delegation through StakeHub, documents a 14-day exit delay and does not expose a real per-validator choice. Game staking is another pool system and says it distributes RAMP fees with immediate claim and unstake. Confusing the two changes both the source of yield and the time needed to exit.

Key facts

Native CROSS uses EVM chain ID 612055 and 18 decimals.
The official BNB Chain contract is 0x6bf62ca91e397b5a7d1d6bce97d9092065d7a510.
Mainnet launched on 23 April 2025.
The April 2025 draft states one billion fixed supply and no additional issuance.
The public sale allocated 96 million CROSS at an initial US$0.10.
Consensus and proxy nodes are documented as Foundation-owned.
StakeHub documents a single pool and 14-day unstaking cooldown.
Game staking is a separate RAMP-fee pool with different exit rules.
Bridge checkpoints anchor validator-signed roots to BNB Chain.
RAMP minting still depends on game-server checks and company-managed keys.

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Frequently asked questions

Which CROSS is this?

The native coin of CROSS Mainnet chain 612055 and its official BNB Chain representation at 0x6bf6…a510, not an unrelated namesake.

Is supply permanently capped at one billion?

A 30 April 2025 draft says so, but current staking docs expose emissions and block rewards. No reviewed primary policy reconciles the two, so the cap should not be presented as settled.

Can anyone validate the chain?

The docs allow anyone to run an endpoint node, but say consensus and proxy nodes are Foundation-owned and may be operated for it under policy.

Does the BNB checkpoint make BSC the consensus layer?

No. CROSS validators sign finalized roots and a leader submits them to BSC. The anchor is an external verification record, not full BSC re-execution.

Is StakeHub the same as game staking?

No. StakeHub secures the network and has a 14-day cooldown. Game staking is a separate pool that distributes RAMP activity fees and documents on-demand exit.

Does an on-chain sword work in every game?

No. The wallet can own the token, but each game chooses integration and keeps authority over its own server logic.

Who ran the public sale?

OGF (BVI) Ltd. issued the sale terms and is named in the MiCA material as the admission applicant.

Do holders own company or protocol revenue?

The reviewed records grant utility and contract-specific rewards, not equity, dividends, redemption or a general claim on Foundation or game revenue.

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