Celebrating One Year of Mainnet
On July 16, 2024, Chromia’s mainnet officially went live. Now, a year later, we’re taking a moment to reflect on how far we’ve come. From new technical capabilities to an expanding ecosystem of dapps, the past twelve months have been a period of progress and momentum.
This article highlights some key areas of growth. For an even more comprehensive overview of everything that’s happened, we’ve also put together a one-year retrospective video that you can check out here.
Network Growth and Ecosystem Activity
Since launch, our network infrastructure has matured significantly. One example is the evolution of Chromia Explorer, which now offers a much clearer picture of on-chain activity and usage. Here are some key stats as of the one-year mark:
- Over 1 million accounts created
- Over 87 million transactions processed
- Over 70 million native CHR staked
- 34 dapp chains live on mainnet
As mainnet continues to grow, we will keep improving the tools used to interact with mainnet (Chromia Vault, Chromia Explorer, etc.) and look forward to hitting new milestones.
Expanding Token Ecosystem
Chromia launched with Native CHR as its first asset, and over the past year, we’ve seen that on-chain assets expand in both scale and variety.
ColorPool (COLOR), for example, was issued directly onto its own dedicated chain. Others, like My Neighbor Alice (ALICE) and DAR Open Network token (D) have been deployed on Token Chain, Chromia’s shared system chain for issuing and managing assets.
We’re also getting closer to the public release of CRC2, Chromia’s native NFT standard. CRC2 is interoperable with ERC-721 and ERC-1155, while offering additional metadata flexibility and features. The standard is already being used as part of the latest My Neighbor Alice update.
As we move forward, we will continue to streamline the creation and management of tokens, making it easier for builders to contribute to the ecosystem and easier for users to manage their assets.
Exchange Adoption of Native CHR
One of the major goals following the mainnet launch was to expand access to Native CHR through centralized exchanges. In December 2024, MEXC became the first exchange to support direct deposits and withdrawals from Chromia’s mainnet, marking an important step toward broader availability. This was followed by an integration by BitMart in March 2025, adding another point of entry for users.
Another integration is in progress and is expected to go live later this year. Expanding support across multiple platforms remains a priority, and work is actively continuing to bring Native CHR to additional exchanges and services.
DeFi on Chromia
Decentralized finance has also begun to take root on mainnet over the last few months. ColorPool, the first Chromia native DEX, is now fully operational and features multiple liquid trading pairs (CHR/USDC, CHR/COLOR, CHR/ALICE and CHR/D).
To help bootstrap activity, ColorPool launched a two-year Liquidity Provider (LP) campaign last Friday (July 11 2025). Early participants can benefit from 5x rewards during the first three months of the campaign.
For anyone interested in taking advantage of this promotional period, the ColorPool Onboarding Guide offers step-by-step instructions to help you get started.
Expanding Dapp Landscape
The number of dapp chains has more than tripled since launch. Additions to the network over the past year include:
- Fanzeal, which launched licensed digital collectibles for VfB Stuttgart, GNK Dinamo, and the African Legends series
- Filechain, Chromia’s on-chain data storage solution
- Xoob, a hub for gaming and metaverse experiences
- Traced Systems, a platform for Digital Product Passports
- Mines of Dalarnia, which successfully migrated to Chromia
- My Neighbor Alice, who recently launched Chapter One: A New Beginning on mainnet
- The previously mentioned ColorPool DEX
We look forward to seeing both the number and diversity of dapps continue to grow as Chromia evolves as a flexible Layer-1 solution.
Blockchain and AI
In November 2024, Johnson Lai joined as our Head of Data and AI. Since then, our work on blockchain-enabled AI has been gaining momentum.
A key technical milestone was the launch of the Vector Database Extension, one of the few fully on-chain vector search integrations in the world. This enables dapps to perform semantic and similarity searches, which are essential for AI and machine learning. That foundation is now being extended through integration with LangChain, one of the most widely adopted frameworks for building AI agents and LLM-driven applications.
More recently, we’ve begun exploring Physical AI, experimenting with small robotic agents that can interact with the Chromia blockchain. These experiments are in early stages but already showing interesting possibilities.
Chromia Extensions
With the Asgard Upgrade in late 2024, Chromia introduced support for Extensions, modular components that add new capabilities to dapps on an as-needed basis. Three Extensions have launched so far:
- The Oracle Extension enables secure access to price feeds and external data
- The Vector DB Extension powers the storing and querying of vectorized data, especially useful for AI
- The Zero Knowledge Proof Extension adds support for privacy-preserving features
Work is also ongoing on the AI Inference Extension, which will allow developers to host and run AI models directly on Chromia. Later this year, we plan to launch an Extensions SDK and Marketplace to simplify the process of sharing and adopting functionality across the network. This modular approach is a key part of Chromia’s strategy to provide developers with the tools to build flexible, feature-rich decentralized applications without added complexity.
Wrapping Up
Looking back, it’s clear that the first year of Chromia mainnet has been full of developments. It’s easy to lose sight of progress in the day-to-day, but taking a moment to zoom out reveals how much has come together across infrastructure, ecosystem growth, application deployment, and technical innovation.
We want to thank everyone who’s contributed to the journey so far, from developers and node operators to community members and partners. There’s more in the works, and as we move into year two, we’re excited to keep building and to see what new opportunities emerge from the foundations we’ve laid.
About Chromia
Chromia is a Layer-1 relational blockchain platform that uses a modular framework to empower users and developers with dedicated dapp chains, customizable fee structures, and enhanced digital assets. By fundamentally changing how information is structured on the blockchain, Chromia provides natively queryable data indexed in real-time, challenging the status quo to deliver innovations that will streamline the end-user experience and facilitate new Web3 business models.
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