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13.11.2021 - Dex launch delayed, new AD event and future events #2


Dex launch delay

Unfortunately it wasn't possible to launch ICY in Photonswap today, because of the Cronos issues.

Cronos bridge didn't work and a lot of CROs got stuck and it wasn't possible to add liquidity for the CRO-ICY pool.

Yes, we were using alternative RPC, but it didn't help. 

We are sorry that this didn't go like planned, but as ICY is in Cronos, we can't do much without it. Basically our only tokens that are independent from the Cronos are the two oak tokens. 

Launch will happen sometimes during the Monday afternoon/evening. When we have added the liquidity, we will inform everyone in Twitter and Telegram.


AD event until 14th of November 23.59 UTC.

As ICY dex launch was delayed, we will reopen the Airdrops for Donators event. 

You have until Sunday evening to get ICYs with the prelaunch price. 

For every 1k CROs you donate to our Jackpot pool, you will get airdrop of 5k ICYs. 

To participate to this event:

Send 1k+ CROs to our Cronos Jackpot wallet:

0x34fD77B09fca3E6D7E817176b3dEcC380a3eE7F6

or

 Send 1k+ CROs to the IcyCRO's Jackpot Pool:

- Address is: cro1j47t9xajph8fxe87mx9n6yjz05u64vr7ak9853

- Memo: Add metamask wallet address where you want the ICYs airdropped (0x...).

ICYs will be airdropped on Monday before the dex launch. 



Dex launch promotion for the Icy+ level liquidity providers. 

10k ICY airdrop:

Top5 Icy+ level liquidity providers.


There are extra prizes for top5 highest liquidity providers in first 8 hours, if they keep at least the same liquidity for 6 months. 

1st: 50k ICYs

2nd: 30k ICYs

3rd: 20k ICYs

4th and 5th: 10k ICYs


Risks:

Please remember that there are some risks providing liquidity to the dex pools. 

Here is one quite good article:

https://academy.binance.com/en/articles/impermanent-loss-explained

We would presume CRO-ICY pair will be quite stable as the main attraction is the CRO jackpot. As you will get part of the fees from every trade and we have extra promotions top of it, we hope everyone makes some profit, but we can't guarantee it. 


Future events list was changed a bit also.


Best regards,

Juha and the IcyCRO Team


09.11.2021 - AD event and future events


ICY was launch at 20.00 UTC time on 8th of November and 100M tokens were minted. This is the total supply, no new tokens can be minted. 


All prelaunch ICYs that have been claimed have now been credited.

Previous part of the blog told how to pair you wallets and claim your ICYs. 

If you haven't got your ICYs yet, follow those instructions and you will get the ICYs credited later today. 


AD event until 11th of November 20.00 UTC.

ICY won't be available in dexes at least before the weekend. 

If you wish to fill your ICY stack for example to get an ICY Builder package, you can donate CROs to our Jackpot Pool and you will be airdropped 5k ICYs per 1k CROs you donated. 

To participate to this event:

 Send 1k+ CROs to the IcyCRO's Jackpot Pool:

- Address is: cro1j47t9xajph8fxe87mx9n6yjz05u64vr7ak9853

- Memo: Add metamask wallet address where you want the ICYs airdropped (0x...).

ICYs will be airdropped in 12 hours from the transfer. 


Future events.


Best regards,

Juha and the IcyCRO Team


09.11.2021 - Setting up the wallet and staking


ICY was launch at 20.00 UTC time on 8th of November and 100M tokens were minted. 

Previous part of the blog told how to pair you wallets and claim your ICYs. 

If you haven't got your ICYs yet, follow those instructions and you will get the ICYs credited later today. 


How to move CROs to Cronos with mobile DeFi wallet:

Open your mobile DeFi wallet:

1. Click "Migrate assets to Cronos".

2. Choose amount of CROs to migrate.

3. Wait a while for migration to go through.

4. Click CRO and "Send". 

5. Choose "Cronos" and insert your Metamask wallet.


How to connect your Metamask to Cronos:

Network Name: Cronos Chain

New RPC URL: https://evm-cronos.crypto.org

ChainID: 25

Symbol: CRO

Block Explorer URL: https://cronos.crypto.org/explorer


How to see your ICYs:


How to stake ICYs:


Wallet addresses:

40M in Projects: 0xd6112CeB36c378A0eB27A530de5A5CAaDa8A9c49

30M in Bonus Pool: 0xdf144BE12940b542eA13044686d6f1a7571015AB

10M in Burnicy game:  0x6aaABc68F91967fF2A913d6b9cC4b90cA7A1DFe8

10M in Airdrops:  0xd9B33c9EBaFB9Eef6043149cd651985884cc0dE2

10M for developers:  0x9aC946b85CfefD5A1f5f6ec76391c10357d7DBaA


Best regards,

Juha and the IcyCRO Team


08.11.2021 - Cronos launched and ICY will follow in the evening. 


ICY launch will be at 22.00 UTC time today. 

Before the launch, you can make sure you have Metamask wallet ready for the Cronos and ICYs. You can use either Brave or Chrome browser: 


Whitepaper 1.01 version:

Whitepaper 


How to claim ICYs you have earned:


Icy Builder packages:

Everyone who stakes 100k ICYs during the first 48 hours will be an ICY Builder instead of a regular staker. Extra benefits for the builders are:


Two builder packages per person is the maximum (200k staked) and only people who have participated in our events are eligible. 

After 48 hours are full, we will arrange the builders on a list based on their ICY stacks. Biggest stack gets the 1st builder packages and 2nd biggest after. Doesn't matter when you stake as long as you do it during the 48 hours.

For example, if the biggest stack is 400k and he stakes the 400k ICYs (4*100k), this gives:


Best regards,

Juha and the IcyCRO Team


05.11.2021 - Prelaunch blogs (4/4) - Tokenomics and PAD event


PAD Event

Let's start with our PAD event (Prelaunch Airdrop for Donators). We have small amount of discounted ICYs available for you to claim. This is your last chance to fill your stacks before the launch:

- Event starts now and ends 22.00 UTC on 8th of November or when 400k ICYs have been claimed.  

- For every 1k CROs you donate to the IcyCRO Jackpot Pool, you will get an airdrop of 5k ICYs. 

- Donated CROs will be part of Jackpot Pool to award delegators and won't be returned.


How to participate:

- Address is: cro1j47t9xajph8fxe87mx9n6yjz05u64vr7ak9853

- Memo: Add metamask wallet address where you want the ICYs airdropped (0x...).

4. Airdrop will be done on 10th of November.

5. If you forget the memo or event is overbooked, we will return your CROs. 


Tokenomics

There will be total of 100M ICY tokens in the Cronos network. These will be preminted and divided to five different wallets:

- 40% for the project rewards.

- 30% for the bonus pool (builder awards and Jackpot prizes).

- 10% for the airdrops. 

- 10% for the developers (0.6% dropped in the beginning and 9.4% frozen until 2024).

- 10% for the Burnicy Game.


What you can do with ICY tokens:

- Stake 100k during the first 48 hours to claim a builder package (NFT + 200k ICY bonus after two years). Max two packages per person. 

- Stake 100k ICYs to have a monthly chance to win part of the 50k-200k CRO Jackpot pool*.

- Play the monthly Burnicy game to win more ICYs (or burn the ICYs you played with).

- Liquidity farm in Photonswap (or other Cronos dexes). 

- You can sell or buy ICYs in Photonswap (or other Cronos dexes). 

- You can HODL.


* Jackpot pool is expected to be 50k-200k in 2022, but this is only an estimate. 


Best regards,

Juha and the IcyCRO Team


04.11.2021 - Prelaunch blogs (3/4) - Our RNG and Burnicy game


Random Number Generator

Problem with all the online and crypto raffles is that participants need to fully trust the organizer. If someone organizes a $10k raffle, how do you know it is fair or if it is actually happening? Usually you can't see how the winner was chosen, you can't see the prize or who it was paid. Whole raffle is based on the fact that you just need to trust that the organizer is honest and the raffle is fair. 

IcyCRO team is probably the most trusted and well known team in the Cronos, but we wanted to make a system that you don't need to trust us.  

We did something that no-one else has tried before. We let the blockchain decide the ticket numbers and winning numbers. We tested this system with 290k+ transactions during the Cassini testing and it worked perfectly.

Benefits of blockchain based raffle:


Burnicy game

Like the name says, this is a game where you burn ICY tokens to have a chance to win more ICY tokens. As the RTP (Return to Player) is 112%-113.5%, playing the game is a good investment on average and if you don't win, at least some ICYs are burned and the value of the remaining ICYs will go up. 


How does the game work:


How much you can win in the Burnicy game:


Icy Jackpot

Same winning number from the Burnicy game will also decide who wins the monthly CRO Jackpot. 

In the jackpot raffle, participants only have the same static numbers every month. If you were the first to stake 100k ICYs, your number is 001. Second staker will get 002 and so on.


Best regards,

Juha and the IcyCRO Team


03.11.2021 - Prelaunch blogs (2/4) - Staking and CRO jackpot


Staking


Staking means locking your ICY tokens for at least two years to get benefits and monthly chance to win part of the CRO Jackpot. When you have collected 100k ICYs, you can stake them by sending them to our staking wallet, which will be announced later.

Icy

Everyone who has 100k staked will get Icy level benefits:


Obsidian status is given for everyone with 500k staked. Then you are officially an Icy Whale:


ICY Builder

If you stake 100k during the first 48 hours from the launch, you will get an ICY Builder status and an extra 200k ICY bonus is paid after two years (20k per month). Each builder will also get an ICY NFT. First edition goes to the first staker. Max two builder packages per person. 



CRO Jackpot

Starting from 15th of December, every month stakers will have a chance to win part of the CRO Jackpot pool which is expected to be from 50k to 100k CROs. 


How do the CROs come to the jackpot pool:


On the 15th of each month, Cronos chain will show if there is a winner. If there are no winners, our jackpot pool just keeps growing. If the jackpot is won, this is how it is shared:


Example:


Best regards,

Juha and the IcyCRO Team


02.11.2021 - Prelaunch blogs (1/4) - Mission


We believe that Crypto.com will grow fast in the next few years and CRO will be one of the top cryptos. Success of the Crypto.org Mainnet / Cronos will be important for CRO's future and we will do our best to help.

There is a myth in the crypto world that completely free decentralization is always a good thing and leads to the best results. This clearly isn't true. In a completely free system the strongest companies will control everything, block new companies from the market and this will hurt the customer. 

In Crypto.org this has also been clearly shown for a long time already. If we don't count the validators that IcyCRO has boosted in, it's already over 120 days since the last new community validator has joined. It doesn't mean there haven't been any new validators. During this time 15+ validators have joined, but they were created by groups that had multiple validators already. If this continues like this, these groups can control 40%+ of the validators, which could cause serious issues for the delegators and for the mainnet. 

Some of these groups are here just to abuse the system and consider delegators as prey to be scammed for all the CROs possible. Others just copy-paste their validator to a new quite low quality server and give us a new clone validator asking for 10% fees and giving nothing for the community. 

This is where we join the game. ICY token isn't even launched yet, but we have already boosted four community validators to the top100 and we keep doing this 1-2 times per month to keep the bottom end of the top100 list full. We will review every candidate wishing to join the mainnet and boost the ones that actually give some value for the community and delegators. We call this "Controlled Decentralisation".

We certainly will have our hands full with community boosters, ICY jackpots and Burnicy games, but we also have other plans. There will be NFTs. There will be oaken tokens. We will be working with the best Dexes and helping them as much as we can. We may expand elsewhere in the Cosmos in validator business. And we may do things we can't even imagine at this point as the possibilities are limitless.

 We are the only Cronos project that combines the skills of the developers with the power of the community. With our team and our contacts and supporters, there are no limits on projects we can launch in the future.


Best regards,

Juha and the IcyCRO Team


28.10.2021 - Second community booster: dWeb Guide


Today we have our second community booster event. 

It's already over 120 days since last fresh community validator joined the top100 without our help, so there is a need for these events. Other option is just watch new scam validators joining every 14 days, which are hurting delegators and ruining the reputation of Crypto.org.  

This time event starts 20.00 UK time and ends in 10 minutes or when the target is reached. 

Now we will boost dWeb Guide, which is a good target for our help:

This even has the same principle than earlier ones. Help us launch the validator to the top100 and after 28 days you can redelegate to different validator, if you wish. 



Validator: dWeb Guide | 0% Fee

Mintscan address: https://www.mintscan.io/crypto-org/validators/crocncl1pzqahufgfhnngz0y5try5tku2cpayu46psdfr6

Validator address: crocncl1pzqahufgfhnngz0y5try5tku2cpayu46psdfr6

0% fees for at least for the first month and 500k+ ICYs for the delegators.


How many ICYs you will get depends on how much you delegate to the dWeb Guide validator today before the deadline:


When does the event end?


Who is eligible:

A: Everyone who participated previous events. You need to use the same address for this delegations also.

B: Everyone who follows us in Twitter at this moment (267 people).  If you aren't part of group A, then PM us in Twitter with your CRO address so we know you are eligible.


Thank you all for participating .


Best regards,

IcyCRO Team


05.10.2021 - Cassini competition in Cronos Testnet


Today Cassini, Cronos Testnet was launched and there are lot of interesting competitions from CDC and we are organizing even better ones. CDC needs lot of transfers to test the network and we are more than happy to help.

Competition Period:

Starts: 5 October 2021, 04:00 UTC 

Ends: 18 October 2021, 03:59 UTC

Prizes:

From CDC you can win your share of up to $7500 worth of CROs in block jackpots.

From us you can get win up to 100k ICYs with one transfer (up to 1M ICYs total) and 1000 CROs. 


Instructions:

1. Make a wallet to the Metamask for your test tokens.  Brave browser has it build in, but you can get it for any browser or Android / iOS.

2. Connect Metamask to Cassini. Click Networks from the right upper corner, choose "Custom RPC" and follow these instructions: https://github.com/crypto-org-chain/cassini/blob/main/cassini-network-info/README.md

3. Get 50 TCROs from the faucet daily. You need these for the transfer fees. Address: https://cronos.crypto.org/cassini/faucet

4. Sign-up as a tester in: https://medium.com/crypto-org-chain/introducing-cassini-the-cronos-incentivised-testnet-fe11a42a623d

5. Post your wallet address to us as a response to our Twitter post or in Telegram and we will send you 20k TICYs (test ICYs). These have no value and are used only for testing.

6. Add TICY token to your Metamask:
Add Tokens - Custom Token - Contract address:
0x176f80287fe5d38c6a3e673a16121067024b2832

7. Send these TICYs back to the builder wallet. One (1) TICY per transfer.  Remember to change gas price to "5000". Address is: 0xA1E0F603A15D0a646048b1B141fd9BF2cf6a0309

8. After sending all the transfers you planned to do, you can check the TxHash numbers easily by clicking the three dots on right side of your wallet address and choosing "View in explorer".

Crypto.com's competition:
Make transfer on blocks 60000, 120000 and 180000. People who makes transfer on one of these specific jackpot blocks can share up to $2500 in CROs. Three jackpots total so up to $7500 in CROs available.

IcyCRO's competition:

TxHash's last four numbers give you the ticket number. Ignore the letters. 

For example:
TxHash: 0x1726d2b68243218b30d6eff2fdc9e963880da990a3cc77b670abd8499f338e65 

=> Ticket number: 3865

We have two competitions. One awards most active participants who have most Tx. Other competition depends on your luck (TxHash number).


Most active TICY senders:

Top10 accounts with most eligible TICY Tx in the end will win extra ICYs:


1. 100k ICYs

2.-3. 50k ICYs

4.-5. 20k ICYs

6.-10. 10k ICYs


Raffle prizes after 60k blocks:

If your last four numbers are 7777 , you will win 10k ICYs. Just report the TxHash link to us in Twitter or Telegram. Chance to win is 1/10000 per transfer. 10k ICY prizes end when 800k of ICYs have been claimed. 

If your last five numbers are 77777, you will win the Jackpot of 100k ICYs! Chance to win is 1/100000 per transfer. 

Also first and last Jackpot winner will get 500 CROs each top of the ICYs. 

Winner of the last jackpot also gets extra 20k ICYs, which brings the jackpot to 120k ICYs and 500 CRO.

Raffle prizes for the first 60k blocks:

If your last four numbers are 7777 or 8888, you will win 10k ICYs. Just report the TxHash link to us in Twitter or Telegram. Chance to win is 1/5000 per transfer.

If your last five numbers are 77777 or 88888, you will win the Jackpot of 100k ICYs! Chance to win is 1/50000 per transfer. 

Also first and last Jackpot winner will get 500 CROs each top of the ICYs.

If you make 2.5k transfers to us and don't win anything. Just tell us after the competition ends and we will credit you 10k ICYs. Just available for people who made first transfer during first 60k blocks.


Extra rules:


Best regards,

IcyCRO Team


30.09.2021 - First community booster: Jerboa Pool


Today we have our first community booster event. 

Starts 18.30 UK time and ends in 30 minutes or when 1.3M CRO target is reached. 

We had three good candidates and it wasn't easy for our team to choose the winner, but Jerboa Pool was chosen for the community booster this time.

Enthusiasm of the team, technical knowledge, reasonable fees, good website and self-delegation of 88k CROs decided the winner.

This even has the same principle than earlier ones. Help us launch the validator to the top100 and after 28 days you can redelegate to different validator, if you wish. 

0% fees, 500k+ ICYs for the delegators and 1k CRO raffle again.

Validator: Jerboa Pool | 0% Fee in 2021

Mintscan address: https://www.mintscan.io/crypto-org/validators/crocncl1y02esnw7k0pa9y3s2pke53f2n02cq73233xm3d

Validator address: crocncl1y02esnw7k0pa9y3s2pke53f2n02cq73233xm3d


We will drop at least 500k ICYs (max 1M ICYs) to the people who participate to this event and help us to launch the validator. This ICY drop will happen after the launch of the token on 20th of October.


Who is eligible:

A: Everyone who had at least 1k CROs delegated to some validator on 15th of August. You need to use the same address for this delegations also.

B: Everyone who follows us in Twitter at this moment (164 people).  If you aren't part of group A, then PM us in Twitter with your CRO address so we know you are eligible.


How many ICYs you can get depends on how much you delegate to the Jerboa Pool validator today before the deadline:


Offer continues at least until the total delegations reach 1.3M CROs.  Minimum 30 minutes.

1000 CRO draw:

We also have a 1000 CRO draw between the delegators who participate before the deadline. 

The last two numbers of your TX number of your delegation gives your ticket number. You get one number per 10k delegations. If you delegate 30k and your number is 75, you will also get two next numbers: 76 and 77. 

If your number matches the winning number given later today, you win your share of the 1k CROs. 

The chain (TX number from Finland to Obsidian) will decide who is the winner.  

Thank you all for participating .


Best regards,

IcyCRO Team


22.09.2021 - Launch of the Obsidian validator

*****

EDIT: Deadline for the offer was at 20.05 UK time so this is over now. Thank you all for participation.
*****

Today we are launching our best Crypto.org chain validator, Obsidian.

Mainnet's current problem is that no new community validators have joined in last months and new validators that that have been launched have been very harmful for the delegators. You can read more about it from here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Crypto_com/comments/pmdnl7/stakeandgetrich_aka_pool_aka_pancake_pool_s_rug/

Because of these issues, we will launch one more reliable validator to the bottom end of the list. 

We will drop at least 500k ICYs (max 1M ICYs) to the people who participate to this event and help us to launch the validator. This ICY drop will happen after the launch of the token on 20th of October.

Obsidian will have 0% fees for at least two months and you are free to redelegate back to your original validator after 28 days. 


Who is eligible:

A: Everyone who had at least 1k CROs delegated to some validator on 15th of August. You need to use the same address for this delegations also.

B: Everyone who follows us in Twitter at this moment (136 people).  If you aren't part of group A, then PM us in Twitter with your CRO address so we know you are eligible.


How many ICYs you can get depends on how much you delegate to Obsidian validator today until the deadline:


Offer continues at least until the total delegations reach 1M CROs. 

Validator address:
crocncl1j47t9xajph8fxe87mx9n6yjz05u64vr77mxwkd


1000 CRO draw:

We also have a 1000 CRO draw between the delegators who participate before the deadline. 

The last two numbers of your TX number of your delegation gives your ticket number. You get one number per 10k delegations. If you delegate 30k and your number is 75, you will also get two next numbers: 76 and 77. 

If your number matches the winning number given on 26th of September, you win your share of the 1k CROs. 

The chain (TX number) will decide who is the winner.  

Thank you all for participating .


Best regards,

IcyCRO Team


01.09.2021 - Launch of the IcyCRO.org validator

Today is time for the first project of ICY Team and we are launching a validator to Crypto.org chain. This will be one of ours ways to grow the CRO Jackpot that can be won monthly in 2022. 

We will drop at least 700k ICYs to the people who participate to this project and help us to launch the validator. This ICY drop will of course happen after the launch of the token in Q4/2021.

Who is eligible:

A: Everyone who had at least 1k CROs delegated to Finland or Jerry's Pool on 15th of August. You need to use the same address for this delegations also.

B: Everyone who follows us in Twitter at this moment (77 people).  If you aren't part of group A, then PM us in Twitter with your CRO address so we know you are eligible.

How many ICYs you can get depends on how much you delegate to IcyCRO.org today between 18.00 and 18.30 UK time:

If there aren't enough eligible delegations during the first 30 minutes, this offer continues until 700k ICYs are claimed.

Validator address:
crocncl13sspaluakmld27em3duhmkzxy8g6frrfl89gnq

Mintscan link:
https://www.mintscan.io/crypto-org/validators/crocncl13sspaluakmld27em3duhmkzxy8g6frrfl89gnq


Thank you all for participating .


Best regards,

Juha


26.08.2021 - Project ICY and our plans.

This is the first time I am writing a blog so let's see how this goes. 

Crypto.org mainnet has a huge potential and we are big fans of it. Which is the reason we started our own validator immediately in March 2021 to have a low fee, high quality and safe validator for our own CROs and CROs of our friends. It was still a bit surprise that we are already one of the most popular community validators together with Jerry's Pool. 

Crypto.org chain has been running quite well for the first five months and 2M blocks, but there has been some issues with the validators.  CDC / Bison Trails started in March with 9 validators, but they have increased the amount already to 14 as there haven't been enough high quality community validators available. 

During the past few months we haven't seen hardly any new community validators joining as the amount of CROs needed is too high. This isn't good news for decentralization and or the health of the network. 

Our project ICY's first step is to launch a validator to the CRO mainnet. All the the fees earned from the validator will go to the jackpot pool together with the CROs from our sponsors. 

Everyone who participates to the project will earn ICY tokens. After you collect and stake 100k ICYs you will have a chance to win part the CRO Jackpot, which we hope to reach 50k+ CROs during 2022. 

Our first 50 stakers will also get a Golden Ticket NFT, highest interest rate and the best VIP benefits for some of the future projects. If you are slower in the beginning, we still have 200 Silver Ticket NFTs for our next stakers. Benefits are smaller than for Golden tickets, but still excellent. 

Follow us in Twitter to see the latest airdrops and projects. 

Best regards,

Juha