What is Chromia, and How Does It Work?

Ethereum, despite being the alma mater of a majority of dApps and Defi platforms, hasn’t been able to scale efficiently to make the dApps eligible for mainstream adoption. The transaction throughput and gas fees are other trailing issues that often leave the developers frustrated. Ranked #173 in the cryptocurrency charts (as of 01 June 2022), Chromia seeks to tackle these issues by facilitating the development of secure dApps using familiar paradigms. 

Chromia can help dApps scale to millions of users without compromising the user experience by rethinking blockchain architecture and making it more intuitive via relational databases. 

Curious to know more about Chromia? We’ve got you sorted. 

The article will discuss how Chromia works, Tokenomics of the CHR token, Chromia price in INR, Chromia’s price prediction for the future, and much more.  

What is Chromia?

Chromia is a Layer-1 blockchain that acts as a Layer-2 EVM-compatible enhancement for Ethereum and BSC (Binance Smart Chain). It is a relational blockchain platform that allows developers to build dApps suited for mass-scale real-world use cases. 

Blockchain is, at times, criticized as a dumb database technology that needs data that gets stored on the blockchain and is processed for the blockchain to interact with the users. In a modern world where day-to-day operations are powered by relational databases such as the web, banks, social networks, etc., blockchain as a digital ledger isn’t always the best bet. 

Chromia combines blockchain tech and relational databases to make dApps more user-friendly and powerful. Many enterprises have used and optimized these relational databases for decades. Chromia can be used as a public, private or hybrid blockchain. 

CHR is the native token of the platform. Chromia (CoinMarketCap data) has a market capitalization of $142.89 million as of 01 June 2022. It is designed to bring developers, investors, and users together in a mutually beneficial relationship.  

Chromia’s USPs

• Rell is the custom programming language of the Chromia blockchain. It is very similar to SQL in terms of functionality. It has been specially designed for coding purposes. Developers can enhance the existing dApps and create new ones with greater scalability, improved data handling, and customizable fees. Rell is easier to use than other blockchain languages, and with just a few lines of code, developers can code 7-10x faster.

• The Chromia Vault, a wallet software, helps users with a secure address to manage their tokens and dApps on the Chromia blockchain. The Vault also has ‘Single Sign On’ – a unique feature that eliminates the need for entering passwords each time a user logs in to their accounts without any compromise on the security.

Founders: The Chromia blockchain was founded by Henrik Hjelte, CEO of Chromia; Or Perelman, COO; and Alex Mizrahi, CTO of Chromia, in 2018. The founding team was earlier credited with developing the protocol Colored Coins and Bitcoin Wallet Safebit. The Chromia project is backed by 21M Capital, Neo Global Capital, and Arrington XRP Capital. 

How Does Chromia Work?

Any dApp that operates on the Chromia blockchain has its own sidechain that is rooted in and runs parallel to the main blockchain. Chromia places a blockchain inside a database, and for handling voting and consensus, it adds a light software layer. This leads to the creation of nodes that are distributed among various participants. Any request to write data first goes to any of the nodes which share it with the other nodes. A consensus is reached post the inspection of the nodes. In this way, the data is finally logged into the blockchain. 

Chromia can be used both as an enterprise and an independent public blockchain. The relational databases provide versatility, flexibility, and consistency to the data and application, making Chromia blockchain a perfect fit for the publicly hosted application infrastructure for the reformed internet, granting sovereignty to the users. Chromia is also an ideal layer-2 to Ethereum as it helps to make transactions cheaper and faster. 

Platforms Hosted on the Chromia Blockchain

The Chromia blockchain hosts several popular applications across a wide and diverse range:

• Metaverse-themed P2E games like My Neighbor Alice, Chain Alliance, Mines of Dalarnia, Krstopia, etc.
• Enterprise-level applications like LAC Property Chain – a land administration initiative in Latin America and the Caribbean, Lingon, CapChap, etc.
• Defi-based options trading platform like Hedget.
• Applications like Green Asset Wallets, Chromunity, etc.

CHR Token

The CHR token is the native token of the Chromia platform and derives its value within the Chromia ecosystem via various utilities.

• CHR can be used to pay hosting fees by dApps and developers of other platforms hosted on the Chromia blockchain
• The token can also be used as a reserve by dApps to peg their own native tokens
• It can also be used to pay fees on the dApps hosted on the CHR network
• The token holders can stake their CHR tokens and earn passive rewards

Yearly price history of Chromia as per CMC

Chromia Price Prediction

The token CHR or Chromia’s price in INR is 20.50 as of 01 June 2022. With a slew of use cases and utilities deriving utility for the CHR token, demand for CHR token from the dApps and users of CHR blockchain will increase, subsequently increasing the price of the CHR token in the long run. The Chromia price prediction is optimistic and bullish as Defi gathers enough steam to go mainstream. Buy Chromia in INR here. 

Key Metrics of CHR Token

The CHR token is an ERC-20 token with a circulating supply of 567.37 million tokens. The circulating supply was reduced post the burning of 22 million CHR tokens. The maximum supply of the CHR token is 1 billion. The tokens are released on a monthly basis, and the distribution schedule will be extended to 2025 and beyond.   

Token Supply Distribution 

Source: Binance Research

The breakdown of the token supply distribution is as follows: 

• Private Sale: 19.40% of the total supply.
• IEO Sale: 4.00% of the total supply.
• Team: 2.98% of the total supply.
• Founders: 4.50% of the total supply.
• Advisors: 1.92% of the total supply.
• Promotion Fund: 25.00% of the total supply.
• Ecosystem Fund: 37.20% of the total supply.
• Automatic Conversion Contract: 3.00% of the total supply.
• Compensation Pool: 2.00% of the total supply.

Chromia, as a relational database-powered blockchain protocol, holds immense potential and possibilities in the web3 internet space. If reading about Chromia’s ever-evolving and multi-dimensional personality makes you feel you should invest in the cryptocurrency, head over to WazirX to know Chromia’s price in INR and buy Chromia in India at the best price at WazirX. Happy trading!