Cronos Labs Appoints Edward Adlard as Head of Ecosystem
Hong Kong, Hong Kong, December 2nd, 2025, Chainwire
Cronos Labs today announced the appointment of Edward Adlard as the Head of Ecosystem, where he will drive ecosystem growth, strategic partnerships and the next phase of institutional tokenization and AI-driven on-chain innovation across the Cronos network.
Edward joins Cronos Labs with a unique blend of Web2 operating scale and Web3 ecosystem leadership. Most recently, he served as CEO of Instalabs, operating a regulated, institutional cross-chain bridge. Prior to that, Edward was VP of Growth, Business Development and Strategy at Tezos, where he led ecosystem strategy and chaired the Tezos Foundation’s investment committee, directing capital toward high-impact builders and infrastructure.
Before transitioning into Web3, Edward worked for Amazon, where he held several leadership roles across the UK and EU. He led the turnaround of the Amazon Money Store UK, earning expanded responsibility to oversee Amazon Money Store products across Europe. Edward also led EU operations for Prime Video free content, supporting multi-country expansion and driving global operational improvements across Amazon’s video supply chain.
“I’m excited to join Cronos Labs at a pivotal moment for the network,” said Edward. “Cronos has an active community, a strong technical foundation and proven high-performance infrastructure. The next chapter is about accelerating ecosystem growth by deploying cutting edge new use cases that drive an increase in users, liquidity and builders. I believe Cronos is uniquely positioned to benefit from the maturing of global crypto regulations due to its institutional ready stack, compliance ready primitives and opportunity to more deeply partner with Crypto.com.
Edward will oversee ecosystem strategy, growth programs, partner integrations and developer-facing initiatives that strengthen Cronos’ position as a leading network for users, builders, and institutions.
About Cronos
Cronos is a leading blockchain ecosystem, supported by Crypto.com and more than 500 application developers and contributors representing an addressable user base of more than 150 million people around the world. Cronos’ mission is to to build the DeFi infrastructure that makes tokenized markets open, compliant and usable by billions.
The Cronos universe encompasses 3 chains: Cronos EVM, the leading Ethereum-compatible blockchain built on the Cosmos SDK; Cronos POS, a leading Cosmos chain for payments and NFTs; and Cronos zkEVM, a new high performance layer 2 network secured by Ethereum.
Cronos ranks among the top 15 blockchain ecosystems, encompassing more than 6 billion dollars of user assets. Since inception, it has securely settled more than 100 million transactions.
Transaction fees are paid in Cronos ($CRO), a blue chip cryptocurrency.
Cronos is supported by Cronos Labs, a Web3 start-up accelerator focused on DeFi, GameFi and the development of the Cronos ecosystem.
For more information, visit https://cronos.org or follow @cronos_chain on X.