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BC.GAME Drops CRO and USDT on Cronos, Twice

The announcement was so important they made it twice, ten minutes apart, just to be safe.

BC.GAME has discontinued support for CRO and USDT deposits on the Cronos Chain. It also discontinued support for CRO and USDT deposits on the Cronos Chain, in case anyone missed the first one.

At 03:48 UTC on July 30, the multi-award-winning crypto casino posted an "Important Notice" to its 391,000 followers announcing that Cronos Chain deposit channels were no longer available for the two assets. Ten minutes later, at 03:58 UTC, BC Game posted the exact same news again, this time describing the move as having "closed the deposit channels" rather than "discontinued support." The distinction between these two phrasings is presumably of great significance to someone, somewhere.

Neither post offered a reason for the change. Cronos, the blockchain developed by Crypto.com, now joins the list of networks whose native assets and stablecoins are unwelcome at BC.GAME's deposit desk. For holders of CRO and Cronos-based USDT who favored the platform, the message was unambiguous: find another chain, or find another casino.

The double announcement lands at a characteristically busy moment for BC.GAME. Hours earlier, the company was promoting a dice challenge with prizes and posting UGC winner roundups, the kind of content that keeps the timeline humming between operational decisions about which money customers are allowed to bring to the table. The juxtaposition is not exactly a study in crisis communications, but it does suggest a platform comfortable enough to treat the discontinuation of two blockchain assets as a matter of routine housekeeping.

It is worth pausing to appreciate the language. "Thank you for your understanding and support," reads the first post. The second, issued after what one can only imagine was a furious ten-minute editorial session, appends a single word: "Thank you for your understanding and continued support." The addition of "continued" is a small thing. It is also the closest BC.GAME comes to acknowledging that delisting a chain's assets without explanation might give someone pause.

In traditional finance, a bank announcing it would no longer accept deposits in a particular currency would be a regulatory event, complete with a press release, a compliance filing, and a carefully worded FAQ. In the crypto casino economy, it is two tweets, ten minutes apart, with slightly different adjectives.

BC.GAME has not clarified whether the double post was intentional or the result of an intern discovering the scheduling tool at an inopportune moment. The company has also not clarified whether Cronos-based CRO and USDT are gone for good or merely resting. What is clear is that anyone holding those assets who wants to gamble them on BC.GAME will need to bridge elsewhere first, a small inconvenience that the platform seems to have deemed worth the savings in whatever it costs to maintain a Cronos node.

Or, as BC.GAME put it, twice: thank you for your understanding.

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