Kronos is a foundation model for financial K-line (OHLCV) time series data, accepted at AAAI 2026. It introduces a novel two-stage architecture: a BinarySphericalQuantizer tokenizer that converts continuous multi-dimensional market data into hierarchical discrete tokens, followed by an autoregressive decoder-only Transformer (with RoPE, RMSNorm, hierarchical embedding, and dependency-aware layers) pre-trained on data from 45+ global exchanges. The repository provides a complete research pipeline including model definition, tokenizer training, predictor fine-tuning (via Qlib or custom CSV), backtesting, and inference through multiple interfaces (Python API, CLI examples, a Tkinter GUI, and a Flask web UI). While the core model and tokenizer demonstrate strong research craftsmanship, the codebase exhibits signs of rapid prototyping: many example scripts with overlapping functionality, hardcoded paths, AI-generated comments, and prediction outputs that sometimes degenerate to constant values or numerical instability, indicating the model is still in an experimental stage. The repository is hybrid in nature—primarily a research project with application wrappers for demonstration and evaluation.