what's tron?
TRON is a decentralized blockchain platform designed to create a global digital content entertainment ecosystem, enabling developers to build and deploy decentralized applications (DApps) with smart contract functionality. Founded in 2014 by Justin Sun and overseen by the non-profit TRON Foundation since 2017, it operates on a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism and transitioned from an Ethereum-based ERC-20 token to its own independent blockchain in 2018. The native cryptocurrency, TRX (Tronix), is used for transactions, staking, and governance within the network. Key features include high throughput for scalable DApp development, low transaction fees, and support for stablecoins and DeFi protocols, positioning TRON as a leader in global payments and content sharing. The platform emphasizes decentralization to empower creators and users, with integrations like WBTC relaunch enhancing its cross-chain capabilities. Despite criticisms regarding illicit activity facilitation, TRON continues to grow in TVL, fees, and revenue metrics.
Tron continues TRX buyback, holds $540M TRX, integrates energy rental, and Moscow Exchange plans index.
Integrated with Zabio, a cross-border payment app for LATAM that routes stablecoins from TRON to Polygon using Smart Deposit Addresses.
Founder Justin Sun is scheduled to speak at MERGE São Paulo conference to present TRON developments.
Listed on Gemini exchange with deposits, withdrawals, and trading enabled on 2026-02-26.
Expanded TRON Academy to Dartmouth College, Oxford University, Cambridge University, and Princeton University, adding to existing collaborations with Columbia, Harvard, Yale, MIT, Cornell, Imperial College London, and UC Berkeley.
Included in Dune Analytics' new Stablecoin Dataset covering 200+ stablecoins across 37 chains, built in collaboration with SteakhouseFi and powering Visa's upcoming Local Stablecoin Report.
Holds 17,645 BTC in wrapped/bridged Bitcoin on the Tron network as of 2026-02-25.
Reached a daily transaction peak of over 12.6 million transactions on October 28, 2025.
Recorded 994 million total transactions in Q4 2025, representing a 16.5% increase quarter over quarter.
Executed Proposal #104, which reduced energy fees by 60% and lowered transaction costs across the network.
Reached $5.461M notional trading volume for TRX options on Deribit, with week 3 volume at $3.128M and 166 active TRX traders. Recorded $969,474 notional volume and 175 trades on February 26, 2026 (Day 1 of Week 4), surpassing Week 2 volume.
Experienced biggest DeFi TVL market share losses over a 4-year period ending in February 2026, alongside BNB.
Hosts approximately $495 million (99% of total supply) of the A7A5 Russian Ruble stablecoin.
Added support for Tron deposits in the platform infrastructure.
Ranked #1 in LunarCrush AltRank based on combined social momentum and market activity, with AltRank moving up 124 spots.
Generated $723K in 24-hour chain fees, ranking third behind Hyperliquid and Solana.
Listed among top gainers in the crypto market on February 19, 2026.
Listed TRX on Bitstamp.
Bank of AI platform built on TRON blockchain has over 400,000 users.
Integrated with Bank of AI (OfficialAINFT), a Web3 AI platform that transforms NFTs into interactive AI agents and supports x402 payment protocol and ERC-8004 NFT identity standard for AI agents to autonomously perform DeFi operations.
Participated in ETHDenver conference on February 19, 2026, engaging with builders in the payments sector.
Participating in a blockchain workshop at Dartmouth University on 2026-03-02 at 6:30pm.
Integrated with NEXUS's CROSS Pay infrastructure, enabling USDT (TRC-20) payments that are live and operational on CROSS Shop for in-game item purchases.
Integrated Polymarket for native deposits, leveraging stablecoin infrastructure.
Bridged $17.88B USDT on the network in 2025, representing a +215% increase.
Integrated with WalletConnect to enable wallet connectivity and interactions on the TRON network.
Co-hosting a side event with MetaMask at ETHDenver, featuring a panel discussion on "Scaling Adoption: From Infra to Real Users" at 8PM with representatives from Base, LI.FI Protocol, and P2P Validator, moderated by Consensys.
Co-hosted MetaMask's Builder Night at ETHDenver 2026 on February 16, participating in a panel discussion "Scaling Adoption: From Infra to Real Users."
Generated $6.36M in 7-day revenue, leading all chains.
Generated $28.28M in revenue over the past 30 days, 2x Base's $10.23M and ahead of Ethereum's $4.83M. Ranks among top 10 protocols by fee revenue at the infrastructure layer alongside Hyperliquid.
TRX options market on Deribit has $8.25M in outstanding notional value with a Put/Call Ratio of 0.64 as of February 16, 2026.
Integrated drop-in OpenClaw support.
Implemented on-chain identity built on the 8004 standard.
Added on-chain asset management functionality.
Integrated X402 standard support, collaborating with BNB Chain.
Sponsors HTX 3,000,000 USDT airdrop campaign on February 17, 2026, featuring SUN, JST, NFT, BTT, WIN, STEEM, with rewards claimable via TRX K-line comment section.
Sam Elfarra participated as panelist at HSC Asset Management Conference during Consensus Hong Kong on February 14, 2026. Sponsored Consensus Hong Kong 2026, highlighting AI and Stablecoin Infrastructure Leadership.
Settlement volume reached $2.2 trillion in Q4 2025.
Generated more fees than Solana in the 24-hour period ending on February 14, 2026.
Reached 20 million daily active addresses in Q4 2025, representing stablecoin activity.
Experienced a -33.2% drawdown from its all-time high, showing the most resilience among the top 10 tokens.
Achieved net stablecoin supply increase of $5.0 billion year-to-date in 2026 and $24.1 billion over the past year, gaining $8 billion in circulating stablecoin supply quarter-over-quarter in Q1 2026.
Current daily fees are approximately $5.3M.
Generated $160M in revenue during January 2026, ranking second among Layer 1 blockchains.
Generated nearly $1B in total revenue during 2025.
Processed over $5 trillion in transaction volume in 2024.
Reached an all-time high of 341.9 million monthly transactions in January 2026, up approximately 60% year-over-year.
Achieved 19% chainshare for stablecoin activity on 2026-02-10, growing from 4.5% on 2026-02-05.
Processes over $20 billion in daily transaction volume.
Experiences increased stablecoin activity as capital rotates into conservative yield strategies amid market volatility.
Justin Sun stated at Consensus Hong Kong will become the central hub for AI and AI agents.
Tether is deploying USDT0 onto Canton as a Super Validator
Generated $1.4M in 24-hour fees on February 12, 2026, ranking second, with daily fees typically $1-2M from cross-border payments and remittances.
Launched TRAX, the first creator-fee platform on the Tron network.
Minted 2 billion USDT, increasing total stablecoin market cap by $2.08B during the week ending February 9, 2026.
Released GreatVoyage v4.8.1 (Democritus) as a mandatory node upgrade with deadline on 2026-03-09, expanding ARM64 and JDK 17 compatibility, updating SELFDESTRUCT behavior to align with EIP-6780, and including network performance optimizations.
Served as co-host and Diamond Sponsor at GWDC2026 conference.
Continues TRX buyback program as confirmed by founder Justin Sun.
Tron Inc holds 679.9M TRX worth approximately $540M as of February 5, 2026.
integrated energy rental services into CoolWallet hardware wallet platform, allowing users to reduce transaction costs while managing TRX and TRC-20 assets
Tether issued $1 billion USDT on the Tron network.
Moscow Exchange plans crypto index in 2026, with futures expected to follow, building on existing BTC and ETH futures listings.
Received over $38 million in bridged volume from Ethereum in January 2026, primarily in USDT transfers.
Has 48% of TRX supply (45.7 billion tokens) currently staked on the network.
Accused of identity fraud and large-scale price manipulation of TRX on Binance by a close associate.
Support for Bitcoin and Tron is in the pipeline for the Relay Protocol on RocketX exchange.
OFAC designated seven Tron addresses for Iran financial sector ties, linked to Babak Morteza Zanjani and over $94B processed transactions. Binance compliance findings show $1B Tether (USDT) routed to Iran between March 2024 and August 2025, indicating potential U.S. sanctions violations.
60-74% of USDT transfers on TRON network are under $1,000 during Asia and Americas hours, primarily driven by P2P payments and remittances.
Plans to expand Bitcoin holdings going forward.
MetaMask now supports Tron swaps powered by Rango Exchange.
Plans collaboration with BlackRock, NYSE, and Nasdaq to bring institutional capital onto TRON network in 2026.
Transaction batching proposal is under discussion on CT Dev Hub with support from Cointelegraph.
Hosts $90 billion USDT, with stablecoin supply at $81.8 billion.
Achieved 98%+ checkout success rate on Uquid card payment infrastructure in 2025.
Settled $7.9 trillion in USDT over 2025.
Processed 994 million total transactions during Q4 2025, representing a 16% increase from Q3 2025.
Listed TRX on Coincheck, a Japanese cryptocurrency exchange.
Integrated with Ledger Live.
Integrated with Revolut.
Integrated with Oobit's Plug & Pay solution to enable crypto-to-real-world payment bridging across the TRON ecosystem.
Opens trading for TRX/USD1 pair on Binance on January 27, 2026, at 08:30 UTC, with Trading Bots service enabled for this pair.
Integrated with Chainlink standard across multiple services, being one of eight chains to receive new Chainlink integrations.
Integrates with Chainflip for cross-chain swaps, enabling TRON support on the Chainflip protocol.
TRX ranked among the top gainers in the crypto market on January 23, 2026.
TRON DAO Ventures invests $8 million in River, a chain-abstraction stablecoin infrastructure provider that will integrate across the TRON ecosystem.
Reached 11.5% share of crypto payments processed through CoinGate in 2025.
Integrated with WalletConnect, enabling connection between 600+ wallets and 70,000+ apps to TRON's network for stablecoin payments and DeFi access.
Central Bank of Iran received $507 million in USDT on Tron and bridged it to Ethereum to sell for Iranian Rials.
USDD launches points mining program with planned growth to $2B supply across Tron, ETH, and BNB Chain.
Integrated Blockaid on-chain security platform for detecting and responding to on-chain and off-chain threats across the ecosystem.
Moved funds withdrawn from Aave on Ethereum to Tron network, involving Huobi-related holdings.
Recorded as one of the top three blockchains by active addresses and transaction count in the week ending January 18, 2026, ranking behind Solana and alongside BNB Chain.
Launched TRX options on Deribit on 2026-01-14, with two daily, two weekly, one monthly, and one quarterly expiry. Includes free options for KYC-completed traders and tiered trading incentives through February 10, 2026, offering bonuses from 10 USDC at 500K volume to a shared 1,000 USDC pool at 4M+ volume, with next reward drop February 17, 2026.
Included in the S&P Crypto 10 ETF basket filed by CyberHornetETFs with a 1.09% weighting allocation.
Featured in TRON's DAO Grants Program discussion on January 13, 2026, where The Graph representative will present how The Graph has enabled new data products to support TRON builders.
Serves as a 4 Block Sponsor at Consensus Hong Kong 2026, with founder Justin Sun delivering a keynote speech on the Auros Mainstage on February 11, 2026.
Named "Global Blockchain Ecosystem Growth Star" at the Top 100 HK Awards in Hong Kong.
Reached 11.2M monthly stablecoin addresses in December 2025, down from 8.5M in December 2024.
Integrated with Zerion Wallet for iOS, enabling TRON support on the mobile platform.
Maintained 107% reserve coverage ratio for TRX on HTX exchange as of January 1st, 2026.
Integrated with ShapeShift platform, enabling users to access Tron alongside other supported chains including HyperEVM, Monad, Sui, and Plasma.