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Geneva, Switzerland, October 22, 2026 — TRON reinforced its position as a leading blockchain network for stablecoin settlement in the third quarter of 2026, with trillions in transaction volume, record USDT supply, growing payment card adoption, and the debut of the first U.S. spot staked TRX exchange-traded fund (ETF), according to independent research reports from CoinDesk Data and Nansen.

CoinDesk 

CoinDesk’s TRON Network Quarterly Report: Q3 2026 provides a technical assessment of the TRON network from July to September 2026. The findings span network and ecosystem developments, core on-chain metrics, and DeFi activity across lending and decentralized exchanges (DEX).

Key Insights from CoinDesk:

Stablecoin Settlement: TRON accounted for approximately 73% of stablecoin transfer volume at the end of Q3 2026, the highest share among blockchain networks. Stablecoin Market Share & USDT Growth: USDT on TRON reached an all-time high of just over $92.7 billion in Q3 2026, lifting TRON’s share of the total USDT market to a 2026 high of 50.6% in mid-September. TRON’s share of total stablecoin market capitalization also rose to 30.2%.  Crypto-Card Payments & DeFi Activity: TRON ranked first among chains by crypto-card payment volume in Q3 2026, capturing a 27.5% share worth approximately $638 million as total card volumes grew 60.5% QoQ to $2.32 billion. Total value locked (TVL) on the network rose 26.6% QoQ to $5.7 billion with lending the largest sector at 68%, and JustLend active loans up from $127M to $199M. Read the full report from CoinDesk here.

Nansen

Nansen’s TRON Quarterly Report: Q3 2026 examines the network’s settlement scale and on-chain behavior over the quarter. It covers stablecoin settlement volume, transaction and address activity, institutional developments, and how users and transactions are distributed across labeled entities on TRON.

Key Insights from Nansen:

Stablecoin Settlement at Scale: TRON settled $2.21 trillion in stablecoins in Q3 2026, with average daily settlement rising 3.9% to $24.05 billion. Cumulative transaction volume on the network also surpassed $30 trillion as of September 23. User Growth & On-Chain Activity: TRON’s user base continued to grow in Q3 2026, with average rolling monthly active addresses up 9.8% QoQ to 18 million, while the network processed an average of 11.68 million successful transactions per day. Expanded Institutional Access: Canary Capital launched the Canary Staked TRX ETF (TRXS), the first U.S. spot staked TRX ETF, on September 9, and TRON DAO rang the Cboe closing bell on September 29 to mark its debut. Anchorage Digital also added native TRX staking and TRC-20 custody as the second phase of its TRON integration. Read the full report from Nansen here. 

Across both reports, TRON’s third quarter showed a network growing in volume and in reach at the same time. Stablecoin settlement continued to climb, everyday spending through crypto cards accelerated, and new regulated products gave institutions a direct path to TRX. With that foundation in place, TRON enters the final quarter of 2026 as a settlement network that is increasingly accessible to retail users and institutions alike.

About TRON DAO

TRON DAO is a community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet via blockchain technology and dApps.

Founded in September 2017, the TRON blockchain has experienced significant growth since its MainNet launch in May 2018. Today, TRON hosts the largest circulating supply of USD Tether (USDT) stablecoin, which currently exceeds $94 billion. As of October 2026, the TRON blockchain has recorded over 410 million in total user accounts, more than 15 billion in total transactions, and over $28 billion in total value locked (TVL), based on TRONSCAN. Recognized as the global settlement layer for stablecoin transactions and everyday purchases with proven success, TRON is “Moving Trillions, Empowering Billions.”

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Luganodes has opened RPC access to TRON developers as part of a three-network service with a standard free allowance of 25 million compute units a month.

Summary

Luganodes launched RPC access for TRON, Ethereum, and Bitcoin using one API key.
Developers receive 25 million free compute units monthly, with paid plans starting at $49.
Free accounts stop serving requests once their monthly allowance runs out.
Dedicated deployments offer full and archive nodes separately from shared subscriptions.

Luganodes announced the service on Oct. 14, listing TRON, Ethereum, and Bitcoin mainnet access through one API key. Paid subscriptions start at $49 a month, according to the company’s launch notice.

The provider says free accounts need no payment card and stop serving traffic once the monthly allowance runs out. Its launch page offers 100 million compute units for the first month to users signing up by Oct. 20, with other free-plan limits unchanged.

Luganodes RPC prices requests by method
In its launch notice, Luganodes says each supported method has a published compute-unit cost. The company describes its standard subscriptions as shared infrastructure and offers separate dedicated deployments with full and archive nodes.

On its TRON staking page, the operator identifies itself as a Super Representative active since July 2022. TRON’s network documentation says 27 elected Super Representatives secure its production network.

The provider’s staking page lists a 5% commission and says 95% of rewards go to voters. Those are staking terms published by Luganodes, separate from the RPC subscription prices in its launch announcement.

TRON developers have several hosted access options
TRON’s developer documentation lists Ankr, GetBlock, QuickNode, NOWNodes, Chainstack, TronQL and Alchemy among third-party mainnet providers. The directory describes different access models, including shared nodes, dedicated nodes, and services requiring API keys.

Chainstack’s listed coverage includes the Nile testnet as well as mainnet. Most providers in the directory are listed for mainnet alone, according to the network guide, which directs developers to check individual services for current coverage.

For testing, the same guide distinguishes Shasta from Nile. Shasta supports learning and pre-production checks, while Nile gives developers access to upcoming features, parameter changes, and governance proposals. A private network is another documented option for local development.

TRON’s RPC provider guide describes hosted services as an alternative to running a full node. Self-hosting requires hardware, bandwidth, and operating work, while hosted access uses a provider’s subscription limits and service commitments.

The guide recommends comparing daily request allowances, peak request rates, supported interfaces, node locations and historical-state access. It specifically asks developers to check whether a provider supports TRON-specific calls, including account-resource queries, instead of only a generic interface.

TronGrid, the network’s hosted node service, provides FullNode, SolidityNode, JSON-RPC and gRPC access, according to the guide. Its listed networks include mainnet, Shasta and Nile, with production traffic requiring an API key.

Ethereum tools cover part of TRON’s interface
TRON’s API reference describes JSON-RPC as a way to reuse Ethereum development tools, including ethers, viem and Web3.js. The documentation cautions that some Ethereum methods have no matching TRON implementation or behave differently because the networks use different underlying mechanisms.

The reference says JSON-RPC covers only part of TRON’s node capabilities. Applications needing other functions may need the native HTTP or gRPC interfaces alongside it.

For transaction submission, the documented HTTP process builds an unsigned transaction, signs it locally, and broadcasts the signed result. TRON’s guide directs developers handling confirmed balances or deposit crediting to solidified-state interfaces.

For operators running their own nodes, the reference says HTTP and gRPC are enabled by default, while JSON-RPC must be switched on manually in the node configuration.

TronGrid’s indexed services provide account histories, token-transfer histories and contract events, according to the API reference. Tronscan maintains a separate interface for explorer data and aggregate statistics.

Stablecoin activity supplies the network context
TRON DAO Research recorded $2.2126 trillion in stablecoin settlement during the third quarter, as crypto.news previously reported in its coverage of quarterly network activity. The report put total transactions at roughly 1.10 billion and network fees at $701.4 million.

At the end of the quarter, combined USDT and USDD supply stood at $93.88 billion, according to the same research. The figures describe different measures, with settlement counting transfers over a period and supply recording outstanding tokens at a date.

Messari’s second-quarter figures, covered on Aug. 11, put USDT transfers at $2.1 trillion and TRON’s stablecoin capitalization at $89.2 billion. USDT accounted for $87.9 billion of that balance, compared with $78.7 billion on Ethereum at quarter-end.

The same Messari figures put average daily USDT transfers at $22.8 billion and the network’s share of tracked USDT supply at 47.6% at the end of June.

On Sep. 24, MeshWallet announced a $10 million private funding round for its TRON-based USDT wallet. The Tallinn-based company said private investors and small family offices led the funding, which would support product development and expansion of its user base.

MeshWallet says its wallet handles transfer charges in USDT, letting customers send the stablecoin without keeping a separate TRX balance. The company described the product as self-custodial and said it planned new features for retail and business users.

September 2026 was the month Zoomex turned its TradFi expansion into a full trading calendar. After crossing the 50-contract milestone for Stock Perpetuals at the end of August, the platform spent September widening the lineup, adding ETF-linked perpetuals to its TradFi Zone, relaunching Zero-Fee TradFi, and opening the Zoomex World Trading Championship 2026 (ZWTC 2026) with a prize pool of up to 5 million USDT.

The backdrop was far less calm. The U.S. Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act, the Federal Reserve raised rates for the first time since 2023, and Bitcoin still closed the month higher. Beneath that noise, Zoomex’s verifiable reserves stayed multi-chain, stablecoin-anchored and openly trackable, which is exactly what Transparent by Design is meant to deliver. This report reviews Zoomex’s on-chain reserves, chain and token composition, and platform metrics as tracked through DefiLlama, CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko, alongside the product developments that shaped the month.

Zoomex Overview Founded in 2021, Zoomex is a global cryptocurrency trading platform focused on Derivatives, serving over 3 million users across 35+ countries and regions and offering 700+ trading pairs. Its philosophy of easy-to-use, transparent balances and fair access to earnings shapes everything from its trading interface to the way it publishes proof of reserves. Zoomex has completed security audits conducted by Hacken and holds multiple regulatory registrations, including U.S. and Canada MSB, U.S. NFA, and Australia AUSTRAC.

September’s product story was the continued build-out of the TradFi Zone.

On September 1, Zoomex confirmed that its Stock Perpetuals lineup had grown past 50 contracts across four asset categories, timed with a Zero-Fee TradFi event that ran from August 28 to September 4. On September 8, the platform announced a further expansion covering more than 30 US and global equities across four categories, all margined and settled in USDT and trading around the clock. Two days later, Zoomex put the spotlight on TSLA and NVDA exposure through its rule-based derivatives offering, reinforcing Fair Access & Rule-Based Execution for every trader.

On September 18, ahead of the Federal Reserve decision, Zoomex highlighted its ETF-linked perpetuals, SPYUSDT, QQQUSDT, IWMUSDT, XLFUSDT, XLKUSDT and TQQQUSDT, available through the TradFi Stock Perpetuals section. The same day, it relaunched Zero-Fee TradFi, running from September 11 to October 11, 2026, which rebates 100% of actual trading fees on eligible stock contracts, commodity contracts and stock tokens, capped at 100 USDT per account.

On the competition side, Zoomex launched ZWTC 2026 on September 10 with a prize pool of up to 5 million USDT, its largest to date. The Squad Competition, with up to 2.5 million USDT in prizes and three separate leaderboards, opened on September 21 and runs until October 11 at 10:00 UTC. Alongside it, Zoomex Predict World continued to feature its established Long-Term event contracts, giving traders a longer-horizon complement to the 5 Minute, 15 Minute and 4 Hour markets. Together, these launches reflect a Refined Brand & Trading Experience built around one account and one rule set for crypto, equities, ETFs and commodities.

Exchange trade volume Zoomex’s exchange trade volume ranged from about $125M to $680M in September, with the month’s defining move arriving in its final third, according to CoinGecko. September volume ranged from roughly $125M to $680M, with the month’s low on September 13 and its peak on September 22. For scale, that peak sits at about two thirds of the $1.02B high recorded in August. 

Source: Coingecko On the pair side, BTC/USDT strengthened its lead at 53.5% of volume, up from 43.4% in August, followed by ETH/USDT at 13.7% and USDC/USDT at 11.6%. ETH has therefore overtaken USDC/USDT for second place. SOL/USDT contributes 3.9%, HYPE/USDT and XRP/USDT 1.6% each, and ENA/USDT 1.5%, while a tail of other pairs accounts for 12.6%. As in previous months, 100% of volume settles in USDT by CoinGecko’s currency breakdown, underscoring its role as Zoomex’s near exclusive quote and settlement currency. 

On-chain reserves Zoomex’s total on-chain assets stayed inside a narrow $34M to $38M band for the whole month, extending the durable step-up that began in August. DefiLlama’s CEX Transparency tracker shows reserves opening near $36M, easing to a monthly low of about $33.8M around September 10, rebuilding to roughly $36.5M by September 15, and reaching the month’s peak of about $38M around September 20. A pullback to roughly $35M followed by September 25, before assets climbed again to about $37M at month end. The live reading on October 13 stood at $34.9M.

Source: Defillama The contrast with the mid-year pattern is clear: there were no sharp spikes that unwound within days, and the base held. As always, this figure reflects verifiable cold and hot wallet holdings tracked by DefiLlama and sits alongside, not in place of, Zoomex’s separately maintained $50 million insurance fund.

Assets by chain Ethereum remains Zoomex’s largest chain by a wide margin, holding roughly $15.7M at month end versus about $16.5M on September 1, with a low near $15.1M around September 24. That is close to 42% of tracked assets. XRPL stays second at about $6.9M, after dipping to roughly $6.1M in mid-September and peaking near $7.4M on September 23. Tron fell from about $3.5M to around $2.0M by September 22, then jumped to roughly $4.0M by September 30, the largest late-month move among the major chains. Mantle rose from about $1.7M to $2.1M, Solana roughly doubled from about $1.0M to $2.0M, BSC slid from about $2.2M to $1.5M, while Base (about $1.45M) and Arbitrum (about $1.3M) stayed flat.

Source: Defillama The most unusual line is Bitcoin. Its balance sat near $0.8M until September 14, jumped to about $2.75M on September 15, climbed to roughly $3.3M by September 22, then fell back to about $1.6M on September 23 and $1.1M on September 24, ending the month near $0.95M. That round trip points to a temporary custody or settlement movement rather than a lasting reallocation, and it lines up with the BTC inflow and outflow bars in the flow data below. Zoomex’s reserves remain distributed across 14 networks, the same multi-chain footprint maintained throughout 2026, with OP Mainnet, Polygon, Vaulta, Doge and Sonic each holding under $0.5M.

Token balances Read in raw units rather than USD value, PEPE again dominates by count, but its trajectory reversed from August. The balance held near 8.7 billion units through mid-September, then stepped down to roughly 7.7 billion around September 17 and about 7.1 billion by September 20, a decline of close to 19%. Meme coin balances on an exchange typically mirror user activity rather than treasury decisions, so this looks like client withdrawals more than a deliberate reallocation. BONK stayed flat at roughly 2.5 billion units.

Source: Defillama TBY’s block-shaped presence continues to be the more interesting signal. It appeared at around 5.3 billion units in five separate windows, September 1 to 7, 10 to 11, 19 to 20, 24 to 25 and 29 to 30, and was absent in between. That on and off pattern is more consistent with temporary custody, a settlement cycle or a recurring product flow than with a held position.

USD inflows Source: Defillama Outside those windows, daily activity stayed shallow and mixed. Net flow across the month was slightly negative, yet total assets ended higher, which means price moves rather than deposits explain the stable balance sheet. The framing from August holds: movement was event-driven and concentrated in a handful of identifiable days, not the product of steady retail flow.

Inflows by token The token split shows what drove each of those days. The September 15 spike was almost entirely Bitcoin, at roughly $2.0M gross, and the September 23 outflow was the mirror image, with about $1.85M of BTC leaving, partly offset by roughly $0.4M of TRON inflow. That confirms the temporary Bitcoin build seen in the chain data.

Source: Defillama Stablecoins drove the rest. USDT left on September 1 (about $0.9M), September 19 (about $1.35M) and September 22 (about $1.6M), then returned on September 29, when roughly $1.65M of USDT arrived together with smaller USDC and TBY inflows. WETH was the one asset with clear accumulation, with inflows of about $0.85M on September 19 and $0.4M on September 20. XAUT recorded a small inflow of about $0.3M on September 2.

Token values (USD) Viewed by asset value, September was a rotation story. USDT started the month near $11.3M, held between $9.5M and $10.5M through September 18, then fell to about $8.6M on September 19, $6.9M on September 22 and a low near $6.6M on September 24, before rebounding to about $9.1M on September 30. At the same time, WETH stepped up from roughly $4.3M to around $6.1M between September 19 and 22 and held that level, which matches the inflow bars above. In other words, part of the stablecoin drawdown reappeared as ether exposure.

Source: Defillama XAUT slipped from about $5.35M to roughly $5.0M, a decline of around 7% that is largely a price effect, since gold retreated through September after its August high. Mantle’s MNT rose from about $1.5M to $2.0M, while ETH (about $1.6M), USDT0 (about $1.0M to $1.2M) and AAVE stayed broadly stable. The purple Bitcoin line shows the temporary spike to about $3.3M on September 22 and the return to under $1M afterwards.

Token breakdown The composition snapshot reads as liquidity first with measured diversification. USDT leads at 32.55%, followed by WETH (16.12%), XAUT (13.42%) and BTC (10.03%), which together account for roughly 72% of holdings. The rest is spread across MNT (4.55%), ETH (4.12%), USDT0 (3.48%), USDC (3.19%), AAVE (3.08%), TRON (1.71%) and an Others bucket of 7.73%.

Source: Defillama Several comparisons with August stand out. USDT rose from 27.96% to 32.55% and WETH from 12.45% to 16.12%, while XAUT eased from 14.94% to 13.42%. BTC jumped from 2.16% to 10.03%, which is consistent with the temporary Bitcoin build between September 15 and 22 rather than a strategic shift. Counting USDT, USDT0 and USDC, stablecoins make up about 39% of the portfolio, and ether exposure across WETH and ETH is about 20%. 

Individual stablecoins USDT makes up almost all of Zoomex’s tracked stablecoin balance. USDT opened September near $10.4M and closed around $9.1M, with a mid-month trough near $6.6M. USDC edged down from about $0.9M to $0.75M. 

Source: Defillama Total stablecoins Combined stablecoin holdings fell from about $11.5M on September 1 to a low of roughly $7.3M on September 24, a drop of around 36%, before recovering to about $9.9M on September 30. Net, stablecoins ended the month roughly 14% below where they started. Because total assets stayed in the $34M to $38M band, stablecoins slipped from about 32% of tracked assets at the start of the month to roughly a fifth at the trough, which reflects a shift in composition rather than a shrinking balance sheet. The late month rebound, which coincides with the $1.65M USDT inflow on September 29, suggests the rebuild was already underway as September closed.

Source: Defillama Platform community and user metrics Zoomex ended September 2026 with over 3 million registered users across more than 35 countries and regions. The platform’s Telegram community has grown from 76,277 members to 82,319, reflecting active engagement among Zoomex’s core retail trading base.

Zoomex’s daily active trader count consistently exceeds 1 million users according to independent review data, TradersUnion. The platform regularly adds new assets based on market demand combined with rigorous vetting, as of this report, Zoomex lists 486–495 cryptocurrencies and operates across 518–575 trading pairs depending on the market segment (spot or derivatives), a figure that has grown steadily through 2026.

ZoomexFounded in 2021, Zoomex is a global crypto exchange serving 3M+ users with 600+ trading pairs. Guided by the values of "Simple, User-Friendly, and Fast," Zoomex leverages a high-performance engine to ensure a fair, just, and transparent trading environment where every transaction is fully traceable and unbiased. With MSB (U.S./Canada), NFA, and AUSTRAC licenses and audits by Hacken, Zoomex provides institutional-grade security. Partnered with TGR Haas F1 Team and Emiliano Martínez, the platform mirrors elite precision and consistency, delivering a secure, low-barrier, and compliant ecosystem for traders worldwide.

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TRON’s third-quarter figures show $2.21 trillion in stablecoin settlement alongside $701.4 million in network fees. The two totals measure different things, and neither is a payment to TRON DAO.

Summary

TRON recorded $2.2126 trillion in stablecoin settlement during Q3, up 5.1% from the preceding quarter. Network fees totaled $701.4 million across July, August and September, according to TRON DAO Research. Approximately 1.10 billion transactions went through the chain in Q3, broadly unchanged from Q2. TRON generated 360.2 million TRX and burned 234.5 million TRX in Q3, leaving net issuance of 125.8 million. The network’s $93.88 billion USDT and USDD balance at quarter-end measures outstanding tokens, not fee income. TRON settled more stablecoin value in the third quarter even as the number of transactions barely changed. TRON DAO Research’s quarterly report recorded $2.2126 trillion in stablecoin settlement, up from $2.106 trillion in Q2. It put fees at $701.4 million, or about $7.62 million a day using its reported daily series. The latest figures raise a straightforward question behind a large transfer headline: who paid to move the dollars, and who received the economic benefit?

No single company took a $701.4 million check. TRON is a blockchain where accounts pay for computation and transaction data through a resource system. Users may obtain those resources by staking TRX, receive them from another account, or burn TRX when their allocation falls short. Service providers can charge their own customers separately. Stablecoin issuers operate a different business again. Untangling those flows is necessary before treating quarterly transfers as earnings for the chain, its validators or holders of its native token.

JUST IN: TRON adds $4.8 billion to its stablecoin supply in 90 days

The network’s stablecoin market cap growth nearly doubled the combined $2.59 billion added by the other nine chains in the top 10 over the same period. pic.twitter.com/AAlUklr9Yg

— crypto.news (@cryptodotnews) September 21, 2026 What the $2.21 trillion actually counts A settlement figure is the dollar value of stablecoin movements over a period. It is not the amount of new money deposited into TRON, the number of customers served, or a balance held by a payment company. One stablecoin can move between accounts more than once. A transfer from an exchange to a merchant and a later transfer from that merchant to another exchange can enter the aggregate separately even when the same token funds both.

TRON DAO’s report says the daily average reached $24.05 billion, compared with $23.14 billion in Q2. Growth in the average daily amount was 3.9%, while the full-quarter total rose 5.1%. Both numbers can be true because Q3 has 92 days and Q2 has 91. Time periods matter when comparing a running total to a daily average. Neither number describes final retail purchases or cross-border payments exclusively; the underlying transfer category includes movements between addresses without assigning an economic purpose to every transfer.

At quarter-end, the report counted $93.88 billion in combined USDT and USDD supply on TRON, up $4.88 billion from Q2. Supply is a stock measured at a date; settlement is the sum of movements during a period. Dividing $2.2126 trillion by the closing balance yields about 23.6, a rough turnover comparison, but it cannot identify how often a particular coin changed hands. Supply changed during the quarter and the mix of wallets, exchanges and businesses is not fixed.

JUST IN: TRON averages 4.41M daily active accounts

The $TRX network has maintained an average of 4.41 million daily active accounts over the past 30 days. pic.twitter.com/uuwJxB3XtS

— crypto.news (@cryptodotnews) October 4, 2026 The network processed roughly 1.10 billion transactions in Q3, about flat with Q2. More value moved while the total count barely shifted, which is consistent with a larger average value per transfer, a different mix of transactions, or both. The total transaction count covers activity outside stablecoins, so dividing the entire settlement value by 1.10 billion would not produce a measured average stablecoin transfer size. TRON has not supplied a matched count of stablecoin transfer events alongside that settlement total in the cited report.

TRON’s prior quarter helps put the shift in context. Crypto.news’s account of Q2 USDT transfers reported $2.1 trillion in USDT transfers and $699.4 million in network fees, using Messari’s figures. The Q3 report describes combined stablecoin settlement, so the two transfer totals should not be labeled as identical series without checking their definitions. The Q2 fee figure and Q3 fee total are close in nominal dollars. On those two published totals alone, quarterly fees rose approximately $2 million, or 0.3%, rather than climbing in line with the reported 5.1% growth in Q3 stablecoin settlement.

Fees, burns and the recipient are different questions A person sending USDT does not pay a percentage of the dollars transferred to the chain. TRON meters bandwidth, broadly linked to the bytes recorded, and Energy, which covers smart contract execution. Sending $10 or $10,000 of USDT through the same kind of contract call can require similar resources. The payment amount alone is not the fee basis. A wallet’s available resources, the contract’s execution path and current chain parameters can change the cost.

The TRON developer guide to Bandwidth and Energy says both resources can be obtained by staking TRX or through a delegation from another account. Bandwidth includes a free allowance for qualifying accounts, while Energy has no free tier. Both resource quotas recover over a rolling 24 hours after use. Staking creates access to a recurring allowance; spending that allowance is not the same event as burning a token on each transfer.

Where an account lacks the required resources, the network can burn TRX to cover the shortfall. TRON’s resource payment documentation lists current mainnet rates of 0.001 TRX per Bandwidth unit and 0.0001 TRX per Energy unit, with chain parameters subject to change. Bandwidth rules normally use one source that covers the whole transaction: staked or delegated capacity, then free capacity if available, then a TRX burn. For Energy, an account can use its allocation and burn TRX for the remaining caller-side cost.

The $701.4 million fee series is therefore a report of network-level charges under the provider’s methodology. It should not be described as corporate sales, a cash distribution to validators, or a direct dividend to TRX holders. The report says 234.5 million TRX was burned in Q3, but a dollar valuation for network fees and the token quantity destroyed need their respective definitions and prices to be reconciled. Multiplying every transfer dollar by an assumed fee rate would manufacture an amount that nobody reported.

TRON elects 27 Super Representatives to produce blocks. Newly issued TRX rewards support producers and voters, while resource burns destroy tokens rather than handing the burned amount to a representative as cash. Staked TRX can confer voting power and recurring resources, but holding TRX without staking does not automatically entitle a holder to a share of reported fee dollars. Businesses that rent resources can receive payment under their own arrangements; such payments are distinct from an additional onchain burn on the same transaction.

A visible fee on a wallet screen may likewise be a bundled service price. A wallet can quote USDT to the sender, sponsor the underlying Energy, rent Energy, or supply it from TRX the operator has staked. The customer’s unit of payment does not tell us which underlying resource source settled the transaction. Crypto.news described Binance Wallet’s USDT fee option as a wallet-level way to fund network costs rather than a change in the chain’s native fee rules. A promotion covering a customer’s cost still leaves a provider bearing it.

The arithmetic behind a busy quarter A direct comparison reveals why the scale of transfers is visually misleading. Divide $701.4 million of reported Q3 network fees by $2.2126 trillion of reported stablecoin settlement and the result is about 0.0317%, equivalent to approximately 3.17 basis points. That is an arithmetic ratio between two published totals, not the price paid by each USDT sender. The numerator covers network activity beyond stablecoins, and the denominator omits non-stablecoin activity. A large customer may acquire resources more cheaply than a casual wallet user; some users burn TRX and others consume previously obtained capacity.

Another rough comparison divides $701.4 million by 1.10 billion transactions, producing roughly $0.638 per reported transaction. TRON DAO separately reports an average daily transaction fee of $0.643. The approximated ratio depends on the rounded 1.10 billion count and need not equal the mean of daily fee observations. Both figures are useful as scale checks, but neither is the fee for a standard USDT transfer. Contract execution and account conditions differ substantially among transactions.

TRON DAO breaks the $701.4 million total into $234.6 million in July, $231.3 million in August and $235.5 million in September. September exceeded August by $4.2 million while stablecoin settlement and transaction mix could vary day to day. The quarterly sum makes a consistent source series more useful than picking one unusually expensive transaction or a promotional wallet quote as the representative cost of all payments.

There is a discrepancy worth carrying into the reporting rather than smoothing away. TRON DAO says Q3 average daily fees of $7.62 million were down 4% from $7.94 million in Q2. Messari’s Q2 report summary, however, states $699.4 million in total Q2 fees. Across 91 calendar days, that published Q2 total implies approximately $7.69 million per day, not $7.94 million. Q3’s $701.4 million over 92 days likewise gives approximately $7.62 million. The Q3 daily figure matches its total; the Q2 daily comparison does not reconcile with Messari’s reported Q2 total under simple calendar-day division. Different data windows or methodologies may explain it, but neither report establishes that explanation in the figures cited here. A claim of a 4% quarter-over-quarter fall in daily fees should consequently be attributed to TRON DAO’s series rather than inferred from Messari’s published Q2 total.

A $2 million increase in nominal quarterly fees alongside more transfer value does not prove that users received a cheaper service per transfer. It indicates that those aggregates did not rise at the same pace. Fee prices, token price, resource staking, the share of transfers requiring contract execution and composition of non-stablecoin transactions can move independently. The matched, transaction-level data needed to isolate each contributor are not supplied by a single quarterly settlement headline.

JUST IN: Tron Inc. adds 148,175 $TRX to its treasury

The Nasdaq-listed company bought the tokens at an average $0.3374 each, lifting its total $TRX holdings above 719.3 million as it continues expanding its Tron treasury. pic.twitter.com/nnkC0mqTu0

— crypto.news (@cryptodotnews) October 18, 2026 Who pays when a wallet says a transfer is free? A zero-fee checkout does not necessarily mean the network performed work without a resource cost. A company may stake TRX to obtain Energy, then delegate capacity to customer addresses. An exchange can sponsor withdrawals, a wallet can pay in another currency and procure the underlying resource, and a business can rent Energy from a provider. The visible sender pays nothing at the point of transfer in some of these setups, while a different party finances the service.

The resource guide says exchanges and application operators commonly delegate capacity from a central staking pool. The network does not need each receiving customer to own TRX for every transaction under that arrangement. Energy recovers over 24 hours, so a pool sized to normal daily demand can support recurring operations without consuming the underlying staked tokens on every use. A usage surge beyond the allowance may change the calculation: the business may rent more capacity, hold more TRX, or burn tokens for a shortfall.

Crypto.news’s report on a gasless USDT wallet illustrates the consumer side of this separation. Removing the need for a customer to keep a second token balance simplifies a transfer, but the provider still must settle network resource costs. Reporting should ask the operator whether it pays from staked capacity, rentals, a quoted USDT charge or a temporary subsidy. Without that disclosure, the phrase “gasless” establishes a user experience rather than an independently audited network cost.

Contract deployers can sometimes cover part of a user’s Energy under TRON’s documented sharing mechanism. The contract configuration sets a caller share and a deployer contribution subject to the deployer’s resource budget. Sponsorship can run out. A transfer that appeared free under one set of limits can require the caller to contribute under another. Bandwidth is accounted for separately. Operators can still set terms outside the network, including withdrawal fees or currency conversion charges, that do not appear in the network-fee series.

Cost comparisons between two wallets should therefore specify the same transfer type and recipient conditions. A USDT transfer to an address holding the token can take a different execution path from a transfer to an address whose token balance has to be initialized. A quoted wallet charge may cover exchange service, insurance, or a routing step as well as network resources. The chain’s reported fee total cannot reveal the final consumer price without information from the service provider.

Why more stablecoins may bring less fee income per dollar Stablecoin transfers are measured in dollars; resource use is tied to network operations. An institutional account sending one large payment may contribute the same number of contract calls as a small account sending a modest payment. A market in which average transfer size rises can therefore increase dollar settlement without proportionally increasing network fee activity. That is one plausible interpretation of Q3’s higher settlement and nearly flat transaction count, though the combined transaction figure cannot isolate it as the cause.

Staking and delegation offer another explanation for the weak mechanical link. If more exchanges obtain enough Energy to cover their usual flows, the same count of transactions can generate fewer direct TRX burns than if their wallets had been paying the burn fallback. The operators’ capital commitment and any fee paid to a resource supplier still matter economically, even if they do not resemble a conventional per-transfer gas payment. A change in how much capacity is staked may affect an operator’s effective cost without a corresponding change in the value of USDT moving across the chain.

Chain governance sets the underlying resource parameters. A fee cut can reduce the burn required for a shortage even when usage does not fall. Messari said Q2’s rebound in fees was the first quarterly rise since an August 2025 cut to TRON’s Energy unit price. Comparing transactions across the cut without recording the parameter change would confuse a change in tariff with a change in demand. Current TRON documentation explicitly advises querying chain parameters because the resource pools and prices are adjustable.

Heavy use of a particular contract adds a further complication. TRON’s dynamic Energy model raises the effective Energy requirement for frequently called contracts when thresholds are met. The model can alter the cost of invoking a popular stablecoin contract independently of the number of dollars sent. Its penalty factor can change between maintenance periods and decay when usage eases. A flat posted rate per Energy unit is only one input to a wallet’s expected outlay.

Competition may shape which fee changes governance accepts. A chain can seek more affordable transfers to preserve stablecoin demand, while the reduction in token burns changes the economics for TRX holders. A higher resource price may lift burns in the short term but cause payment businesses to rent resources, stake more, batch activity differently or use another chain. The reports do not establish a single price that maximizes both usage and fee generation. Readers should resist treating higher transfer volume as a guaranteed higher revenue line.

TRX holders receive an indirect exposure The clearest token-level effect of a resource shortfall is the burn of TRX. The clearest counterweight is newly created TRX paid under the network’s reward schedule. TRON DAO says 360.2 million TRX was generated and 234.5 million burned during Q3. Subtracting one from the other gives net issuance of approximately 125.7 million, rounded to the report’s 125.8 million. Burns covered 65.1% of generated tokens. Supply expanded despite substantial fee activity.

A quarter of positive net issuance does not by itself predict a falling TRX price. Token demand, circulating supply, exchange liquidity and market expectations all matter. It does, however, invalidate a simple claim that every dollar of stablecoin settlement makes the asset scarcer. The $2.21 trillion transfer figure is not a buy order for TRX, and the $701.4 million fee valuation is not an equivalent distribution to all existing holders.

The staked side of the ledger is material. TRON DAO put staked TRX at 45.71 billion, or 48.16% of circulating supply at quarter-end. Its report assigned 18.87 billion staked tokens to Energy and 26.84 billion to Bandwidth. People who stake can obtain resource allocation and voting power; participants who vote for Super Representatives can receive protocol rewards under the network’s rules. An investor buying unstaked TRX on an exchange has a different immediate claim than a business using staked resources to process transfers.

The report’s validator voting snapshot showed the five highest-ranked Super Representatives held 37.1% of votes. Representatives participate in governance that can change chain parameters affecting resource prices. Fee economics consequently depend on political choices inside the protocol as well as the technical workload. Users, resource suppliers and TRX holders may prefer different combinations of cheap payments, reward issuance and burn rates.

An exchange-traded product can provide another form of TRX exposure. Crypto.news covered the staked TRX fund’s launch, including the fund’s stated plan to reflect staking rewards in net asset value. Its trading price, expenses and fund flows belong to a separate product. They should not be presented as a way for every TRX holder to collect a fraction of the network’s quoted fee dollars.

The case for low fees The strongest argument against maximizing immediate network fees is that cheaper transfers can be a core part of the service. Exchanges, payroll providers and people sending money across borders compare their actual all-in costs. Businesses can choose a route that works reliably at scale and automate the resource management behind it. If a fee reduction brings enough additional sustained transfers, the network’s usefulness can grow even if the fee earned per dollar of settlement falls.

October’s Polygon Open Money Stack integration with TRON points to that distribution question. The announced first phase connects TRON USDT activity with bank funding, wallet services and payouts for businesses. It does not provide a count of live customer payments or a forecast of incremental TRON fees. A commercially successful rollout could add transactions, but it could also route larger transfers through a small number of well-resourced accounts. Those outcomes produce different network-fee and token-burn profiles.

Low visible fees can be financed through staking rather than cash burn. Large operators may rationally tie up TRX to lower repeated costs, creating demand for resources without creating proportional burns. Smaller customers may prefer a USDT-denominated wallet charge rather than buying TRX to maintain a resource pool. A transfer service can succeed commercially while the protocol captures less revenue from each dollar moved. Protocol fees, resource rental payments, issuer income and the wallet’s own markup should be reported on separate lines.

Evidence that would weaken the low-fee case is equally concrete. If quarterly transfer value rises but transaction counts, unique active users and economic payments stagnate, the apparent growth may be recycled liquidity rather than a wider payments business. If a resource subsidy expires and customers leave, the underlying service may be less competitive than its advertised checkout price suggested. If heavy use creates costs for operators that they cannot pass through, fee compression would not demonstrate durable demand. Current aggregate data cannot settle those questions.

What to watch Q4 settlement and transaction count: Compare stablecoin dollars moved with the number of onchain transactions and, if available, matched stablecoin transfer counts. Monthly fees in one consistent series: Follow October, November and December network fees using the same provider and definitions before asserting an acceleration. Resource parameters: Check Energy prices, Bandwidth rules and governance votes, especially if a proposed fee change alters the cost of USDT contract calls. Stake, burns and issuance: Track the TRX committed to resources and the amount burned against newly generated rewards to separate usage from supply effects. Business adoption disclosures: Seek actual payment counts, subsidy terms and resource funding arrangements from new wallet and payment integrations. FAQ Does TRON earn $2.21 trillion from stablecoins? No. The figure sums stablecoin value transferred across the network in Q3. It is not revenue and does not represent unique dollars paid to an operator. A token can contribute to the total more than once when it moves again.

How much were TRON’s network fees in Q3 2026? TRON DAO Research reports $701.4 million in network fees for the quarter, split among $234.6 million in July, $231.3 million in August and $235.5 million in September. That measure should be named as network fees, not profit for TRON DAO.

Does a USDT sender always need to own TRX? No. A sender can receive delegated resources or use a wallet or service that sponsors the underlying cost and charges in another currency. The network still accounts for Bandwidth and Energy. The sender’s visible payment method does not change those resource rules.

Who receives the TRX paid as network fees? When a transaction uses the TRX burn fallback for insufficient resources, the charged tokens are burned. That is different from newly issued rewards for block producers and voters or a private payment to an Energy supplier.

Why did fees not rise in step with stablecoin settlement? The stablecoin figure measures dollars sent; network charges reflect resource use and the fee methodology. Larger transfer amounts, different transaction types, resource staking, delegated Energy and parameter changes can all break a proportional relationship. The quarterly totals alone cannot identify the precise contribution of each factor.

Did TRX become deflationary during Q3? No. TRON DAO reports 360.2 million TRX generated and 234.5 million burned, leaving roughly 125.8 million in net issuance. Burns reduced but did not exceed issuance during that reporting period.

Is the fee figure the same as Tether’s revenue? No. Tether issues USDT and operates its own business. A TRON network fee is associated with the blockchain’s resource model; an issuer’s reserve income, redemption arrangements and other business lines are distinct from that network metric.

Can the Q3 figures predict TRX’s price? No. They describe past activity, token issuance and resource use, not future buying or selling. Price depends on market conditions and demand beyond the network’s fee statistics. This is educational analysis, not investment advice.

Disclaimer: This article is for information and educational purposes only and does not constitute financial or investment advice. Figures reflect regulatory filings and reporting available at the time of writing and change with each disclosure. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any security or asset. Always do your own research. Information is accurate as of October 19, 2026.

Geneva, Switzerland, October 12, 2026 — TRON DAO, the community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet through blockchain technology and decentralized applications (dApps), today highlighted key findings from its State of TRON Q3 2026 ecosystem report. The report examines network activity, stablecoin settlement, liquidity, tokenomics, developer activity, decentralization, and protocol governance during the third quarter of 2026.

TRON surpassed $30 trillion in cumulative transaction volume in Q3 2026, marking another milestone for a network used as infrastructure for stablecoin settlement and digital-asset transfers. At the same time, stablecoin supply and total value locked continued to expand, while the network’s active-address base grew and transaction activity remained broadly steady.

Key insightsIn Q3, TRON surpassed $30 trillion in cumulative transaction volume. Stablecoin settlement reached $2.21 trillion in the Q3 reporting period, with average daily volume rising 3.9% from Q2 to $24.05 billion.Canary Capital launched the Canary Staked TRX ETF (TRXS) on September 9, 2026. TRXS gives investors exposure to the spot price of TRX—the native utility and governance token of the TRON blockchain network—alongside passive net staking rewards reflected directly in the fund’s daily net asset value. TRON DAO’s team rang the Cboe Closing Bell in Chicago on September 29 to celebrate its launch.TRON expanded its ecosystem collaborations in Q3 2026, adding institutional custody and staking, new trading venues, and digital dollar products through Anchorage Digital, Bitnomial, Backpack, Ethena, and Ducat. Payment, wallet, cross-chain, and developer integrations also broadened access and strengthened the infrastructure for payment, treasury, and DeFi applications. Stablecoin supply and Total Value Locked continued to expand. USDT and USDD supply reached $93.88 billion, up 5.5% from Q2, while TVL including staking hit $28.21 billion and TVL excluding staking (DeFi TVL) hit $13.05 billionThe active-address base widened while transaction frequency held steady. Average rolling monthly active addresses increased 9.8% to 18 million. Network fee generation moderated. Fees totaled $701.4 million during Q3, averaging $7.62 million per day, down 4.0% from Q2. The average daily transaction fee fell from $0.668 to $0.643. TRON’s ecosystem continued to broaden in Q3, with new integrations spanning institutional services, trading, stablecoins, payments, wallets, and developer infrastructure. Anchorage Digital added TRX staking and TRC-20 custody, while Bitnomial and Backpack expanded access to TRX markets. Ethena brought USDe and sUSDe to TRON, and Ducat connected its Bitcoin-backed financial infrastructure to the network’s stablecoin ecosystem.

The quarter also brought new capabilities for users and developers. MoonPay introduced gasless transactions through Trust Wallet, removing the need to hold TRX for network fees, while Bitcoin.com Wallet added native support for TRX and USDT-TRC20. MetaMask connectivity expanded across B.AI, SUN.io, JustLend DAO, and BitTorrent, while Fireblocks Flow added support for payments from TRON wallets. Eco and STON.fi expanded cross-chain stablecoin connectivity, and KiiChain linked TRON assets with its 24/7 foreign-exchange and payment infrastructure. For developers, Privy expanded wallet, transaction, and policy-management capabilities, while OpenZeppelin brought its smart contract libraries and security tooling to the network. Together, these integrations strengthened the infrastructure available for payments, treasury management, and DeFi applications on TRON.

TRON’s third-quarter developments underscore continued growth in stablecoin settlement, liquidity, network activity, and ecosystem infrastructure, reflecting sustained demand for its financial infrastructure. With these trends strengthening, TRON enters Q4 with an increasingly established role in global stablecoin settlement and digital asset activity.

Read the full report from TRON here.

About TRON DAOTRON DAO is a community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet via blockchain technology and dApps.

Founded in September 2017, the TRON blockchain has experienced significant growth since its MainNet launch in May 2018. Today, TRON hosts the largest circulating supply of USD Tether (USDT) stablecoin, which currently exceeds $94 billion. As of October 2026, the TRON blockchain has recorded over 408 million in total user accounts, more than 15 billion in total transactions, and over $28 billion in total value locked (TVL), based on TRONSCAN. Recognized as the global settlement layer for stablecoin transactions and everyday purchases with proven success, TRON is “Moving Trillions, Empowering Billions.”

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TRON had advanced its post-quantum security efforts, including deploying end-to-end post-quantum signature support on the Nile testnet, TRON founder Justin Sun said during a fireside chat with When Shift Happens founder Kevin Follonier.

The crypto entrepreneur said the network is closely following progress in quantum computing and AI and can bring quantum-resistant protections to mainnet at any time.

TRON's post-quantum cryptography is now live on testnet. We're closely tracking progress in quantum computing and AI, and we're ready to bring quantum resistance to mainnet at any time.

We're committed to keeping user assets secure, and TRON is set to be one of the few major…

— H.E. Justin Sun 👨‍🚀 🌞 (@justinsuntron) October 10, 2026

He added that TRON aims to become one of the few major blockchains to implement quantum resistance before Q-Day, when sufficiently advanced quantum computers could potentially derive private keys from exposed public keys.

TRON’s Nile testnet enabled its first post-quantum signature algorithm, FN-DSA-512, earlier this year, opening the feature to developers for testing, Sun disclosed in July.

TRON plans to upgrade its entire network to quantum-resistant security by the end of 2026, Sun said at Bitcoin Asia 2026 in Hong Kong in August. Sun said the network had spent the previous year developing quantum-resistant mechanisms and released a quantum-resistant address solution in the first half of 2026.

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Kripto para piyasasında güvenlik endişelerini artıran yeni bir hack iddiası gündeme geldi. Dünyanın önde gelen donanım cüzdanı üreticilerinden Ledger, bazı kullanıcıların kripto varlıklarının çalındığına yönelik iddiaların ardından soruşturma başlattı. Zincir üstü araştırmalara göre toplam kaybın 86 milyon doları aşmış olabileceği belirtilirken, Binance kurucusu Changpeng Zhao (CZ) da yatırımcıları dikkatli olmaları konusunda uyardı.

86 Milyon Dolarlık Kripto Para Çalındı mı? Güneydoğu Asya’daki bazı Ledger kullanıcılarının kripto para varlıklarını kaybettiğine yönelik iddialar, sektörde büyük yankı uyandırdı. Zincir üstü araştırmacı Specter, Ethereum, TRON ve Bitcoin ağlarında yüzlerce cüzdandan şüpheli adreslere gerçekleştirilen transferleri takip ettiğini açıkladı. Specter’ın tahminlerine göre olayla bağlantılı toplam kayıp 86 milyon doların üzerine çıkmış olabilir. Ancak saldırıların hangi yöntemle gerçekleştirildiği henüz kesinleşmedi. Ledger cihazlarının temel güvenlik altyapısının doğrudan ele geçirildiğine ilişkin doğrulanmış bir kanıt bulunmadığı belirtiliyor.

İlginizi Çekebilir: Bitcoin’in Kaderi Bu Seviyeye Bağlı!

Ledger, güvenlik iddialarının CryptoBilis adlı satıcı üzerinden satın alınan cihazlarla bağlantılı olabileceğini değerlendiriyor. Şirket, soruşturma tamamlanana kadar ilgili satıcının satış ve sevkiyat faaliyetlerini durdurmasını istedi. Ayrıca son 90 gün içerisinde CryptoBilis üzerinden Ledger cihazı satın alan kullanıcıların cihazlarını henüz kurmamaları gerektiği bildirildi. Cihazlarını daha önce kullanmaya başlayan kişilere ise yeni bir kurtarma ifadesi oluşturarak varlıklarını güvenilir yeni bir Ledger cihazına taşımaları tavsiye edildi. Bu uyarılar, donanım cüzdanlarının güvenliğinin yalnızca yazılımsal korumaya değil, cihazların güvenilir kaynaklardan temin edilmesine de bağlı olduğunu yeniden gündeme taşıdı.

Binance Kurucusu CZ’den Ledger Açıklaması Binance’in kurucusu Changpeng Zhao (CZ), olayla ilgili ilk bulguların olası bir tedarik zinciri saldırısına işaret ettiğini belirtti. Zhao’ya göre bazı kullanıcılar, orijinal cihazlar yerine üzerinde değişiklik yapılmış veya sahte Ledger ürünleri satın almış olabilir.

CZ, Ledger’ın kripto para sektörünün en köklü donanım cüzdanı üreticilerinden biri olduğunu vurgularken, olayın şirketin tüm cihazlarının güvenliğinin ihlal edildiği anlamına gelmediğine dikkat çekti.

Zhao ayrıca BNB ekosistemindeki katılımcıların ve sektörün diğer aktörlerinin çalınan kripto varlıkların izlenmesi ve geri alınması konusunda destek sağlayabileceğini ifade etti.

Kripto Para Yatırımcılarını Nasıl Etkileyebilir? Ledger hakkındaki güvenlik iddiaları, kripto para yatırımcılarının donanım cüzdanı kullanırken dikkat etmesi gereken riskleri yeniden gündeme getirdi. Özellikle üçüncü taraf satıcılardan temin edilen cihazların güvenilirliği ve kurtarma ifadelerinin korunması kritik önem taşıyor. Genel değerlendirmede 86 milyon dolarlık kayıp iddiasının henüz kesinleşmemiş olması ve saldırı yönteminin tam olarak belirlenememesi, soruşturmanın sonuçlarını önemli hale getiriyor. Ledger’ın yapacağı yeni açıklamalar, olayın kapsamının netleşmesi ve etkilenen kullanıcıların belirlenmesi açısından yakından takip edilecek.

Son Dakika kripto para haberleri için hemen tıkla.

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Moscow Exchange (MOEX), Russia’s largest stock exchange, plans to begin offering crypto trading on December 1 under the country’s new regulatory framework. Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), XRP and TRON (TRX) are expected to be the initial cryptocurrencies supported by the exchange

Moscow Exchange to Offer Crypto Trading Moscow Exchange is currently testing crypto trading with professional traders, said senior managing director for sales and business development Boris Blokhin on October 8. This is a test environment for digital currency trading, testing the functionality that will eventually be implemented in the production environment

“We will continue testing until launch. We plan to provide this cryptocurrency trading capability on December 1st, in line with the new legislation,” he added, according to TASS.

Moscow Exchange intends to use its existing trading organizer license and stock-market infrastructure for crypto assets, which the new regulations permit. “Therefore, everything is very simple – both for the participants and for us” as there is no additional inclusion in the exchange’s register is required.

The announcement follows the entry into force of Russia’s cryptocurrency market legislation in early September. The Bank of Russia has begun registering crypto exchange operators and crypto custodians such as Sberbank and VTB Bank.

As CoinGape reported, Sberbank plans to launch its first crypto products on December 1. The products will be offered via SberBank Online, SberInvestments and SberBusiness. These services are already available in the bank’s overall digital platform.

Under the framework, unqualified investors can buy only Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tether (USDT), up to 300,000 rubles per year. Qualified investors can purchase all cryptocurrencies on the platform and over-the-counter markets, without a limit on the amount.

Moscow Exchange launched perpetual futures tied to Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP, and TRON indices last month. The contracts are quoted in US dollars, settled in Russian rubles, and limited to qualified investors. This positions Russia’s Moscow Exchange to offer regulated crypto exposure alongside banks and other licensed intermediaries.

To understand how these state-backed initiatives compare with international providers, traders can look at our comprehensive review of the regulated crypto exchanges comparison currently operating in the market.

@Zebec_HQ has enabled @Trondao support on its Cards product, allowing users to top up their spending balances with $USDT on the TRON blockchain and use the funds at point-of-sale terminals anywhere in the world.

What the Integration Means for Card Users The update slots TRON-based USDT directly into Zebec's existing multi-chain card infrastructure. Adding TRON as a funding rail means cardholders can now draw on one of the most widely held stablecoin balances in crypto without first bridging to another network.

The timing aligns with Zebec's broader Q4 2026 roadmap.

Why TRON USDT Matters for Payments TRON has become the dominant settlement layer for $USDT globally.

That scale makes it a logical choice for a card program targeting everyday consumer spending. Low fees and high throughput on TRON mean top-ups can settle quickly and cheaply, a practical advantage at the point of sale.

For Zebec, the integration continues a pattern of expanding chain support to meet users where their liquidity already sits.

Sources:
Zebec Cards, official product page
TRON DAO, Q1 2026 Quarterly Report
KuCoin, TRON Q2 2026 Report

Beginning in early September, TRON’s [TRX] activity levels have stabilized into what would appear to be a long-term trend of increasing network usage instead of short bursts of increased use.

That being said, the platform held over 4 million in total active accounts, with the monthly averages totaling approximately 4.41 million users.

As time progressed, user activity increased up to 4.84 million users by mid-September but then declined down to below 4 million users by the end of the month.

Importantly, it is significant for participation to remain consistent over time since it creates a solid base for transactions, stablecoin transfers, and payment processing.

Source: X TRONSCAN also reported over 407 million accounts on its platform with over 15.7 billion cumulative transactions. Therefore, if the activity baseline increases as adoption grows, it may provide additional support to TRX’s utility narrative.

Therefore, the activity baseline could strengthen TRX’s utility narrative as adoption expands. However, maintaining growth beyond 4.4 million accounts will determine whether this momentum becomes a larger adoption trend.

TRX ETF demand remains weak Meanwhile, that on-chain momentum is yet to translate into institutional demand. Despite the launch of the Canary Staked TRX ETF on Cboe, institutional demand has remained limited.

TRON and Canary recently rang the Cboe closing bell to mark the ETF’s launch under the ticker TRXS, yet flows have barely felt the impact.

After launching in September, Canary’s ETF recorded its only net inflow on the 15th of September, when investors added $491,060.

Since then, every session through the 2nd of October recorded zero net flows. As a result, this left cumulative inflows unchanged, with total net assets standing at $50.23 million.

Source: SoSoValue That gap becomes more notable given Canary Capital founder and CEO Steven McClurg’s rationale for choosing TRX. During a discussion on X space, he cited TRON’s growing footprint throughout Asia and developing regions as the basis for his decision.

He stated that these regions are supported by both their large Tether [USDT] activity and overall wallet base.

All in all, TRXS allows institutional participants to gain exposure to a well-established use case in their region, but so far investor interest has not followed suit.

Ultimately, unless inflows accelerate, the listing could raise TRON’s visibility without materially increasing TRX demand.

TRX exchange inflows surge While Canary’s ETF shows weak institutional demand, Binance data suggests a change in TRX flow into the exchange. Net inflows rose to $79.8 million in a single session on the 1st of October.

Notably, this was the largest daily net inflow since the 20th of August, when deposits hit $136.9 million.

Source: CryptoQuant At the same time, total cumulative net flow decreased from $37.7 million on the 1st of October to $35.4 million by the 3rd of October. TRX fell 0.79% that day, while later returns showed little predictive connection.

Thus, exchange supply has risen, but persistence remains unconfirmed.

Final Summary TRON sustains over 4.4 million daily active accounts, signaling strong network demand. TRX faces weak ETF demand and rising Binance inflows, increasing supply risks.

TRON has been pulled into another U.S. sanctions action after the Treasury Department added seven addresses on the network to its sanctions list over an alleged ATM jackpotting operation tied to Tren de Aragua.

Summary

Seven TRON addresses that received about $6.1 million were added to the U.S. sanctions list over an alleged Tren de Aragua ATM jackpotting operation. All seven addresses were hosted by a centralized crypto exchange, potentially allowing the underlying accounts and connected activity to be identified. U.S. authorities reported $40.73 million in losses across more than 1,500 alleged Tren de Aragua jackpotting attacks as of August 2025. Funds from the sanctioned TRON addresses were sent to other wallets associated with Tren de Aragua, with another connected network receiving about $35 million. According to TRM Labs, the seven TRON addresses received approximately $6.1 million in total inflows since March 2022. The blockchain intelligence firm cautioned that not all of the funds were necessarily connected to the alleged ATM scheme.

The addresses were added to the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List as the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned eight individuals and two Mexico based companies over the operation. A separate Tren de Aragua leader accused by Treasury of involvement in illicit gold mining was designated in the same action.

TRM found that all seven TRON addresses were deposit addresses hosted by a centralized crypto exchange, giving the sanctions action a direct link to accounts held through a virtual asset service provider instead of self custody wallets.

Seven TRON addresses received $6.1 million TRM traced the largest portion of the $6.1 million to the TRON address attributed to Eric Gabriel Cardenas Arzola, which received approximately $2.1 million.

According to the firm’s analysis, activity across the seven addresses followed a similar pattern. Each received funds from numerous sources through deposit addresses hosted at a centralized exchange, while most have remained dormant for months. The most recent inflow identified by TRM went to the address attributed to Cardenas Arzola in July 2026.

Funds did not stop at the seven wallets. TRM said the sanctioned addresses sent cryptocurrency to other addresses associated with Tren de Aragua. The second group of addresses subsequently sent approximately $35 million to a network that U.S. authorities have affiliated with Venezuelan national Jorge Figueira.

U.S. authorities have charged Figueira with laundering approximately $1 billion in illicit funds. According to TRM, Figueira has not been convicted and the charges against him remain allegations.

The latest findings resemble another TRON based pattern TRM identified in September. Exchange hosted deposit addresses were used in the Xinbi Guarantee network, where illicit value largely settled through USDT on TRON.

Tether subsequently froze $39.3 million in USDT across 10 TRON addresses linked to Xinbi Guarantee, crypto.news previously reported. TRM had identified Xinbi as one of Southeast Asia’s largest illicit crypto marketplaces, with approximately $24.2 billion in transactions since 2022.

Treasury ties TRON wallets to alleged ATM attacks Treasury described the operation behind the latest sanctions as an ATM jackpotting scheme, a cyberattack in which criminals exploit vulnerabilities in ATMs or interactive teller machines and install malware that forces them to dispense cash without debiting a bank account.

According to the Treasury account cited by TRM, the attacks typically involve monitoring a targeted machine before malware is installed and remotely activated to bypass its security controls. The network operates from Mexico and Venezuela while targeting machines in the United States. Stolen funds are allegedly laundered through several methods, including cryptocurrency transactions, before being sent to Tren de Aragua members in different countries.

Reported U.S. losses from alleged Tren de Aragua jackpotting attacks reached $40.73 million across more than 1,500 attacks as of August 2025, according to Treasury. Since Oct. 21, 2025, the Department of Justice has indicted 98 people over their alleged roles in ATM jackpotting schemes.

Anibal Alexander Canelon Aguirre, known as “Prometheus,” was identified as the main target of the latest action. Treasury alleges Canelon Aguirre engineered the malware used in the attacks. Six alleged associates were designated alongside him, with OFAC linking each of the seven individuals to one of the TRON addresses.

The defendants face charges in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska that include providing material support to Tren de Aragua, bank fraud conspiracy, bank burglary conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy. All charges remain allegations, and the defendants are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.

TRON remains prominent in stablecoin transfers TRON’s appearance in the latest sanctions action comes as the blockchain handles a large share of global USDT activity.

During the second quarter, TRON processed $2.1 trillion in USDT transfers while its stablecoin market reached a record $89.2 billion. USDT supply on the blockchain ended the quarter at $87.9 billion, according to Messari data published in August.

The network has repeatedly appeared in recent sanctions and asset freeze cases involving USDT. OFAC added 131 TRON addresses to its ISIS K designation in July, with Chainalysis saying Tether subsequently froze balances across all of the addresses. The wallets had received more than $1.4 million since 2023, while Tether froze the balances following the sanctions update.

More recently, Tether said it had helped freeze nearly $550 million in Iran linked USDT during 2026. Four TRON wallets holding more than $130 million were frozen in a July action tied to the Central Bank of Iran.

A separate September case involved $61.2 million in USDT that U.S. prosecutors are seeking to forfeit. Court records identified 10 TRON addresses holding the funds, which prosecutors alleged were connected to proceeds from sanctioned Iranian oil sales. Tether had frozen all 10 wallets.

Exchange accounts face screening after TRON sanctions According to TRM, the latest Tren de Aragua addresses differ from self custody wallets because all seven are deposit addresses hosted at a centralized exchange. The exchange hosting the addresses may therefore be able to identify the underlying account holders and accounts connected to them.

TRM said virtual asset service providers and financial institutions should screen the seven TRON addresses and review historical transactions for exposure. Its analysis recommended extending those checks to indirect counterparties because funds moved from the designated addresses to other wallets associated with Tren de Aragua.

Since the designations were made under Executive Order 13224, foreign financial institutions that knowingly conduct or facilitate a significant transaction on behalf of a designated person may face secondary sanctions. According to the report, possible measures include restrictions involving U.S. correspondent or payable through accounts.

The immediate compliance work falls on the exchange hosting the seven addresses and other virtual asset service providers that processed funds moving to or from them, TRM said. The firm plans to continue tracking activity connected to the addresses and Tren de Aragua’s financial network.

Bitget has confirmed that attackers stole $387.5 million from its exchange wallets on September 24. Withdrawals still remain suspended, while the company says its protection fund covers the loss.

Mandiant and SlowMist are investigating. CEO Gracy Chen suspects North Korean involvement, although the initial entry point remains undisclosed.

So, how did the hack potentially take place? BeInCrypto has structured a timeline based on publicly available info. 

September 24, 18:31 UTC: Bitget Detects Unauthorized TransfersBitget says its security systems detected the transfers at 18:31 UTC and activated emergency procedures within minutes.

The breach affected parts of its hot and warm wallets, which support exchange operations. Its offline cold wallets remained secure, according to the company. The detection time does not establish when attackers first gained access.

19:57–21:06 UTC: Unusual Trades Raise the AlarmAt 19:57, analyst DCF GOD flagged a fresh wallet spending $19.67 million in USDT0 to buy 7,111 ETH in six minutes. It reportedly paid up to 5% above market prices.

The behaviour suggested someone prioritized moving funds quickly. Their motive was still unclear.

By 21:06, Bubblemaps reported roughly $180 million moving from Bitget wallets to a common receiving address, then splitting into several wallets.

21:30 UTC: Chen Confirms the BreachChen’s security notice put the initial loss at $351.6 million and confirmed that withdrawals were paused.

The notice came almost three hours after Bitget’s stated detection time. That gap leaves questions about its response, but does not prove funds kept leaving throughout that period.

September 25, 00:43 UTC: The Suspected Method EmergesChen said attackers compromised a critical backend system, meaning software that manages wallet operations behind the scenes.

They supplied false transaction data and triggered Bitget’s authorization process. In simple terms, its own system approved fraudulent transfers.

Chen said private-key theft had been ruled out. How attackers entered the backend, and which checks failed, still requires a detailed public explanation.

14:03 UTC: The Loss Reaches $387.5 MillionBitget revised its estimate after including affected Zcash and TRON assets. It said the increase reflected a fuller accounting of the original theft.

The company says the vulnerability has been fixed. It promised a withdrawal-plan announcement by September 26 at 04:00 UTC, without committing to reopening withdrawals then.

Why Investigators Suspect North Korean InvolvementChen cited IP behaviour and blockchain activity consistent with North Korean groups. Several features resemble the February 2025 Bybit theft, which the FBI attributed to North Korea.

Manipulated approvals: Bitget describes false instructions reaching its authorization system. At Bybit, a compromised interface tricked signers into approving a malicious transaction. The mechanisms differ, but both exploited the approval process.
Rapid asset conversion: Bitget-linked funds quickly bought ETH. The FBI documented rapid conversion of Bybit’s stolen assets into other cryptocurrencies.
Splitting funds across wallets: Bubblemaps identified several receiving wallets. Bybit’s proceeds spread across thousands of addresses, according to the FBI.
Using THORChain: MistTrack reported Bitget proceeds entering the protocol and identified its earlier use to move stolen Bybit funds.
These parallels support further investigation. They do not independently identify Bitget’s attackers.

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Geneva, Switzerland, September 24, 2026 — TRON DAO, the community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet through blockchain technology and decentralized applications (dApps), today announced that total transaction volume settled on the TRON blockchain has surpassed $30 trillion. A milestone driven by the network’s high throughput, low costs, and deep liquidity, making TRON the settlement layer of choice for stablecoin transfers, payments, and digital asset activity worldwide.

TRON has now recorded more than 405 million total user accounts, over 15 billion total transactions, more than $28 billion in total value locked (TVL) and currently carries more than $94 billion in circulating USDT, the largest supply of any blockchain. According to Token Terminal, TRON leads all networks in USDT transfer volume year to date, with approximately $6 trillion, averaging $25 billion in daily transfer volume. That momentum is also extending into consumer payments. According to CoinDesk Research, crypto payment card volumes grew from $2 billion in the first quarter of 2026 to $2.4 billion in the second, with TRON’s share rising from 33% to 34% over the same period, the highest of any chain tracked. The data reflects TRON’s position as the dominant blockchain for merchant acceptance and consumer-to-business payments via Visa-linked stablecoin cards.

“TRON has moved $30 trillion since launch, a scale comparable to the annual output of the U.S. economy in 2025. Crossing $30 trillion in total transaction volume is proof that TRON has become an essential infrastructure for the digital dollar economy,” said Justin Sun, founder of TRON. “Every trillion dollars that moves across TRON represents real people relying on stablecoins for payments, savings, and everyday transactions. TRON was built to support accessible, scalable digital financial infrastructure, and this milestone reflects the continued growth of that mission.”

Institutional access to TRON has broadened alongside the network’s growth. In September 2026, Canary Capital launched the Canary Staked TRX ETF, trading under the ticker TRXS. TRX spot and futures products are also available on Bitnomial, a US-regulated derivatives exchange, further broadening regulated market access. Anchorage Digital also expanded support for the TRON Network with native TRX staking and custody for TRC-20 assets through its regulated platform, while the Tokenized Hamilton Lane SCOPE Fund became the first Securitize-issued asset on the TRON network.

Additionally, the TRON blockchain was among the top 5 protocols represented in the newly launched S&P Pantera Digital Asset Index. The index was developed by S&P Dow Jones Indices and Pantera Capital, and applies a methodology centered on protocol utility, onchain liquidity, and network activity. The launch marks one of the clearest signs to date that established financial market frameworks are being extended to digital assets, applying benchmark methodologies traditionally used across equities and other asset classes to blockchain networks.

TRON’s $30 trillion transfer volume milestone underscores the network’s scale as blockchain-based payments and stablecoin settlement continue to grow. With rising activity across payments, digital assets, and institutional markets, TRON continues to serve as core infrastructure for the movement of value on-chain.

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Geneva, Switzerland, September 23, 2026 – TRON DAO, the community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet through blockchain technology and decentralized applications (dApps), announced today that Privy is expanding its support for the TRON blockchain, giving developers and businesses more tools to build and operate financial applications at scale on the network.

With the expanded integration, developers can use Privy to build and manage wallets and financial applications on TRON with enhanced transaction, policy, transfer, and monitoring capabilities. Developers can programmatically construct, sign, and broadcast supported TRON transactions, monitor wallet activity and on-chain events through balance and transaction webhooks, and use policy controls to set spending limits, recipient allowlists, and transaction approval or restriction rules. Transfers APIs also enable supported assets on TRON to be moved programmatically.

Together, these capabilities give businesses the infrastructure to build and operate stablecoin payment solutions, treasury workflows, wallets, and other on-chain financial products on TRON.

“TRON has become an important network for stablecoin activity globally, and we want to make it as easy as possible for developers to build on that foundation,” said Justin Sun, Founder of TRON. “By deepening our integration with Privy, we’re giving teams more of the infrastructure they need to bring payments, treasury, and other financial products on-chain.”

TRON has become a major global rail for stablecoin transfers, with the total transfer volume on the network approaching $30 trillion. Its infrastructure is increasingly being used for payments and treasury operations, as companies including Onafriq and Paystack are already building wallet and treasury use cases with Privy and TRON.

“We’re seeing more companies use TRON to move stablecoins across borders and build new financial products, particularly in markets where USDT is already an important part of how money moves,” said Henri Stern, CEO and co-founder of Privy. “Deepening our support for TRON gives these teams more of the infrastructure they need to build and operate at scale.” 

The expanded integration builds on growing demand for stablecoin infrastructure that can support real-world financial operations. By combining Privy’s wallet and developer infrastructure with TRON’s stablecoin ecosystem, businesses can build applications designed for payments, treasury management, and other on-chain financial workflows.

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Founded in September 2017, the TRON blockchain has experienced significant growth since its MainNet launch in May 2018. Today, TRON hosts the largest circulating supply of USD Tether (USDT) stablecoin, which currently exceeds $94 billion. As of September 2026, the TRON blockchain has recorded over 405 million in total user accounts, more than 15 billion in total transactions, and over $29 billion in total value locked (TVL), based on TRONSCAN. Recognized as the global settlement layer for stablecoin transactions and everyday purchases with proven success, TRON is “Moving Trillions, Empowering Billions.”

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Ducat today announced its integration with the TRON network, broadening the use of USDT (TRC-20) for faster, lower-cost on-chain settlement and liquidity movement across Ducat’s Bitcoin-native financial infrastructure.

Through the integration, Ducat users can use USDT as a primary settlement asset and access wUNIT, the TRC-20 representation of Ducat’s Bitcoin-backed dollar, UNIT, on the TRON network. UNIT remains issued against BTC on Bitcoin, while wUNIT enables that value to move across TRON and interact with USDT liquidity. Users can hold wUNIT or swap it directly for USDT through a dedicated stablecoin liquidity pool, while liquidity providers can supply both assets and receive a share of swap fees generated by the pool.

The integration connects Ducat’s Bitcoin-native credit engine with TRON’s stablecoin network while keeping Ducat’s underlying collateral and issuance on Bitcoin. The architecture cleanly separates the roles of each layer: Bitcoin provides the underlying value and collateral, Ducat manages the monetary and credit logic, and TRON provides the scalable settlement environment. This gives Bitcoin-backed liquidity a direct route into TRON’s stablecoin ecosystem, supporting payments, capital movement, and other on-chain financial workflows.

“Ducat brings Bitcoin-backed value into TRON’s robust stablecoin ecosystem, which already has more than $94 billion in circulating USDT” said Sam Elfarra, Community Spokesperson at TRON DAO. “TRON users gain access to another digital dollar, while Bitcoin holders gain more ways to put their liquidity to work across the network.”

“UNIT was designed to let Bitcoin holders access dollar liquidity without handing their BTC to a custodian,” said David Evans, CEO of Ducat. “The TRON integration turns that model into something people can use across one of crypto’s largest stablecoin networks. wUNIT will arrive as a TRC-20 token, swap directly against USDT, and move back to Bitcoin through the same bridge. The integration can put Bitcoin-backed credit into the flow of stablecoins people already use every day.” 

The integration reflects a shared focus between Ducat and TRON on expanding stablecoin utility beyond trading-driven activity. By combining Bitcoin-backed value, Ducat’s monetary infrastructure, and TRON’s scalable settlement network, the integration connects Bitcoin-backed credit with a stablecoin ecosystem built to support payments, liquidity, and broader financial activity at scale.

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Ducat is a Bitcoin Layer 1 credit and stablecoin protocol that lets Bitcoin holders borrow dollars against BTC without handing their assets to a third-party custodian. Its credit stack is built and enforced on Bitcoin. Ducat is backed by Hivemind and CMS and is an incubatee of CMC Labs. It built the first Bitcoin-native oracle with Chainlink.

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Founded in September 2017, the TRON blockchain has experienced significant growth since its MainNet launch in May 2018. Today, TRON hosts the largest circulating supply of USD Tether (USDT) stablecoin, which currently exceeds $94 billion. As of September 2026, the TRON blockchain has recorded over 404 million in total user accounts, more than 15 billion in total transactions, and over $27 billion in total value locked (TVL), based on TRONSCAN. Recognized as the global settlement layer for stablecoin transactions and everyday purchases with proven success, TRON is “Moving Trillions, Empowering Billions.”

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15 September 2026 | 02:43 TRON is testing post-quantum signatures that could protect transactions against future quantum-computing attacks. The security benefit comes with a measurable trade-off: the signatures take up more data, leaving less room for transactions in each block.

The proposal’s largest projected reduction applies only if every transaction adopts ML-DSA-44. It is a capacity model, not a live mainnet result or a forecast for an initial rollout.

Key Takeaways TRON is testing quantum signatures on Nile. Larger signatures reduce available block space. Full Falcon use models roughly 400 TPS. Full ML-DSA use models roughly 173 TPS. Mainnet activation still needs governance approval. TRON is testing post-quantum signatures that could protect transactions against future quantum-computing attacks. The security benefit comes with a measurable trade-off: the signatures take up more data, leaving less room for transactions in each block.

The proposal is live on testnet, not mainnet TRON’s TIP-899 proposal adds two post-quantum signature options: Falcon-512 and ML-DSA-44. The code is included in a Nile testnet release, where developers can test how the new signing methods work across the network.

The feature is disabled by default. It cannot change TRON’s mainnet transaction rules unless network governance approves activation after the planned testing and security work.

Why signature size can reduce transaction capacity Every blockchain transaction needs a digital signature: proof that the account holder approved it. TRON currently uses ECDSA signatures. Falcon-512 and ML-DSA-44 are designed to resist attacks from sufficiently advanced quantum computers, but the proof attached to a transaction is much larger.

Blocks have a fixed data budget. A larger signature leaves less of that budget for other transactions. The proposal therefore models a lower transaction ceiling even though the post-quantum signatures verify faster in TRON’s own benchmarks than ECDSA.

In other words, the issue is not that nodes would be too slow to check the new signatures. It is that each signed transaction would consume more block bandwidth.

TRON’s estimates show the size of the trade-off TIP-899 models a baseline capacity of about 3,809 simple transactions per second using ECDSA. Its estimates fall as a larger share of transactions uses post-quantum signatures.

Modeled transaction-capacity estimates

ECDSA baseline model
About 3,809 transactions per second.

10% Falcon-512 transaction model
About 2,055 TPS, roughly 46% below the ECDSA baseline.

10% ML-DSA-44 transaction model
About 1,228 TPS, roughly 68% below the ECDSA baseline.

100% Falcon-512 transaction model
About 400 TPS, a reduction of roughly 90%.

100% ML-DSA-44 transaction model
About 173 TPS, a reduction of roughly 95%.

These are proposal estimates for simple transactions under fixed block-capacity assumptions. They do not represent observed TRON mainnet throughput.

A mixed network would look different from the 95% scenario The full-adoption cases are stress tests. TRON could allow existing ECDSA accounts to operate alongside users who choose a post-quantum signature, limiting the immediate impact on block capacity.

The 10% models show why that distinction matters. A network with one-tenth of transactions using Falcon-512 is still modeled above 2,000 TPS. That would be a meaningful reduction from the ECDSA baseline, yet it is far less severe than the 400 TPS estimate attached to universal Falcon-512 use.

Falcon-512 produces the less restrictive capacity model of the two proposed systems. ML-DSA-44 produces the larger reduction, making the choice of signature scheme relevant to any eventual migration path.

The issue matters for a high-volume transfer network TRON is used for frequent transfers, including stablecoin transactions. If signed transactions require more block space, the network would either fit fewer transfers into each block or need to change its capacity rules.

As our earlier look at TRON’s revenue model explained, transaction volume has been central to the network’s activity and fee generation. That makes block efficiency more important than a theoretical benchmark: it affects the network’s ability to handle the transfers users already make.

What must happen before a mainnet decision TIP-899 has not been approved for mainnet activation. The proposal calls for governance approval, an external security audit and expanded bug-bounty coverage before deployment.

The review has to cover more than wallet signing. The proposal extends to block production and communication between nodes, so an audit would need to test how those systems interact before TRON introduces the feature to its live network.

TRON’s test will be whether security can scale The proposal gives TRON a route to quantum-resistant signing, but its own estimates show that signature size cannot be treated as a minor technical detail. The practical test is whether a mixed-signature network can preserve enough capacity for ordinary transfers before governance considers a broader migration.

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Allbridge Core, the cross-chain stablecoin bridge, has moved $1.64 billion in stablecoins through the TRON network across nearly 80,000 transfers. That makes TRON the leading network in Allbridge’s ecosystem.

The milestone lands at a moment when TRON is processing staggering amounts of stablecoin value. The network handled roughly $2.08 trillion in stablecoin settlement volume during Q2 2026 alone, spread across 1.1 billion transactions.

TRON’s stablecoin stranglehold TRON’s USDT supply reached approximately $89 billion by the end of Q2 2026, representing roughly 47% of the entire global USDT supply. TRON commands a 28.7% share of the overall stablecoin market by volume.

About 93% of TRON’s stablecoin transfers during Q2 2026 were peer-to-peer in nature. This isn’t DeFi protocol volume getting recycled through liquidity pools. It’s people sending money to other people.

Allbridge’s TRON integration and growing pains Allbridge completed its full integration with TRON in June 2026, establishing the network as a primary cross-chain hub for USDT alongside Ethereum and Solana. The 77,021 transfers recorded through Allbridge Core on TRON by late June reflect early traction from that integration.

In July 2026, Allbridge suffered a $1.65 million flash-loan exploit targeting its Solana pools. The attack forced a temporary protocol pause while the team assessed the damage and patched vulnerabilities.

The incident prompted a strategic pivot. Allbridge has signaled a shift toward pool-less routing in future versions of the protocol, a design choice that would eliminate the liquidity pools that flash-loan attackers target. Protocols like Circle’s CCTP and LayerZero’s OFT standard are pioneering approaches that move away from traditional bridging pools.

What this means for cross-chain stablecoin flows The competitive landscape for cross-chain stablecoin bridges includes native issuer solutions like Circle’s CCTP potentially disintermediating third-party bridges entirely for USDC transfers. Allbridge’s focus on USDT routing through TRON gives it a differentiated lane, since Tether has not launched an equivalent native cross-chain protocol. The 77,021 transfers and $1.64 billion in volume suggest there is real demand for someone to fill that gap.

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Geneva, Switzerland, September 10, 2026 — TRON DAO, the community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet through blockchain technology and decentralized applications (dApps), today announced expanded support for MetaMask across the TRON ecosystem, with B.AI, SUN.io, JustLend DAO and BitTorrent now supporting MetaMask connectivity through their respective dApps.

MetaMask, one of the world’s largest consumer platforms for onchain finance, gives users direct control over their money and access to the onchain economy. Earlier this year, MetaMask launched native support for the TRON network across both its mobile and browser extension platforms. Building on that launch, users now have more ways to interact with applications across the TRON ecosystem using MetaMask. 

B.AI is a financial infrastructure platform designed to give AI agents their own identities and the ability to transact independently, powering autonomous payments and on-chain execution for the emerging agent economy. SUN.io, TRON’s leading decentralized platform with over $650 million in total value locked (TVL), enables users to connect with MetaMask to access its high-performance SunSwap V4 decentralized exchange and automated market maker.

JustLend DAO, TRON’s lending protocol, holds more than $7 billion in TVL and supports borrowing, lending, and staking. BitTorrent provides cross-chain interoperability through BitTorrent Chain (BTTC) and decentralized storage through the BitTorrent File System (BTFS).

“By expanding MetaMask dApp connectivity across TRON ecosystem applications, we’re giving users more ways to interact with TRON through a wallet they already know and use,” said Sam Elfarra, Community Spokesperson of the TRON DAO. “By expanding MetaMask connectivity across TRON’s dApp ecosystem, we are enabling millions of users worldwide to experience TRON’s speed, affordability, and ecosystem depth without changing the tools they already rely on.”

“Native TRON support in MetaMask gives users greater flexibility to interact with the TRON ecosystem using the wallet they already know,” said Dan Rosario, Ecosystem Engagement Manager at MetaMask. “As more applications across the TRON ecosystem implement MetaMask connectivity, users have more ways to engage with the network while maintaining the control that comes with self-custody.”

TRON is a leading global settlement layer for stablecoins, processing more than $23 billion in average daily transfer volume and hosting more than $94 billion of circulating USDT on-chain. Native TRON support in MetaMask enables users to manage TRON-based assets and connect their wallet to supported applications across the TRON ecosystem.

As more TRON applications implement MetaMask connectivity, users have additional ways to interact with the network through a familiar self-custodial wallet. 

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Tether has frozen $39.27 million worth of USDT held in 10 TRON addresses linked to Xinbi Guarantee, as reported by blockchain-analysis firm MistTrack. The move focuses attention on the use of stablecoins in suspected illicit financial transactions and the role stablecoin issuers play in restricting asset movement.

Addresses Linked to Telegram-Based Escrow NetworkMistTrack stated that its investigation traced the TRON addresses through blockchain activity and on-chain labeling tied to Xinbi Guarantee. Xinbi Guarantee is understood to operate as a Telegram-based escrow network, allegedly facilitating various financial arrangements.

The frozen USDT addresses collectively held $39,273,713 in funds at the time of the action. One of these addresses reportedly contained over $10 million in USDT when the freeze was implemented. Despite the large sum, Tether clarified that the measure did not disrupt the market, as the dollar peg of USDT remained stable at $0.9998 on September 9.

Tether did not disclose the detailed reasons for the freeze or whether it arose due to a law enforcement request. MistTrack emphasized that the presence of Xinbi Guarantee on international regulatory radars, alongside blockchain evidence, provided grounds for the freeze.

Mini dictionary: Xinbi Guarantee, a Telegram-based escrow service, is alleged to facilitate financial transfers using cryptocurrencies and has come under international scrutiny for possible connections to illicit activity.

Global Regulatory Pressure IncreasesXinbi Guarantee drew international attention after the UK imposed an asset freeze on Xinbi Company Limited in March 2026. Authorities linked Xinbi to two TRON wallet addresses suspected of involvement in scams and human rights violations, with British regulators citing connections to fraudulent activity and international regulation emerging as a response.

The latest Tether freeze follows a similar measure concerning wallets associated with Huione Guarantee, another Telegram-based escrow group. These developments underscore the central role that stablecoin issuers can play in limiting the use of their tokens for suspicious transactions, even though the blockchains themselves remain operational and unaffected.

Impact on TRON and Stablecoin OperationsTRON, an open-source blockchain known for low transaction fees and fast transfers, remains one of the leading networks hosting USDT transactions worldwide. USDT is now widely used for dollar-denominated cross-border payments and crypto trading, and its stability remains largely unaffected by actions involving particular wallets.

The freezing of USDT in specific addresses does not impact the usability or liquidity of USDT held by the general public. The stablecoin continued trading close to its dollar peg, and broader market activity for USDT showed no disruption following the latest freeze.

EventAffected USDTDateBlockchainNotable DetailsXinbi freeze$39.27 millionSeptember 2026TRON10 addressesHuione freezeUndisclosedEarlier in 2026TRONEscrow network-linkedTether’s ability to freeze assets in response to external pressure illustrates the practical power centralized stablecoin issuers hold over the movement of digital dollars, which remains a controversial topic within the global crypto landscape.

Tether continues to emphasize that freezing certain addresses has no effect on regular users and does not threaten USDT’s market stability or deny access to compliant holders.

Key Highlights The TRON blockchain achieved 400 million user accounts by August 23, 2026 Cumulative transfer volume across the network has exceeded $29 trillion through 15.2 billion transactions Tron Inc., trading on Nasdaq, maintains a treasury of 711.2 million TRX tokens valued at approximately $245 million Shares of Tron Inc. surged 7.49% on August 24, settling at $2.01 Current TRX market price stands at approximately $0.338, reflecting a 1.81% decline The TRON blockchain achieved a significant benchmark on August 23, 2026, surpassing 400 million cumulative accounts, as confirmed by TRON DAO. Alongside this user milestone, the platform has facilitated over 15.2 billion transactions with an aggregate transfer volume exceeding $29 trillion.

Tron (TRX) Price Reaching the initial 100 million accounts required four years following the genesis block deployment on June 25, 2018. Subsequently, the platform achieved 200 million accounts on December 7, 2023, reached 300 million by April 12, 2025, and has now doubled that figure within roughly three years.

Justin Sun, who founded TRON, characterized this achievement as evidence of “growing demand for accessible blockchain infrastructure.” He emphasized that stablecoin transactions, international money transfers, and tokenized asset management represent the primary applications fueling this expansion.

Source: Justin Sun The TRON ecosystem maintains the world’s largest circulating USDT stablecoin supply, currently surpassing $94 billion. Additionally, the platform reports total value locked (TVL) exceeding $28 billion.

Cryptocurrency analyst OxPink commented on the achievement via X, observing that TRON required 2,982 days from its initial launch to surpass the 400 million address threshold. The analyst provided a comprehensive timeline documenting each major account milestone from the network’s inception.

Tron Inc. Expands TRX Holdings to $245M In related corporate developments, Tron Inc. — a Nasdaq-traded entity previously operating as SRM Entertainment — announced the acquisition of 145,002 TRX tokens on August 24. This purchase elevates the company’s aggregate position to 711.2 million TRX, representing a market value near $245 million.

Tron Inc. (NASDAQ: TRON) acquired 144,606 TRX tokens today at an average price of $0.3458, further increasing its TRX treasury holdings to more than 711.3 million TRX in total. The company aims to further grow its Tron DAT holdings to enhance long term shareholder value. For live…

— Tron Inc. (@TRON_INC) August 25, 2026

Shares of Tron Inc. appreciated 7.49% following the disclosure, finishing the trading session at $2.01. The company represents part of an emerging trend of publicly traded corporations implementing cryptocurrency treasury strategies beyond Bitcoin holdings, similar to Ethereum-focused organizations like BitMine.

Distinguishing Corporate Accumulation from Network Expansion These developments warrant careful distinction. Tron Inc.’s token accumulation represents a strategic corporate treasury allocation. This action does not inherently indicate heightened user engagement or transaction throughput on the TRON network.

Metrics demonstrating network expansion — including account creation, transaction processing, and TVL — constitute independent performance indicators. While both narratives are unfolding concurrently, they remain functionally separate phenomena.

TRON secured inclusion in the S&P Pantera Digital Asset Index recently, earning recognition based on protocol functionality, blockchain liquidity, and ecosystem activity. The platform has simultaneously broadened its institutional collaborations through partnerships with Anchorage Digital, Securitize, and Bitnomial.

At the time of publication, TRX trades at $0.338, representing a 1.81% decrease.

TRON has activated a network upgrade designed to make Ethereum applications easier to bring onto its blockchain.

Proposal 107 received 25 approvals before taking effect on August 28, with the changes providing the groundwork for wallets that use passkeys instead of conventional passwords.

Ethereum applications face fewer barriers The upgrade introduces features from Ethereum’s Prague and Osaka updates to the TRON Virtual Machine, which runs applications on the network.

Now developers have less of the software to change to allow an application to move from one network [such as Ethereum] to the others [such as TRON].

TRON developers had to adjust for newer Ethereum tools, meaning errors or older settings for dApps in the TRON ecosystem.

The proposal brings the two environments closer together, and make TRON more attractive to teams that already build Ethereum applications.

Further to this, the upgrade will enable an application to look further back into the blockchain to verify transactions previously made, helping services where earlier transactions need to be confirmed and rely less on data providers.

How passkeys could make TRON wallets easier to use Instead of remembering passwords, users can sign in to applications using the security features built into phones or computers. These features depend on the computer being used but include fingerprints, a scan of the user’s face or a PIN.

The new capability makes it cheaper for TRON applications to verify signatures created through systems such as Apple Secure Enclave and Android Keystore. Wallets that offer a more familiar sign-in experience could get more support without users personally managing every security step.

But passkeys have not suddenly just appeared across existing TRON wallets. The upgrade provides the underlying support, while wallet and application developers must decide how to use it.

Similarly, the cost of some expensive security computations is lowered in proposal 107, but the extent of savings will depend heavily on the way in which particular applications are compiled.

TRON’s governance record shows that the upgrade is now active.

Final Summary Proposal 107 passed with 25 approvals and activated on August 28. The upgrade makes Ethereum applications easier to adapt and allows some other key features.

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Bitcoin.com, one of the world’s most widely used cryptocurrency platforms, today announced that its self-custody Bitcoin.com Wallet app now natively supports the TRON network. Users can hold, send, swap, and buy TRX and USDT on TRON directly within the mobile application.

TRON has established itself as one of the most widely used networks for USDT settlement, with USDT-TRC20 accepted for deposits and withdrawals across a broad range of major exchanges and payment services. That breadth of acceptance has made it a common choice for exchange-to-exchange transfers and for dollar-denominated payments in emerging markets, supporting the reliable movement of stablecoins at scale. By integrating TRON natively, Bitcoin.com Wallet users can transact with counterparties who ask for a TRC20 address without leaving the wallet or installing anything new.

“Our users do not think in terms of chains. They think about who they need to pay and what that person asked them for. A very large number of those requests say USDT on TRON, and until now we could not answer them. That is the gap this closes,” said Bitcoin.com CEO Corbin Fraser.

With this launch, Bitcoin.com Wallet users can:

Hold TRX and USDT-TRC20 alongside their existing portfolio. Send and receive TRX and TRC20 tokens to any TRON address. Swap between TRX, supported TRC20 tokens, and other supported assets in-app. Buy TRX and USDT-TRC20 directly with a card or bank transfer. “With more than $90 billion in USDT circulating on TRON and $23 billion in daily transfer volume, TRON is already a leading network for stablecoin payments,” said Justin Sun, Founder of TRON. “Users want to hold and spend stablecoins on TRON directly from the wallets they use every day. Bitcoin.com Wallet’s integration meets that demand, bringing TRON’s settlement infrastructure into a familiar wallet and making stablecoin payments faster, simpler, and more accessible.”

Bitcoin.com Wallet users can now access TRX and USDT-TRC20 natively, without bridging assets, managing a separate wallet, or leaving the mobile application. TRON’s functionality is now built into a wallet people already use for their everyday crypto activity. The TRON integration is available now on iOS, Android, and web.

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Bitcoin.com is on a mission to increase the freedom and prosperity of people everywhere by providing easy access to Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and other leading cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin.com Wallet is a non-custodial, multi-chain wallet used by millions of people worldwide to hold, send, swap, and buy digital assets.

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TRON DAO is a community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet via blockchain technology and dApps.

Founded in September 2017, the TRON blockchain has experienced significant growth since its MainNet launch in May 2018. Until recently, TRON hosted the largest circulating supply of USD Tether (USDT) stablecoin, which currently exceeds $91 billion. As of August 2026, the TRON blockchain has recorded over 399 million in total user accounts, more than 15 billion in total transactions, and over $28 billion in total value locked (TVL), based on TRONSCAN. Recognized as the global settlement layer for stablecoin transactions and everyday purchases with proven success, TRON is “Moving Trillions, Empowering Billions.”

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TRON is pushing forward with a significant Virtual Machine upgrade that will bring its execution environment closer to Ethereum’s, with on-chain governance votes scheduled for August 25, 2026. The upgrade introduces two key capabilities: a CLZ opcode and support for secp256r1 (P-256) signature verification, both of which have been available on Ethereum and are now making their way to TRON’s infrastructure.

Node operators have until August 16, 2026, at 23:59 Singapore time, to complete their software updates to GreatVoyage-v4.8.2, codenamed Pyrrho. Miss that window, and nodes risk falling out of sync with the rest of the network.

What the upgrade actually does Two network parameters, numbered #95 and #96, are on the ballot for August 25. If TRON’s 27 active Super Representatives approve them, the new TVM features go live across the entire network.

The first notable addition is the CLZ instruction, short for “Count Leading Zeros.” It’s a low-level operation that counts how many zero bits sit at the front of a binary number. Developers use CLZ in mathematical operations, bit manipulation, and optimizing gas costs.

The second feature is a precompiled contract for secp256r1 signature verification, commonly known as P-256. This is the elliptic curve standard used by Apple’s Secure Enclave, Android’s Keystore, WebAuthn, and most hardware security modules. In practical terms, it means smart contracts on TRON will be able to natively verify signatures generated by the security chips already sitting inside billions of phones and laptops. Without native support, developers have to implement P-256 verification in Solidity, which is expensive in terms of gas. A precompile handles this at the protocol level, making it fast and cheap.

Governance mechanics and the SR vote TRON’s governance model relies on its 27 Super Representatives, who are elected by TRX holders through a continuous staking-and-voting process. These SRs are responsible for producing blocks and voting on network parameter changes. The August 25 vote follows a well-established pattern: the core development team ships code, node operators upgrade, and then SRs formally activate new features through on-chain proposals.

This two-step process, upgrade first and vote second, is deliberate. It ensures that the network has sufficient node coverage running the new software before any parameter change flips the switch. If a significant number of nodes were still running the old version when new features activated, those nodes would reject the updated blocks and fork themselves off the main chain.

The August 16 deadline gives operators roughly nine days of buffer before the vote. GreatVoyage-v4.8.2 (Pyrrho) was released in July 2026.

The Ethereum alignment strategy The P-256 precompile is particularly telling. Ethereum introduced its own version through EIP-7212. By adopting the same capability, TRON positions itself to support the same class of account abstraction and hardware-backed authentication flows that Ethereum developers are building toward.

The CLZ opcode addition reinforces this same logic. It eliminates one more edge case where a contract that compiles and runs fine on Ethereum would fail or behave differently on TRON.

What to watch after the vote Native P-256 support opens the door to passkey-authenticated wallets on TRON, a feature that could reduce onboarding friction for non-crypto-native users. Several Ethereum projects are already exploring this design space, and TRON’s adoption of the same cryptographic standard means those designs could be ported over with minimal modification.

For node operators, the immediate priority is straightforward: update to version 4.8.2 before the deadline. The TRON development team has urged proactive action, and as of the latest reports, no disruptions have been flagged during the rollout period.

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Fireblocks has added TRON to its Flow payment infrastructure, letting payment service providers and fintech companies accept stablecoin payments directly from TRON wallets. The integration, which went live on August 12, opens up TRON’s sprawling stablecoin ecosystem to the more than 2,400 institutions already using Fireblocks.

What Fireblocks Flow actually does
Fireblocks Flow launched on June 2, 2026, during Money20/20 Europe. Think of it as a universal adapter for digital asset payments: one integration that handles wallet connectivity, compliance, settlement, and reconciliation all in a single stack.

Before this update, Flow supported EVM-compatible networks, Solana, Sui, and Bitcoin. TRON is now the newest addition to that source-chain roster.

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A payment service provider can now accept a TRON-based stablecoin deposit from a customer’s wallet and settle it in whatever stablecoin the merchant has configured. No juggling multiple integrations, no bolting together separate compliance layers for each chain.

Flutterwave was among Flow’s initial launch partners, signaling that the product was designed with emerging-market payment corridors in mind from day one.

Why TRON matters for stablecoin payments
Fireblocks itself has secured over $14 trillion in cumulative digital asset transactions across more than 100 chains.

The institutional stablecoin push accelerates
Earlier mentions of TRON’s potential integration with Fireblocks Flow surfaced in July 2026, with official confirmation arriving in mid-August.

Both Fireblocks and TRON DAO framed the move as bringing TRON’s established payment infrastructure into a professional-grade environment used by over 2,400 institutions.

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The impact of growing balance for the TRON [TRX] stablecoin market is increasing as larger balances are now converting into a greater number of network uses.

According to the Q2 report by Messari, stablecoin supply expanded by 4.1% to $89.2 billion. Of this total, over 98% was held in Tether [USDT].

This level of liquidity supported over $2.1 trillion in USDT transfers, and daily trading volumes rebounded by 4.3% to $22.8 billion. Thus, users are not just accumulating more stablecoins. Instead, they are using TRON increasingly as a settlement platform.

Source: TRON on X The effect spread across the network, as daily transactions rose 8.7% to 11.8 million and active addresses increased 11.7% to 3.6 million. Greater usage then drove fees up 15.9% to $699.4 million, generating stronger revenue streams alongside greater adoption.

Source: Messari Stablecoin supply reached roughly $91.8 billion by early August, showing that growth continued beyond Q2. With balances, transfers, and fees rising together, TRON is gaining deeper economic activity rather than supply growth alone.

However, its 98% USDT concentration also leaves that expansion heavily dependent on one stablecoin.

TRX staking declines as liquid supply grows While network usage strengthened, TRX staking moved in the opposite direction and changed the token’s supply dynamics. Staked TRX fell 0.9% to 45.7 billion during Q2, pushing the staking rate down to 48.2% after six quarters of growth.