While others focus on transaction fees, he's building a bridge of trust: Is Justin Sun leading the way again?
Initially, people thought this was just an ordinary collaboration... Not long ago, TRON officially announced that it would integrate Chainlink's decentralized oracle as a standard data source. This isn't the first time TRON has mentioned oracles, nor is it the first time they've worked on a price feed system. But this time is different—it brings a true upgrade in trust!
Why Chainlink?
Anyone familiar with TRON knows that the team previously promoted their own WINkLink as a data source. However, given today's ecosystem scale—USDD, JustLend, SunSwap, RWA, and the upcoming USD1—the more assets on-chain and the more complex the use cases, the higher the requirements for the price feed system.
Chainlink is currently the most mature decentralized oracle system in the industry. Its data isn't reliant on single points or custodians, making it resistant to manipulation and downtime. More importantly, it has become the industry standard adopted by most mainstream DeFi platforms. TRON's move aligns with mainstream practices and the core trust logic of DeFi.
In other words, from now on, TRON's lending, stablecoins, and LP market-making systems will have a robust data assurance system validated by the market.
130 billion TRX absorbed in six days—funds are voting
The first wave of feedback from this technical upgrade is the reaction of funds.
According to Tronscan data, TRON's TVL surged from approximately $18 billion to $21.6 billion between May 8 and May 15, a seven-day increase of $3.6 billion. Based on TRX's price at the time, this equates to a net inflow of over 130 billion TRX.
This isn't speculation; it's a long-term lock-in of real capital. Users are willing to lock their funds in JustLend and Sun.io because they trust that the system won't suddenly collapse due to data errors or price feed issues. Chainlink addresses this fundamental trust problem.
This wave of capital inflow isn't just liquidity; it's a vote of confidence.
From stablecoins to RWA, TRON is refining the bridge between on-chain and real-world assets
This integration also has a hidden effect: it opens the door for TRON to enter the RWA (Real World Assets) market.
The biggest hurdle for RWA isn't issuing tokens or launching chains; it's how to reliably map real-world prices, states, and security onto the blockchain.
Chainlink is currently the world's leading infrastructure for RWA data transmission. Tokenized U.S. Treasury bonds, tokenized real estate, and tokenized gold mostly rely on Chainlink for price and state updates.
So, TRON's adoption of Chainlink means that running tokenized U.S. Treasury bonds or tokenized real estate in the future is no longer just theoretical—it’s technically ready to go.
A low-key but critical infrastructure upgrade
In this era where DeFi is increasingly converging with the real world, TRON's move may have a more profound impact than issuing more USDT or conducting a marketing airdrop. For TRON to become the main hub for real-world assets on-chain, user volume and high-frequency trading alone aren't enough. Integrating Chainlink is a key step in completing the trust puzzle.
It must be said that Justin Sun's vision remains ahead of most. While others are still competing over transaction fees and TVL, he's already laying the foundation for the next generation of trust in on-chain finance.
You might not watch TRX's candlestick charts,
but the direction he's betting on
is definitely worth everyone's attention!
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Chainlink now secures 57.19% of all oracle TVL, per @DefiLlama. With TRON sunsetting WinkLink in favor of Chainlink, the most trusted data infrastructure in Web3 just got even more dominant.
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⬡ Chainlink Adoption Update ⬡
This week, there were 8 integrations of the Chainlink standard across 5 services and 6 different chains: Arbitrum, Base, Berachain, BNB Chain, Ethereum, and TRON.
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The current price of Tron is $0.26702. Over the last 24 hours, Tron has decreased by -0.99%. It currently has a circulating supply of 94,891,797,412 TRX and a maximum supply of 94,891,860,514 TRX, giving it a fully diluted market cap of $25.27B. At present, the Tron coin holds the 8 position in market cap rankings. The Tron/USD price is updated in real-time.
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TRON (TRX) is a blockchain platform founded by crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun in 2014. It is focused on changing the landscape of the media and content creation industry. TRON helps media and content creators retain ownership of their work while being rewarded directly by consumers. With TRON, creators do not need to sell their work rights to big corporations to reach a large audience.
The TRON blockchain does not charge any fees for using the network. Despite the lack of gas fees, the network still supports as many as 2000 transactions per second. The blockchain is maintained through a Delegated Proof-of-Stake (DPoS) consensus mechanism. In TRON's case, 27 Super Representatives are nominated to validate transactions and secure the blockchain. To reduce the possibility of such a small number of people conspiring to take down the blockchain, the Super Representatives are changed every six hours.
The TRX token is the native token of the TRON blockchain and is used to reward media and content creators. Although created as an Ethereum-based ERC-20 token, it is now a purely TRON-based token built according to TRON's TRC-20 token standard. Consumers use TRX to reward media and content creators on the TRON blockchain for their work.
Since moving TRX from Ethereum and the ERC-20 token standard to TRON's TRC-20 token standard, new wallets have had to be created for storing TRX tokens and interacting with the broader TRON ecosystem. While the TRON Foundation hasn't released any wallets, several TRX-compatible wallets, such as Tronlink and imToken have been developed by members of the TRON community and third-party organizations.
TRX price and tokenomics
TRX is designed to have a maximum supply of slightly more than 100 billion TRX tokens. Currently, 71.6 billion TRX tokens are in circulation, with a little over 28.4 billion TRX tokens set to be released in the coming years, giving TRX an estimated market capitalization of $5.75 billion.
In its initial coin offering (ICO), 40 billion TRX tokens were allocated to investors, 15.75 billion were channeled to private sale buyers, ten bullion to the TRON Foundation, and the remaining 35 billion were distributed to the Peiwo app.
The TRON network burns coins to deflate the currency and rewards its users. However, the maximum limit TRX is not fixed and could be subject to change in the future. The Super Representatives validate transactions and add blocks of transactions to the TRON blockchain. For each new block added, the validator who added the block is rewarded with 32 TRX tokens.
Ultimately TRX is a deflationary token since its supply is capped. All the remaining TRON tokens are distributed as mining rewards to the representatives securing the blockchain by validating transactions.
About the founders
TRON was founded by Justin Sun, a Chinese entrepreneur in the crypto space with a business executive background. Before founding TRON, Justin Sun had worked in the crypto space as a representative of the crypto payments and remittance infrastructure provider Ripple.
TRON was initially known as Tronix and rebranded to TRON in 2017 when the platform became a blockchain, and the TRON foundation was created to oversee the project. TRON started as an ERC-20 token on the Ethereum network. However, after alleged spats with Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum's founder, the ERC-20 TRON token migrated to its own blockchain after the mainnet launch in 2018.
The TRON Foundation was dissolved in 2021, and the project is now run and maintained by members of the TRON community. Sun continues as the official ambassador of the project. Before starting with cryptocurrencies, Sun founded Peiwo in 2013, one of the biggest voice apps in China. The app is a mixture of Snapchat and a matchmaking site. It's currently functioning on the TRON network.
TRX developments
Over the years, TRON has been involved in various partnerships. In September 2022, Tron announced a partnership with crypto market maker Wintermute to boost the availability of TRX and other tokens on the TRON blockchain.
The partnership will see Wintermute become a member of TRON's decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), contribute to decisions on the platform's future, and acquire TRON's stablecoin USDD directly from the blockchain.
In exchange, Wintermute will provide liquidity for TRX and other TRON tokens on decentralized finance (DeFi) services like Uniswap, making accessing these tokens and the TRON ecosystem easier.
In September 2022, Tron launched the third season of its 2022 Grand Hackathon, with $1.2 million in prizes up for grabs. The contest is open to all developers and features challenges along six tracks, including DeFi, GameFi, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
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Contributors
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Interactions
Sum of socially-driven online engagement in the last 24h, such as likes, comments, and reposts. High engagement levels can indicate strong interest in a token.
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Volume refers to post volume in the last 24h. A higher volume ranking reflects a token’s favored position relative to other tokens.
In the last 24 hours, there have been 4.7K new posts about Tron, driven by 2.8K contributors, and total online engagement reached 5.4M social interactions. The sentiment score for Tron currently stands at 75%. Compared to all cryptocurrencies, post volume for Tron currently ranks at 1135. Keep an eye on changes to social metrics as they can be key indicators of the influence and reach of Tron.
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What is TRON?
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