Total transaction volume on the TRON chain surpasses $30 trillion, USDT circulation exceeds $94 billion
BlockBeats news, on September 24, TRON DAO announced that the cumulative transaction settlement scale of the TRON blockchain has exceeded 30 trillion USD, with over 405 million on-chain accounts, more than 15 billion cumulative transactions, and TVL exceeding 28 billion USD.
Data shows that TRON currently has a circulating USDT scale exceeding 94 billion USD, the highest among all public chains. Token Terminal data indicates that since the beginning of this year, TRON's USDT transfer volume has reached about 6 trillion USD, with an average daily transfer scale of about 25 billion USD, ranking among the top networks.
In the payment field, CoinDesk Research data shows that the transaction volume of crypto payment cards increased from 2 billion USD in the first quarter to 2.4 billion USD in the second quarter of 2026, with TRON's share rising from 33% to 34%, the highest among the public chains tracked.
Institutional access is also continuously expanding. In September, Canary Capital launched the Canary Staked TRX ETF (TRXS); Bitnomial has provided TRX spot and futures products, and Anchorage Digital has added support for native TRX staking and TRC-20 asset custody on TRON.
MetaMask now supports connecting to TRON dApps, with multiple ecosystem projects selected first
Odaily Planet Daily News, September 11 — MetaMask officially announced support for connecting to TRON decentralized applications, further opening multi-chain ecosystem access. In the latest announced DApp Spotlight, several representative projects from the TRON ecosystem were selected first, covering three core tracks: artificial intelligence, decentralized finance, and file storage. These include AI Agent infrastructure B.AI, liquidity infrastructure platform SUN.io, DeFi lending platform JustLend DAO, and the world-leading peer-to-peer file sharing protocol BitTorrent. Users can now conveniently access these dApps through MetaMask, experiencing AI, DeFi, and decentralized storage services all in one place. This integration not only enhances the openness and usability of the TRON ecosystem but also provides a smoother multi-chain interaction experience for global users, further improving the openness and usability of the TRON ecosystem.
USDT issuance on the TRON blockchain has surpassed Ethereum, becoming the world's largest USDT issuing network again
According to official Tether data, as of August 13, 2026, the TRON network on the blockchain has issued an additional 1 billion USDT, reaching 91.2 billion USDT, surpassing the Ethereum network's USDT issuance (90.3 billion USDT) once again, ranking first among all blockchain networks. This historic milestone marks the further consolidation of TRON's dominance in the stablecoin sector and reaffirms the continuous appeal of low-cost, high-efficiency settlement networks for global stablecoin funds.
From trading assets to settlement tools, TRC20-USDT usage scenarios continue to expand
The growth of USDT on the TRON blockchain primarily stems from sustainable real-world demand. As of August 2026, the issuance of TRC20-USDT on the TRON network officially surpassed 91.2 billion USDT, setting a new record, with an increase of about 10 billion USDT within the year and approximately 75.47 million holding accounts. This volume means TRON has long carried about half of the global USDT issuance, accounting for roughly 50%.
From the usage structure perspective, TRON's real payment attributes are becoming increasingly clear. CoinDesk Research data shows that in Q1 2026, TRON's daily active accounts averaged about 3.2 million per quarter, hitting a new quarterly high. Meanwhile, in retail USDT transfers under $1,000, TRON's share is about 50%, and it maintains dominance in the $1,000 to $100,000 range, continuously solidifying its positioning as a "user-friendly" public chain for retail and small-to-medium settlement. This means one of the main uses of USDT on TRON is the actual value transfer between wallets.
Looking at a longer period, on-chain transfer and settlement volumes confirm this assessment. A Messari report shows that in Q1 2026, TRON processed approximately $2.04 trillion in USDT transfers, with about 950 million transactions network-wide. The daily average transactions rose from about 10.2 million in the previous quarter to about 10.9 million, also setting a quarterly record; since 2026, TRON leads all public chains with about $4.2 trillion in USDT transfers within the year.
This depicts not just a ledger within a single trading platform but a scenario where massive wallets directly complete value transfers on a public blockchain.
Specifically, an overseas worker can send USDT to a family member's wallet, who then exchanges it for local currency; cross-border e-commerce merchants can settle with suppliers using USDT, reducing the impact of bank business hours and intermediary processes; freelancers can receive payments from overseas clients and confirm on-chain receipt within minutes; digital asset service providers can allocate liquidity between exchanges, custody wallets, and market-making accounts. The amounts and purposes vary across cases, but the common needs are fast arrival, transparent fees, and 24/7 operation.
Additionally, in a market environment with volatile network fees, cost stability is especially important. Since August 2025, when TRON reduced the energy unit price by about 60% through Governance Proposal No. 104, on-chain transfer costs have further decreased.
Ecological integration and security collaboration advance simultaneously, continuously improving stablecoin infrastructure
The long-term development of stablecoin networks depends not only on issuance volume but also on entry coverage, liquidity depth, developer support, and risk governance capabilities. TRON is building infrastructure synchronously in these areas.
In terms of application entry points, widespread support for TRC20-USDT by wallets, trading platforms, payment service providers, and DeFi protocols enables users to conveniently recharge, withdraw, transfer, exchange, and interact on-chain. With new stablecoins like USDD joining the TRON ecosystem, the variety of stablecoin assets is further enriched; protocols like JustLend DAO extend stablecoin use into collateral and lending scenarios. Stablecoins are gradually evolving from single transfer tools to foundational assets for on-chain financial activities.
Regarding user experience, mechanisms like GasFree attempt to solve a common pain point: new users may hold USDT in their wallets but cannot initiate transactions due to lack of native tokens. By supporting payment of related network fees with stablecoins, such solutions help simplify the first-use process. For merchants, wallets, and payment applications, reducing user understanding bandwidth and the cost of energy and native Gas tokens also facilitates stablecoin services entering broader consumer scenarios.
More importantly, scaling requires synchronization with security governance capabilities. In September 2024, TRON, Tether, and TRM Labs jointly established the T3 Financial Crime Unit (T3 FCU), combining TRON network visibility, TRM Labs' on-chain intelligence capabilities, and Tether issuer freezing capabilities, directly collaborating with multiple law enforcement agencies. The typical process is: after law enforcement identifies wallets related to illegal activities, TRM Labs traces the fund flow, TRON provides network-level fund flow information, and Tether implements freezing at the issuer level.
As of May 2026, T3 FCU announced it has frozen over $450 million in illegal assets globally, covering 23 jurisdictions across five continents. TRM Labs disclosed that this mechanism can complete related actions within 24 hours of receiving law enforcement requests. These results demonstrate that combining public blockchain transparency with public-private collaboration models can improve suspicious fund identification and response efficiency.
While continuing to lead in stablecoin settlement, TRON is accelerating its bet on the new AI track. B.AI (Chinese brand name "白 B.AI"), officially launched in April this year, is positioned as "the underlying financial infrastructure for the AI Agent era." This layout aligns with TRON's deep stablecoin depth and advantages in high-frequency, low-cost payments, marking TRON's further evolution from "the world's largest stablecoin settlement network" to "the underlying infrastructure for the AI intelligent economy," firmly betting on the long-term trend of AI and Web3 integration.
From leading issuance scale, expanding payment and settlement advantages, gradually improving security mechanisms, to actively deploying in AI, TRON's on-chain USDT competitiveness is moving from "quantitative accumulation" to "qualitative improvement."
TRON will continue to optimize network performance and user experience around stablecoin infrastructure, deepen collaboration with issuers, wallets, payment institutions, and security analysis agencies, providing global users with more efficient, safer, and more inclusive digital value circulation services.
TRON total transactions exceed 15 billion
Odaily Planet Daily reports that the latest data from TRONSCAN shows that the total number of TRON transactions has reached 15,005,198,021, officially surpassing the 15 billion mark. It is reported that the total transaction count refers to the cumulative number of all transactions on the TRON network.
Additionally, TRON has recently been officially included in the S&P Pantera Digital Asset Index. This index evaluates blockchain networks based on protocol utility, on-chain liquidity, and network activity. TRON's inclusion reflects the continuous growth of its network scale and ecological influence.
As a major global payment network and blockchain infrastructure, TRON currently has a total of 390 million accounts, with a total value locked (TVL) exceeding $26.9 billion, continuously providing efficient and convenient blockchain services to users worldwide.
TRON advances v4.8.2 upgrade, adding Ethereum compatibility proposal and AI Agent tool support
Odaily Planet Daily reports that recently, the TRON community held its 67th core developer meeting, focusing on synchronizing the GreatVoyage-v4.8.2 (Pyrrho) upgrade progress. So far, 19 super representatives have completed the upgrade, the network is running smoothly, and community nodes are advised to complete the update before 23:59 on August 16. The meeting also discussed a proposal to simultaneously enable related network parameters to be compatible with Ethereum's Prague and Osaka upgrade features, with the specific creation and activation times to be determined in subsequent meetings.
In addition, TRON Solidity Compiler v0.8.28 has been officially released. Based on compatibility with Ethereum Solidity v0.8.28, it further strengthens support for TRON native features such as TRX, TRC-10 assets, resource delegation, and voting. The new wallet-cli introduces a TypeScript architecture and provides a dual output mode for both machines and developers tailored to the AI Agent workflow.
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