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TRON

TRX#8 by market cap

Not covered. The criterion it missed: no roadmap or documentation page linked from the homepage.

Hot: etf or institution, upgrade or launch live
#5of 49 smart contract platformsthe typical one is worth $1.56B$23.75Mpaid in fees, 30 dayswhat people paid to use it#8of all coins by sizeworth $32.06B today357.37Kpeople keep it on a watchliston CoinGecko, a measure of attention

TRON is for a platform other apps build on. We have not written its record yet, so its promises are not checked. It trades at $0.3377, #8 of all coins by size, 22% below its highest ever price.

This week in the news: ETF or institution, upgrade or launch live.

A real job, real backing. No dated promises on its pages. Nothing dated ahead. #5 of 49 smart contract platforms. Nothing to be careful of on the record.

Is it real?

4 of 4tests passeda real job, real backing, something ahead, room to grow
1named backersGMCI 30 Index
9 yearson the marketsince 28 August 2017
357.37Kpeople watch iton CoinGecko lists
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Passes all four

  • ✓A real-world jobReal-world purpose: a platform other apps build on
  • ✓Real backingBacking: in the GMCI 30 Index; trades on Kraken, Binance, OKX; worth $32.06B
  • ✓Something aheadAhead: news this month about partnership, banks, upgrade
  • ✓Room to growRoom: worth $32.06B, 9 times smaller than Ethereum, the biggest coin within reach doing the same thing (Smart Contract Platform)

In the GMCI 30 Index

  • Origin28 August 2017about about 9 yearsFrom CN (CoinGecko)tron.network, GitHub, Whitepaper, Wikipedia
  • DevelopersNot namedNeither Wikidata nor its listing names the foundersDeveloper: Midway GamesCode activity not checked
  • BackingIn the GMCI 30 IndexListed on Kraken, Binance, OKX, Bybit
  • Standing on the recordNo recordNo dated promise to judge yet93 headlines last month, 28 about government357,371 people keep it on a CoinGecko watchlistNo corrections needed so far
Why it is worth a look
  • Real-world purpose: a platform other apps build on
  • Backing: in the GMCI 30 Index; trades on Kraken, Binance, OKX; worth $32.06B
  • Ahead: news this month about partnership, banks, upgrade
  • Room: worth $32.06B, 9 times smaller than Ethereum, the biggest coin within reach doing the same thing (Smart Contract Platform)
The gap, and what to do

It is already worth more than the typical coin in Smart Contract Platform ($1.56B). To match the leader, Ethereum ($301.61B), its price would need to rise 841%, to about $3.18.

Still to check

  • No dated promise on record yet, so delivery cannot be judged
  • No named investor among its tags

What to do Nothing dated is ahead and nothing has been delivered on record. There is no event to wait for yet, which is itself the answer.

A gap is not a forecast. Most small coins never close it. The site never picks.

Four tests, printed. Passing all four means a real job, real backing, something ahead, and a price far below the leader of its group. A filter on facts, never a verdict.

Every line has a source: the coin's own listing, CoinGecko's tags, the record, or the news feed. Reputation here is a count, never an opinion.

Does it deliver?

No dated promise has been found on the pages this project publishes. Its pages are saved every night, so anything it commits to from now on appears here.

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Every line is quoted from the project's own pages, with the copy we stored and, where one exists, the article that reported it

What is next, and when?

Nothing dated has been found on its pages, so there is no date to wait for yet.

How big is it next to its rivals?

#5of 49 smart contract platformsthe typical one is worth $1.56B
$32.06Bworth todayprice × coins out
$1.56Bthe typical rival is worthSmart Contract Platform
$301.61Bthe leader is worthEthereum
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Only coins within a hundred times its worth; a coin a thousand times bigger is another world

A platform other apps build on

453 coins tagged Smart Contract Platform, worth $723.36B together. #5 of 453 by worth.

Smart Contract Platform: this coin against its direct competitors

  • CoinWorth, as a barWorthAgainst this coinToday, and the gapSupplyPromises
  • TRON$32.06Bthis coin−0.5%no maxno record
  • Ethereum$301.61B9.4× bigger, +$269.54B−2.1%, gap −1.6no max15 of 20 delivered
  • BNB$95.27B3.0× bigger, +$63.21B−1.2%, gap −0.767% outno record
  • XRP$87.28B2.7× bigger, +$55.21B+0.0%, gap +0.563% out2 of 3 delivered
  • Solana$58.89B1.8× bigger, +$26.82B−1.3%, gap −0.8no maxnone dated
  • Zcash$19.3B1.7× smaller, −$12.77B−0.1%, gap +0.481% outnone dated
  • Hyperliquid$17.5B1.8× smaller, −$14.57B−1.5%, gap −1.022% outnone dated
  • Dogecoin$12.86B2.5× smaller, −$19.2B−2.2%, gap −1.7no maxno record
Same job, different how

Smart Contract Platform: this coin next to Ethereum, the biggest rival within reach. People go to the bigger coin unless the smaller one does something it does not.

TRON says
TRON is a decentralized blockchain-based operating system designed to accelerate the decentralization of the internet and its underlying infrastructure.
Ethereum says
Ethereum is a shared computer network that lets people hold and use their own money, records and online identity without a company in the middle.

Two claims, side by side, in their own words. Whether the difference is real is for the record to show over time, and for you to judge.

What it is

TRON is a decentralized blockchain-based operating system designed to accelerate the decentralization of the internet and its underlying infrastructure.

Problem it says it solves: a platform other apps build on. 453 coins are working on it and together they are worth $723,359,964,122. This coin is 4% of that.

Where it trades: Kraken, Binance, OKX, Bybit, KuCoin

Each bar is a coin's worth today (price × coins out), longest first. The lit bar is this coin; grey bars are the others doing the same job.

Bars are market cap. Order is size, nothing else. Differences are measured from the coin you are looking at.

What should make me careful?

Nothing printed today

None of the six tests fails. A missed promise counts only on a record a person has checked.

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Why is it this small?

Smart Contract Platform: this coin next to the group's largest, Ethereum.

TRONEthereum
Years trading9 years11 years
Major exchanges69
Named backers03
Headlines, last month93545
Promises deliveredno record15 of 20

What it says is different: TRON is a decentralized blockchain-based operating system designed to accelerate the decentralization of the internet and its underlying infrastructure.

It is 10.6% the size of Ethereum. On the facts above it is behind on years trading, major exchanges, named backers, headlines, last month, promises delivered. For that gap to close, the record would need deliveries showing up in its record. Nothing here says it will; the site does not predict.

The tests: nothing to hold it for, more missed than delivered, priced ahead of its record, half the supply still to come, rivals ship while it does not, a big release of coins soon.

The homework: the coin itself, the news, the record

The coin itself

$0.3377price of one−0.5% today
22%below its highest ever$0 on 3 December 2024
100%of the supply is out94.95B coins
$23.75Mpaid in fees, 30 dayswhat people paid to use it
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The last 7 days

7 days ago: $0.338now: $0.3377 (+0.1%)

Where today sits against its highest ever price

$0.3377

Highest ever: $0.4313 on 3 December 2024. Today is 78% of that.

100%

of all TRX that will ever exist is already out in public hands: 94.95B coins.

0% (1.01M coins) is not yet created or held by the project. That is a small share. Those coins can be sold later, which can push the price down.

out held back. Each dot is 1%.

Pays for every use of its network

Every transaction on its network pays a fee in it. That is the built-in reason anyone needs it.

  • Every transaction on its network pays a fee in it
  • Can be staked to earn a share of network rewards
$0.3377price of one
×
94.95Bcoins out
=
$32.06Bworth today, #8 of all coins

That is all a market cap is: today's price times the coins in public hands. It moves every time the price does. It says what buyers are paying, not what the coin is worth.

Basics
  • 94.95Bin circulation of 94.95B total. No hard maximum is set, so more can be created.
  • 78%of its all-time high of $0.4313 on 3 December 2024. That is −21.7% from the top.
  • #8by market cap, $32,064,385,324.
  • 28 August 2017first block, as listed by CoinGecko.
  • Not checkedwho holds the most coins, and how much has been burned. Those need on-chain data this site does not read yet.

Supply and value figures from CoinGecko, refreshed hourly. Not part of the record.

Real use, in dollars
  • $5.51B is locked in apps built on it right now
  • Users paid $23.75M in fees to use it in the last 30 days, $23.75M of that kept by the network

From DefiLlama, refreshed nightly. Fees are what people paid to use the thing; value locked is what they trust it to hold. Facts, not a score.

What the news says

93headlines, last monththat name this coin
28about governmentregulation, courts, central banks
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Headlines per day, last 30 days

93 headlines named this coin in the last month.

What they were about

  • ETF20
  • Upgrade14
  • Stablecoin13
  • Price9
  • Treasury8
  • Partnership7
  • AI6
  • Banks5
In the news
What people are talking about, last month:

93 headlines in the last month.

Headlines are the publishers' own. News is never placed next to price.

The record itself

Not covered. The criterion it missed: no roadmap or documentation page linked from the homepage.

Pages savednot yetno roadmap page found
Promisesnone yetno record drafted
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Six facts, the project's own replies, its peers, contract facts, references and every stored copy