Justin Sun Launches $1 Million Mathematical Prize While TRON Inc. Adds 147,759 TRX

Mathematics Prize

A new academic bounty program rewarding breakthroughs in mathematics launched Sep 16, @justinsuntron announced (Sep 16, 20:25 UTC). Contributors can solve eligible problems, formalize their results in Lean, and submit machine-verifiable proofs through the Prize's open-source GitHub repository. The first 66 problems are now live, @justinsuntron shared (Sep 16, 13:41 UTC). @sunyuchentron explained in Chinese that the program rewards important mathematical problem breakthroughs, with participants directed to the official X account, website, and GitHub repository (Sep 16, 10:10 UTC).

@trondao tied the effort to TRON's technical foundation (Sep 16, 11:43 UTC). @sunyuchentron framed the program as returning to mathematics what came from mathematics, with each prize payment recorded on-chain and every result machine-verifiable rather than relying on human trust (Sep 16, 08:09 UTC). @trondaoCN echoed the on-chain payout model and mathematical origins (Sep 16, 08:45 UTC).

Network Activity

TRON's total transactions exceeded 15.5 billion, @TRONSCAN_ORG reported, with 404M+ total accounts strengthening TRON's position as one of the world's leading blockchain networks (Sep 16, 14:40 UTC).

Treasury

Tron Inc. acquired 147,759 TRX tokens Sep 16 at an average price of $0.3384, further increasing TRX treasury holdings to more than 714.6 million TRX in total, @TRON_INC disclosed, with the company aiming to grow its TRON DAT holdings to enhance long-term shareholder value (Sep 16, 02:17 UTC).

Stablecoins

USDT on TRON reached $94.27B, @justinsuntron shared (Sep 16, 03:22 UTC). USDe and sUSDe expanded to TRON through Stargate Finance, @trondao noted, broadening access to both assets while supporting greater interoperability across the on-chain ecosystem (Sep 16, 18:39 UTC).

DeFi

Supply and Borrow functions for the USD1 market will be disabled soon, @DeFi_JUST announced (Sep 16, 11:00 UTC). Once the update takes effect, new USD1 supply and borrow positions will no longer be available, while existing positions will remain supported. A new proposal now live on the forum outlines a two-stage process for the orderly offboarding of the USD1 market, beginning with disabling the Supply and Borrow functions, with existing positions remaining manageable during the transition period, @DeFi_JUST shared (Sep 16, 10:30 UTC).

JustLend DAO adoption reached $239M+ in grants power and 485K+ users, @DeFi_JUST reported (Sep 16, 06:55 UTC). @OfficialSUNio noted that the industry is moving past the parameter wars, stating the real alpha in the next AI race lies in execution as LLM reasoning capabilities commoditize (Sep 16, 11:16 UTC).

ETF and Custody

The Canary Staked TRX ETF is live on SoFi, @trondao announced, expanding exposure to TRX through traditional financial markets (Sep 16, 15:53 UTC).

Wallets

@TronLinkWallet shared a tutorial on using an iPhone Secure Enclave Key to control a smart wallet on TRON (Sep 16, 13:56 UTC).

Project Updates

TRON DAO Forum — Builders League Proposals

Two new Builders League proposals appeared on the forum Sep 16.

Decidimos posted a proposal to pay Bolivia's lithium royalty per capita to 861,292 people in USDT on TRON (Sep 16, 13:33 UTC). The project builds a platform through which the department of Potosí, Bolivia decides how its share of the Uyuni lithium project is spent and receives it. The contract ring-fences 15% of the private partner's profits for the department, approximately $104 million a year over the project's 45-year life. At production that is 40 to 60 million transactions a year across several hundred thousand wallets. The proposal requests $190,000 milestone-based over six months to build a self-custodial wallet with delegated energy, a payout engine, governance hash-chain digest published on TRON, merchant acceptance across the department, and a mainnet pilot disbursement. https://forum.trondao.org/t/decidimos-paying-bolivias-lithium-royalty-per-capita-to-861-292-people-in-usdt-on-tron/34477

GetPlu posted a proposal to turn TRON USDT into global spending for people and AI agents via a free on-chain card (Sep 16, 05:07 UTC). GetPlu is a global spending layer for stablecoins connecting on-chain digital dollars with real-world merchant payments. The USDT-on-TRON integration is already live since Aug 6, 2026. GetPlu currently has 10,000+ registered users with approximately 100–250 new signups and returning users weekly. Users can send USDT to their GetPlu wallet from TronLink or another compatible self-custodial TRON wallet. Once the transaction confirms on-chain and the GetPlu balance is credited, users can spend through their GetPlu Card for eligible purchases. The proposal requests $350,000 milestone-based over 10 months to build TRON-funded Agent Cards, programmable spending limits and budgets, developer APIs, MCP integration, agentic-payment experimentation, and TRON ecosystem distribution. https://forum.trondao.org/t/getplu-turning-tron-usdt-into-global-spending-for-people-and-ai-agents-via-a-free-onchain-card/34475

TRON Improvement Proposals

TIP-935: Harden ECDSA Signature Validation opened Sep 15 and received substantive technical discussion Sep 16, per a repository contributor (Sep 16, 14:03 UTC). The proposal introduces a governance-activated strict validation mode for recoverable secp256k1 ECDSA signatures used by TRON transactions, blocks, and TVM recovery. It requires exact signature length and component bounds, hardens modular inversion, and rejects recovery to the point at infinity while preserving historical and high-S compatibility. The strict path uses Bouncy Castle modOddInverse; other implementations may use semantically equivalent algorithms that preserve the input acceptance range, recovery results, and failure behavior required by this TIP. https://github.com/tronprotocol/tips/issues/935

TIP-848: T-REX – Token for Regulated EXchanges on TRON saw new activity Sep 16, per an outside commenter (Sep 16, 03:38 UTC). The proposal defines a token standard (TRC-3643) for issuing and managing regulated assets such as real-world assets and security tokens on TRON. It extends TRC-20 with built-in compliance features including on-chain identity management, whitelisting, transfer restrictions, asset freezing, and recovery mechanisms. The standard is designed to align with global regulatory frameworks like MiCA and MiFID II while remaining compatible with the TRON DeFi ecosystem, MetaMask native TRON support, and existing ONCHAINID tooling. https://github.com/tronprotocol/tips/issues/848