Total Value on Chain Reaches $145B All-Time High as Staked TRX ETF Expands to Webull

Network Metrics

Total Value on Chain reached $145B on Sep 15, marking a new all-time high, @TRONSCAN_ORG reported (Sep 17, 14:22 UTC). The milestone reflects continued stablecoin activity and asset accumulation across the network. August 2026 brought two historic marks, @trondao noted, with total accounts surpassing 400 million and total transactions surpassing 15 billion (Sep 18, 00:16 UTC).

ETF and Treasury

The Canary Staked TRX ETF is now available on Webull, @trondao announced, expanding exposure to TRX through traditional financial markets (Sep 17, 17:58 UTC). @trondaoCN reported in Chinese that the ETF also launched on SoFi, further extending access through traditional finance channels (Sep 17, 03:42 UTC). Tron Inc. acquired 148,392 TRX tokens Sep 17 at an average price of $0.3369, increasing treasury holdings to more than 714.8 million TRX in total, per @TRON_INC (Sep 17, 02:57 UTC).

DeFi and Payments

GasFree lets users send TRC-20 USDT and USDD without holding TRX for transaction fees as stablecoin activity grows on TRON, @DeFi_JUST explained (Sep 17, 08:36 UTC). For frequent energy needs, energy rental gives steady access to energy without locking up more TRX than necessary, a flexible way to power everyday transactions, @DeFi_JUST described (Sep 17, 06:00 UTC). Staking TRX to receive sTRX turns TRX into a working asset on JustLend DAO, earning from multiple yield streams including TRON governance rewards and energy rental income, with a 7-day average APY of 4.57 percent, @DeFi_JUST stated (Sep 17, 07:13 UTC).

Ducat integrated with TRON, expanding access to USDT settlement across its infrastructure, @trondao shared (Sep 17, 18:36 UTC). Through the integration, Ducat users can use USDT as a primary settlement asset and access wUNIT, the TRC-20 representation of Ducat's dollar. @Ducatstable is bringing wUNIT to TRON with access to USDT swaps, @trondao noted (Sep 17, 20:21 UTC).

Infrastructure

Proposal No. 107 is now in effect, strengthening TVM compatibility and expanding TRON's EVM-compatible environment, @trondao announced, with more updates on the way (Sep 18, 00:16 UTC). TRON is now supported in the Bitcoin.com Wallet, offering more ways to access, hold, swap, and use assets across the ecosystem, per @trondao (Sep 18, 00:16 UTC).

Mathematics Prize

The list of winners of the inaugural Justin Sun Awards has been announced, @justinsuntron shared (Sep 17, 07:31 UTC). @sunyuchentron described the Justin Sun Prize as a new academic bounty program rewarding breakthroughs in mathematics, with five prize tiers and a maximum award of one million dollars open to eligible contributors globally (Sep 17, 03:17 UTC). AI agents making payments on TRON and AI contributors taking on mathematical challenges represent another way to explore what AI can do, @trondao stated (Sep 17, 09:06 UTC).

Project Updates

TRON DAO Forum — TRON Intelligence

TronIntelligence posted an introduction Sep 17 (Sep 17, 14:04 UTC). TronIntelligence is a free real-time dashboard that organizes raw TRON data into clear information with no wallet connection or technical skill needed. The dashboard covers TRX price, money flow tracking the biggest TRX/USDT/USDD moves broken into top transactions, exchange flows, active trading pairs, futures positioning, new wallet activity, and cross-chain bridge flows, main players including whale tracking with balances, staking, and 15-day flow trends, staking and supply showing total TRX supply, how much is staked for energy versus bandwidth, and a 14-day unlock calendar to anticipate upcoming sell pressure, energy market tracking demand for TRON resources as a sign of real network usage, and SunPump memecoin launchpad activity including tokens created, graduated, dead, trading volume, and scam detection. The platform supports 10 languages with adjustable time windows from one hour to 15 days. https://forum.trondao.org/t/about-tronintelligence/34480

TRON TIPs — Recent Activity

TIP-890: OTAK-NES Security Architecture saw new activity Sep 17, per an outside commenter with no commit history on this repository (Sep 17, 06:17 UTC). The proposal introduces a security architecture for eliminating public signature exposure when sending a transaction to the network, shifting the threat model from the entire account and all assets under its control to the specific transaction and the specific asset being transferred. The OTAK-NES architecture uses one-time Child Keys derived from Access Keys so every operational signature is performed with an operational key independent of the account's long-term authorization keys, ensuring that a compromised Child Key does not expose the Access Key or any other Child Key, preventing reuse of Child Keys and reducing the risk of replay attacks through mandatory sequential Child Key indexing, preventing nonce reuse issues at the level of each operational key by using each Child Key exactly once, and limiting the impact of any potential exposure from the entire account level to a single key and a specific transaction so exposure of one operational key does not compromise the private key with access to the entire account's assets. The proposal opened Jun 7. https://github.com/tronprotocol/tips/issues/890