TRON DAO Cites $24 Billion in Average Daily USDT Transfers and 33.7% Annual Growth in Q3 Transactions

Network and Stablecoin Figures

TRON handles approximately 12 million transactions daily and $24 billion in daily USDT transfer volume, according to @trondao (Oct 15, 22:13 UTC; post). The network's Q3 report separately recorded $28.21 billion in total value locked (TVL) including staking, compared with $13.05 billion in DeFi TVL excluding staking. These figures reflect previously published Q3 data highlighted again on October 15, rather than a new report.

TRON's Q3 transaction count increased 33.7% year over year, @trondao highlighted (Oct 15, 17:03 UTC; post). Total accounts have surpassed 409 million, according to @TRONSCAN_ORG (Oct 15, 15:38 UTC; post). These are reported network metrics; the October 15 posts do not necessarily represent the dates on which the underlying milestones were first reached.

@trondao also highlighted comments attributed to @thesamreynolds, Research Lead at TRON DAO, in @AlliumLabs' Q3 State of Stablecoins report. Reynolds was quoted as saying that established networks with substantial stablecoin liquidity and distribution, including TRON, are well positioned to support further expansion (Oct 15, 18:56 UTC; post).

Justin Sun Prize and Research Recognition

Chinese-language posts on October 15 reiterated confirmation of the second batch of Justin Sun Prize recipients, including Neel Somani, following announcements the previous day. @sunyuchentron congratulated Somani and encouraged additional researchers to participate (Oct 15, 00:26 UTC; post).

@justinsuntron subsequently wrote that mathematical research deserves recognition and that the @JustinSunPrize initiative aims to deliver recognition more quickly, including to researchers working with artificial intelligence (Oct 15, 09:51 UTC; post). The comments expand on the prize's stated objectives rather than announcing an additional award.

A Chinese-language interview feature shared by @trondaoCN discussed Sun's views on the prize, the prospect of quantum computers undermining existing cryptographic systems, TRON's competitive advantages, and network effects in digital assets (Oct 15, 06:22 UTC; post).

Tron Inc. Treasury and Stock Offering

Tron Inc. (NASDAQ: TRON) filed on October 14 for an at-the-market common-stock offering of up to $200 million through Clear Street LLC. The arrangement allows the company to sell shares periodically rather than requiring the full amount to be raised immediately. Proceeds are expected to support additional TRX treasury purchases and other corporate purposes. The filing does not establish that the company has already raised $200 million, and any new share issuance could dilute existing shareholders.

The company separately purchased 149,369 TRX at an average price of $0.3347 per token, according to @TRON_INC, bringing its reported TRX treasury holdings above 718.9 million TRX (Oct 15, 02:33 UTC; post). The purchase amounted to approximately $50,000 and was considerably smaller than the potential treasury expansion contemplated by the stock offering.

JustLend Yield and DeFi Incentives

Staking TRX for sTRX through JustLend DAO generated a reported seven-day average annual percentage yield (APY) of 4.12%, derived from TRON governance rewards and energy rental income, according to @DeFi_JUST (Oct 15, 06:55 UTC; post). This is a historical average rather than a guaranteed future return.

The ongoing TRON DeFi Summer Season 3 campaign is advertising promotional annual percentage rates (APR) of up to 27.7%, covering TRX, USDD, JST, and SUN pools on JustLend DAO through @BinanceWallet DeFi, @DeFi_JUST stated in Chinese (Oct 15, 04:17 UTC; post). The promoted maximum is variable, pool-dependent, and not necessarily available to every participant.

The same announcement reiterated the campaign's previously established $2 million reward pool and 60-day incentive period. @OfficialSUNio separately promoted boosted rewards for the SUN pool (Oct 15, 07:03 UTC; post). These posts are fresh promotions of an existing program, not announcements of a new incentive allocation.

@DeFi_JUST also promoted GasFree, a service that allows users to transfer USDT or USDD on TRON without separately holding TRX to pay network fees (Oct 15, 09:18 UTC; post). This does not mean transfers are necessarily free of charges; it changes how fees are paid. The October 15 post does not establish that GasFree was newly launched.

Project Updates

TRON DAO Forum: BoltUtil — Merchant USDT Payment Monitoring

A user identifying themselves as the maintainer of BoltUtil introduced the project in the TRON DAO Forum's TBL category (Oct 15, 16:34 UTC; forum topic).

BoltUtil is described as a noncustodial payment-monitoring service that connects TRC20 USDT transfers to merchant orders. According to its developer, merchants create payment orders and display a hosted checkout page. The service monitors transfers to the merchant's own wallet and, when a payment matches an order and reaches the required confirmations, sends a signed webhook to the merchant's system.

The developer says that buyers pay merchants directly, that BoltUtil does not hold private keys or custody customer funds, and that a WooCommerce integration is available for USD-denominated stores.

The forum introduction requests technical feedback and merchant introductions rather than funding. These are developer-reported capabilities and have not been independently audited or tested. The topic contained one post when collected.

TRON TIPs: Post-Quantum Signature Security

On TIP-899, an open draft proposing post-quantum signature support for TRON, outside contributor quantova-inc raised a potential signature-reuse vulnerability arising from the absence of domain separation. The contributor argued that a signature produced for a TVM message could also validate as a transaction signature if the signed message matched a transaction hash.

To address the potential issue, the contributor proposed binding signatures to four purpose-specific domain tags (Oct 15, 04:27 UTC; comment).

In a follow-up, quantova-inc reported implementing a one-way governance gate, ALLOW_PQ_DOMAIN_SEPARATION (1002), and passing 696 tests across 37 post-quantum test suites (Oct 15, 16:49 UTC; comment). The proposed mechanism would apply the domain-separation requirement after activation while preserving historical validation behavior for earlier transactions.

These findings and test results are contributor-reported. The discussion does not establish that TRON maintainers have formally accepted, merged, or deployed the changes.

Another outside commenter, Redchar1992, pointed to a September 8 test showing FN-DSA-512 enabled on the Nile testnet and argued that an explicit transition policy would be necessary (Oct 15, 08:12 UTC; comment). The comment adds compatibility and migration concerns to the ongoing technical discussion.

TRON TIPs: ECDSA Signature Validation

On TIP-935, an open draft intended to harden ECDSA signature validation, outside contributor 3for reported analyzing 1,069,178,624 transactions from July 14 through October 14.

The contributor identified 4,374,357 transactions, approximately 0.4091% of the sample, carrying signatures between 66 and 68 bytes:

• 66 bytes: 7,822 transactions
• 67 bytes: 41 transactions
• 68 bytes: 4,366,494 transactions

No signatures longer than 68 bytes appeared in that particular three-month sample. However, the contributor also referenced an earlier historical scan identifying at least one 96-byte signature, indicating that the recent sample does not describe every signature length ever observed on TRON.

The reported findings support retaining compatibility with 65–68-byte signatures while accounting for exceptional historical cases. The statistics are contributor-reported and have not been independently reproduced (Oct 15, 08:43 UTC; comment).

Both TIP-899 and TIP-935 remain draft proposals under discussion. Contributor comments and reported tests should not be interpreted as evidence of mainnet activation or finalized protocol changes.