TRON Network Reaches 396 Million Accounts; DeFi Metrics Surge with $27B TVL and Energy Rate Cuts
The TRON ecosystem demonstrated substantial growth and development activity over the past 24 hours across multiple fronts.
@justinsuntron announced that TRON's API Custom Provider ecosystem is expanding (2026-07-31T13:01:47Z) and highlighted a milestone of 2.05 million users (2026-07-31T07:39:51Z). @justinsuntron also noted TRON's presence at Stanford with a post dated 2026-07-31T04:51:11Z.
The TRON DeFi space showed notable momentum. @DeFi_JUST reported that TRON DeFi Summer S1 is entering its next chapter and will conclude on August 5, advancing the initiative that has brought more users into TRON DeFi (2026-07-31T09:00:00Z). The protocol highlighted that $27 billion in total value locked reflects the strength of the TRON DeFi ecosystem (2026-07-31T07:59:00Z). On energy markets, @DeFi_JUST announced a significant reduction in energy costs on JustLendDAO, with the base rate cut from 15% to 8%, bringing current pricing to 4.331 TRX per 100,000 energy (2026-07-31T06:57:00Z). The post noted that 100,000 energy currently costs 43 sun per day, reducing smart contract execution costs. Additionally, JST demonstrated surging activity with market cap at $836.5M, 24-hour trading volume at $27.93M (up 8.08%), and 24-hour price appreciation of 3.99%, per @DeFi_JUST citing CoinMarketCap (2026-07-31T06:06:00Z).
@trondao highlighted significant growth in TRON's stablecoin infrastructure. The protocol reported that gasless USDT transfers on TRON reached $2.9 billion in weekly volume by the end of June after peaking at $3 billion in May (2026-07-31T17:59:53Z). @trondao also disclosed that TRON captured 34% of all crypto card volume in Q2 2026, the highest of any blockchain, while total crypto card volume grew to $2.4 billion during the quarter (2026-07-31T16:54:20Z). Furthermore, @trondao announced that TRON Core Devs Meeting #67 covered key network updates: 19 Super Representatives have completed the GreatVoyage-v4.8.2 (Pyrrho) upgrade, a proposal to enable Prague and Osaka compatibility is under discussion, and TRON Solidity Compiler v0.8.28 is now available (2026-07-31T07:39:07Z).
On market expansion, @trondao reported that TRX spot and perpetual futures trading is now live on Backpack, providing expanded market access for institutional and retail participants (2026-07-31T00:16:29Z).
@TRON_INC announced that Tron Inc. (NASDAQ: TRON) acquired 151,521 TRX tokens at an average price of $0.3300, increasing its TRX treasury holdings to more than 707.6 million TRX in total, with the company aiming to further grow its holdings to enhance long-term shareholder value (2026-07-31T02:24:48Z).
@TRONSCAN_ORG announced a milestone: TRON's total accounts have surpassed 396 million (2026-07-31T08:00:50Z).
@tether reported strong Q2 2026 performance, generating $1.5 billion in net operating profit, maintaining a $4.11 billion reserve buffer, and expanding gold holdings to more than 146 tons (2026-07-31T15:14:05Z).