Geneva, Switzerland, January 7, 2026 — Messari, a leading provider of digital asset market intelligence products; RWA.io, a global hub for real-world asset (RWA) tokenization offering data & market insights; and Stablecoin Insider, a leading source for news, data, and expert insights on stablecoins and digital-asset finance, have released independent year-end analyses highlighting strong TRON network activity and stablecoin settlement performance throughout 2025. Together, the reports underscore TRON’s continued dominance as the global settlement layer for stablecoins, marked by record-breaking USDT supply, transaction volume, and sustained network activity, cementing its role as critical infrastructure for digital finance and tokenized real-world assets.
Key Insights from Messari:
Messari’s Crypto Theses 2026 delivers a comprehensive review of TRON’s 2025 performance and long-term outlook, reaffirming the network’s position among the industry’s strongest Layer 1 blockchains.
- Record Network Performance: TRON processed over 3.2 billion transactions in 2025 (1.9 billion of which were free transactions), while maintaining 2.5 million average daily active addresses.
- Strategic Fee Reduction: In August 2025, TRON’s Proposal 104 was approved, cutting transaction costs by reducing the energy unit price by more than 50%, from 0.00021 TRX to 0.0001 TRX.
- Stablecoin Dominance: TRON sustained a USDT supply of $78.15 billion, accounting for 42% of total USDT in circulation, with daily transfer volumes frequently exceeding $20–30 billion.
Read the full report from Messari here.
Key Insights from RWA.io:
State of RWA Tokenization 2026: From Fragmentation to a Unified Global Market evaluates TRON’s decentralization, governance, and transition from a payments-focused network into a platform supporting institutional-grade tokenized real-world assets.
- Robust Decentralization: TRON’s Nakamoto Coefficient of 14 surpasses Bitcoin (~3), Ethereum (2–5), Polygon (~3), and BNB Chain (~7), supported by 400+ validator-capable nodes and more than 7,400 nodes across 80+ countries.
- Growing Institutional Recognition: TRX became one of the first digital assets listed as an exchange-traded note in the European Union through VanEck in 2021, with two U.S. filings currently under review. Additionally, Nasdaq-listed TRON Inc. launched a TRON treasury strategy that generated $1.8 billion in first-day trading volume.
- Expansion of Tokenized Assets: USDD, a fully decentralized stablecoin built on the TRON Network reached over $488 million in total supply and $529 million in protocol TVL. Collaborations with Kraken and Backed to integrate xStocks further expanded access to tokenized equity exposure on TRON.
Read the full report from RWA.io here.
Key Insights from Stablecoin Insider:
The 2025 Stablecoin Year-End Report examines stablecoin activity across major blockchains and geographical regions, with a focus on TRON’s leadership in global stablecoin transfers and its growing importance in emerging markets.
- Global USDT Dominance: TRON facilitated approximately $7.9 trillion in total USDT transfer volume in the past 365 days, positioning it as a core global rail for digital dollar transfers.
- Retail-Driven Network Activity: Over the past 30 days, TRON recorded an average daily USDT transfer volume of $23.86 billion, with 1.15 million accounts transferring USDT each day. Between July and September 2025, TRON captured 65% of global retail-sized transfers (under 1,000 USDT).
- Strong Regional Adoption: Usage continues to expand across Latin America—including Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela—as well as Africa, where Nigeria ranks sixth globally for USDT activity, and Asia and Southeast Asia, where 60% of new wallets rely on TRON for remittances, savings, and peer-to-peer transactions.
Read the full report from Stablecoin Insider here.
Collectively, the findings from Messari, RWA.io, and Stablecoin Insider illustrates TRON’s evolution from a high-throughput payments network into a globally relied-upon settlement layer powering stablecoins and tokenized assets at scale. As adoption deepens across emerging and institutional markets alike, TRON remains positioned to play a central role in shaping the future of cross-border payments and on-chain financial infrastructure.
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TRON DAO is a community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet via blockchain technology and dApps.
Founded in September 2017 by H.E. Justin Sun, the TRON blockchain has experienced significant growth since its MainNet launch in May 2018. Until recently, TRON hosted the largest circulating supply of USD Tether (USDT) stablecoin, which currently exceeds $80 billion. As of December 2025, the TRON blockchain has recorded over 356 million in total user accounts, more than 12 billion in total transactions, and over $23 billion in total value locked (TVL), based on TRONSCAN. Recognized as the global settlement layer for stablecoin transactions and everyday purchases with proven success, TRON is “Moving Trillions, Empowering Billions.”
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Source: https://www.cryptopolitan.com/tron-records-7-9-trillion-in-usdt-transfer-volume-in-2025-new-research-from-messari-rwa-io-and-stablecoin-insider/
