Node upgrades, protocol releases and developer tooling.
Fourteen stories that mattered in TRON this week: the network crossed 400 million accounts, USDT on TRON hit $94.2B (51.4% of all circulating USDT) with a $3B single-day jump, Tether minted another $1B, Tron Inc. grew its treasury and filed to run a Super Representative node, and JustLend DAO shipped an in-protocol Buy Energy feature.
Fifteen stories that mattered in TRON this week: Messari’s State of TRON Q2 2026 report, USDT on TRON passing $91B in circulation, the mandatory Pyrrho node upgrade, the S&P Pantera index inclusion, and two Justin Sun keynotes across Southeast Asia.
TRON’s Bandwidth + Energy resource model is a two-tier pricing system for transaction cost. This report unpacks the mechanism end-to-end: what gets priced, how burning, staking and rentals interact, and why the system is economically coherent — without evaluating any particular vendor.