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On January 19 (SGT), SUN.io, TRON’s flagship project, announced a strategic Chinese brand upgrade, reintroducing itself as “Sun Wukong(“孙悟空,” the Monkey King) alongside a revamped visual identity. This move leverages the deep cultural resonance of the legendary Monkey King and is designed to create a strong cultural layer for TRON’s DeFi ecosystem – one that combines universal recognition with powerful storytelling.
This rebrand unites SUN.io’s entire portfolio, including SunSwap, SUN DAO, SunPump and SunX, under the Chinese visual identity ‘Sun Wukong’. This shared story transforms SUN.io from a collection of powerful DeFi tools into a cohesive economic powerhouse, driving deeper synergy and liquidity in the TRON ecosystem.
Vision meets value: SUN.io redefines one-stop defi management
This strategic blueprint is based on the robust foundation of proven track record and market position that SUN.io has built up over time. As a proven flagship DeFi platform within the TRON ecosystem, SUN.io has become deeply integrated into the financial fabric of the network, serving as indispensable infrastructure and a critical liquidity hub that supports its dynamic activity.
According to official statistics, SunSwap – the main decentralized exchange (DEX) in the ecosystem – has a total value of $490 million (TVL) as of January 8, with more than 25,000 liquidity pools created. It has facilitated more than $340 million in trading volume across more than 17,000 traders over the past seven days, handling approximately 90% of the total trading volume on the TRON network. Of these, TRX and USDT are the most actively traded assets, consistently with a 24-hour trading volume of over $100 million.
On the other hand, meme exchange launchpad SunPump has shown strong ecosystem vitality. The AI-powered agent, SunGenX, has redefined meme coin creation on Among the more than 100,000 tokens listed on SunPump to date, trending assets such as SUNDOG and PePe have been successfully listed on Binance Alpha, cementing SunPump’s role as a powerhouse for innovative asset discovery.
In the field of derivatives, the decentralized perpetuals exchange SunX (formerly SunPerp) is also growing rapidly. As a major margin trading center in the ecosystem, SunX has seen consistently rising trading volumes, in addition to growing user engagement and deeper liquidity. As of January 8, SunX recorded a total trading volume of over 23.94 billion USDT, serving a cumulative total of over 89,000 users, firmly establishing its position as the definitive destination for advanced trading.
Meanwhile, SunAgent, the ecosystem’s AI-powered trading tool, has completed a crucial iteration. With an intuitive chat interface, SunAgent acts as a seamless bridge between SunSwap, SunPump and SunX. With a full suite of automated on-chain services including token issuance, swapping, staking, voting and data queries, SunAgent dismantles the barriers to complex DeFi operations and delivers a fluid, capital-efficient experience to all SUN.io users.
Ecosystem synergy: SUN.io’s value growth flywheel
SUN.io’s competitive advantage comes from the architectural coordination of its product suite. Rather than operating in isolation, each product line functions as part of a closely connected, mutually reinforcing system. Together they form a cohesive growth flywheel that guides digital assets through the entire lifecycle, from inception to maturity.
To start with, SunPump is the engine of this collaboration system that sets innovative ideas in motion. Using the AI-powered launch tool SunGenX, SunPump streamlines asset creation to its simplest form, consistently driving new liquidity and new users into the system. These emerging meme assets then make their way to SunSwap for initial liquidity and price discovery, translating novelty into market value.
While SunSwap, in synergy with SunPump, creates a streamlined pipeline for new assets to come to market, it goes one step further and converts initial liquidity into sustainable returns. In addition to providing efficient trading channels, SunSwap uses dynamic fee structures and diverse pools to reward liquidity providers, fostering a vibrant, healthy ecosystem.
For traders willing to move beyond the basics into complex risk management and margin trading, SunX acts as a crucial value multiplier. As the specialist derivatives hub of the ecosystem, SunX is a major breakthrough: it combines the high throughput of an off-chain order book with the efficiency of on-chain settlement, delivering a lightning-fast trading experience that rivals centralized exchanges – without compromising asset safety.
To complete this loop, the SUN token buyback and burn program anchors the ecosystem in a self-sustaining value cycle. While SunSwap V2 allocates 0.05% of each transaction fee to SUN buybacks, SunPump and SunX go even further and dedicate 100% of their protocol revenue to the brand. According to official data, more than 650 million SUN tokens have been permanently withdrawn from circulation, representing more than 3% of the total supply. This enduring mechanism systematically reduces the circulating supply of the token, fueling a self-reinforcing deflationary cycle.
Through this masterful architectural design, SUN.io has evolved from just a collection of products to a self-driven, thriving crypto economy. Looking ahead, the ecosystem will continue to perfect the path from asset issuance to market liquidity and long-term appreciation, shaping itself into a healthier DeFi ecosystem.
About SUN.io
SUN.io is TRON’s first integrated platform for swaps, farming, meme launches, on-chain governance and perpetual trading. It has become the largest issuance and trading platform for assets on the TRON blockchain and serves as the core hub of TRON DeFi.
