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Geneva, Switzerland – October 22, 2025 – Leading blockchain companies Messari, Presto researchAnd RWA.io have released extensive research reports highlighting TRON’s continued network growth and its growing influence in global markets. Collectively, the reports underscore TRON’s dominance of the stablecoin infrastructure, its strengthening role as a global settlement layer for digital dollars, and continued advances in blockchain security through initiatives like the T3 Financial Crime Unit (T3 FCU), which has frozen more than $250 million in illicit assets since its inception. These findings reinforce TRON’s continued evolution as a foundational platform for digital finance and token economies worldwide.
Messari
Messari state of TRON Q3 2025 revealed robust growth in revenue, user activity and ecosystem performance, reflecting a healthy and growing network.
Key insights from Messari:
- Network revenue growth: TRON’s revenue reached a record high of $1.2 billion in the third quarter of 2025, representing a 30.5% quarter-over-quarter increase.
- DeFi Growth: JustLend, TVL’s largest protocol, saw its TVL increase 46.1% quarter-over-quarter from $3.4 billion to $5.0 billion.
- Increasing activity in perpetrator DEXs: SunPerp, a perpetual futures exchange launched at the end of the third quarter, achieved total trading volume of more than $1.6 billion, using a hybrid model that combines offchain execution for speed with onchain settlement for security, enabling zero-gas trading and millisecond matching.
Read Messari’s full report here.
Presto research
TRON: Redefining the global settlement layer provided in-depth insight into the network’s growing dominance in stablecoin infrastructure and retail adoption in emerging markets.
Key insights from Presto Research:
- Stable Coin Dominance: Daily USDT volume exceeded $24 billion, driving 9.19 million daily transactions across more than 334 million accounts. Monthly stablecoin transfers exceed $600 billion, positioning TRON as the primary global settlement layer for dollar-denominated flows.
- Adoption in emerging markets: More than 75% of global USDT transfers occur through TRON, serving 2.92 million daily active users, 68% of whom transact via mobile wallets. TRON has become the de facto digital dollar rail across Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia.
- Leading Stablecoin Chain Worldwide: TRON is the leading stablecoin chain in 35 of the 50 countries analyzed, including top positions in India (#1), Pakistan (#3), Vietnam (#4), Brazil (#5), Nigeria (#6) and Indonesia (#7).
Read the full report from Presto Research here.
RWA.io
RWA Security Report 2025: An Analysis of Tokenized Asset Threats examines security challenges in tokenized real-world assets (RWA) and showcases notable enforcement milestones achieved by the T3 FCU.
Key insights from RWA.io:
- T3 FCU milestone: The T3 Financial Crime Unit – a joint initiative of TRON, Tether and TRM Labs – has announced a milestone of freezing $250 million in illegal activity worldwide since its launch less than a year ago.
- T3 FCU’s largest coordinated freeze (at that time): In November 2024, T3 FCU supported the Spanish Guardia Civil in dismantling an international money laundering organization, resulting in $26.4 million in frozen crypto assets and 23 arrests in Spain, France and Slovenia.
- Joint enforcement: The investigation used TRM Labs’ blockchain intelligence to map the criminal organization’s activities, allowing Spanish authorities to conduct coordinated raids on 91 locations, while T3 simultaneously froze USDT assets in real time.
Read the full report from RWA.io here.
Together, these reports highlight TRON’s accelerating growth, dominant role in global stablecoin settlement, and commitment to improving blockchain security and compliance frameworks. With continued technical innovation and ecosystem expansion, TRON continues to solidify its position as the cornerstone of the digital financial infrastructure worldwide.
About TRON DAO
TRON DAO is a community-governed DAO committed to accelerating the decentralization of the Internet through blockchain technology and dApps.
Founded in September 2017 by HE 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 $76 billion. As of October 2025, the TRON blockchain has registered more than 340 million in total user accounts, more than 11 billion in total transactions, and more than $27 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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