USDD

Euphoric-Nose-2219

Bitter envy on my part but I'm hoping for TRX. Seen and considered staking it at 1/4 of the price its at now, but of course it'll fail as its a thinly veiled corporate product. Whole thing is owned by Justin Sun and his crew and USDD's like 20% saving rate was just proof of how quickly it'd all collapse as it was just aping another coin that collapsed almost instantly after. Nope, it's just kept rocking. CeFi can larp as DeFi better than most novel DeFi ideas can hope to innovate apparently.

NiGhTShR0uD

Probably talking about USDD.

MaximumStudent1839

Not sure if “scammer” is how to characterize him. But he is definitely a very shady character. There is a good reason why he brought an ambassadorship of a remote country, aka buying diplomatic immunity. If you don’t think you live on the border of illegality, why would you buy diplomatic immunity? There is a lot of shady shit he has done. Some examples are his USDD stablecoin being similar to UST. He also funds a lot of projects, which don’t have spectacular returns, but seem to have an infinite amount of funding. Ppl are suspicious of him because he doesn’t ever seem to run out of money to buy shit…. Others like CZ have a much more publicly impressive legacies and even they know to be frugal when they need to be. Justin Sun, on the other hand, seems to have an infinite money printer…. And you see why ppl are suspicious, just like SBF appeared to have “an infinite money” printer, until we realize the dude was just using customers’ money. My running theory is, his infinite money glitch might be just how he helps corrupt Chinese politicians, businessmen, etc. to escape CCP’s capital and embezzlement controls. How else the fuck does he have so much money….

CointestMod

#TRON Con-Arguments Below is a TRON con-argument written by CreepToeCurrentSea. > TRON is a decentralized, open-source blockchain-based operating system with smart contract functionality, a proof-of-stake consensus algorithm, and its own cryptocurrency, Tronix (TRX). Justin Sun founded it in March 2014, and it has been overseen and supervised by the TRON Foundation, a non-profit organization in Singapore founded the same year. It began as an Ethereum-based ERC-20 token before migrating to its own blockchain in 2018. > > # CONS > > **Whitepaper Plagiarism** > > In January 2018, Tron's developers were accused of plagiarism after many sections of the Tron whitepaper appeared nearly identical to IPFS and Filecoin technical documentation. IPFS is an acronym for InterPlanetary File System. Juan Benet, CEO of Protocol Labs, which develops IFPS tools and services, revealed on Twitter in early January 2018 that Tron's whitepaper authors did not properly cite references and that the document was "mostly copied" from other projects. Even the equations and formulas mentioned in the first version of Tron's whitepaper were identical to those found in IPFS documentation. Sun claimed to have a "very detailed" reference to the most recent Chinese version of the Tron whitepaper. He also claimed that the Tron paper was translated into other languages by volunteers who may have overlooked important details. Just as Vitalik had also sarcastically said in twitter regarding the teams copy-pasting abilities, this just goes to show how un-genuine their team appears even making the most basic of mistakes. > > **Question of Vulnerability** > > A barrage of requests sent by a single PC could be used to squeeze the power of the blockchain's CPU, overload the memory, and perform a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, according to HackerOne. "Using a single machine, an attacker could send DDOS attack to all or 51 percent of the Super Representative (SR) node and render Tron network unusable or unavailable," the claim goes. While TRON is somewhat better in marketing compared to other cryptocurrencies, it falls short on one of the most important pillars for an effective one, that of which is security. To hinder a blockchain with just one computer is the polar opposite of what you want a cryptocurrency to be. > > **Un-Stablecoin** > > TRON's native stablecoin "USDD" de-pegged to the US dollar earlier this year, falling to as low as 91 cents. Its design is uncannily similar to Terra's stablecoin, UST, which lost its price peg and imploded a month ago, wiping out $40 billion in market value. If it continues to follow UST's path considering how similar they are in function and structure, one could assume they also have a ticking algorithmic time bomb in the making. > > **Final Thoughts** > > It seems that TRON has a knack for idolizing (to the point of almost copying their work) other projects both in and out of the crypto-sphere. What I do hope is that they also know what not absorb. Else, they have nothing but a mushed up bowl of their favorite things and just decided it would stick together with glue and duct tape. > > Sources: > > [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron\_(cryptocurrency)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_(cryptocurrency)) > > [https://cryptoslate.com/justin-suns-controversies-plagiarism-teslas-warren-buffett-kidney-stones-and-a-deleted-apology/](https://cryptoslate.com/justin-suns-controversies-plagiarism-teslas-warren-buffett-kidney-stones-and-a-deleted-apology/) > > [https://www.inverse.com/article/40050-tron-trx-cryptocurrency-plagiarism-scandal](https://www.inverse.com/article/40050-tron-trx-cryptocurrency-plagiarism-scandal) > > [https://www.zdnet.com/article/tron-critical-security-flaw-could-break-the-entire-blockchain/](https://www.zdnet.com/article/tron-critical-security-flaw-could-break-the-entire-blockchain/) > > [https://fortune.com/2022/06/13/algorithmic-stablecoin-usdd-loses-peg-justin-sun-tron-decentralized-usd/](https://fortune.com/2022/06/13/algorithmic-stablecoin-usdd-loses-peg-justin-sun-tron-decentralized-usd/) ***** Would you like to learn more? Check out the [Cointest archive](/r/CointestOfficial/wiki/cointest_archive#wiki_tron) to find submissions for other topics.

CointestMod

#TRON Con-Arguments Below is a TRON con-argument written by CreepToeCurrentSea. > TRON is a decentralized, open-source blockchain-based operating system with smart contract functionality, a proof-of-stake consensus algorithm, and its own cryptocurrency, Tronix (TRX). Justin Sun founded it in March 2014, and it has been overseen and supervised by the TRON Foundation, a non-profit organization in Singapore founded the same year. It began as an Ethereum-based ERC-20 token before migrating to its own blockchain in 2018. > > # CONS > > **Whitepaper Plagiarism** > > In January 2018, Tron's developers were accused of plagiarism after many sections of the Tron whitepaper appeared nearly identical to IPFS and Filecoin technical documentation. IPFS is an acronym for InterPlanetary File System. Juan Benet, CEO of Protocol Labs, which develops IFPS tools and services, revealed on Twitter in early January 2018 that Tron's whitepaper authors did not properly cite references and that the document was "mostly copied" from other projects. Even the equations and formulas mentioned in the first version of Tron's whitepaper were identical to those found in IPFS documentation. Sun claimed to have a "very detailed" reference to the most recent Chinese version of the Tron whitepaper. He also claimed that the Tron paper was translated into other languages by volunteers who may have overlooked important details. Just as Vitalik had also sarcastically said in twitter regarding the teams copy-pasting abilities, this just goes to show how un-genuine their team appears even making the most basic of mistakes. > > **Question of Vulnerability** > > A barrage of requests sent by a single PC could be used to squeeze the power of the blockchain's CPU, overload the memory, and perform a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, according to HackerOne. "Using a single machine, an attacker could send DDOS attack to all or 51 percent of the Super Representative (SR) node and render Tron network unusable or unavailable," the claim goes. While TRON is somewhat better in marketing compared to other cryptocurrencies, it falls short on one of the most important pillars for an effective one, that of which is security. To hinder a blockchain with just one computer is the polar opposite of what you want a cryptocurrency to be. > > **Un-Stablecoin** > > TRON's native stablecoin "USDD" de-pegged to the US dollar earlier this year, falling to as low as 91 cents. Its design is uncannily similar to Terra's stablecoin, UST, which lost its price peg and imploded a month ago, wiping out $40 billion in market value. If it continues to follow UST's path considering how similar they are in function and structure, one could assume they also have a ticking algorithmic time bomb in the making. > > **Final Thoughts** > > It seems that TRON has a knack for idolizing (to the point of almost copying their work) other projects both in and out of the crypto-sphere. What I do hope is that they also know what not absorb. Else, they have nothing but a mushed up bowl of their favorite things and just decided it would stick together with glue and duct tape. > > Sources: > > [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron\_(cryptocurrency)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_(cryptocurrency)) > > [https://cryptoslate.com/justin-suns-controversies-plagiarism-teslas-warren-buffett-kidney-stones-and-a-deleted-apology/](https://cryptoslate.com/justin-suns-controversies-plagiarism-teslas-warren-buffett-kidney-stones-and-a-deleted-apology/) > > [https://www.inverse.com/article/40050-tron-trx-cryptocurrency-plagiarism-scandal](https://www.inverse.com/article/40050-tron-trx-cryptocurrency-plagiarism-scandal) > > [https://www.zdnet.com/article/tron-critical-security-flaw-could-break-the-entire-blockchain/](https://www.zdnet.com/article/tron-critical-security-flaw-could-break-the-entire-blockchain/) > > [https://fortune.com/2022/06/13/algorithmic-stablecoin-usdd-loses-peg-justin-sun-tron-decentralized-usd/](https://fortune.com/2022/06/13/algorithmic-stablecoin-usdd-loses-peg-justin-sun-tron-decentralized-usd/) ***** Would you like to learn more? Check out the [Cointest archive](/r/CointestOfficial/wiki/cointest_archive#wiki_tron) to find submissions for other topics.

CointestMod

#TRON Pro-Arguments Below is a TRON pro-argument written by a deleted user. > ##**PROs** > > **Disclaimer**: There is little reliable information about Tron that isn't from Tron DAO or Justin Sun interviews. The official [Tron DAO Medium](https://trondao.medium.com/) site doesn't provide links to sources in the blog, making it harder to fact check and analyze. Many of its sources are from Weibo posts that are inaccessible beyond the Great Firewall of China. Tron's documentation and community posts provide way less information than that of other major blockchain projects. Nevertheless, I'm make do with what I can get. > > ####**Performance and Consensus** > > **High throughput and fast finality** > > Blocks are produced every 3s with a max size of 2M bytes. Consensus is completed using DPoS with a fault tolerance of 70% (9/27) Super Respresentatives that act as validators. There are over 350 SR/validator candidates who vote on the 27 SRs each 6 hours. > > - **High Throughtput**: **Tron can reach a max throughput of 2600 TPS with full 2M blocks** and its current balance of actual transactions, which is really high for an EVM-compatible blockchain. > - My calculations used [Tronscan data](https://tronscan.org/#/blockchain/blocks): Basic TRX and token transfers use 250-500 Bandwidth. The current average bandwidth for each transaction is currently 298, which is not that much higher than the lower end for basic transactions. > - Each bandwidth is 0.850 bytes, so you can fit 7800 average transactions in a single 3s block. Tron officially claims that it can reach 2000 TPS, so they're giving a conservative estimate. > - Even filled with 350-550 bandwidth swaps for [SunswapV2Router02](https://tronscan.org/#/contract/TKzxdSv2FZKQrEqkKVgp5DcwEXBEKMg2Ax/transactions), that's 1400 TPS on the lower end. That's way faster swaps than [everything other than Algorand](https://medium.com/dragonfly-research/the-amm-test-a-no-bs-look-at-l1-performance-4c8c2129d581). > - The tradeoff is that consensus is highly centralized (only 27 validators), and that the validators have very high requirements like having 32 CPU cores and 64GB of memory. > - In comparison, Ethereum's Layer 1 in comparison, can only do ~15 TPS average (59 TPS for basic transfers, 7 TPS for Uniswap v3 swaps). > - **Fast Finality in 3s**: All 27 SRs are currently playing friendly with each other, so for all practical purposes, finality is in 3 seconds. (Deterministic finality occurs every 27 blocks, or 81 seconds). > > **Network Energy usage** > > Tron's estimated annual energy usage for 2022 is estimated to be 1.7 kWh, or the **energy usage of [15 average US households](https://decrypt.co/108115/tron-network-energy-use-matches-that-of-15-us-households-ccri-report)**. This puts it slightly lower than the consumption of Avalanche, Algorand, Cardano, and Solana's networks. Its carbon footprint is also 4x lower than the others. And it uses 100000x less energy than Bitcoin. > > ####**Ease of Basic Utility** > > **Transaction fees are covered for FREE by freezing TRX** > > Tron has a unique design for transaction fees instead of using gas. Transactions fees are divided into bandwidth (pays for data bytes) and energy (pays for computations). All transactions require bandwidth while only contracts need energy. > > The benefit is that you get **FREE bandwidth and energy by freezing TRX**, a process similar to staking. You currently receive about 28 energy and 1 bandwidth daily [per frozen TRX](https://tronstation.io/calculator). Basic smart contracts use 350 Bandwidth (requires freezing 330 TRX) and 14.7K energy (requires staking 520 TRX). At current TRX prices, **if you freeze $2500 worth of TRX, you could perform 100 free basic transactions daily**. In addition, each account receives [1.5 kb of bandwidth daily](https://developers.tron.network/docs/resource-model) (originally 5 kb) for free even without freezing TRX, which is good for ~5 transactions. Though I suspect users can abuse this by creating new accounts. > > Any transaction fees in excess of the free energy and bandwidth are burned. This is why TRX is **currently deflationary by ~0.3% annually** (excluding burns for the USDD minting process). > > **Settlement layer for Tether** > > According to Blockchain's [Sep 2022 interview with Justin Sun](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/exploring-tron-with-justin-sun-and-blockchain-com/id1536699961), **the original purpose of Tron was to act as a stablecoin settlement network and reserve network for Tether** (USDT). Sure enough, the bulk of DeFi on Tron's network deal with stablecoins. As of Sep 2022, [45% of Tether is now held on Tron](https://defillama.com/stablecoin/tether). And with Ethereum transaction fees being so high, Tron has become an attractive platform for USDT dApps. > > ####**DeFi Usages** > > **Smart Contracts** > > Tron's VM (TVM) is EVM-compatible and uses Solidity for the smart contract language. It is also Turing-complete. Thus, it's simple to rewrite EVM contracts for TVM. > > - **Tron's [DeFi TVL is massive at $5.4B](https://defillama.com/chains), putting at 3rd place after Binance Smart Chain**. > - Though it is a bit suspicious though that 99% of Tron's DeFi TVL are on 3 projects that are literally named after Justin Sun, though that could just be because it's very new. In comparison, Ethereum's DeFi is spread over hundreds of dApps. > - Tron SUN's [Liquidity Pool](https://sun.io/#/home) provides very high interest for USDD-USDT pairs at 5-70% APY. Back in June-July, you could gain triple-digit APY on Tron DeFi with stablecoins while the governance rewards boosts were still active. > > ####**Sustainable Tokenomics for TRX** > > - TRX's tokenomics have a steady, permanent issuance for validators, so it's **sustainable**. All transaction fees are burned. This isn't too different than Ethereum's tokenomics model (other than that Ethereum only burns part of the fee). > - TRX has a total circulating supply of about 92B, which is noticeably lower than their highest supply of 102B before the TRX-to-USDD minting protocol. TRX suddenly became [deflationary on Oct 27, 2021](https://tronscan.org/#/data/stats2/circulation). Supply has fallen about 10% since then due to token burns, making **TRX one of the most deflationary cryptocurrency in the top 30**. > - If we ignore the token burns from USDD minting, each day, ~5M TRX is minted, ~6M is burned (from transaction fees). **This gives net issuance of 1M TRX burned daily, or 0.3% annual deflation.** > > **Good TRX price action during the bear market** > > Tron's native token, TRX, is currently #15 in marketcap as of Sept 2022 with a [marketcap of $6B](https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/tron). Its value has held up surprisingly well during the bear market, barely falling 50% while the rest of cryptocurrencies fell closer to 70-90%. **TRX is up 2x vs Bitcoin over the past year** during the bear market, pumping especially hard right around the launch of USDD and introduction of major staking and governance boost projects. > > ####**USDD, a hybrid stablecoin without UST's flaws?** > > **USDD is a hybrid collateralized/algorithmic (seigniorage) stablecoin** launched in May 2022 on Tron's network. It is one of the biggest focuses on the Tron roadmap. It was originally designed as a purely-algorithmic stablecoin based on Terra's now-failed Luna and UST stablecoin. After the collapse of Luna UST, the Tron DAO Reserve (TDR) made several changes to USDD to avoid a similar failure: > > **Differences between UST and USDD** > > 1. The biggest difference is that USDD is 300% collateralized with 11B TRX, 14K BTC, 100M USDT, and 1M USDC [Source](https://usdd.io/). **This makes USDD one of the most collateralized stablecoins.** In comparison, DAI is only 120% collateralized, and USDT and USDC are only 100% collateralized. > 1. TDR controls how much USDD can be minted or redeemed, so it's not purely algorithmic. Thus, TDR has full power to stop it from crashing. > 1. USDD will be released in multiple phases. The current phase only allows for a minting of 2B USDD. This is to limit USDD from growing astronomically quickly like with UST. [[Source](https://trondao.medium.com/improving-usdd-from-lessons-learned-e2600d7f94ad)] > 1. You're probably wondering what's the catch. There is a Peg Stability Module (PSM) that allows minting of USDD by burning TRX. You can current burn TRX for minting USDD, but **you cannot redeem USDD for TRX** [[source](https://twitter.com/TheImmutable/status/1536930692344401921)]. There is no liquidity on any of the [PSM smart contracts](https://docs.usdd.io/psm/the-psm#psm-contracts) to trade USDD for anything else. ***** Would you like to learn more? Check out the [Cointest archive](/r/CointestOfficial/wiki/cointest_archive#wiki_tron) to find submissions for other topics.

diwalost

Last I heard, he holds a lot of TRX coins and selling them would plummet the price so he devised a new plan. He deposits TRX as collateral and minta USDD. And he is not the only one doing this, there are many such founders who are doing similar kind of things

CointestMod

#TRON Pro-Arguments Below is a TRON pro-argument written by a deleted user. > ##**PROs** > > **Disclaimer**: There is little reliable information about Tron that isn't from Tron DAO or Justin Sun interviews. The official [Tron DAO Medium](https://trondao.medium.com/) site doesn't provide links to sources in the blog, making it harder to fact check and analyze. Many of its sources are from Weibo posts that are inaccessible beyond the Great Firewall of China. Tron's documentation and community posts provide way less information than that of other major blockchain projects. Nevertheless, I'm make do with what I can get. > > ####**Performance and Consensus** > > **High throughput and fast finality** > > Blocks are produced every 3s with a max size of 2M bytes. Consensus is completed using DPoS with a fault tolerance of 70% (9/27) Super Respresentatives that act as validators. There are over 350 SR/validator candidates who vote on the 27 SRs each 6 hours. > > - **High Throughtput**: **Tron can reach a max throughput of 2600 TPS with full 2M blocks** and its current balance of actual transactions, which is really high for an EVM-compatible blockchain. > - My calculations used [Tronscan data](https://tronscan.org/#/blockchain/blocks): Basic TRX and token transfers use 250-500 Bandwidth. The current average bandwidth for each transaction is currently 298, which is not that much higher than the lower end for basic transactions. > - Each bandwidth is 0.850 bytes, so you can fit 7800 average transactions in a single 3s block. Tron officially claims that it can reach 2000 TPS, so they're giving a conservative estimate. > - Even filled with 350-550 bandwidth swaps for [SunswapV2Router02](https://tronscan.org/#/contract/TKzxdSv2FZKQrEqkKVgp5DcwEXBEKMg2Ax/transactions), that's 1400 TPS on the lower end. That's way faster swaps than [everything other than Algorand](https://medium.com/dragonfly-research/the-amm-test-a-no-bs-look-at-l1-performance-4c8c2129d581). > - The tradeoff is that consensus is highly centralized (only 27 validators), and that the validators have very high requirements like having 32 CPU cores and 64GB of memory. > - In comparison, Ethereum's Layer 1 in comparison, can only do ~15 TPS average (59 TPS for basic transfers, 7 TPS for Uniswap v3 swaps). > - **Fast Finality in 3s**: All 27 SRs are currently playing friendly with each other, so for all practical purposes, finality is in 3 seconds. (Deterministic finality occurs every 27 blocks, or 81 seconds). > > **Network Energy usage** > > Tron's estimated annual energy usage for 2022 is estimated to be 1.7 kWh, or the **energy usage of [15 average US households](https://decrypt.co/108115/tron-network-energy-use-matches-that-of-15-us-households-ccri-report)**. This puts it slightly lower than the consumption of Avalanche, Algorand, Cardano, and Solana's networks. Its carbon footprint is also 4x lower than the others. And it uses 100000x less energy than Bitcoin. > > ####**Ease of Basic Utility** > > **Transaction fees are covered for FREE by freezing TRX** > > Tron has a unique design for transaction fees instead of using gas. Transactions fees are divided into bandwidth (pays for data bytes) and energy (pays for computations). All transactions require bandwidth while only contracts need energy. > > The benefit is that you get **FREE bandwidth and energy by freezing TRX**, a process similar to staking. You currently receive about 28 energy and 1 bandwidth daily [per frozen TRX](https://tronstation.io/calculator). Basic smart contracts use 350 Bandwidth (requires freezing 330 TRX) and 14.7K energy (requires staking 520 TRX). At current TRX prices, **if you freeze $2500 worth of TRX, you could perform 100 free basic transactions daily**. In addition, each account receives [1.5 kb of bandwidth daily](https://developers.tron.network/docs/resource-model) (originally 5 kb) for free even without freezing TRX, which is good for ~5 transactions. Though I suspect users can abuse this by creating new accounts. > > Any transaction fees in excess of the free energy and bandwidth are burned. This is why TRX is **currently deflationary by ~0.3% annually** (excluding burns for the USDD minting process). > > **Settlement layer for Tether** > > According to Blockchain's [Sep 2022 interview with Justin Sun](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/exploring-tron-with-justin-sun-and-blockchain-com/id1536699961), **the original purpose of Tron was to act as a stablecoin settlement network and reserve network for Tether** (USDT). Sure enough, the bulk of DeFi on Tron's network deal with stablecoins. As of Sep 2022, [45% of Tether is now held on Tron](https://defillama.com/stablecoin/tether). And with Ethereum transaction fees being so high, Tron has become an attractive platform for USDT dApps. > > ####**DeFi Usages** > > **Smart Contracts** > > Tron's VM (TVM) is EVM-compatible and uses Solidity for the smart contract language. It is also Turing-complete. Thus, it's simple to rewrite EVM contracts for TVM. > > - **Tron's [DeFi TVL is massive at $5.4B](https://defillama.com/chains), putting at 3rd place after Binance Smart Chain**. > - Though it is a bit suspicious though that 99% of Tron's DeFi TVL are on 3 projects that are literally named after Justin Sun, though that could just be because it's very new. In comparison, Ethereum's DeFi is spread over hundreds of dApps. > - Tron SUN's [Liquidity Pool](https://sun.io/#/home) provides very high interest for USDD-USDT pairs at 5-70% APY. Back in June-July, you could gain triple-digit APY on Tron DeFi with stablecoins while the governance rewards boosts were still active. > > ####**Sustainable Tokenomics for TRX** > > - TRX's tokenomics have a steady, permanent issuance for validators, so it's **sustainable**. All transaction fees are burned. This isn't too different than Ethereum's tokenomics model (other than that Ethereum only burns part of the fee). > - TRX has a total circulating supply of about 92B, which is noticeably lower than their highest supply of 102B before the TRX-to-USDD minting protocol. TRX suddenly became [deflationary on Oct 27, 2021](https://tronscan.org/#/data/stats2/circulation). Supply has fallen about 10% since then due to token burns, making **TRX one of the most deflationary cryptocurrency in the top 30**. > - If we ignore the token burns from USDD minting, each day, ~5M TRX is minted, ~6M is burned (from transaction fees). **This gives net issuance of 1M TRX burned daily, or 0.3% annual deflation.** > > **Good TRX price action during the bear market** > > Tron's native token, TRX, is currently #15 in marketcap as of Sept 2022 with a [marketcap of $6B](https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/tron). Its value has held up surprisingly well during the bear market, barely falling 50% while the rest of cryptocurrencies fell closer to 70-90%. **TRX is up 2x vs Bitcoin over the past year** during the bear market, pumping especially hard right around the launch of USDD and introduction of major staking and governance boost projects. > > ####**USDD, a hybrid stablecoin without UST's flaws?** > > **USDD is a hybrid collateralized/algorithmic (seigniorage) stablecoin** launched in May 2022 on Tron's network. It is one of the biggest focuses on the Tron roadmap. It was originally designed as a purely-algorithmic stablecoin based on Terra's now-failed Luna and UST stablecoin. After the collapse of Luna UST, the Tron DAO Reserve (TDR) made several changes to USDD to avoid a similar failure: > > **Differences between UST and USDD** > > 1. The biggest difference is that USDD is 300% collateralized with 11B TRX, 14K BTC, 100M USDT, and 1M USDC [Source](https://usdd.io/). **This makes USDD one of the most collateralized stablecoins.** In comparison, DAI is only 120% collateralized, and USDT and USDC are only 100% collateralized. > 1. TDR controls how much USDD can be minted or redeemed, so it's not purely algorithmic. Thus, TDR has full power to stop it from crashing. > 1. USDD will be released in multiple phases. The current phase only allows for a minting of 2B USDD. This is to limit USDD from growing astronomically quickly like with UST. [[Source](https://trondao.medium.com/improving-usdd-from-lessons-learned-e2600d7f94ad)] > 1. You're probably wondering what's the catch. There is a Peg Stability Module (PSM) that allows minting of USDD by burning TRX. You can current burn TRX for minting USDD, but **you cannot redeem USDD for TRX** [[source](https://twitter.com/TheImmutable/status/1536930692344401921)]. There is no liquidity on any of the [PSM smart contracts](https://docs.usdd.io/psm/the-psm#psm-contracts) to trade USDD for anything else. ***** Would you like to learn more? Check out the [Cointest archive](/r/CointestOfficial/wiki/cointest_archive#wiki_tron) to find submissions for other topics.

CointestMod

#TRON Con-Arguments Below is a TRON con-argument written by CreepToeCurrentSea. > TRON is a decentralized, open-source blockchain-based operating system with smart contract functionality, a proof-of-stake consensus algorithm, and its own cryptocurrency, Tronix (TRX). Justin Sun founded it in March 2014, and it has been overseen and supervised by the TRON Foundation, a non-profit organization in Singapore founded the same year. It began as an Ethereum-based ERC-20 token before migrating to its own blockchain in 2018. > > # CONS > > **Whitepaper Plagiarism** > > In January 2018, Tron's developers were accused of plagiarism after many sections of the Tron whitepaper appeared nearly identical to IPFS and Filecoin technical documentation. IPFS is an acronym for InterPlanetary File System. Juan Benet, CEO of Protocol Labs, which develops IFPS tools and services, revealed on Twitter in early January 2018 that Tron's whitepaper authors did not properly cite references and that the document was "mostly copied" from other projects. Even the equations and formulas mentioned in the first version of Tron's whitepaper were identical to those found in IPFS documentation. Sun claimed to have a "very detailed" reference to the most recent Chinese version of the Tron whitepaper. He also claimed that the Tron paper was translated into other languages by volunteers who may have overlooked important details. Just as Vitalik had also sarcastically said in twitter regarding the teams copy-pasting abilities, this just goes to show how un-genuine their team appears even making the most basic of mistakes. > > **Question of Vulnerability** > > A barrage of requests sent by a single PC could be used to squeeze the power of the blockchain's CPU, overload the memory, and perform a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, according to HackerOne. "Using a single machine, an attacker could send DDOS attack to all or 51 percent of the Super Representative (SR) node and render Tron network unusable or unavailable," the claim goes. While TRON is somewhat better in marketing compared to other cryptocurrencies, it falls short on one of the most important pillars for an effective one, that of which is security. To hinder a blockchain with just one computer is the polar opposite of what you want a cryptocurrency to be. > > **Un-Stablecoin** > > TRON's native stablecoin "USDD" de-pegged to the US dollar earlier this year, falling to as low as 91 cents. Its design is uncannily similar to Terra's stablecoin, UST, which lost its price peg and imploded a month ago, wiping out $40 billion in market value. If it continues to follow UST's path considering how similar they are in function and structure, one could assume they also have a ticking algorithmic time bomb in the making. > > **Final Thoughts** > > It seems that TRON has a knack for idolizing (to the point of almost copying their work) other projects both in and out of the crypto-sphere. What I do hope is that they also know what not absorb. Else, they have nothing but a mushed up bowl of their favorite things and just decided it would stick together with glue and duct tape. > > Sources: > > [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron\_(cryptocurrency)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_(cryptocurrency)) > > [https://cryptoslate.com/justin-suns-controversies-plagiarism-teslas-warren-buffett-kidney-stones-and-a-deleted-apology/](https://cryptoslate.com/justin-suns-controversies-plagiarism-teslas-warren-buffett-kidney-stones-and-a-deleted-apology/) > > [https://www.inverse.com/article/40050-tron-trx-cryptocurrency-plagiarism-scandal](https://www.inverse.com/article/40050-tron-trx-cryptocurrency-plagiarism-scandal) > > [https://www.zdnet.com/article/tron-critical-security-flaw-could-break-the-entire-blockchain/](https://www.zdnet.com/article/tron-critical-security-flaw-could-break-the-entire-blockchain/) > > [https://fortune.com/2022/06/13/algorithmic-stablecoin-usdd-loses-peg-justin-sun-tron-decentralized-usd/](https://fortune.com/2022/06/13/algorithmic-stablecoin-usdd-loses-peg-justin-sun-tron-decentralized-usd/) ***** Would you like to learn more? Check out the [Cointest archive](/r/CointestOfficial/wiki/cointest_archive#wiki_tron) to find submissions for other topics.

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#TRON Pro-Arguments Below is a TRON pro-argument written by a deleted user. > ##**PROs** > > **Disclaimer**: There is little reliable information about Tron that isn't from Tron DAO or Justin Sun interviews. The official [Tron DAO Medium](https://trondao.medium.com/) site doesn't provide links to sources in the blog, making it harder to fact check and analyze. Many of its sources are from Weibo posts that are inaccessible beyond the Great Firewall of China. Tron's documentation and community posts provide way less information than that of other major blockchain projects. Nevertheless, I'm make do with what I can get. > > ####**Performance and Consensus** > > **High throughput and fast finality** > > Blocks are produced every 3s with a max size of 2M bytes. Consensus is completed using DPoS with a fault tolerance of 70% (9/27) Super Respresentatives that act as validators. There are over 350 SR/validator candidates who vote on the 27 SRs each 6 hours. > > - **High Throughtput**: **Tron can reach a max throughput of 2600 TPS with full 2M blocks** and its current balance of actual transactions, which is really high for an EVM-compatible blockchain. > - My calculations used [Tronscan data](https://tronscan.org/#/blockchain/blocks): Basic TRX and token transfers use 250-500 Bandwidth. The current average bandwidth for each transaction is currently 298, which is not that much higher than the lower end for basic transactions. > - Each bandwidth is 0.850 bytes, so you can fit 7800 average transactions in a single 3s block. Tron officially claims that it can reach 2000 TPS, so they're giving a conservative estimate. > - Even filled with 350-550 bandwidth swaps for [SunswapV2Router02](https://tronscan.org/#/contract/TKzxdSv2FZKQrEqkKVgp5DcwEXBEKMg2Ax/transactions), that's 1400 TPS on the lower end. That's way faster swaps than [everything other than Algorand](https://medium.com/dragonfly-research/the-amm-test-a-no-bs-look-at-l1-performance-4c8c2129d581). > - The tradeoff is that consensus is highly centralized (only 27 validators), and that the validators have very high requirements like having 32 CPU cores and 64GB of memory. > - In comparison, Ethereum's Layer 1 in comparison, can only do ~15 TPS average (59 TPS for basic transfers, 7 TPS for Uniswap v3 swaps). > - **Fast Finality in 3s**: All 27 SRs are currently playing friendly with each other, so for all practical purposes, finality is in 3 seconds. (Deterministic finality occurs every 27 blocks, or 81 seconds). > > **Network Energy usage** > > Tron's estimated annual energy usage for 2022 is estimated to be 1.7 kWh, or the **energy usage of [15 average US households](https://decrypt.co/108115/tron-network-energy-use-matches-that-of-15-us-households-ccri-report)**. This puts it slightly lower than the consumption of Avalanche, Algorand, Cardano, and Solana's networks. Its carbon footprint is also 4x lower than the others. And it uses 100000x less energy than Bitcoin. > > ####**Ease of Basic Utility** > > **Transaction fees are covered for FREE by freezing TRX** > > Tron has a unique design for transaction fees instead of using gas. Transactions fees are divided into bandwidth (pays for data bytes) and energy (pays for computations). All transactions require bandwidth while only contracts need energy. > > The benefit is that you get **FREE bandwidth and energy by freezing TRX**, a process similar to staking. You currently receive about 28 energy and 1 bandwidth daily [per frozen TRX](https://tronstation.io/calculator). Basic smart contracts use 350 Bandwidth (requires freezing 330 TRX) and 14.7K energy (requires staking 520 TRX). At current TRX prices, **if you freeze $2500 worth of TRX, you could perform 100 free basic transactions daily**. In addition, each account receives [1.5 kb of bandwidth daily](https://developers.tron.network/docs/resource-model) (originally 5 kb) for free even without freezing TRX, which is good for ~5 transactions. Though I suspect users can abuse this by creating new accounts. > > Any transaction fees in excess of the free energy and bandwidth are burned. This is why TRX is **currently deflationary by ~0.3% annually** (excluding burns for the USDD minting process). > > **Settlement layer for Tether** > > According to Blockchain's [Sep 2022 interview with Justin Sun](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/exploring-tron-with-justin-sun-and-blockchain-com/id1536699961), **the original purpose of Tron was to act as a stablecoin settlement network and reserve network for Tether** (USDT). Sure enough, the bulk of DeFi on Tron's network deal with stablecoins. As of Sep 2022, [45% of Tether is now held on Tron](https://defillama.com/stablecoin/tether). And with Ethereum transaction fees being so high, Tron has become an attractive platform for USDT dApps. > > ####**DeFi Usages** > > **Smart Contracts** > > Tron's VM (TVM) is EVM-compatible and uses Solidity for the smart contract language. It is also Turing-complete. Thus, it's simple to rewrite EVM contracts for TVM. > > - **Tron's [DeFi TVL is massive at $5.4B](https://defillama.com/chains), putting at 3rd place after Binance Smart Chain**. > - Though it is a bit suspicious though that 99% of Tron's DeFi TVL are on 3 projects that are literally named after Justin Sun, though that could just be because it's very new. In comparison, Ethereum's DeFi is spread over hundreds of dApps. > - Tron SUN's [Liquidity Pool](https://sun.io/#/home) provides very high interest for USDD-USDT pairs at 5-70% APY. Back in June-July, you could gain triple-digit APY on Tron DeFi with stablecoins while the governance rewards boosts were still active. > > ####**Sustainable Tokenomics for TRX** > > - TRX's tokenomics have a steady, permanent issuance for validators, so it's **sustainable**. All transaction fees are burned. This isn't too different than Ethereum's tokenomics model (other than that Ethereum only burns part of the fee). > - TRX has a total circulating supply of about 92B, which is noticeably lower than their highest supply of 102B before the TRX-to-USDD minting protocol. TRX suddenly became [deflationary on Oct 27, 2021](https://tronscan.org/#/data/stats2/circulation). Supply has fallen about 10% since then due to token burns, making **TRX one of the most deflationary cryptocurrency in the top 30**. > - If we ignore the token burns from USDD minting, each day, ~5M TRX is minted, ~6M is burned (from transaction fees). **This gives net issuance of 1M TRX burned daily, or 0.3% annual deflation.** > > **Good TRX price action during the bear market** > > Tron's native token, TRX, is currently #15 in marketcap as of Sept 2022 with a [marketcap of $6B](https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/tron). Its value has held up surprisingly well during the bear market, barely falling 50% while the rest of cryptocurrencies fell closer to 70-90%. **TRX is up 2x vs Bitcoin over the past year** during the bear market, pumping especially hard right around the launch of USDD and introduction of major staking and governance boost projects. > > ####**USDD, a hybrid stablecoin without UST's flaws?** > > **USDD is a hybrid collateralized/algorithmic (seigniorage) stablecoin** launched in May 2022 on Tron's network. It is one of the biggest focuses on the Tron roadmap. It was originally designed as a purely-algorithmic stablecoin based on Terra's now-failed Luna and UST stablecoin. After the collapse of Luna UST, the Tron DAO Reserve (TDR) made several changes to USDD to avoid a similar failure: > > **Differences between UST and USDD** > > 1. The biggest difference is that USDD is 300% collateralized with 11B TRX, 14K BTC, 100M USDT, and 1M USDC [Source](https://usdd.io/). **This makes USDD one of the most collateralized stablecoins.** In comparison, DAI is only 120% collateralized, and USDT and USDC are only 100% collateralized. > 1. TDR controls how much USDD can be minted or redeemed, so it's not purely algorithmic. Thus, TDR has full power to stop it from crashing. > 1. USDD will be released in multiple phases. The current phase only allows for a minting of 2B USDD. This is to limit USDD from growing astronomically quickly like with UST. [[Source](https://trondao.medium.com/improving-usdd-from-lessons-learned-e2600d7f94ad)] > 1. You're probably wondering what's the catch. There is a Peg Stability Module (PSM) that allows minting of USDD by burning TRX. You can current burn TRX for minting USDD, but **you cannot redeem USDD for TRX** [[source](https://twitter.com/TheImmutable/status/1536930692344401921)]. There is no liquidity on any of the [PSM smart contracts](https://docs.usdd.io/psm/the-psm#psm-contracts) to trade USDD for anything else. ***** Would you like to learn more? Check out the [Cointest archive](/r/CointestOfficial/wiki/cointest_archive#wiki_tron) to find submissions for other topics.

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#TRON Pro-Arguments Below is a TRON pro-argument written by a deleted user. > ##**PROs** > > **Disclaimer**: There is little reliable information about Tron that isn't from Tron DAO or Justin Sun interviews. The official [Tron DAO Medium](https://trondao.medium.com/) site doesn't provide links to sources in the blog, making it harder to fact check and analyze. Many of its sources are from Weibo posts that are inaccessible beyond the Great Firewall of China. Tron's documentation and community posts provide way less information than that of other major blockchain projects. Nevertheless, I'm make do with what I can get. > > ####**Performance and Consensus** > > **High throughput and fast finality** > > Blocks are produced every 3s with a max size of 2M bytes. Consensus is completed using DPoS with a fault tolerance of 70% (9/27) Super Respresentatives that act as validators. There are over 350 SR/validator candidates who vote on the 27 SRs each 6 hours. > > - **High Throughtput**: **Tron can reach a max throughput of 2600 TPS with full 2M blocks** and its current balance of actual transactions, which is really high for an EVM-compatible blockchain. > - My calculations used [Tronscan data](https://tronscan.org/#/blockchain/blocks): Basic TRX and token transfers use 250-500 Bandwidth. The current average bandwidth for each transaction is currently 298, which is not that much higher than the lower end for basic transactions. > - Each bandwidth is 0.850 bytes, so you can fit 7800 average transactions in a single 3s block. Tron officially claims that it can reach 2000 TPS, so they're giving a conservative estimate. > - Even filled with 350-550 bandwidth swaps for [SunswapV2Router02](https://tronscan.org/#/contract/TKzxdSv2FZKQrEqkKVgp5DcwEXBEKMg2Ax/transactions), that's 1400 TPS on the lower end. That's way faster swaps than [everything other than Algorand](https://medium.com/dragonfly-research/the-amm-test-a-no-bs-look-at-l1-performance-4c8c2129d581). > - The tradeoff is that consensus is highly centralized (only 27 validators), and that the validators have very high requirements like having 32 CPU cores and 64GB of memory. > - In comparison, Ethereum's Layer 1 in comparison, can only do ~15 TPS average (59 TPS for basic transfers, 7 TPS for Uniswap v3 swaps). > - **Fast Finality in 3s**: All 27 SRs are currently playing friendly with each other, so for all practical purposes, finality is in 3 seconds. (Deterministic finality occurs every 27 blocks, or 81 seconds). > > **Network Energy usage** > > Tron's estimated annual energy usage for 2022 is estimated to be 1.7 kWh, or the **energy usage of [15 average US households](https://decrypt.co/108115/tron-network-energy-use-matches-that-of-15-us-households-ccri-report)**. This puts it slightly lower than the consumption of Avalanche, Algorand, Cardano, and Solana's networks. Its carbon footprint is also 4x lower than the others. And it uses 100000x less energy than Bitcoin. > > ####**Ease of Basic Utility** > > **Transaction fees are covered for FREE by freezing TRX** > > Tron has a unique design for transaction fees instead of using gas. Transactions fees are divided into bandwidth (pays for data bytes) and energy (pays for computations). All transactions require bandwidth while only contracts need energy. > > The benefit is that you get **FREE bandwidth and energy by freezing TRX**, a process similar to staking. You currently receive about 28 energy and 1 bandwidth daily [per frozen TRX](https://tronstation.io/calculator). Basic smart contracts use 350 Bandwidth (requires freezing 330 TRX) and 14.7K energy (requires staking 520 TRX). At current TRX prices, **if you freeze $2500 worth of TRX, you could perform 100 free basic transactions daily**. In addition, each account receives [1.5 kb of bandwidth daily](https://developers.tron.network/docs/resource-model) (originally 5 kb) for free even without freezing TRX, which is good for ~5 transactions. Though I suspect users can abuse this by creating new accounts. > > Any transaction fees in excess of the free energy and bandwidth are burned. This is why TRX is **currently deflationary by ~0.3% annually** (excluding burns for the USDD minting process). > > **Settlement layer for Tether** > > According to Blockchain's [Sep 2022 interview with Justin Sun](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/exploring-tron-with-justin-sun-and-blockchain-com/id1536699961), **the original purpose of Tron was to act as a stablecoin settlement network and reserve network for Tether** (USDT). Sure enough, the bulk of DeFi on Tron's network deal with stablecoins. As of Sep 2022, [45% of Tether is now held on Tron](https://defillama.com/stablecoin/tether). And with Ethereum transaction fees being so high, Tron has become an attractive platform for USDT dApps. > > ####**DeFi Usages** > > **Smart Contracts** > > Tron's VM (TVM) is EVM-compatible and uses Solidity for the smart contract language. It is also Turing-complete. Thus, it's simple to rewrite EVM contracts for TVM. > > - **Tron's [DeFi TVL is massive at $5.4B](https://defillama.com/chains), putting at 3rd place after Binance Smart Chain**. > - Though it is a bit suspicious though that 99% of Tron's DeFi TVL are on 3 projects that are literally named after Justin Sun, though that could just be because it's very new. In comparison, Ethereum's DeFi is spread over hundreds of dApps. > - Tron SUN's [Liquidity Pool](https://sun.io/#/home) provides very high interest for USDD-USDT pairs at 5-70% APY. Back in June-July, you could gain triple-digit APY on Tron DeFi with stablecoins while the governance rewards boosts were still active. > > ####**Sustainable Tokenomics for TRX** > > - TRX's tokenomics have a steady, permanent issuance for validators, so it's **sustainable**. All transaction fees are burned. This isn't too different than Ethereum's tokenomics model (other than that Ethereum only burns part of the fee). > - TRX has a total circulating supply of about 92B, which is noticeably lower than their highest supply of 102B before the TRX-to-USDD minting protocol. TRX suddenly became [deflationary on Oct 27, 2021](https://tronscan.org/#/data/stats2/circulation). Supply has fallen about 10% since then due to token burns, making **TRX one of the most deflationary cryptocurrency in the top 30**. > - If we ignore the token burns from USDD minting, each day, ~5M TRX is minted, ~6M is burned (from transaction fees). **This gives net issuance of 1M TRX burned daily, or 0.3% annual deflation.** > > **Good TRX price action during the bear market** > > Tron's native token, TRX, is currently #15 in marketcap as of Sept 2022 with a [marketcap of $6B](https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/tron). Its value has held up surprisingly well during the bear market, barely falling 50% while the rest of cryptocurrencies fell closer to 70-90%. **TRX is up 2x vs Bitcoin over the past year** during the bear market, pumping especially hard right around the launch of USDD and introduction of major staking and governance boost projects. > > ####**USDD, a hybrid stablecoin without UST's flaws?** > > **USDD is a hybrid collateralized/algorithmic (seigniorage) stablecoin** launched in May 2022 on Tron's network. It is one of the biggest focuses on the Tron roadmap. It was originally designed as a purely-algorithmic stablecoin based on Terra's now-failed Luna and UST stablecoin. After the collapse of Luna UST, the Tron DAO Reserve (TDR) made several changes to USDD to avoid a similar failure: > > **Differences between UST and USDD** > > 1. The biggest difference is that USDD is 300% collateralized with 11B TRX, 14K BTC, 100M USDT, and 1M USDC [Source](https://usdd.io/). **This makes USDD one of the most collateralized stablecoins.** In comparison, DAI is only 120% collateralized, and USDT and USDC are only 100% collateralized. > 1. TDR controls how much USDD can be minted or redeemed, so it's not purely algorithmic. Thus, TDR has full power to stop it from crashing. > 1. USDD will be released in multiple phases. The current phase only allows for a minting of 2B USDD. This is to limit USDD from growing astronomically quickly like with UST. [[Source](https://trondao.medium.com/improving-usdd-from-lessons-learned-e2600d7f94ad)] > 1. You're probably wondering what's the catch. There is a Peg Stability Module (PSM) that allows minting of USDD by burning TRX. You can current burn TRX for minting USDD, but **you cannot redeem USDD for TRX** [[source](https://twitter.com/TheImmutable/status/1536930692344401921)]. There is no liquidity on any of the [PSM smart contracts](https://docs.usdd.io/psm/the-psm#psm-contracts) to trade USDD for anything else. ***** Would you like to learn more? Check out the [Cointest archive](/r/CointestOfficial/wiki/cointest_archive#wiki_tron) to find submissions for other topics.

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#TRON Pro-Arguments Below is a TRON pro-argument written by a deleted user. > ##**PROs** > > **Disclaimer**: There is little reliable information about Tron that isn't from Tron DAO or Justin Sun interviews. The official [Tron DAO Medium](https://trondao.medium.com/) site doesn't provide links to sources in the blog, making it harder to fact check and analyze. Many of its sources are from Weibo posts that are inaccessible beyond the Great Firewall of China. Tron's documentation and community posts provide way less information than that of other major blockchain projects. Nevertheless, I'm make do with what I can get. > > ####**Performance and Consensus** > > **High throughput and fast finality** > > Blocks are produced every 3s with a max size of 2M bytes. Consensus is completed using DPoS with a fault tolerance of 70% (9/27) Super Respresentatives that act as validators. There are over 350 SR/validator candidates who vote on the 27 SRs each 6 hours. > > - **High Throughtput**: **Tron can reach a max throughput of 2600 TPS with full 2M blocks** and its current balance of actual transactions, which is really high for an EVM-compatible blockchain. > - My calculations used [Tronscan data](https://tronscan.org/#/blockchain/blocks): Basic TRX and token transfers use 250-500 Bandwidth. The current average bandwidth for each transaction is currently 298, which is not that much higher than the lower end for basic transactions. > - Each bandwidth is 0.850 bytes, so you can fit 7800 average transactions in a single 3s block. Tron officially claims that it can reach 2000 TPS, so they're giving a conservative estimate. > - Even filled with 350-550 bandwidth swaps for [SunswapV2Router02](https://tronscan.org/#/contract/TKzxdSv2FZKQrEqkKVgp5DcwEXBEKMg2Ax/transactions), that's 1400 TPS on the lower end. That's way faster swaps than [everything other than Algorand](https://medium.com/dragonfly-research/the-amm-test-a-no-bs-look-at-l1-performance-4c8c2129d581). > - The tradeoff is that consensus is highly centralized (only 27 validators), and that the validators have very high requirements like having 32 CPU cores and 64GB of memory. > - In comparison, Ethereum's Layer 1 in comparison, can only do ~15 TPS average (59 TPS for basic transfers, 7 TPS for Uniswap v3 swaps). > - **Fast Finality in 3s**: All 27 SRs are currently playing friendly with each other, so for all practical purposes, finality is in 3 seconds. (Deterministic finality occurs every 27 blocks, or 81 seconds). > > **Network Energy usage** > > Tron's estimated annual energy usage for 2022 is estimated to be 1.7 kWh, or the **energy usage of [15 average US households](https://decrypt.co/108115/tron-network-energy-use-matches-that-of-15-us-households-ccri-report)**. This puts it slightly lower than the consumption of Avalanche, Algorand, Cardano, and Solana's networks. Its carbon footprint is also 4x lower than the others. And it uses 100000x less energy than Bitcoin. > > ####**Ease of Basic Utility** > > **Transaction fees are covered for FREE by freezing TRX** > > Tron has a unique design for transaction fees instead of using gas. Transactions fees are divided into bandwidth (pays for data bytes) and energy (pays for computations). All transactions require bandwidth while only contracts need energy. > > The benefit is that you get **FREE bandwidth and energy by freezing TRX**, a process similar to staking. You currently receive about 28 energy and 1 bandwidth daily [per frozen TRX](https://tronstation.io/calculator). Basic smart contracts use 350 Bandwidth (requires freezing 330 TRX) and 14.7K energy (requires staking 520 TRX). At current TRX prices, **if you freeze $2500 worth of TRX, you could perform 100 free basic transactions daily**. In addition, each account receives [1.5 kb of bandwidth daily](https://developers.tron.network/docs/resource-model) (originally 5 kb) for free even without freezing TRX, which is good for ~5 transactions. Though I suspect users can abuse this by creating new accounts. > > Any transaction fees in excess of the free energy and bandwidth are burned. This is why TRX is **currently deflationary by ~0.3% annually** (excluding burns for the USDD minting process). > > **Settlement layer for Tether** > > According to Blockchain's [Sep 2022 interview with Justin Sun](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/exploring-tron-with-justin-sun-and-blockchain-com/id1536699961), **the original purpose of Tron was to act as a stablecoin settlement network and reserve network for Tether** (USDT). Sure enough, the bulk of DeFi on Tron's network deal with stablecoins. As of Sep 2022, [45% of Tether is now held on Tron](https://defillama.com/stablecoin/tether). And with Ethereum transaction fees being so high, Tron has become an attractive platform for USDT dApps. > > ####**DeFi Usages** > > **Smart Contracts** > > Tron's VM (TVM) is EVM-compatible and uses Solidity for the smart contract language. It is also Turing-complete. Thus, it's simple to rewrite EVM contracts for TVM. > > - **Tron's [DeFi TVL is massive at $5.4B](https://defillama.com/chains), putting at 3rd place after Binance Smart Chain**. > - Though it is a bit suspicious though that 99% of Tron's DeFi TVL are on 3 projects that are literally named after Justin Sun, though that could just be because it's very new. In comparison, Ethereum's DeFi is spread over hundreds of dApps. > - Tron SUN's [Liquidity Pool](https://sun.io/#/home) provides very high interest for USDD-USDT pairs at 5-70% APY. Back in June-July, you could gain triple-digit APY on Tron DeFi with stablecoins while the governance rewards boosts were still active. > > ####**Sustainable Tokenomics for TRX** > > - TRX's tokenomics have a steady, permanent issuance for validators, so it's **sustainable**. All transaction fees are burned. This isn't too different than Ethereum's tokenomics model (other than that Ethereum only burns part of the fee). > - TRX has a total circulating supply of about 92B, which is noticeably lower than their highest supply of 102B before the TRX-to-USDD minting protocol. TRX suddenly became [deflationary on Oct 27, 2021](https://tronscan.org/#/data/stats2/circulation). Supply has fallen about 10% since then due to token burns, making **TRX one of the most deflationary cryptocurrency in the top 30**. > - If we ignore the token burns from USDD minting, each day, ~5M TRX is minted, ~6M is burned (from transaction fees). **This gives net issuance of 1M TRX burned daily, or 0.3% annual deflation.** > > **Good TRX price action during the bear market** > > Tron's native token, TRX, is currently #15 in marketcap as of Sept 2022 with a [marketcap of $6B](https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/tron). Its value has held up surprisingly well during the bear market, barely falling 50% while the rest of cryptocurrencies fell closer to 70-90%. **TRX is up 2x vs Bitcoin over the past year** during the bear market, pumping especially hard right around the launch of USDD and introduction of major staking and governance boost projects. > > ####**USDD, a hybrid stablecoin without UST's flaws?** > > **USDD is a hybrid collateralized/algorithmic (seigniorage) stablecoin** launched in May 2022 on Tron's network. It is one of the biggest focuses on the Tron roadmap. It was originally designed as a purely-algorithmic stablecoin based on Terra's now-failed Luna and UST stablecoin. After the collapse of Luna UST, the Tron DAO Reserve (TDR) made several changes to USDD to avoid a similar failure: > > **Differences between UST and USDD** > > 1. The biggest difference is that USDD is 300% collateralized with 11B TRX, 14K BTC, 100M USDT, and 1M USDC [Source](https://usdd.io/). **This makes USDD one of the most collateralized stablecoins.** In comparison, DAI is only 120% collateralized, and USDT and USDC are only 100% collateralized. > 1. TDR controls how much USDD can be minted or redeemed, so it's not purely algorithmic. Thus, TDR has full power to stop it from crashing. > 1. USDD will be released in multiple phases. The current phase only allows for a minting of 2B USDD. This is to limit USDD from growing astronomically quickly like with UST. [[Source](https://trondao.medium.com/improving-usdd-from-lessons-learned-e2600d7f94ad)] > 1. You're probably wondering what's the catch. There is a Peg Stability Module (PSM) that allows minting of USDD by burning TRX. You can current burn TRX for minting USDD, but **you cannot redeem USDD for TRX** [[source](https://twitter.com/TheImmutable/status/1536930692344401921)]. There is no liquidity on any of the [PSM smart contracts](https://docs.usdd.io/psm/the-psm#psm-contracts) to trade USDD for anything else. ***** Would you like to learn more? Check out the [Cointest archive](/r/CointestOfficial/wiki/cointest_archive#wiki_tron) to find submissions for other topics.

HSuke

Algorand was the darling of the community years ago, and Tron was hated. Somehow Tron is doing super well with the highest TVL and transaction fee revenue besides Ethereum. And this is despite giving 100% yield on its USDD stablecoin, which didn't implode. There is some lesson to be learned from this, but I'm not sure what it is. Maybe we need more members with insight into Chinese communities where Tron is popular.

CointestMod

#TRON Con-Arguments Below is a TRON con-argument written by CreepToeCurrentSea. > TRON is a decentralized, open-source blockchain-based operating system with smart contract functionality, a proof-of-stake consensus algorithm, and its own cryptocurrency, Tronix (TRX). Justin Sun founded it in March 2014, and it has been overseen and supervised by the TRON Foundation, a non-profit organization in Singapore founded the same year. It began as an Ethereum-based ERC-20 token before migrating to its own blockchain in 2018. > > # CONS > > **Whitepaper Plagiarism** > > In January 2018, Tron's developers were accused of plagiarism after many sections of the Tron whitepaper appeared nearly identical to IPFS and Filecoin technical documentation. IPFS is an acronym for InterPlanetary File System. Juan Benet, CEO of Protocol Labs, which develops IFPS tools and services, revealed on Twitter in early January 2018 that Tron's whitepaper authors did not properly cite references and that the document was "mostly copied" from other projects. Even the equations and formulas mentioned in the first version of Tron's whitepaper were identical to those found in IPFS documentation. Sun claimed to have a "very detailed" reference to the most recent Chinese version of the Tron whitepaper. He also claimed that the Tron paper was translated into other languages by volunteers who may have overlooked important details. Just as Vitalik had also sarcastically said in twitter regarding the teams copy-pasting abilities, this just goes to show how un-genuine their team appears even making the most basic of mistakes. > > **Question of Vulnerability** > > A barrage of requests sent by a single PC could be used to squeeze the power of the blockchain's CPU, overload the memory, and perform a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, according to HackerOne. "Using a single machine, an attacker could send DDOS attack to all or 51 percent of the Super Representative (SR) node and render Tron network unusable or unavailable," the claim goes. While TRON is somewhat better in marketing compared to other cryptocurrencies, it falls short on one of the most important pillars for an effective one, that of which is security. To hinder a blockchain with just one computer is the polar opposite of what you want a cryptocurrency to be. > > **Un-Stablecoin** > > TRON's native stablecoin "USDD" de-pegged to the US dollar earlier this year, falling to as low as 91 cents. Its design is uncannily similar to Terra's stablecoin, UST, which lost its price peg and imploded a month ago, wiping out $40 billion in market value. If it continues to follow UST's path considering how similar they are in function and structure, one could assume they also have a ticking algorithmic time bomb in the making. > > **Final Thoughts** > > It seems that TRON has a knack for idolizing (to the point of almost copying their work) other projects both in and out of the crypto-sphere. What I do hope is that they also know what not absorb. Else, they have nothing but a mushed up bowl of their favorite things and just decided it would stick together with glue and duct tape. > > Sources: > > [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron\_(cryptocurrency)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_(cryptocurrency)) > > [https://cryptoslate.com/justin-suns-controversies-plagiarism-teslas-warren-buffett-kidney-stones-and-a-deleted-apology/](https://cryptoslate.com/justin-suns-controversies-plagiarism-teslas-warren-buffett-kidney-stones-and-a-deleted-apology/) > > [https://www.inverse.com/article/40050-tron-trx-cryptocurrency-plagiarism-scandal](https://www.inverse.com/article/40050-tron-trx-cryptocurrency-plagiarism-scandal) > > [https://www.zdnet.com/article/tron-critical-security-flaw-could-break-the-entire-blockchain/](https://www.zdnet.com/article/tron-critical-security-flaw-could-break-the-entire-blockchain/) > > [https://fortune.com/2022/06/13/algorithmic-stablecoin-usdd-loses-peg-justin-sun-tron-decentralized-usd/](https://fortune.com/2022/06/13/algorithmic-stablecoin-usdd-loses-peg-justin-sun-tron-decentralized-usd/) ***** Would you like to learn more? Check out the [Cointest archive](/r/CointestOfficial/wiki/cointest_archive#wiki_tron) to find submissions for other topics.

CointestMod

#TRON Pro-Arguments Below is a TRON pro-argument written by a deleted user. > ##**PROs** > > **Disclaimer**: There is little reliable information about Tron that isn't from Tron DAO or Justin Sun interviews. The official [Tron DAO Medium](https://trondao.medium.com/) site doesn't provide links to sources in the blog, making it harder to fact check and analyze. Many of its sources are from Weibo posts that are inaccessible beyond the Great Firewall of China. Tron's documentation and community posts provide way less information than that of other major blockchain projects. Nevertheless, I'm make do with what I can get. > > ####**Performance and Consensus** > > **High throughput and fast finality** > > Blocks are produced every 3s with a max size of 2M bytes. Consensus is completed using DPoS with a fault tolerance of 70% (9/27) Super Respresentatives that act as validators. There are over 350 SR/validator candidates who vote on the 27 SRs each 6 hours. > > - **High Throughtput**: **Tron can reach a max throughput of 2600 TPS with full 2M blocks** and its current balance of actual transactions, which is really high for an EVM-compatible blockchain. > - My calculations used [Tronscan data](https://tronscan.org/#/blockchain/blocks): Basic TRX and token transfers use 250-500 Bandwidth. The current average bandwidth for each transaction is currently 298, which is not that much higher than the lower end for basic transactions. > - Each bandwidth is 0.850 bytes, so you can fit 7800 average transactions in a single 3s block. Tron officially claims that it can reach 2000 TPS, so they're giving a conservative estimate. > - Even filled with 350-550 bandwidth swaps for [SunswapV2Router02](https://tronscan.org/#/contract/TKzxdSv2FZKQrEqkKVgp5DcwEXBEKMg2Ax/transactions), that's 1400 TPS on the lower end. That's way faster swaps than [everything other than Algorand](https://medium.com/dragonfly-research/the-amm-test-a-no-bs-look-at-l1-performance-4c8c2129d581). > - The tradeoff is that consensus is highly centralized (only 27 validators), and that the validators have very high requirements like having 32 CPU cores and 64GB of memory. > - In comparison, Ethereum's Layer 1 in comparison, can only do ~15 TPS average (59 TPS for basic transfers, 7 TPS for Uniswap v3 swaps). > - **Fast Finality in 3s**: All 27 SRs are currently playing friendly with each other, so for all practical purposes, finality is in 3 seconds. (Deterministic finality occurs every 27 blocks, or 81 seconds). > > **Network Energy usage** > > Tron's estimated annual energy usage for 2022 is estimated to be 1.7 kWh, or the **energy usage of [15 average US households](https://decrypt.co/108115/tron-network-energy-use-matches-that-of-15-us-households-ccri-report)**. This puts it slightly lower than the consumption of Avalanche, Algorand, Cardano, and Solana's networks. Its carbon footprint is also 4x lower than the others. And it uses 100000x less energy than Bitcoin. > > ####**Ease of Basic Utility** > > **Transaction fees are covered for FREE by freezing TRX** > > Tron has a unique design for transaction fees instead of using gas. Transactions fees are divided into bandwidth (pays for data bytes) and energy (pays for computations). All transactions require bandwidth while only contracts need energy. > > The benefit is that you get **FREE bandwidth and energy by freezing TRX**, a process similar to staking. You currently receive about 28 energy and 1 bandwidth daily [per frozen TRX](https://tronstation.io/calculator). Basic smart contracts use 350 Bandwidth (requires freezing 330 TRX) and 14.7K energy (requires staking 520 TRX). At current TRX prices, **if you freeze $2500 worth of TRX, you could perform 100 free basic transactions daily**. In addition, each account receives [1.5 kb of bandwidth daily](https://developers.tron.network/docs/resource-model) (originally 5 kb) for free even without freezing TRX, which is good for ~5 transactions. Though I suspect users can abuse this by creating new accounts. > > Any transaction fees in excess of the free energy and bandwidth are burned. This is why TRX is **currently deflationary by ~0.3% annually** (excluding burns for the USDD minting process). > > **Settlement layer for Tether** > > According to Blockchain's [Sep 2022 interview with Justin Sun](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/exploring-tron-with-justin-sun-and-blockchain-com/id1536699961), **the original purpose of Tron was to act as a stablecoin settlement network and reserve network for Tether** (USDT). Sure enough, the bulk of DeFi on Tron's network deal with stablecoins. As of Sep 2022, [45% of Tether is now held on Tron](https://defillama.com/stablecoin/tether). And with Ethereum transaction fees being so high, Tron has become an attractive platform for USDT dApps. > > ####**DeFi Usages** > > **Smart Contracts** > > Tron's VM (TVM) is EVM-compatible and uses Solidity for the smart contract language. It is also Turing-complete. Thus, it's simple to rewrite EVM contracts for TVM. > > - **Tron's [DeFi TVL is massive at $5.4B](https://defillama.com/chains), putting at 3rd place after Binance Smart Chain**. > - Though it is a bit suspicious though that 99% of Tron's DeFi TVL are on 3 projects that are literally named after Justin Sun, though that could just be because it's very new. In comparison, Ethereum's DeFi is spread over hundreds of dApps. > - Tron SUN's [Liquidity Pool](https://sun.io/#/home) provides very high interest for USDD-USDT pairs at 5-70% APY. Back in June-July, you could gain triple-digit APY on Tron DeFi with stablecoins while the governance rewards boosts were still active. > > ####**Sustainable Tokenomics for TRX** > > - TRX's tokenomics have a steady, permanent issuance for validators, so it's **sustainable**. All transaction fees are burned. This isn't too different than Ethereum's tokenomics model (other than that Ethereum only burns part of the fee). > - TRX has a total circulating supply of about 92B, which is noticeably lower than their highest supply of 102B before the TRX-to-USDD minting protocol. TRX suddenly became [deflationary on Oct 27, 2021](https://tronscan.org/#/data/stats2/circulation). Supply has fallen about 10% since then due to token burns, making **TRX one of the most deflationary cryptocurrency in the top 30**. > - If we ignore the token burns from USDD minting, each day, ~5M TRX is minted, ~6M is burned (from transaction fees). **This gives net issuance of 1M TRX burned daily, or 0.3% annual deflation.** > > **Good TRX price action during the bear market** > > Tron's native token, TRX, is currently #15 in marketcap as of Sept 2022 with a [marketcap of $6B](https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/tron). Its value has held up surprisingly well during the bear market, barely falling 50% while the rest of cryptocurrencies fell closer to 70-90%. **TRX is up 2x vs Bitcoin over the past year** during the bear market, pumping especially hard right around the launch of USDD and introduction of major staking and governance boost projects. > > ####**USDD, a hybrid stablecoin without UST's flaws?** > > **USDD is a hybrid collateralized/algorithmic (seigniorage) stablecoin** launched in May 2022 on Tron's network. It is one of the biggest focuses on the Tron roadmap. It was originally designed as a purely-algorithmic stablecoin based on Terra's now-failed Luna and UST stablecoin. After the collapse of Luna UST, the Tron DAO Reserve (TDR) made several changes to USDD to avoid a similar failure: > > **Differences between UST and USDD** > > 1. The biggest difference is that USDD is 300% collateralized with 11B TRX, 14K BTC, 100M USDT, and 1M USDC [Source](https://usdd.io/). **This makes USDD one of the most collateralized stablecoins.** In comparison, DAI is only 120% collateralized, and USDT and USDC are only 100% collateralized. > 1. TDR controls how much USDD can be minted or redeemed, so it's not purely algorithmic. Thus, TDR has full power to stop it from crashing. > 1. USDD will be released in multiple phases. The current phase only allows for a minting of 2B USDD. This is to limit USDD from growing astronomically quickly like with UST. [[Source](https://trondao.medium.com/improving-usdd-from-lessons-learned-e2600d7f94ad)] > 1. You're probably wondering what's the catch. There is a Peg Stability Module (PSM) that allows minting of USDD by burning TRX. You can current burn TRX for minting USDD, but **you cannot redeem USDD for TRX** [[source](https://twitter.com/TheImmutable/status/1536930692344401921)]. There is no liquidity on any of the [PSM smart contracts](https://docs.usdd.io/psm/the-psm#psm-contracts) to trade USDD for anything else. ***** Would you like to learn more? Check out the [Cointest archive](/r/CointestOfficial/wiki/cointest_archive#wiki_tron) to find submissions for other topics.

CointestMod

#TRON Pro-Arguments Below is a TRON pro-argument written by a deleted user. > ##**PROs** > > **Disclaimer**: There is little reliable information about Tron that isn't from Tron DAO or Justin Sun interviews. The official [Tron DAO Medium](https://trondao.medium.com/) site doesn't provide links to sources in the blog, making it harder to fact check and analyze. Many of its sources are from Weibo posts that are inaccessible beyond the Great Firewall of China. Tron's documentation and community posts provide way less information than that of other major blockchain projects. Nevertheless, I'm make do with what I can get. > > ####**Performance and Consensus** > > **High throughput and fast finality** > > Blocks are produced every 3s with a max size of 2M bytes. Consensus is completed using DPoS with a fault tolerance of 70% (9/27) Super Respresentatives that act as validators. There are over 350 SR/validator candidates who vote on the 27 SRs each 6 hours. > > - **High Throughtput**: **Tron can reach a max throughput of 2600 TPS with full 2M blocks** and its current balance of actual transactions, which is really high for an EVM-compatible blockchain. > - My calculations used [Tronscan data](https://tronscan.org/#/blockchain/blocks): Basic TRX and token transfers use 250-500 Bandwidth. The current average bandwidth for each transaction is currently 298, which is not that much higher than the lower end for basic transactions. > - Each bandwidth is 0.850 bytes, so you can fit 7800 average transactions in a single 3s block. Tron officially claims that it can reach 2000 TPS, so they're giving a conservative estimate. > - Even filled with 350-550 bandwidth swaps for [SunswapV2Router02](https://tronscan.org/#/contract/TKzxdSv2FZKQrEqkKVgp5DcwEXBEKMg2Ax/transactions), that's 1400 TPS on the lower end. That's way faster swaps than [everything other than Algorand](https://medium.com/dragonfly-research/the-amm-test-a-no-bs-look-at-l1-performance-4c8c2129d581). > - The tradeoff is that consensus is highly centralized (only 27 validators), and that the validators have very high requirements like having 32 CPU cores and 64GB of memory. > - In comparison, Ethereum's Layer 1 in comparison, can only do ~15 TPS average (59 TPS for basic transfers, 7 TPS for Uniswap v3 swaps). > - **Fast Finality in 3s**: All 27 SRs are currently playing friendly with each other, so for all practical purposes, finality is in 3 seconds. (Deterministic finality occurs every 27 blocks, or 81 seconds). > > **Network Energy usage** > > Tron's estimated annual energy usage for 2022 is estimated to be 1.7 kWh, or the **energy usage of [15 average US households](https://decrypt.co/108115/tron-network-energy-use-matches-that-of-15-us-households-ccri-report)**. This puts it slightly lower than the consumption of Avalanche, Algorand, Cardano, and Solana's networks. Its carbon footprint is also 4x lower than the others. And it uses 100000x less energy than Bitcoin. > > ####**Ease of Basic Utility** > > **Transaction fees are covered for FREE by freezing TRX** > > Tron has a unique design for transaction fees instead of using gas. Transactions fees are divided into bandwidth (pays for data bytes) and energy (pays for computations). All transactions require bandwidth while only contracts need energy. > > The benefit is that you get **FREE bandwidth and energy by freezing TRX**, a process similar to staking. You currently receive about 28 energy and 1 bandwidth daily [per frozen TRX](https://tronstation.io/calculator). Basic smart contracts use 350 Bandwidth (requires freezing 330 TRX) and 14.7K energy (requires staking 520 TRX). At current TRX prices, **if you freeze $2500 worth of TRX, you could perform 100 free basic transactions daily**. In addition, each account receives [1.5 kb of bandwidth daily](https://developers.tron.network/docs/resource-model) (originally 5 kb) for free even without freezing TRX, which is good for ~5 transactions. Though I suspect users can abuse this by creating new accounts. > > Any transaction fees in excess of the free energy and bandwidth are burned. This is why TRX is **currently deflationary by ~0.3% annually** (excluding burns for the USDD minting process). > > **Settlement layer for Tether** > > According to Blockchain's [Sep 2022 interview with Justin Sun](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/exploring-tron-with-justin-sun-and-blockchain-com/id1536699961), **the original purpose of Tron was to act as a stablecoin settlement network and reserve network for Tether** (USDT). Sure enough, the bulk of DeFi on Tron's network deal with stablecoins. As of Sep 2022, [45% of Tether is now held on Tron](https://defillama.com/stablecoin/tether). And with Ethereum transaction fees being so high, Tron has become an attractive platform for USDT dApps. > > ####**DeFi Usages** > > **Smart Contracts** > > Tron's VM (TVM) is EVM-compatible and uses Solidity for the smart contract language. It is also Turing-complete. Thus, it's simple to rewrite EVM contracts for TVM. > > - **Tron's [DeFi TVL is massive at $5.4B](https://defillama.com/chains), putting at 3rd place after Binance Smart Chain**. > - Though it is a bit suspicious though that 99% of Tron's DeFi TVL are on 3 projects that are literally named after Justin Sun, though that could just be because it's very new. In comparison, Ethereum's DeFi is spread over hundreds of dApps. > - Tron SUN's [Liquidity Pool](https://sun.io/#/home) provides very high interest for USDD-USDT pairs at 5-70% APY. Back in June-July, you could gain triple-digit APY on Tron DeFi with stablecoins while the governance rewards boosts were still active. > > ####**Sustainable Tokenomics for TRX** > > - TRX's tokenomics have a steady, permanent issuance for validators, so it's **sustainable**. All transaction fees are burned. This isn't too different than Ethereum's tokenomics model (other than that Ethereum only burns part of the fee). > - TRX has a total circulating supply of about 92B, which is noticeably lower than their highest supply of 102B before the TRX-to-USDD minting protocol. TRX suddenly became [deflationary on Oct 27, 2021](https://tronscan.org/#/data/stats2/circulation). Supply has fallen about 10% since then due to token burns, making **TRX one of the most deflationary cryptocurrency in the top 30**. > - If we ignore the token burns from USDD minting, each day, ~5M TRX is minted, ~6M is burned (from transaction fees). **This gives net issuance of 1M TRX burned daily, or 0.3% annual deflation.** > > **Good TRX price action during the bear market** > > Tron's native token, TRX, is currently #15 in marketcap as of Sept 2022 with a [marketcap of $6B](https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/tron). Its value has held up surprisingly well during the bear market, barely falling 50% while the rest of cryptocurrencies fell closer to 70-90%. **TRX is up 2x vs Bitcoin over the past year** during the bear market, pumping especially hard right around the launch of USDD and introduction of major staking and governance boost projects. > > ####**USDD, a hybrid stablecoin without UST's flaws?** > > **USDD is a hybrid collateralized/algorithmic (seigniorage) stablecoin** launched in May 2022 on Tron's network. It is one of the biggest focuses on the Tron roadmap. It was originally designed as a purely-algorithmic stablecoin based on Terra's now-failed Luna and UST stablecoin. After the collapse of Luna UST, the Tron DAO Reserve (TDR) made several changes to USDD to avoid a similar failure: > > **Differences between UST and USDD** > > 1. The biggest difference is that USDD is 300% collateralized with 11B TRX, 14K BTC, 100M USDT, and 1M USDC [Source](https://usdd.io/). **This makes USDD one of the most collateralized stablecoins.** In comparison, DAI is only 120% collateralized, and USDT and USDC are only 100% collateralized. > 1. TDR controls how much USDD can be minted or redeemed, so it's not purely algorithmic. Thus, TDR has full power to stop it from crashing. > 1. USDD will be released in multiple phases. The current phase only allows for a minting of 2B USDD. This is to limit USDD from growing astronomically quickly like with UST. [[Source](https://trondao.medium.com/improving-usdd-from-lessons-learned-e2600d7f94ad)] > 1. You're probably wondering what's the catch. There is a Peg Stability Module (PSM) that allows minting of USDD by burning TRX. You can current burn TRX for minting USDD, but **you cannot redeem USDD for TRX** [[source](https://twitter.com/TheImmutable/status/1536930692344401921)]. There is no liquidity on any of the [PSM smart contracts](https://docs.usdd.io/psm/the-psm#psm-contracts) to trade USDD for anything else. ***** Would you like to learn more? Check out the [Cointest archive](/r/CointestOfficial/wiki/cointest_archive#wiki_tron) to find submissions for other topics.

pokeholo23

USDD has been depegged for a while now :c Do you short it or do you try to make a free 1%

CointestMod

#TRON Con-Arguments Below is a TRON con-argument written by CreepToeCurrentSea. > TRON is a decentralized, open-source blockchain-based operating system with smart contract functionality, a proof-of-stake consensus algorithm, and its own cryptocurrency, Tronix (TRX). Justin Sun founded it in March 2014, and it has been overseen and supervised by the TRON Foundation, a non-profit organization in Singapore founded the same year. It began as an Ethereum-based ERC-20 token before migrating to its own blockchain in 2018. > > # CONS > > **Whitepaper Plagiarism** > > In January 2018, Tron's developers were accused of plagiarism after many sections of the Tron whitepaper appeared nearly identical to IPFS and Filecoin technical documentation. IPFS is an acronym for InterPlanetary File System. Juan Benet, CEO of Protocol Labs, which develops IFPS tools and services, revealed on Twitter in early January 2018 that Tron's whitepaper authors did not properly cite references and that the document was "mostly copied" from other projects. Even the equations and formulas mentioned in the first version of Tron's whitepaper were identical to those found in IPFS documentation. Sun claimed to have a "very detailed" reference to the most recent Chinese version of the Tron whitepaper. He also claimed that the Tron paper was translated into other languages by volunteers who may have overlooked important details. Just as Vitalik had also sarcastically said in twitter regarding the teams copy-pasting abilities, this just goes to show how un-genuine their team appears even making the most basic of mistakes. > > **Question of Vulnerability** > > A barrage of requests sent by a single PC could be used to squeeze the power of the blockchain's CPU, overload the memory, and perform a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, according to HackerOne. "Using a single machine, an attacker could send DDOS attack to all or 51 percent of the Super Representative (SR) node and render Tron network unusable or unavailable," the claim goes. While TRON is somewhat better in marketing compared to other cryptocurrencies, it falls short on one of the most important pillars for an effective one, that of which is security. To hinder a blockchain with just one computer is the polar opposite of what you want a cryptocurrency to be. > > **Un-Stablecoin** > > TRON's native stablecoin "USDD" de-pegged to the US dollar earlier this year, falling to as low as 91 cents. Its design is uncannily similar to Terra's stablecoin, UST, which lost its price peg and imploded a month ago, wiping out $40 billion in market value. If it continues to follow UST's path considering how similar they are in function and structure, one could assume they also have a ticking algorithmic time bomb in the making. > > **Final Thoughts** > > It seems that TRON has a knack for idolizing (to the point of almost copying their work) other projects both in and out of the crypto-sphere. What I do hope is that they also know what not absorb. Else, they have nothing but a mushed up bowl of their favorite things and just decided it would stick together with glue and duct tape. > > Sources: > > [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron\_(cryptocurrency)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_(cryptocurrency)) > > [https://cryptoslate.com/justin-suns-controversies-plagiarism-teslas-warren-buffett-kidney-stones-and-a-deleted-apology/](https://cryptoslate.com/justin-suns-controversies-plagiarism-teslas-warren-buffett-kidney-stones-and-a-deleted-apology/) > > [https://www.inverse.com/article/40050-tron-trx-cryptocurrency-plagiarism-scandal](https://www.inverse.com/article/40050-tron-trx-cryptocurrency-plagiarism-scandal) > > [https://www.zdnet.com/article/tron-critical-security-flaw-could-break-the-entire-blockchain/](https://www.zdnet.com/article/tron-critical-security-flaw-could-break-the-entire-blockchain/) > > [https://fortune.com/2022/06/13/algorithmic-stablecoin-usdd-loses-peg-justin-sun-tron-decentralized-usd/](https://fortune.com/2022/06/13/algorithmic-stablecoin-usdd-loses-peg-justin-sun-tron-decentralized-usd/) ***** Would you like to learn more? Check out the [Cointest archive](/r/CointestOfficial/wiki/cointest_archive#wiki_tron) to find submissions for other topics.

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#TRON Con-Arguments Below is a TRON con-argument written by CreepToeCurrentSea. > TRON is a decentralized, open-source blockchain-based operating system with smart contract functionality, a proof-of-stake consensus algorithm, and its own cryptocurrency, Tronix (TRX). Justin Sun founded it in March 2014, and it has been overseen and supervised by the TRON Foundation, a non-profit organization in Singapore founded the same year. It began as an Ethereum-based ERC-20 token before migrating to its own blockchain in 2018. > > # CONS > > **Whitepaper Plagiarism** > > In January 2018, Tron's developers were accused of plagiarism after many sections of the Tron whitepaper appeared nearly identical to IPFS and Filecoin technical documentation. IPFS is an acronym for InterPlanetary File System. Juan Benet, CEO of Protocol Labs, which develops IFPS tools and services, revealed on Twitter in early January 2018 that Tron's whitepaper authors did not properly cite references and that the document was "mostly copied" from other projects. Even the equations and formulas mentioned in the first version of Tron's whitepaper were identical to those found in IPFS documentation. Sun claimed to have a "very detailed" reference to the most recent Chinese version of the Tron whitepaper. He also claimed that the Tron paper was translated into other languages by volunteers who may have overlooked important details. Just as Vitalik had also sarcastically said in twitter regarding the teams copy-pasting abilities, this just goes to show how un-genuine their team appears even making the most basic of mistakes. > > **Question of Vulnerability** > > A barrage of requests sent by a single PC could be used to squeeze the power of the blockchain's CPU, overload the memory, and perform a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, according to HackerOne. "Using a single machine, an attacker could send DDOS attack to all or 51 percent of the Super Representative (SR) node and render Tron network unusable or unavailable," the claim goes. While TRON is somewhat better in marketing compared to other cryptocurrencies, it falls short on one of the most important pillars for an effective one, that of which is security. To hinder a blockchain with just one computer is the polar opposite of what you want a cryptocurrency to be. > > **Un-Stablecoin** > > TRON's native stablecoin "USDD" de-pegged to the US dollar earlier this year, falling to as low as 91 cents. Its design is uncannily similar to Terra's stablecoin, UST, which lost its price peg and imploded a month ago, wiping out $40 billion in market value. If it continues to follow UST's path considering how similar they are in function and structure, one could assume they also have a ticking algorithmic time bomb in the making. > > **Final Thoughts** > > It seems that TRON has a knack for idolizing (to the point of almost copying their work) other projects both in and out of the crypto-sphere. What I do hope is that they also know what not absorb. Else, they have nothing but a mushed up bowl of their favorite things and just decided it would stick together with glue and duct tape. > > Sources: > > [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron\_(cryptocurrency)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_(cryptocurrency)) > > [https://cryptoslate.com/justin-suns-controversies-plagiarism-teslas-warren-buffett-kidney-stones-and-a-deleted-apology/](https://cryptoslate.com/justin-suns-controversies-plagiarism-teslas-warren-buffett-kidney-stones-and-a-deleted-apology/) > > [https://www.inverse.com/article/40050-tron-trx-cryptocurrency-plagiarism-scandal](https://www.inverse.com/article/40050-tron-trx-cryptocurrency-plagiarism-scandal) > > [https://www.zdnet.com/article/tron-critical-security-flaw-could-break-the-entire-blockchain/](https://www.zdnet.com/article/tron-critical-security-flaw-could-break-the-entire-blockchain/) > > [https://fortune.com/2022/06/13/algorithmic-stablecoin-usdd-loses-peg-justin-sun-tron-decentralized-usd/](https://fortune.com/2022/06/13/algorithmic-stablecoin-usdd-loses-peg-justin-sun-tron-decentralized-usd/) ***** Would you like to learn more? Check out the [Cointest archive](/r/CointestOfficial/wiki/cointest_archive#wiki_tron) to find submissions for other topics.

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#TRON Con-Arguments Below is a TRON con-argument written by CreepToeCurrentSea. > TRON is a decentralized, open-source blockchain-based operating system with smart contract functionality, a proof-of-stake consensus algorithm, and its own cryptocurrency, Tronix (TRX). Justin Sun founded it in March 2014, and it has been overseen and supervised by the TRON Foundation, a non-profit organization in Singapore founded the same year. It began as an Ethereum-based ERC-20 token before migrating to its own blockchain in 2018. > > # CONS > > **Whitepaper Plagiarism** > > In January 2018, Tron's developers were accused of plagiarism after many sections of the Tron whitepaper appeared nearly identical to IPFS and Filecoin technical documentation. IPFS is an acronym for InterPlanetary File System. Juan Benet, CEO of Protocol Labs, which develops IFPS tools and services, revealed on Twitter in early January 2018 that Tron's whitepaper authors did not properly cite references and that the document was "mostly copied" from other projects. Even the equations and formulas mentioned in the first version of Tron's whitepaper were identical to those found in IPFS documentation. Sun claimed to have a "very detailed" reference to the most recent Chinese version of the Tron whitepaper. He also claimed that the Tron paper was translated into other languages by volunteers who may have overlooked important details. Just as Vitalik had also sarcastically said in twitter regarding the teams copy-pasting abilities, this just goes to show how un-genuine their team appears even making the most basic of mistakes. > > **Question of Vulnerability** > > A barrage of requests sent by a single PC could be used to squeeze the power of the blockchain's CPU, overload the memory, and perform a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, according to HackerOne. "Using a single machine, an attacker could send DDOS attack to all or 51 percent of the Super Representative (SR) node and render Tron network unusable or unavailable," the claim goes. While TRON is somewhat better in marketing compared to other cryptocurrencies, it falls short on one of the most important pillars for an effective one, that of which is security. To hinder a blockchain with just one computer is the polar opposite of what you want a cryptocurrency to be. > > **Un-Stablecoin** > > TRON's native stablecoin "USDD" de-pegged to the US dollar earlier this year, falling to as low as 91 cents. Its design is uncannily similar to Terra's stablecoin, UST, which lost its price peg and imploded a month ago, wiping out $40 billion in market value. If it continues to follow UST's path considering how similar they are in function and structure, one could assume they also have a ticking algorithmic time bomb in the making. > > **Final Thoughts** > > It seems that TRON has a knack for idolizing (to the point of almost copying their work) other projects both in and out of the crypto-sphere. What I do hope is that they also know what not absorb. Else, they have nothing but a mushed up bowl of their favorite things and just decided it would stick together with glue and duct tape. > > Sources: > > [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron\_(cryptocurrency)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_(cryptocurrency)) > > [https://cryptoslate.com/justin-suns-controversies-plagiarism-teslas-warren-buffett-kidney-stones-and-a-deleted-apology/](https://cryptoslate.com/justin-suns-controversies-plagiarism-teslas-warren-buffett-kidney-stones-and-a-deleted-apology/) > > [https://www.inverse.com/article/40050-tron-trx-cryptocurrency-plagiarism-scandal](https://www.inverse.com/article/40050-tron-trx-cryptocurrency-plagiarism-scandal) > > [https://www.zdnet.com/article/tron-critical-security-flaw-could-break-the-entire-blockchain/](https://www.zdnet.com/article/tron-critical-security-flaw-could-break-the-entire-blockchain/) > > [https://fortune.com/2022/06/13/algorithmic-stablecoin-usdd-loses-peg-justin-sun-tron-decentralized-usd/](https://fortune.com/2022/06/13/algorithmic-stablecoin-usdd-loses-peg-justin-sun-tron-decentralized-usd/) ***** Would you like to learn more? Check out the [Cointest archive](/r/CointestOfficial/wiki/cointest_archive#wiki_tron) to find submissions for other topics.

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#TRON Con-Arguments Below is a TRON con-argument written by CreepToeCurrentSea. > TRON is a decentralized, open-source blockchain-based operating system with smart contract functionality, a proof-of-stake consensus algorithm, and its own cryptocurrency, Tronix (TRX). Justin Sun founded it in March 2014, and it has been overseen and supervised by the TRON Foundation, a non-profit organization in Singapore founded the same year. It began as an Ethereum-based ERC-20 token before migrating to its own blockchain in 2018. > > # CONS > > **Whitepaper Plagiarism** > > In January 2018, Tron's developers were accused of plagiarism after many sections of the Tron whitepaper appeared nearly identical to IPFS and Filecoin technical documentation. IPFS is an acronym for InterPlanetary File System. Juan Benet, CEO of Protocol Labs, which develops IFPS tools and services, revealed on Twitter in early January 2018 that Tron's whitepaper authors did not properly cite references and that the document was "mostly copied" from other projects. Even the equations and formulas mentioned in the first version of Tron's whitepaper were identical to those found in IPFS documentation. Sun claimed to have a "very detailed" reference to the most recent Chinese version of the Tron whitepaper. He also claimed that the Tron paper was translated into other languages by volunteers who may have overlooked important details. Just as Vitalik had also sarcastically said in twitter regarding the teams copy-pasting abilities, this just goes to show how un-genuine their team appears even making the most basic of mistakes. > > **Question of Vulnerability** > > A barrage of requests sent by a single PC could be used to squeeze the power of the blockchain's CPU, overload the memory, and perform a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, according to HackerOne. "Using a single machine, an attacker could send DDOS attack to all or 51 percent of the Super Representative (SR) node and render Tron network unusable or unavailable," the claim goes. While TRON is somewhat better in marketing compared to other cryptocurrencies, it falls short on one of the most important pillars for an effective one, that of which is security. To hinder a blockchain with just one computer is the polar opposite of what you want a cryptocurrency to be. > > **Un-Stablecoin** > > TRON's native stablecoin "USDD" de-pegged to the US dollar earlier this year, falling to as low as 91 cents. Its design is uncannily similar to Terra's stablecoin, UST, which lost its price peg and imploded a month ago, wiping out $40 billion in market value. If it continues to follow UST's path considering how similar they are in function and structure, one could assume they also have a ticking algorithmic time bomb in the making. > > **Final Thoughts** > > It seems that TRON has a knack for idolizing (to the point of almost copying their work) other projects both in and out of the crypto-sphere. What I do hope is that they also know what not absorb. Else, they have nothing but a mushed up bowl of their favorite things and just decided it would stick together with glue and duct tape. > > Sources: > > [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron\_(cryptocurrency)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_(cryptocurrency)) > > [https://cryptoslate.com/justin-suns-controversies-plagiarism-teslas-warren-buffett-kidney-stones-and-a-deleted-apology/](https://cryptoslate.com/justin-suns-controversies-plagiarism-teslas-warren-buffett-kidney-stones-and-a-deleted-apology/) > > [https://www.inverse.com/article/40050-tron-trx-cryptocurrency-plagiarism-scandal](https://www.inverse.com/article/40050-tron-trx-cryptocurrency-plagiarism-scandal) > > [https://www.zdnet.com/article/tron-critical-security-flaw-could-break-the-entire-blockchain/](https://www.zdnet.com/article/tron-critical-security-flaw-could-break-the-entire-blockchain/) > > [https://fortune.com/2022/06/13/algorithmic-stablecoin-usdd-loses-peg-justin-sun-tron-decentralized-usd/](https://fortune.com/2022/06/13/algorithmic-stablecoin-usdd-loses-peg-justin-sun-tron-decentralized-usd/) ***** Would you like to learn more? Check out the [Cointest archive](/r/CointestOfficial/wiki/cointest_archive#wiki_tron) to find submissions for other topics.

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#TRON Con-Arguments Below is a TRON con-argument written by CreepToeCurrentSea. > TRON is a decentralized, open-source blockchain-based operating system with smart contract functionality, a proof-of-stake consensus algorithm, and its own cryptocurrency, Tronix (TRX). Justin Sun founded it in March 2014, and it has been overseen and supervised by the TRON Foundation, a non-profit organization in Singapore founded the same year. It began as an Ethereum-based ERC-20 token before migrating to its own blockchain in 2018. > > # CONS > > **Whitepaper Plagiarism** > > In January 2018, Tron's developers were accused of plagiarism after many sections of the Tron whitepaper appeared nearly identical to IPFS and Filecoin technical documentation. IPFS is an acronym for InterPlanetary File System. Juan Benet, CEO of Protocol Labs, which develops IFPS tools and services, revealed on Twitter in early January 2018 that Tron's whitepaper authors did not properly cite references and that the document was "mostly copied" from other projects. Even the equations and formulas mentioned in the first version of Tron's whitepaper were identical to those found in IPFS documentation. Sun claimed to have a "very detailed" reference to the most recent Chinese version of the Tron whitepaper. He also claimed that the Tron paper was translated into other languages by volunteers who may have overlooked important details. Just as Vitalik had also sarcastically said in twitter regarding the teams copy-pasting abilities, this just goes to show how un-genuine their team appears even making the most basic of mistakes. > > **Question of Vulnerability** > > A barrage of requests sent by a single PC could be used to squeeze the power of the blockchain's CPU, overload the memory, and perform a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, according to HackerOne. "Using a single machine, an attacker could send DDOS attack to all or 51 percent of the Super Representative (SR) node and render Tron network unusable or unavailable," the claim goes. While TRON is somewhat better in marketing compared to other cryptocurrencies, it falls short on one of the most important pillars for an effective one, that of which is security. To hinder a blockchain with just one computer is the polar opposite of what you want a cryptocurrency to be. > > **Un-Stablecoin** > > TRON's native stablecoin "USDD" de-pegged to the US dollar earlier this year, falling to as low as 91 cents. Its design is uncannily similar to Terra's stablecoin, UST, which lost its price peg and imploded a month ago, wiping out $40 billion in market value. If it continues to follow UST's path considering how similar they are in function and structure, one could assume they also have a ticking algorithmic time bomb in the making. > > **Final Thoughts** > > It seems that TRON has a knack for idolizing (to the point of almost copying their work) other projects both in and out of the crypto-sphere. What I do hope is that they also know what not absorb. Else, they have nothing but a mushed up bowl of their favorite things and just decided it would stick together with glue and duct tape. > > Sources: > > [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron\_(cryptocurrency)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_(cryptocurrency)) > > [https://cryptoslate.com/justin-suns-controversies-plagiarism-teslas-warren-buffett-kidney-stones-and-a-deleted-apology/](https://cryptoslate.com/justin-suns-controversies-plagiarism-teslas-warren-buffett-kidney-stones-and-a-deleted-apology/) > > [https://www.inverse.com/article/40050-tron-trx-cryptocurrency-plagiarism-scandal](https://www.inverse.com/article/40050-tron-trx-cryptocurrency-plagiarism-scandal) > > [https://www.zdnet.com/article/tron-critical-security-flaw-could-break-the-entire-blockchain/](https://www.zdnet.com/article/tron-critical-security-flaw-could-break-the-entire-blockchain/) > > [https://fortune.com/2022/06/13/algorithmic-stablecoin-usdd-loses-peg-justin-sun-tron-decentralized-usd/](https://fortune.com/2022/06/13/algorithmic-stablecoin-usdd-loses-peg-justin-sun-tron-decentralized-usd/) ***** Would you like to learn more? Check out the [Cointest archive](/r/CointestOfficial/wiki/cointest_archive#wiki_tron) to find submissions for other topics.

pb__

They attack Circle because it has (had?) an ambition to become a de facto USD CBDC. Circle threw Paxos (BUSD) under the bus and now USDC is being thrown under the bus, perhaps by PayPal, who is now in bed with Paxos? Sun also issues a few stables, like USDD, TUSD and FDUSD. Or maybe they just want to protect the dominant role of USD cash in financing terrorist organizations. ;-)

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#TRON Con-Arguments Below is a TRON con-argument written by CreepToeCurrentSea. > TRON is a decentralized, open-source blockchain-based operating system with smart contract functionality, a proof-of-stake consensus algorithm, and its own cryptocurrency, Tronix (TRX). Justin Sun founded it in March 2014, and it has been overseen and supervised by the TRON Foundation, a non-profit organization in Singapore founded the same year. It began as an Ethereum-based ERC-20 token before migrating to its own blockchain in 2018. > > # CONS > > **Whitepaper Plagiarism** > > In January 2018, Tron's developers were accused of plagiarism after many sections of the Tron whitepaper appeared nearly identical to IPFS and Filecoin technical documentation. IPFS is an acronym for InterPlanetary File System. Juan Benet, CEO of Protocol Labs, which develops IFPS tools and services, revealed on Twitter in early January 2018 that Tron's whitepaper authors did not properly cite references and that the document was "mostly copied" from other projects. Even the equations and formulas mentioned in the first version of Tron's whitepaper were identical to those found in IPFS documentation. Sun claimed to have a "very detailed" reference to the most recent Chinese version of the Tron whitepaper. He also claimed that the Tron paper was translated into other languages by volunteers who may have overlooked important details. Just as Vitalik had also sarcastically said in twitter regarding the teams copy-pasting abilities, this just goes to show how un-genuine their team appears even making the most basic of mistakes. > > **Question of Vulnerability** > > A barrage of requests sent by a single PC could be used to squeeze the power of the blockchain's CPU, overload the memory, and perform a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, according to HackerOne. "Using a single machine, an attacker could send DDOS attack to all or 51 percent of the Super Representative (SR) node and render Tron network unusable or unavailable," the claim goes. While TRON is somewhat better in marketing compared to other cryptocurrencies, it falls short on one of the most important pillars for an effective one, that of which is security. To hinder a blockchain with just one computer is the polar opposite of what you want a cryptocurrency to be. > > **Un-Stablecoin** > > TRON's native stablecoin "USDD" de-pegged to the US dollar earlier this year, falling to as low as 91 cents. Its design is uncannily similar to Terra's stablecoin, UST, which lost its price peg and imploded a month ago, wiping out $40 billion in market value. If it continues to follow UST's path considering how similar they are in function and structure, one could assume they also have a ticking algorithmic time bomb in the making. > > **Final Thoughts** > > It seems that TRON has a knack for idolizing (to the point of almost copying their work) other projects both in and out of the crypto-sphere. What I do hope is that they also know what not absorb. Else, they have nothing but a mushed up bowl of their favorite things and just decided it would stick together with glue and duct tape. > > Sources: > > [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron\_(cryptocurrency)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_(cryptocurrency)) > > [https://cryptoslate.com/justin-suns-controversies-plagiarism-teslas-warren-buffett-kidney-stones-and-a-deleted-apology/](https://cryptoslate.com/justin-suns-controversies-plagiarism-teslas-warren-buffett-kidney-stones-and-a-deleted-apology/) > > [https://www.inverse.com/article/40050-tron-trx-cryptocurrency-plagiarism-scandal](https://www.inverse.com/article/40050-tron-trx-cryptocurrency-plagiarism-scandal) > > [https://www.zdnet.com/article/tron-critical-security-flaw-could-break-the-entire-blockchain/](https://www.zdnet.com/article/tron-critical-security-flaw-could-break-the-entire-blockchain/) > > [https://fortune.com/2022/06/13/algorithmic-stablecoin-usdd-loses-peg-justin-sun-tron-decentralized-usd/](https://fortune.com/2022/06/13/algorithmic-stablecoin-usdd-loses-peg-justin-sun-tron-decentralized-usd/) ***** Would you like to learn more? Check out the [Cointest archive](/r/CointestOfficial/wiki/cointest_archive#wiki_tron) to find submissions for other topics.

Every_Hunt_160

I am of the opinion that USDC is the *only* stablecoin out there backed by *real* money by actual institutions worth billions of dollars in valuation ‘Algorithmic’ stablecoin is usually just a code word for ‘Ponzi bullshit that works , until it doesn’t’. And then USDT/TUSD/USDD and other garbage launched by shady crypto companies, they are just playing the same game of minting shit out of thin air and getting rich off it.

pokeholo23

I'm just sitting here waiting for USDD to depeg :c

Every_Hunt_160

I’ve said this many times on how Scumbag Sun makes his riches, but I think many people don’t want to confront this reality because it likely applies to Tether as well Justin Sun prints USDD out of thin air -> Buys Eth with imaginary stablecoin -> Stakes a billion worth of Eth on Lido -> Cashes out the Eth at will anytime he wants, for fiat or to pump up his other fake coins

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#TRON Con-Arguments Below is a TRON con-argument written by CreepToeCurrentSea. > TRON is a decentralized, open-source blockchain-based operating system with smart contract functionality, a proof-of-stake consensus algorithm, and its own cryptocurrency, Tronix (TRX). Justin Sun founded it in March 2014, and it has been overseen and supervised by the TRON Foundation, a non-profit organization in Singapore founded the same year. It began as an Ethereum-based ERC-20 token before migrating to its own blockchain in 2018. > > # CONS > > **Whitepaper Plagiarism** > > In January 2018, Tron's developers were accused of plagiarism after many sections of the Tron whitepaper appeared nearly identical to IPFS and Filecoin technical documentation. IPFS is an acronym for InterPlanetary File System. Juan Benet, CEO of Protocol Labs, which develops IFPS tools and services, revealed on Twitter in early January 2018 that Tron's whitepaper authors did not properly cite references and that the document was "mostly copied" from other projects. Even the equations and formulas mentioned in the first version of Tron's whitepaper were identical to those found in IPFS documentation. Sun claimed to have a "very detailed" reference to the most recent Chinese version of the Tron whitepaper. He also claimed that the Tron paper was translated into other languages by volunteers who may have overlooked important details. Just as Vitalik had also sarcastically said in twitter regarding the teams copy-pasting abilities, this just goes to show how un-genuine their team appears even making the most basic of mistakes. > > **Question of Vulnerability** > > A barrage of requests sent by a single PC could be used to squeeze the power of the blockchain's CPU, overload the memory, and perform a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, according to HackerOne. "Using a single machine, an attacker could send DDOS attack to all or 51 percent of the Super Representative (SR) node and render Tron network unusable or unavailable," the claim goes. While TRON is somewhat better in marketing compared to other cryptocurrencies, it falls short on one of the most important pillars for an effective one, that of which is security. To hinder a blockchain with just one computer is the polar opposite of what you want a cryptocurrency to be. > > **Un-Stablecoin** > > TRON's native stablecoin "USDD" de-pegged to the US dollar earlier this year, falling to as low as 91 cents. Its design is uncannily similar to Terra's stablecoin, UST, which lost its price peg and imploded a month ago, wiping out $40 billion in market value. If it continues to follow UST's path considering how similar they are in function and structure, one could assume they also have a ticking algorithmic time bomb in the making. > > **Final Thoughts** > > It seems that TRON has a knack for idolizing (to the point of almost copying their work) other projects both in and out of the crypto-sphere. What I do hope is that they also know what not absorb. Else, they have nothing but a mushed up bowl of their favorite things and just decided it would stick together with glue and duct tape. > > Sources: > > [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron\_(cryptocurrency)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_(cryptocurrency)) > > [https://cryptoslate.com/justin-suns-controversies-plagiarism-teslas-warren-buffett-kidney-stones-and-a-deleted-apology/](https://cryptoslate.com/justin-suns-controversies-plagiarism-teslas-warren-buffett-kidney-stones-and-a-deleted-apology/) > > [https://www.inverse.com/article/40050-tron-trx-cryptocurrency-plagiarism-scandal](https://www.inverse.com/article/40050-tron-trx-cryptocurrency-plagiarism-scandal) > > [https://www.zdnet.com/article/tron-critical-security-flaw-could-break-the-entire-blockchain/](https://www.zdnet.com/article/tron-critical-security-flaw-could-break-the-entire-blockchain/) > > [https://fortune.com/2022/06/13/algorithmic-stablecoin-usdd-loses-peg-justin-sun-tron-decentralized-usd/](https://fortune.com/2022/06/13/algorithmic-stablecoin-usdd-loses-peg-justin-sun-tron-decentralized-usd/) ***** Would you like to learn more? Check out the [Cointest archive](/r/CointestOfficial/wiki/cointest_archive#wiki_tron) to find submissions for other topics.

Every_Hunt_160

Fake USDD minted out of thin air - > Buys hundreds of millions of Eth in fake stablecoins -> Cash out said Eth in fiat and becomes a billionaire This is how Scumbag Sun makes his money my friends

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; The native altcoin for a decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem built on the Tron (TRX) blockchain, JUST (JST), surged by over 22% in one day amid the rollout of new mining rewards. JUST aims to provide all-in-one financial solutions to its users through Tron-based DeFi protocols. The price jump occurred as the project's lending platform, JustLend DAO, launched new mining rewards, offering additional rewards denominated in Tron's stablecoin USDD. Despite the recent increase, JST is still down more than 85% from its all-time high in April 2021. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.

teh_d3ac0n

*Justin Sun warms up the USDD printer

CointestMod

#TRON Con-Arguments Below is a TRON con-argument written by CreepToeCurrentSea. > TRON is a decentralized, open-source blockchain-based operating system with smart contract functionality, a proof-of-stake consensus algorithm, and its own cryptocurrency, Tronix (TRX). Justin Sun founded it in March 2014, and it has been overseen and supervised by the TRON Foundation, a non-profit organization in Singapore founded the same year. It began as an Ethereum-based ERC-20 token before migrating to its own blockchain in 2018. > > # CONS > > **Whitepaper Plagiarism** > > In January 2018, Tron's developers were accused of plagiarism after many sections of the Tron whitepaper appeared nearly identical to IPFS and Filecoin technical documentation. IPFS is an acronym for InterPlanetary File System. Juan Benet, CEO of Protocol Labs, which develops IFPS tools and services, revealed on Twitter in early January 2018 that Tron's whitepaper authors did not properly cite references and that the document was "mostly copied" from other projects. Even the equations and formulas mentioned in the first version of Tron's whitepaper were identical to those found in IPFS documentation. Sun claimed to have a "very detailed" reference to the most recent Chinese version of the Tron whitepaper. He also claimed that the Tron paper was translated into other languages by volunteers who may have overlooked important details. Just as Vitalik had also sarcastically said in twitter regarding the teams copy-pasting abilities, this just goes to show how un-genuine their team appears even making the most basic of mistakes. > > **Question of Vulnerability** > > A barrage of requests sent by a single PC could be used to squeeze the power of the blockchain's CPU, overload the memory, and perform a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, according to HackerOne. "Using a single machine, an attacker could send DDOS attack to all or 51 percent of the Super Representative (SR) node and render Tron network unusable or unavailable," the claim goes. While TRON is somewhat better in marketing compared to other cryptocurrencies, it falls short on one of the most important pillars for an effective one, that of which is security. To hinder a blockchain with just one computer is the polar opposite of what you want a cryptocurrency to be. > > **Un-Stablecoin** > > TRON's native stablecoin "USDD" de-pegged to the US dollar earlier this year, falling to as low as 91 cents. Its design is uncannily similar to Terra's stablecoin, UST, which lost its price peg and imploded a month ago, wiping out $40 billion in market value. If it continues to follow UST's path considering how similar they are in function and structure, one could assume they also have a ticking algorithmic time bomb in the making. > > **Final Thoughts** > > It seems that TRON has a knack for idolizing (to the point of almost copying their work) other projects both in and out of the crypto-sphere. What I do hope is that they also know what not absorb. Else, they have nothing but a mushed up bowl of their favorite things and just decided it would stick together with glue and duct tape. > > Sources: > > [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron\_(cryptocurrency)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_(cryptocurrency)) > > [https://cryptoslate.com/justin-suns-controversies-plagiarism-teslas-warren-buffett-kidney-stones-and-a-deleted-apology/](https://cryptoslate.com/justin-suns-controversies-plagiarism-teslas-warren-buffett-kidney-stones-and-a-deleted-apology/) > > [https://www.inverse.com/article/40050-tron-trx-cryptocurrency-plagiarism-scandal](https://www.inverse.com/article/40050-tron-trx-cryptocurrency-plagiarism-scandal) > > [https://www.zdnet.com/article/tron-critical-security-flaw-could-break-the-entire-blockchain/](https://www.zdnet.com/article/tron-critical-security-flaw-could-break-the-entire-blockchain/) > > [https://fortune.com/2022/06/13/algorithmic-stablecoin-usdd-loses-peg-justin-sun-tron-decentralized-usd/](https://fortune.com/2022/06/13/algorithmic-stablecoin-usdd-loses-peg-justin-sun-tron-decentralized-usd/) ***** Would you like to learn more? Check out the [Cointest archive](/r/CointestOfficial/wiki/cointest_archive#wiki_tron) to find submissions for other topics.

Every_Hunt_160

Easy one for me. USDD, launched by Scumbag Justin Sun - I’m surprised it is even lasting so long

viljass

**Totally agree.** The wild printing of stablecoins is just too shady. I'm not touching HTX/Huobi, Tron, TUSD and/or USDD even with a ten feet stick.

CointestMod

#TRON Con-Arguments Below is a TRON con-argument written by CreepToeCurrentSea. > TRON is a decentralized, open-source blockchain-based operating system with smart contract functionality, a proof-of-stake consensus algorithm, and its own cryptocurrency, Tronix (TRX). Justin Sun founded it in March 2014, and it has been overseen and supervised by the TRON Foundation, a non-profit organization in Singapore founded the same year. It began as an Ethereum-based ERC-20 token before migrating to its own blockchain in 2018. > > # CONS > > **Whitepaper Plagiarism** > > In January 2018, Tron's developers were accused of plagiarism after many sections of the Tron whitepaper appeared nearly identical to IPFS and Filecoin technical documentation. IPFS is an acronym for InterPlanetary File System. Juan Benet, CEO of Protocol Labs, which develops IFPS tools and services, revealed on Twitter in early January 2018 that Tron's whitepaper authors did not properly cite references and that the document was "mostly copied" from other projects. Even the equations and formulas mentioned in the first version of Tron's whitepaper were identical to those found in IPFS documentation. Sun claimed to have a "very detailed" reference to the most recent Chinese version of the Tron whitepaper. He also claimed that the Tron paper was translated into other languages by volunteers who may have overlooked important details. Just as Vitalik had also sarcastically said in twitter regarding the teams copy-pasting abilities, this just goes to show how un-genuine their team appears even making the most basic of mistakes. > > **Question of Vulnerability** > > A barrage of requests sent by a single PC could be used to squeeze the power of the blockchain's CPU, overload the memory, and perform a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, according to HackerOne. "Using a single machine, an attacker could send DDOS attack to all or 51 percent of the Super Representative (SR) node and render Tron network unusable or unavailable," the claim goes. While TRON is somewhat better in marketing compared to other cryptocurrencies, it falls short on one of the most important pillars for an effective one, that of which is security. To hinder a blockchain with just one computer is the polar opposite of what you want a cryptocurrency to be. > > **Un-Stablecoin** > > TRON's native stablecoin "USDD" de-pegged to the US dollar earlier this year, falling to as low as 91 cents. Its design is uncannily similar to Terra's stablecoin, UST, which lost its price peg and imploded a month ago, wiping out $40 billion in market value. If it continues to follow UST's path considering how similar they are in function and structure, one could assume they also have a ticking algorithmic time bomb in the making. > > **Final Thoughts** > > It seems that TRON has a knack for idolizing (to the point of almost copying their work) other projects both in and out of the crypto-sphere. What I do hope is that they also know what not absorb. Else, they have nothing but a mushed up bowl of their favorite things and just decided it would stick together with glue and duct tape. > > Sources: > > [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron\_(cryptocurrency)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_(cryptocurrency)) > > [https://cryptoslate.com/justin-suns-controversies-plagiarism-teslas-warren-buffett-kidney-stones-and-a-deleted-apology/](https://cryptoslate.com/justin-suns-controversies-plagiarism-teslas-warren-buffett-kidney-stones-and-a-deleted-apology/) > > [https://www.inverse.com/article/40050-tron-trx-cryptocurrency-plagiarism-scandal](https://www.inverse.com/article/40050-tron-trx-cryptocurrency-plagiarism-scandal) > > [https://www.zdnet.com/article/tron-critical-security-flaw-could-break-the-entire-blockchain/](https://www.zdnet.com/article/tron-critical-security-flaw-could-break-the-entire-blockchain/) > > [https://fortune.com/2022/06/13/algorithmic-stablecoin-usdd-loses-peg-justin-sun-tron-decentralized-usd/](https://fortune.com/2022/06/13/algorithmic-stablecoin-usdd-loses-peg-justin-sun-tron-decentralized-usd/) ***** Would you like to learn more? Check out the [Cointest archive](/r/CointestOfficial/wiki/cointest_archive#wiki_tron) to find submissions for other topics.

CointestMod

#TRON Con-Arguments Below is a TRON con-argument written by CreepToeCurrentSea. > TRON is a decentralized, open-source blockchain-based operating system with smart contract functionality, a proof-of-stake consensus algorithm, and its own cryptocurrency, Tronix (TRX). Justin Sun founded it in March 2014, and it has been overseen and supervised by the TRON Foundation, a non-profit organization in Singapore founded the same year. It began as an Ethereum-based ERC-20 token before migrating to its own blockchain in 2018. > > # CONS > > **Whitepaper Plagiarism** > > In January 2018, Tron's developers were accused of plagiarism after many sections of the Tron whitepaper appeared nearly identical to IPFS and Filecoin technical documentation. IPFS is an acronym for InterPlanetary File System. Juan Benet, CEO of Protocol Labs, which develops IFPS tools and services, revealed on Twitter in early January 2018 that Tron's whitepaper authors did not properly cite references and that the document was "mostly copied" from other projects. Even the equations and formulas mentioned in the first version of Tron's whitepaper were identical to those found in IPFS documentation. Sun claimed to have a "very detailed" reference to the most recent Chinese version of the Tron whitepaper. He also claimed that the Tron paper was translated into other languages by volunteers who may have overlooked important details. Just as Vitalik had also sarcastically said in twitter regarding the teams copy-pasting abilities, this just goes to show how un-genuine their team appears even making the most basic of mistakes. > > **Question of Vulnerability** > > A barrage of requests sent by a single PC could be used to squeeze the power of the blockchain's CPU, overload the memory, and perform a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, according to HackerOne. "Using a single machine, an attacker could send DDOS attack to all or 51 percent of the Super Representative (SR) node and render Tron network unusable or unavailable," the claim goes. While TRON is somewhat better in marketing compared to other cryptocurrencies, it falls short on one of the most important pillars for an effective one, that of which is security. To hinder a blockchain with just one computer is the polar opposite of what you want a cryptocurrency to be. > > **Un-Stablecoin** > > TRON's native stablecoin "USDD" de-pegged to the US dollar earlier this year, falling to as low as 91 cents. Its design is uncannily similar to Terra's stablecoin, UST, which lost its price peg and imploded a month ago, wiping out $40 billion in market value. If it continues to follow UST's path considering how similar they are in function and structure, one could assume they also have a ticking algorithmic time bomb in the making. > > **Final Thoughts** > > It seems that TRON has a knack for idolizing (to the point of almost copying their work) other projects both in and out of the crypto-sphere. What I do hope is that they also know what not absorb. Else, they have nothing but a mushed up bowl of their favorite things and just decided it would stick together with glue and duct tape. > > Sources: > > [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron\_(cryptocurrency)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_(cryptocurrency)) > > [https://cryptoslate.com/justin-suns-controversies-plagiarism-teslas-warren-buffett-kidney-stones-and-a-deleted-apology/](https://cryptoslate.com/justin-suns-controversies-plagiarism-teslas-warren-buffett-kidney-stones-and-a-deleted-apology/) > > [https://www.inverse.com/article/40050-tron-trx-cryptocurrency-plagiarism-scandal](https://www.inverse.com/article/40050-tron-trx-cryptocurrency-plagiarism-scandal) > > [https://www.zdnet.com/article/tron-critical-security-flaw-could-break-the-entire-blockchain/](https://www.zdnet.com/article/tron-critical-security-flaw-could-break-the-entire-blockchain/) > > [https://fortune.com/2022/06/13/algorithmic-stablecoin-usdd-loses-peg-justin-sun-tron-decentralized-usd/](https://fortune.com/2022/06/13/algorithmic-stablecoin-usdd-loses-peg-justin-sun-tron-decentralized-usd/) ***** Would you like to learn more? Check out the [Cointest archive](/r/CointestOfficial/wiki/cointest_archive#wiki_tron) to find submissions for other topics.

GRQ77

the other flag he is waving is the TRX token and the USDD "stable" coin

Tatakae69

BTTC, TRX, USDD... The amount of top coins Justin Sun has an affiliation with is alarming. Just jumps from one project to the next like a PnD

lovelybittabusiness

And ~~his USDD stable coin.~~ everything he's involved in. FTFY :D

diwalost

And his USDD stable coin.

diwalost

And his USDD stable coin.

diwalost

They have USDD stable coin which has been doing marketing like UST for some time now. Now this kind of marketting brings the memory of those Lunatics tattoos. I don't know why I start to remember Do Kwon!

--mrperx--

He has multiple money printers already. TRX, USDD, BTT just to name a few. I wish I could do the same, but since I can't I have no choice but to hate him! /s

kaijeng

I thought it was USDD? Now another stable named Tusd?

kaijeng

USDD?

iAmGab

Justin Sun keeps on building ponzi schemes he has USDD which has been running for over a year now. Its a tickimg time bomb that will make a negative impact on crypto.

Tasigur1

tl;dr **The 4 Types of Stablecoin Token Assets** (1) **Fiat-backed stablecoins** are linked to government-issued currencies like the US dollar, British pound, and the eurozone’s euro. For every stablecoin in circulation, there must be an equivalent dollar held in reserve, maintaining a 1:1 ratio. Tether’s USDT is the most popular fiat-backed stablecoin, both in terms of activity and market capitalization. (2) **Crypto-collateralized stablecoins** utilize other cryptocurrencies as reserves instead of fiat. Makerdao’s DAI stablecoin accepts ether as collateral. Holders deposit ether into smart contracts to support the minting of DAI tokens. Tron’s USDD operates similarly, leveraging TRON (TRX) for USDD backing. (3) **Commodity-backed stablecoins** tie their value to real-world assets such as precious metals. Tether Gold uses gold bars stored in vaults to back its XAUT token. This gold collateral provides XAUT with intrinsic value beyond the realm of cryptocurrencies. Other precious metals and commodity-backed stablecoins follow similar pegging methodologies. (4) **Algorithmic stablecoins**, on the other hand, lack collateral. They rely on smart contracts and supply adjustments to maintain a consistent price. When demand increases, additional coins are issued, and when demand decreases, coins are repurchased and removed from circulation. Terra’s stablecoin UST was initially an algorithmic stablecoin, but it lost its entire value when the Terra blockchain ecosystem collapsed. Saved u 1 click ;)

mattg1981

nothing good comes out of Justin Sun / Tron! I will also vote for USDD.

transatoshi

We haven't had a good depeg in a while. Which stablecoin do you think is next? My money is on USDD

Father_Earth

Unlimited super digital dollars would have been better. $USDD. Everyone likes double d's

RCALovah

Justin Sun has been in this since the previous bullrun and everything that he touches or created has went to dust. He will continue to do this until he isn't allowed to do so anymore because he is already in prison. He even thinks he can do a better UST by deploying his own stablecoin, USDD, where he is the majority owner and he is likely just selling the ones he hold to all the retail investors. Bittorrent, JustLend, Tron, USDD, TUSD. Avoid at all cost.

RCALovah

It's still already plaguing the community right now with USDD But as long as you are looking at very high yields, it's incredibly unsustainable

leechergod

Dai and USDD stabelcoins do not have freeze options. But USDD is controlled by JUstin Sun. I prefer Justin Sun over Payoal

Winter-Newspaper-281

They aren't UST or USDD so that's good. tThey're pretty much the best we've got lol

Ultra918

i once got 25% on kucoin on USDD and it worked

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; The article discusses the recent ratings of stablecoins by Bluechip, an independent non-profit agency. Tether (USDT) and TrueUSD (TUSD) were labeled as "high risk," while USDD failed completely. The ratings were based on factors such as decentralization, governance, reserve verification, and transparency. The article also mentions the positive ratings received by New York-based stablecoins like GUSD, BUSD, and Paxos. The controversial ratings list was shared by Patrick McHenry, the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Chairman. The article raises questions about the future of stablecoins and the need for transparency and accountability. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.*

Weary_Turn5393

The founder also created USDD didn’t he? Like right after the TUSD went tits up

Comfortable-Hold-382

Tron is a massive joke just like Justins last two projects (ApeNFT $NFT and USDD $USDD)

Dfranco123

It blows my mind as well but apparently it’s used in Asia a ton for swaps with stable coins like USDD (another of his scams) or Tether.

RCALovah

I think the closest might be -Binance and -Tether but I wouldn't be surprised if -USDD drops to 0 as well

Ill_Swan_3181

Tether (USDT), the most popular stablecoin, has received poor ratings in a new credit ratings list. The ratings, though unofficial, shed light on how institutions may perceive stablecoin stability and backing. Tether and TrueUSD were given the worst ratings due to issues with governance and lack of decentralization. The rating agency suggested that Tether could improve its rating by disclosing the names of its banks and custodians, performing a financial audit, and implementing transparent redemption timelines. Meanwhile, other stablecoins like Binance USD (BUSD), USD Coin (USDC), and DAI received higher ratings. Tron's USDD was ranked the lowest with an 'F' rating.

RCALovah

Anything he does is likely a scam. Just as an example, USDD which offers insanely high APR is something that where he is the only one who benefits from it as ue most likely mints his tron as usdd as to not crash it's price and then converts it to another coin

Jeffscrazy

Justin Sun also has ApeNFT token, USDD, “advisor” to Huobi - and he set up [a website to praise himself for being so awesome](https://hejustinsun.com) even though his only real success has been plagiarising a white paper and stealing the public’s money.

ricozuri

It’s an algorithmic stable coin. From CoinGecko: “USDD tokens can be traded on centralized crypto exchanges. The most popular exchange to buy and trade USDD is Huobi, where the most active trading pair USDD/USDT has a trading volume of $11,315,870 in the last 24 hours. Other popular options include Poloniex and KuCoin.”

Onnimation

Wtf is USDD?

jwolf696

First time I heard of USDD

Every_Hunt_160

>Asian markets use it a ton That can't account for everything It's a lot of scamming and artificial pumping by Scumbag Sun. I wouldn't be surprised if he is minting USDD and TUSD out of thin air and artificially inflating the price of TRX because of that - infinite free money glitch. Don't forget Justin Sun staked a billion worth of Eth on Lido couple of months back. Where did that billion come from? Definitely from Scumbag's Sun's scam, and if I was to guess it's from USDD printed out of thin air used to buy Eth.

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; TRON MainNet, founded by Justin Sun in 2017, has celebrated its fifth anniversary and is now the preferred global blockchain with the most daily active users, transactions, and largest circulation of USDT. TRON has established a robust commerce infrastructure via partnerships across the industry and has become the global stablecoin highway for USDT, USDC, TUSD, USDJ, and USDD. TRON aims to elevate its on-chain stablecoin market cap to $100B in 2023 and strives to become the preferred choice for stablecoin users around the world. In October 2022, TRON was designated as the national blockchain for the Commonwealth of Dominica, and seven TRON-based utility tokens were granted statutory status as authorized digital currencies for use in everyday commerce there. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.*

pokeholo23

Here I am awaiting the lawsuit of TRX/BTT/USDD

remusftw

vulnerability in USDD

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; The Fantom Foundation, Justin Sun, and HashKey have taken action in response to delays and concerns around the cross-chain protocol Multichain. The Fantom Foundation withdrew $2.4 million in liquidity of the protocol's native MULTI tokens on decentralized exchange SushiSwap, while HashKey Group moved $250,000 to crypto exchange Gate.io. Tron founder Justin Sun withdrew 470,000 of the stablecoin USDD from the protocol itself. Multichain has been hit by concerns after users reported delayed transactions over the last few days. The protocol maintains that the delays are being caused by an upgrade and that only one more router is left to be upgraded. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.*

pbjclimbing

Justin Sun just withdrew ~$500k USDD from Multichain. If Justin Sun is getting out, it can’t be good. https://nitter.com/lookonchain/status/1661403605088477184?s=20

Zerox10

I wouldn’t touch that USDD with a barge pole personally

pokeholo23

Mostly by Justin Sun and the company I imagen.. as Coins to back up USDD/TRX

hrvbrs

Thanks for these great resources. I'm going to paste an AI-generated summary of each of them below, for anyone in a hurry. 1. Signature Bank has cut ties with Binance as the exchange was left unable to withdraw clients’ funds. This marks the latest in a series of instances where unscrupulous cryptocurrency companies are forced to seek banking support from firms operating on the periphery of the industry. One company suggested as the next banking partner for crypto companies unable to obtain a deal with reputable firms is Advanced Cash Limited (Advcash). Among Advcash's list of apparent clients are Binance and Kraken. Advcash is based in Belize but its operations are opaque, and it is not registered with financial regulators. 2. Justin Sun, the founder of Tron, is being investigated by the FBI over allegations that he passed on insider information to Chinese traders and then purchased citizenship to evade criminal extradition. The allegations come after Sun secretly minted 94% of allegedly decentralised stablecoin USDD before advertising an "alarming" staking programme on Sun.io. According to reports, Sun's holdings in TRX prompted the move, with both the stablecoin and staking program said to be a covert route of exit liquidity. Sun has also been linked to Poloniex and Huobi, both of which he first denied then later confirmed that he was part of the investment group that purchased them. 3. Binance's know-your-customer (KYC) systems, which are intended to prevent customers who aren't supposed to be on the platform, are being bypassed by customers in China and around the world, according to messages in Binance's official Chinese-language chatrooms. Some customers are forging bank documents or offering false addresses, while others are manipulating Binance's systems. Binance founder Changpeng "CZ" Zhao has touted the exchange's KYC systems as a billion-dollar effort. However, experts in financial regulation are concerned that Binance's KYC and anti-money-laundering efforts can be easily thwarted. 4. US prosecutors are considering charging Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, and its senior executives with sanctions violations and money laundering. This follows a long-running investigation into the firm that began in 2018 and gained momentum after the collapse of FTX. The probe involves the US Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington in Seattle, the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team and the Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section. Binance's lawyers have reportedly discussed plea deals with the Department of Justice, but some officials are divided over whether to proceed. In a tweet, CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao dismissed the speculation as "FUD". 5. Binance has reportedly transferred around $400m from a Binance.US account to a trading firm managed by CEO Changpeng Zhao, raising concerns about regulatory violations. Regulations are in place to prevent illicit money movements in the cryptocurrency industry, but Binance.US claims only the exchange’s employees had access to its accounts, which may have included accounts at Silvergate Bank. Some experts have expressed concern over the lack of transparency in the transfer and potential regulatory risks involved. Binance has faced scrutiny from US regulators in recent years and was previously accused of violating anti-money laundering rules.

Every_Hunt_160

Right .? Kinda like how Justin Sun was printing USDD out of thin air and magically managed to have 1B worth of Eth to stake on Lido a couple of months back

aasyed

My first ever hot wallet was Metamask and I use it to this day. It has come a long way in terms of functionality and design, and I dare say it get the balance between being feature-rich and user-friendly just right. Another wallet you may check out is Trust wallet. It's also really easy to use and in some ways, has a smoother learning curve than Metamask. About your second question, virtually ALL stablecoins have one thing or another about them that makes them risky. For USDT, it comes down to lack of transparency by Tether. Other stablecoins like BUSD, USDC, DAI, USDD, USDP, they all have their own set of evils. So yes, you're much better off keeping your hard earned money in fiat. You really have nothing to lose by selling USDT for USD or another fiat currency of your choice. As a beginner, you need to 100% prioritise the stability, safety, and preservation of your financial grounds. Once you have achieved a certain level of buffer, that's when risk-taking starts to make sense. Hope this helps.

sensipanda

So USDD pump and dump?

NaturephilicReaction

Hasn't he been doing it all along with USDD, TRON, SUN and his other coins?

Nyarlatotep781

Shit. I just revealed USDD.

Beandog095

USDD is thriving 🤣

Calm_Lemonade

I got USDT and then USDD. Is this a sign I just shouldn’t invest anymore

throwaway23110504

Clicked on USDD , I think I did the crypto sphere a favor.

Obvious-Oil1657

Greed has no bounds, having OP talking about this means holding on to some USDD

pokeholo23

Not much attention for this.. The TRX army so to speak are a bunch of teenagers I remember them defending USDD and such. I never understand why TRX basicly always trades in the same price ranges. I find it suspicious

Giga79

*You're a stable genius.* You better go buy some USDD for that 40% APR then. What are you waiting for? You'll turn a one-time $100K investment into $3M not even a decade later, then you can retire. Amazing!! It has stable in the name, so *duh* what are you waiting for? You can come find me again after that decade passes, with your $2.9M profit on your $1 coin, and I'll admit I was wrong and ~~ponzi~~ stable coins ARE stable. Until then, you may as well keep to yourself because my opinion of you can't get any lower. Good luck with your APR that comes solely from new buyers. I haven't seen a scheme so stable since Enron.

noob_zarathustra

My bad, just raised that's USDD

serendipity7777

Where can I short USDD?

NickUnrelatedToPost

Crypto is the proof that the supply of stupid people is unlimited. Your analysis is completely correct. It's just not limited to TRX/USDD. It's true for all stablecoins that I know of. They are all ponzis, without exception.

KingAtrocity

You’re literally wrong lmfao Just off rip, users can not deposit TRX in exchange for USDD, maybe do better research before making nonsensical posts

Impossible_Soup_1932

USDD has looked close to death for months, losing peg. Now it somehow regained it. Still can’t believe anyone would get involved in this one

Giga79

The important questions.. Where can I short TRX or USDD?

Armed_Platypus

Even worse is that USDD includes burned TRX in it’s supposed collateral. If the TRX is really burned then it cannot be used as collateral because they can’t access it. That means the true collateral ratio is actually much lower.

Lokiee0077

Well, it seems like USDD is giving a new meaning to the term "over-collateralized" - as in, over-collateralized with promises and hopes instead of actual assets. Justin Sun may want to consider a career change to become a magician because he seems to be making TRX disappear into thin air!

chance_waters

He's being propped up by the funds from the "DAO" and the funds of real users buying TRX to stake USDD. He uses unbacked USDD to prop the price, meanwhile the APY facilitating the whole thing is a Ponzi

Jocogui

"Every other dollar in USDD is now in BTC and TRX" yes, recalls at "UST backed by LUNA and BTC" are strong here. USDD can enjoy relatively quiet period now but if somehow red dildos come back....well....you know what happened with Terra one year ago. Maybe in a few months we'll se some "Justin Sun" scaped from the justice and is hiding posts.

BradVet

USDD was so clearly going to be a scam at launch

TheFirstBull

Instructions clear. Buy TRX and USDD. Apes unite! Zug! Zug!

partymsl

Thankfully TRX/USDD is not as big in Crypto as they were. People seem to have taken advice after a billion dollar collapse...

chance_waters

It's nowhere near the size so I'm not as concerned. There's be about 30K worth of BTC sell pressure, plus whatever customer funds have been stolen from Huobi. I don't think it would have nearly the same knock on effect either as with any luck there's not the same degree of insane venture capital getting pushed into whatever the highest APY scam is. USDD is also nowhere near as big as LUNA was. Still shitty, but not as shitty.