Justin Sun Crypto Shock: Why Tron Is Quietly Beating Bitcoin and Ethereum
Is 2026 going to be better? The Justin Sun Crypto crew seems to think so.
Does anyone else feel like time, and we just kept pretending it didn’t? Like there was a before and now there’s just this long aftertaste of something dying?
Everything costs too much
Nothing feels solid enough to plan around
My still haven’t made me millions
Sad times over here at 99Bitcoins. Meanwhile, the silver lining is that one of the most controversial figures in crypto, the founder of Tron, Justin Sun, is quietly pumping TRX into 2026. Here’s what you should know:
DISCOVER:
Is Crypto REALLY dead? Not According to The Justin Sun Crypto Team
Market Cap
Tron had no business being this calm in 2025 with all the . And yet here we are.
TRX is up roughly 12% year-to-date, a small miracle in a market where
BitcoinBTC$88,354.811.51%BitcoinBTCPrice$88,354.811.51% /24hVolume in 24h$31.00BPrice 7d
is down about 6% and
EthereumETH$2,973.171.35%EthereumETHPrice$2,973.171.35% /24hVolume in 24h$14.27BPrice 7d
is off more than 11%.
At around $27 Bn in marketcap, Tron has become a large, liquid network that simply refused to panic when everyone else did.
DISCOVER:
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TRX topped near $0.36 in August, retraced with the broader market, and stabilized near the $0.28-$0.29 zone.
a shows TRX volatility compressing through the second half of 2025, defying broader market volatility. DeFi Llama shows stablecoin volume holding steady and $4.413 Bn locked into Tron DeFi protocols.
DISCOVER:
Will Any Of This Matter Heading Into 2026? Should You Buy Tron?
One of the more underappreciated catalysts was Tron’s US public market footprint. The reverse merger that created Tron Inc. gave TRX a stock that is up triple digits this year, even after recent volatility.
Sun also leaned into visibility. His proximity to and participation in politically charged Web3 projects mattered for pumping TRX.
Justin Sun paid 4.5m to have lunch with Warren Buffet and he told him not to buy Bitcoin
— Meadow (@meadowmarque)
TA for Tron matches the fundamentals. Long-term moving averages are creeping higher, pullbacks are shallow at the moment, and sell pressure keeps fading.
Tron didn’t “win” by ripping faces off. It won by staying upright while everything else in crypto cracked and had an extremely volatile year.
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Key Takeaways
Tron had no business being this calm in 2025 with all the Justin Sun shenanigans. And yet here we are.
TRX topped near $0.36 in August, retraced with the broader market, and stabilized near the $0.28-$0.29 zone.
