๐๐ฌ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฑ ๐ง๐ฅ๐ข๐ก ๐ก๐ฒ๐๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ต๐ผ๐๐ ๐ฎ ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ฐ๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐น๐ ๐บ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐๐ผ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ผ ๐น๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ด๐ฒ-๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น๐ฒ, ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐๐ฒ
This is not just about higher numbers. It is about how people, businesses, and institutions are actually using TRON in real economic activity across regions and time zones.
TRON entered 2025 with a clear objective: lower the cost of usage, increase throughput, and support real-world transactions at scale. The data from January 2026 confirms that this strategy worked.
Network activity reached structural highs across the board.
โซ๏ธ Monthly active addresses peaked at 35.5 million and closed the year at 31.3 million, a 24% year-over-year increase.
โซ๏ธ Monthly transactions hit an all-time high of 323 million in December 2025, up 39% compared to December 2024.
โซ๏ธ User engagement deepened meaningfully, with transactions per active address rising to 10.5, a two-year high and up from 9.2 a year earlier.
This matters because growth was not just driven by more wallets. Each address was doing more. That signals repeat usage, not one-off activity.
A major driver behind this growth was TRONโs deliberate decision to reduce transaction costs.
โซ๏ธ In August 2025, the unit energy price was cut by 60%, from 210 to 100 sun.
โซ๏ธ Average transaction fees dropped by 65% to about $0.53, the lowest level since September 2023.
โซ๏ธ Monthly network fee revenue declined from $399 million before the cut to $183 million by December 2025.
This was not an accident. TRON consciously traded higher per-transaction revenue for higher throughput, accessibility, and sustained usage. Lower fees removed friction, especially for small-value transfers, which unlocked new user behavior at scale.
The most revealing insight comes from the USDT transaction intensity and time-zone analysis.
Transaction intensity measures the share of total USDT transactions that fall into specific value ranges at each hour of the day. Instead of just counting transactions, it shows which type of users dominate activity at different times.
Here is what the data shows clearly.
โซ๏ธ Transfers below $1,000 account for roughly 60% to 74% of all USDT transactions during Asia and Americas hours.
โซ๏ธ This pattern aligns strongly with peer-to-peer payments, remittances, and everyday dollar usage in emerging markets.
โซ๏ธ Regions in the Global South are likely driving this activity, where stablecoins function as a practical financial tool rather than a speculative asset.
At the same time, larger transactions follow a different rhythm.
โซ๏ธ Transfers in the $1Kโ$10K range and above $1M peak during EMEA business hours.
โซ๏ธ This points to institutional, OTC, treasury, and professional flows.
โซ๏ธ These large flows are largely non-U.S. centric, highlighting TRONโs role as a global settlement layer rather than a single-region network.
Together, these patterns confirm that USDT on TRON is being used simultaneously by everyday users and large financial operators, each active in different regions and time windows. Retail payments, remittances, and institutional liquidity are all coexisting on the same chain.
This dual usage is what makes the data especially compelling. A network handling both millions of small daily payments and large treasury movements without congestion or cost spikes is showing real maturity.
By the end of 2025, the broader USDT and liquidity picture reinforced this trend.
โซ๏ธ Total USDT transactions reached 825 million for the year, up 10% year over year.
โซ๏ธ Total USDT transfer value hit $7.9 trillion, a 45% increase.
โซ๏ธ USDT supply on TRON expanded to $81 billion, up 40% year over year.
โซ๏ธ DeFi activity scaled alongside payments, with average monthly WTRX swap volume on SunSwap reaching $3.1 billion and USDT bridging volume hitting $17.8 billion, up 215%.
From a user perspective, this paints a clear picture. TRON is optimized for high-frequency, low-cost transfers without sacrificing the ability to handle large, complex flows. It supports daily economic activity just as well as it supports institutional liquidity movement.
The takeaway is simple. TRON in 2025 was not just faster or cheaper. It became more useful.
If you are building payment applications, remittance tools, DeFi protocols, or treasury systems that need predictable fees and global reach, this data explains why so much stablecoin activity continues to concentrate on TRON.
If you are a user, this explains why USDT on TRON feels frictionless for everyday transfers while still being trusted for large transactions.
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TRONโs 2025 performance shows what happens when infrastructure decisions are aligned with real user behavior. Lower fees, higher throughput, and global usage are no longer a roadmap goal. They are already visible on-chain.