From ERC-20 token to blockchain powerhouse: Here's how TRON became what it is today.



Sept 2017: Justin Sun's TRON Foundation launched, raised ~$70M in ICO just before China's ban crackdown.

June 2018: TRX went independent—migrated from Ethereum to its own mainnet, ditching the ERC-20 tag.

July 2018: Plot twist—TRON dropped $140M to acquire BitTorrent Inc., bringing P2P file-sharing into the mix. That's when things got interesting.

Dec 2021: Foundation dissolved, transformed into TRON DAO. Full decentralization mode activated.

Now? TRON's running as a community-driven DAO, hosting massive USDT volume, processing high-throughput txs with near-zero fees. The network's basically become a dApp powerhouse.

From startup to DAO in 4 years—that's the TRON story.
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