TRON founder Justin Sun has announced a strategic $8 million investment into Riverdot Inc. and revealed plans to increase the network's Bitcoin reserves, following Binance's move to convert $1 billion of its SAFU fund to BTC. The investment focuses on integrating Riverdot's satUSD stablecoin into the TRON ecosystem, allowing users to mint it 1:1 with assets like USDT, USDD, and USD1. This integration connects satUSD to key TRON platforms including SUN.io liquidity pools, JustLend, and WinkLink price feeds, with additional support for TRX, Bitcoin, and other ecosystem assets expected alongside new vault and staking products.
Concurrently, TRON has expanded its network through partnerships with security platform Blockaid for real-time threat detection and with WalletConnect, linking over 600 wallets and roughly 70,000 dApps. The network processed over 12 billion transactions to date and saw $23.8 billion in USDT transfers in Q4 2025, underscoring its role in stablecoin payments.
Despite these developments, TRON's native token, TRX, has shown limited price momentum, consolidating between $0.29 and $0.30. The token briefly approached $0.31 but faced rejection, retracing around 4%. Technical indicators like the RSI and MACD suggest a neutral short-term outlook. TRX gained 1.3% in 24 hours following Sun's Bitcoin reserve announcement, outperforming a flat broader market, but its 7-day performance remains down 1.52%. DeFi activity on TRON declined 28.7% quarter-over-quarter, reducing Total Value Locked (TVL) to $4.6 billion.
