Footnote of Global Influence Surge: 5 Major Tokens of TRON Ecosystem Launched on Kraken

After the new U.S. government released friendly signals for the cryptocurrency industry, leading compliant companies have accelerated their embrace of regulation and improved their global compliance layout, which is expected to enhance their industry position and promote global user inclusiveness and ecological development.

Veteran players who are highly sensitive to industry regulatory trends have recently observed an unusual piece of news: in addition to the TRX BTT USDT-TRC20 already launched on Kraken, the platform has recently successively listed five tokens from the TRON ecosystem: NFT, JST, USDD, SUN, and WIN.

As a benchmark for compliant exchanges in the U.S., Kraken has earned market trust through strict compliance reviews. The inclusion of TRON assets in its token list signifies a "high-quality token selection." Correspondingly, TRON has recently made significant progress in compliance efforts: in collaboration with Tether and TRM Labs, it established T3 FCU, freezing over $150 million in involved assets and assisting in tracking money laundering and fraud funds; the U.S. SEC also suspended accusations against three TRON companies at the end of February, indicating that its compliance efforts have made landmark progress, with a positive outlook for the ecosystem.

1. A mutual endeavor under the wave of Web3 regulatory compliance, TRON and Kraken achieve a win-win situation

It is well known that Trump has consistently promised to "make the U.S. the global crypto capital" before and after taking office, and naturally, compliant U.S. trading platforms have responded enthusiastically. Under this favorable wind, U.S. trading platforms are more inclined to list assets that can directly bring strategic synergies.

According to the 【2024 Public Chain Stablecoin Transfer Volume Ranking】 released by Cryptorank, TRON ranks third, only behind Solana and ETH. Additionally, the latest data from TRONSCAN shows that the issuance of USDT-TRC20 has surpassed 66.7 billion, reaching a historic high and accounting for nearly 50% of the total issuance of USDT across the network. Clearly, listing TRON's native assets can directly bring considerable business increments to exchanges.

As the sixth-ranked trading platform by market share (according to Coingecko data), which once held the second position in independent security assessments and has obtained a U.S. cryptocurrency banking license, Kraken is naturally more motivated to list high-quality assets from the TRON ecosystem, efficiently achieving the positive goals of secure growth and compliant expansion. An analysis reveals three core benefits of the five TRON assets landing on Kraken:

1. Enhancing user scale: Kraken is a top-tier compliant exchange in the U.S., known for its security, with daily trading volumes ranking among the top, and has significant influence in the European and American markets, allowing TRON to directly reach the U.S. market;

2. Strengthening brand momentum: The TRON ecosystem tokens perform exceptionally in various aspects, and being listed on Kraken undoubtedly provides another long-term brand exposure opportunity, indirectly enhancing global influence.

3. Enriching capital accumulation: Kraken supports direct deposits and withdrawals in fiat currencies like USD and EUR, significantly improving user convenience for capital inflow and outflow, especially in the European and American markets. After being listed on Kraken, TRON's asset trading volume can increase in the short term, and in the long term, it will attract more capital into the TRON ecosystem.

2. Five assets covering multiple fields of NFT and DeFi, indicating Kraken's profound layout in the TRON ecosystem

The TRON ecosystem has a multitude of tokens, and the selection of five major assets such as NFT and JST by Kraken naturally highlights their intrinsic appeal. In summary, their common advantages include:

1. Covering mainstream tracks, representing the TRON ecosystem;

2. Crossing multiple bull and bear cycles with zero security incidents, demonstrating sustainability;

3. Already listed on major exchanges like Binance, OKX, and Upbit, with high recognition across the network.

Looking at the details, each of the five assets has its unique strengths, summarized as follows:

1. NFT: Launched by the APENFT Foundation, it aims to promote the development of the art NFT ecosystem through the high throughput and low-cost characteristics of the TRON network. As of April this year, the market value of NFT has exceeded $410 million, with over 2.16 million holding addresses;

2. JST: The token of the decentralized finance system JUST platform, where all transactions, collateral, and governance are completely transparent and run on-chain, with a lending TVL ranking second on DeFiLlama. As the most important on-chain infrastructure, the potential of JST will be continuously stimulated as TRON's global influence increases;

3. USDD: A super-collateralized stablecoin issued by TRON DAO Reserve, which is stable in price and has diverse use cases. It stands out among decentralized stablecoins, with an APY of up to 20%. The upgraded USDD 2.0 surpassed 100 million in circulation just 12 days after launch and has now exceeded 300 million;

4. SUN: The governance token of SUN.io, initiated, led, and developed by the community, with zero VC investment, zero pre-mining, and zero team reservation, relying entirely on the community and open-source smart contracts for functional development, with all contract codes fully open-source.

Since the launch of the Meme fair launch and trading platform SunPump under SUN.io, the TRON chain has seen nearly 15 million new transactions, over 10 million new contract calls, and an 8.02% growth in wallet addresses within 30 days. The SUN token ecosystem is firmly committed to promoting sustainability, having cumulatively burned 494 million tokens, continuously deflating, with promising value.

5. WIN: The token of the decentralized oracle project WINklink on the TRON chain. This project aims to provide reliable data streams for smart contract execution. In January 2025, Winklink officially launched the Any API Data - Feeds feature on the TRON network mainnet, marking another milestone in its development. This feature supports the direct integration of real-world data into smart contracts from any API, ushering in a new era of more responsive, adaptive, and interconnected DApps.

The five assets cover the entire ecological sectors of NFT art, DeFi, community governance tokens, decentralized stablecoins, and SocialFi, exhibiting strong ecological interactivity, continuously enhancing the ecological prosperity on the TRON chain. The most intuitive example is the second phase of the USDD 2.0 staking activity launched on March 1, where users can stake USDD on the DeFi project JustLend DAO to earn up to 20% annualized APY, and this income can be reinvested in other sectors for profit, reinforcing the value circulation property of the USDD stablecoin and injecting more liquidity into various projects within the ecosystem.

The listing of these five major assets indicates that Kraken has fully integrated into the entire ecological network of the TRON public chain, seamlessly connecting to its value circulation network. Through this, Kraken can achieve breakthroughs from a single point, leveraging the vast value and traffic within the TRON ecosystem. Furthermore, the listing of high-quality TRON assets may also bring about a significant "catfish effect," stimulating other high-quality asset projects to seek market-making on the Kraken platform, bringing multiple benefits to Kraken.

It is foreseeable that as TRON's compliance work steadily progresses, more compliant trading platforms will actively list high-quality assets or potential tokens on the TRON chain in the future.

3. With the support of fruitful compliance construction, TRON will comprehensively expand its global influence in this cycle

In this new cycle, why does TRON have the potential to take the lead and comprehensively expand its global influence? Because TRON's strong value foundation continues to accumulate, and the stroke of genius in compliance construction can further stimulate its ecological potential, with the massive value generated spilling over into the global Web3 financial sector.

The latest data shows that the total number of TRON accounts has surpassed 299 million, with over 10 billion transactions and a total locked value (TVL) exceeding $18.4 billion. The issuance of USDT-TRC20 is close to half of the total circulation, making it an important global payment network. Based on this, TRON can better meet the demands for cryptocurrency infrastructure construction in multiple countries, with its global influence continuing to soar.

Under the accumulation of the aforementioned favorable factors, several disruptive applications within the TRON ecosystem are particularly noteworthy. For example, will USDD compete with mainstream stablecoins? Will the Sun.io ecosystem give rise to more phenomenal DApps or assets? Will the DeFi platform JUST iterate out more long-term valuable gameplay? Let's wait and see.