SUN.io Multi-dimensional value acceleration release: SunSwap V4 drives a dual explosion of liquidity and trading volume, with nearly 700 million SUN tokens repurchased and destroyed

In the first quarter of 2026, the global cryptocurrency market experienced a cyclical deep adjustment, with overall trading enthusiasm cooling and market activity continuing to decline. Against this backdrop, major public chains generally fell into stock competition, intensifying industry involution and highlighting growth resistance. However, the TRON ecosystem demonstrated strong market resilience and structural growth vitality, charting an independent upward growth curve.

According to the "2026 Q1 TRON Quarterly Report" released by CoinDesk, data shows that amid the overall shrinkage of global spot DEX trading volume, TRON's market DEX share achieved a counter-trend rise, significantly increasing from the original 0.6% to 1%. This growth data, which completely diverges from the overall market trend, intuitively confirms the significant improvement in on-chain trading activity of TRON, fully showcasing its core competitiveness in a sluggish market.

This counter-trend growth achievement is inseparable from the strong empowerment and driving force of TRON's core liquidity infrastructure, SUN.io. As the core DeFi hub of the TRON ecosystem, SUN.io, with its comprehensive DeFi business model, continuously iterating disruptive technological advantages, and tangible value capture and yield empowerment capabilities, not only solidified the foundational base of the TRON ecosystem but also took on important functions of value anchoring and risk buffering. Moreover, it activated the core growth engine of ecological trading activity, fully validating its solid and sustainable long-term value in the Web3 field.

SunSwap V4 Six Major Underlying Innovations Reshape DEX Efficiency Revolution, Achieving Extreme Cost Reduction and Scalability Ascension

In the TRON ecosystem, SUN.io has always been the core liquidity hub and benchmark for DeFi infrastructure. After several iterations, the SUN.io platform has developed into a fully functional and ecologically diverse integrated DeFi service platform, aggregating core functions such as DEX asset exchange SunSwap, meme innovative asset issuance SunPump, decentralized perpetual contracts SunX, and decentralized governance SUN DAO, covering diverse scenarios such as asset exchange, asset issuance, derivatives trading, and ecological governance, thus constructing a complete DeFi ecological service map for TRON.

While horizontally expanding ecological boundaries and enriching the product matrix, SUN.io has never stopped its vertical deepening of underlying technology, continuously innovating and refining core product capabilities. In March of this year, the core DEX segment of the SUN.io ecosystem, SunSwap, launched the groundbreaking V4 version. This version inherits the core advantages of V1, V2, and V3 while innovatively implementing six major underlying core mechanisms, reconstructing the traditional AMM architecture, accurately addressing industry pain points such as multi-route trading delays, fragmented liquidity, insufficient scalability, and high trading costs, leading the TRON ecosystem DEX to complete a technical paradigm iteration and initiate a DeFi trading efficiency revolution.

SunSwap V4 is equipped with six major underlying innovative mechanisms: native TRX direct access, singleton architecture (unified management of liquidity pools), flash accounting (unified differential settlement), hooks (custom trading rule plugins), custom accounting (customized settlement strategies), and subscribers (real-time notifications of position changes). These innovations achieve comprehensive breakthroughs in multiple dimensions, from optimizing trading logic, improving liquidity pool management efficiency, innovating settlement models to enabling developer customization and expansion, significantly reducing on-chain energy consumption and trading costs while providing extreme scalability for the ecosystem, thereby fully upgrading user trading experience and developer innovation space:

• Restoration of Native TRX Support: Supports direct pairing of TRX with TRC-20 tokens without the need to forcibly wrap TRX into WTRX, simplifying operations and further reducing trading energy consumption.

• Singleton Architecture: Centralizes all liquidity pools under a single contract for unified management, overturning the cumbersome model of independently deploying contracts for each trading pool in traditional DEX. This innovative architecture not only significantly reduces the cost of creating liquidity pools but also optimizes routing efficiency for cross-pool trading, effectively solving the problem of fragmented liquidity.

• Flash Accounting Technology: A new settlement mechanism based on the singleton architecture, which no longer transfers assets step by step for complex multi-step asset exchanges but records net balance changes through an internal ledger, settling the differential amount uniformly at the end of the transaction, greatly reducing the energy consumption of complex strategies and adapting to high-frequency, complex trading scenarios.

• Hooks: Allows developers to directly embed customized trading logic (such as dynamic fees, customized oracles, etc.) into liquidity pools, supporting each liquidity pool to bind exclusive hooks contracts. Developers can flexibly configure personalized features such as dynamic fees, customized oracles, and exclusive trading rules without modifying core protocol code, realizing the possibility of flexible configuration for "thousands of people, thousands of pools," unleashing the innovative potential of the developer ecosystem.

• Custom Accounting: This mechanism works in deep synergy with hooks, empowering professional market makers and institutional users to build exclusive settlement systems that flexibly adapt to complex hedging strategies and fee models.

• Subscriber Mechanism: Liquidity providers (LPs) can join subscriber contracts to receive real-time notifications of fund position changes and other dynamic data. This mechanism provides core technical support for third-party liquidity management tools and automated market-making systems, helping on-chain liquidity operate in a more professional, refined, and intelligent manner.

Relying on these six major underlying technological innovations, SunSwap V4 successfully achieved a dual breakthrough in extreme optimization of trading costs and comprehensive upgrades in protocol scalability, completing an all-around iterative upgrade in product experience, underlying performance, and ecological capabilities.

In terms of cost optimization, core technologies such as native TRX direct access, singleton architecture, and flash accounting drastically compress on-chain trading links and streamline settlement processes, significantly reducing on-chain energy consumption and fee costs, elevating the inherent low-cost and high-performance core advantages of the TRON network to a new height.

At the same time, SUN.io has long provided energy subsidies of up to 99%, forming a dual benefit of "technical cost reduction + policy subsidies"; on May 19, the platform successfully completed the iteration and upgrade of the universal router contract, which can also enjoy a high energy subsidy of 99%. The synergy of endogenous performance optimization and exogenous energy subsidies has significantly reduced the on-chain trading costs for SunSwap V4 users, bringing energy consumption close to zero.

Currently, when users trade assets on SunSwap, the system automatically matches the optimal trading path through intelligent routing, maximizing the reduction of trading costs: in the regular scenario of TRX exchanging for USDT, the on-chain energy cost has approached zero; in the TRX/USDT liquidity addition scenario, under the same capital scale, the gas cost for a single transaction in version V1 was $3.83, while in version V4 it is only $0.9, showing a significant reduction, allowing the frequency of on-chain operations under the same budget to increase to six times the original.

[TRX exchanging for USDT token scenario]

[Gas consumption comparison between V4 and V1 for adding LP (above and below respectively)]

In terms of ecological expansion, SunSwap V4 fully opens hooks, custom accounting, subscriber mechanisms, and a complete set of developer toolsets, granting the ecosystem a high degree of autonomous customization. Developers can flexibly build personalized liquidity pools, innovative DeFi products, and exclusive trading strategies based on their needs, continuously enriching the TRON DeFi ecosystem products and laying a solid foundational infrastructure for all-scenario ecological innovation.

From the disruptive reconstruction of the underlying architecture to the comprehensive opening of the developer toolset, SunSwap V4 is not only a culmination of the TRON network's low-cost and high-efficiency core advantages but also validates its core value and growth certainty with tangible technological breakthroughs and practical results.

SunSwap V4 Achieves Explosive Growth in Liquidity and Trading Volume Two Months After Launch

The leading technological architecture and extreme cost advantages have now fully transformed into tangible business growth momentum and market competitiveness for SunSwap V4. Since the release of version V4, within just two months, its liquidity pool and trading volume have both achieved explosive growth, charting an independent upward trend in an overall flat market, significantly outperforming the broader market.

According to data from the Sunscan browser, the TVL of SunSwap V4 liquidity pools has steadily climbed from an initial million-dollar level to nearly $112 million; the average daily trading volume has surged from tens of thousands of dollars to a recent $29.72 million. This set of rapidly growing data directly confirms the substantial breakthroughs achieved by SunSwap V4 in trading cost optimization and protocol scalability upgrades, as well as serving as strong evidence of the realization of its technological iteration results and comprehensive product competitiveness.

The leap in growth of the SunSwap V4 platform has garnered widespread attention and high recognition from the global cryptocurrency industry. Multiple KOLs in the crypto field have expressed astonishment on the X platform, noting that SunSwap V4 achieved dual explosions in liquidity and trading volume within just two months of its launch, with a growth rate that is exceptionally prominent, even astonishing.

Industry-renowned KOL @Tonys further dissected the core logic behind its rapid growth: relying on the dual core advantages of a 99% high energy subsidy and native TRX one-click direct connection, SunSwap V4 has pushed on-chain trading fees to historical lows, creating extremely low trading costs and a streamlined operational experience. Meanwhile, the V4 version upgrade has simultaneously optimized the rights and interests system for liquidity providers, bringing users higher and more flexible yield returns. Users can monitor on-chain fund dynamics in real-time, leveraging the platform's secure non-custodial mechanism and intelligent market-making strategies to efficiently conduct liquidity operations. Under the accumulation of multiple advantages, the explosive growth of SunSwap V4 has become an inevitable trend in the industry.

With the launch of SunSwap V4, SunSwap has formed a collaborative pattern of three major versions: V2, V3, and V4, with each version complementing and empowering one another, collectively driving the continuous expansion of the platform's trading scale. According to the latest data from May 26, the core performance of each version is clearly layered, with strong growth momentum:

In just two months since its launch, the V4 version has quickly caught up with the mature V3 version in terms of liquidity and trading volume, fully releasing the growth potential of the new technical version, becoming the core engine for new incremental value on the platform.

Relying on the ecological advantages of multi-version collaborative development, the overall business data of SUN.io will continue to be strong. As of May 27, the total TVL of the SUN.io platform is nearly $587 million, with the total number of ecological liquidity pools exceeding 26,600, a total trading volume over the past seven days exceeding $472 million, and over 68,500 transactions processed, with the ecological scale continuing to grow. Specifically, the SunSwap V4 single version has already established over 106 liquidity pools, achieving a 24-hour trading volume of $29.72 million and 1,005 transactions in 24 hours, with the newly added incremental value continuously highlighted.

The rapid growth of business and the continuous improvement of the ecosystem have also directly driven the steady increase in the value of the platform's native assets. According to CoinGecko data, since the launch of SunSwap V4 in March, the price of the SUN token has steadily risen from $0.015 to $0.02, with a cumulative increase of over 30%, and the current overall market value has reached $384 million, achieving a positive cycle of technological iteration, ecological growth, and asset value.

SUN.io Ecological Value Continues to Be Realized: SUN Has Repurchased and Destroyed Nearly 700 Million Tokens, "Three Engines" Drive Continuous Token Deflation

In the crypto world, determining whether a DeFi platform is a "castle in the air" or "evergreen" hinges on whether its token economics has real income support. SUN.io is continuously releasing multidimensional value through the "three engines" of SunSwap, SunPump, and SunX, driving the SUN token into a deep deflationary era with tangible business income. As of May 26, the SUN token has completed its 50th repurchase and destruction, with a cumulative repurchase and destruction amount exceeding 600 million tokens.

On April 25, SUN officially completed its 50th repurchase and destruction, with over 18.83 million SUN tokens (18,835,780.1486) repurchased and destroyed. Since the launch of the SUN repurchase mechanism on December 15, 2021, the total amount of repurchased and destroyed tokens has reached nearly 700 million (specifically 669,522,160.92 tokens), of which SunSwap V2 fees have contributed to the destruction balance of 37.4 million tokens; SunPump has contributed nearly 28.5 million tokens; and SunX has contributed approximately 9.12 million tokens.

Unlike the vast majority of projects that rely on inflation or governance tokens to "shift left and right," the funds for SUN's repurchase and destruction come entirely from diversified real business income. From the current destruction data, the funds for repurchasing and destroying SUN tokens mainly come from the three core business lines of SunSwap V2, SunPump, and SunX. This means that regardless of how asset exchange, meme trends, or PerpDEX derivatives evolve, the three engines can continuously capture on-chain value, continuously injecting healthy "deflationary momentum" into the SUN token.

It is precisely this repurchase mechanism, which relies on real income and has been executed consistently for 50 periods, that constitutes the strongest value validation, fully confirming the long-term deflationary resilience of the SUN.io ecosystem and the platform's firm commitment to long-termism. As crypto KOL Xing Shuo stated: "Seeing SUN complete its 50th repurchase and destruction, my first reaction is not how much has been destroyed again, but that this mechanism has been stably executed for so long. Many projects like to talk about 'deflation,' but very few can consistently execute 50 periods with each one being genuinely realized. The significance of the 50th period lies in proving that this is not a temporary action but a long-term value closed loop that has been successfully run and can continue to operate."

While solidifying its foundational base, SUN.io is also actively expanding new types of assets. In April of this year, SunSwap V4 launched and was the first to support the new decentralized stablecoin $U (United Stables), simultaneously opening the USDT/U liquidity pool, providing the community with richer on-chain asset choices.

More critically, SUN.io serves as the liquidity center of the TRON ecosystem, accounting for over 99% of the asset trading volume on the TRON network. The TRON network itself is also a traffic center for global stablecoins, carrying a circulation of up to $89 billion in USDT. As the scale of stablecoins continues to grow, these massive on-chain assets are expected to convert into trading assets for SUN.io, bringing continuous trading volume and protocol income, further strengthening the value closed loop of repurchase and destruction.

From the technological transformation of SunSwap V4 to the ongoing real business repurchase and destruction of the 50th period, SUN.io is powerfully demonstrating to the market: it is not only the core infrastructure of DeFi on the TRON network but also a decentralized financial engine with self-evolution capabilities and strong cash flow capture efficiency.