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Is 2026 going to be better? The Justin Sun Crypto crew seems to think so.
Does anyone else feel like time broke somewhere, andĀ we just kept pretending it didnāt? Like there was a before and now thereās just this long aftertaste of something dying?
Sad times over here at 99Bitcoins. Meanwhile, the silver lining is that one of the most controversial figures in crypto, the founder of Tron, Justin Sun, is quietly pumping TRX into 2026.Ā Hereās what you should know:
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Tron had no business being this calm in 2025 with all the Justin Sun shenanigans. And yet here we are.
TRX is up roughly 12% year-to-date, a small miracle in a market where
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is down about 6% and
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$2,973.17
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is off more than 11%.
At around $27 Bn in marketcap, Tron has become a large, liquid network that simply refused to panic when everyone else did.
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TRX topped near $0.36 in August, retraced with the broader market, and stabilized near the $0.28-$0.29 zone.
CoinGecko data shows TRX volatility compressing through the second half of 2025, defying broader market volatility. DeFi Llama shows stablecoin volume holding steady and $4.413 Bn locked into Tron DeFi protocols.
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One of the more underappreciated catalysts was Tronās US public market footprint. The reverse merger that created Tron Inc. gave TRX a stock that is up triple digits this year, even after recent volatility.
Sun also leaned into visibility. His proximity to Trump-aligned crypto initiatives and participation in politically charged Web3 projects mattered for pumping TRX.
Justin Sun paid 4.5m to have lunch with Warren Buffet and he told him not to buy Bitcoin
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ā Meadow (@meadowmarque) December 31, 2025
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TA for Tron matches the fundamentals. Long-term moving averages are creeping higher, pullbacks are shallow at the moment, and sell pressure keeps fading.
Tron didnāt āwinā by ripping faces off. It won by staying upright while everything else in crypto cracked and had an extremely volatile year.
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