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The Beginner’s Guide to TRON – What You Need To Know

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If you believe that the present-day Internet is as good as it will get, you’ve never heard of  TRON and its plan to “decentralize the web” and establish the base of “a virtual civilization of the future.”

TRON is a decentralized protocol initially built on the Ethereum blockchain. Still, it is now a stand-alone platform for smart contracts and DApps. It claims to be the first network in the crypto world to bring together entertainment creators and consumers in a global, open-source environment to publish, store, and use content free from intermediaries’ control.

Access to TRON also lets you use Tronix (TRX), the platform’s digital asset. You can use TRX to pay creators for their content, and in turn, they can exchange them for other cryptos, use them for DApps or store them in wallets.

At the time of this writing, TRON was the second most popular platform for DApps, second only to Ethereum, and an up-and-coming venture for crypto investors everywhere.

TRON in a Nutshell

  • TRON is a decentralized platform for DApps and smart contracts
  • TRON was launched in 2017 by Justin Sun
  • TRON migrated from Ethereum to its protocol in 2018
  • TRON uses Tronix as the platform’s exchange crypto and native digital asset
  • TRON aims to make entertainment content easy to create, cheap to publish, and almost free to access for users worldwide
  • TRON has established dual headquarters in the Americas and the Asia Pacific
  • TRON is the owner of BitTorrent and all of its products

What is TRON?

TRON is a decentralized, blockchain-based platform for the free sharing and use of entertainment content. It is a global, open-source protocol that enables users to create, publish, and store data without being dependent on centralized authorities.

According to its website, TRON aims to decentralize the Internet and make it easier for content creators to monetize their products without having to abide by external services’ regulations.

TRON wants to create a natural bridge between creators and consumers through a peer-to-peer protocol that works through smart contracts and DApps.

By cutting intermediaries like Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Netflix, among many others, TRON helps content producers to deliver their work to as many users as possible without creative or publishing constraints. Conversely, the network enables consumers to access a broad palette of entertainment content at a lower price without an externally imposed subscription.

Tronix (TRX) is the native digital asset of TRON. Users can buy it to gain network access and exchange it for a broad range of platform services.

Like how Ether lets Ethereum users create and access smart contracts on the largest blockchain-based platform for DApps, TRX enables users to launch their ERC-20 tokens and create currencies invested in decentralized applications.

The TRON network is expected to evolve into a stand-alone ecosystem where users can create and develop their DApps at a low cost, promote their businesses, and receive financial remuneration.

Every participant (developers, witnesses, and users) gets a share of the spoils on the TRON network. As the ecosystem develops and enhances, the winnings grow and become available to those who commit to the TRON cause.

A brief history of TRON

TRON is the brainchild of Justin Sun – the first millennial to graduate from Jack Ma’s Hupan University and one of the cryptocurrency industry’s wunderkinder. Sun is also the current CEO of BitTorrent and the former chief representative of Ripple for the Greater China zone. In June 2019, he famously bid $4.5 million to have lunch with American magnate Warren Buffett.

Justin Sun started working on TRON in early 2014 and established the TRON Foundation in Singapore in July 2017. In December of the same year, the platform launched its open-source protocol on Ethereum and an ERC-20 token in TRX.

On May 31, 2018, TRON launched MainNet, which was its first step in officially migrating from the Ethereum blockchain to its consensus protocol on June 25, 2018. At the same time, the transition saw the coin burn of 1 billion TRX.

2018 was a big year for TRON, as Sun completed BitTorrent’s acquisition and all its products in July and launched the TRON virtual machine (TVM) only a month later. The machine works as an operating system aiming to improve the network in size and quality.

However, 2018 also cast a shadow of doubt over TRON’s positive evolutions when accusations of plagiarism surfaced regarding the network’s whitepaper, which came from Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin. TRON and Sun quickly debunked the critics and claimed it was a case of unintentional mistakes from volunteering international translators.

In 2019, Justin SUN launched the Sun Network, a DAppChain project to operate on TRON with lower energy consumption, faster speed, and enhanced safety, providing TRON’s leading network’s unlimited capacity.

At the time of this writing, Tronix ranked 11th at the top of all cryptocurrencies’ market capitalization on coinmarketcap.com. One token was valued at $0.016570, and the market cap was at $1,104,940,456.

How does TRON work?

According to its website, TRON has surpassed Bitcoin and Ethereum in practical daily use. This impressive achievement results from the system’s high scalability and availability, enabling users to create smart contracts and DApps at a remarkable speed while benefiting from an improved rewards distribution system.

TRON employs a 3-layered architecture for its processes:

The Storage Layer

On this layer, the system hosts its block and state storage. In addition, a graph database enables the processing and updating of all applications at high speed.

The Core Layer

This layer hosts numerous modules, including TRON’s virtual machine for smart contracts, consensus, and account management.

The Application Layer

Users can create, publish, and host their DApps in exchange for TRX tokens on this layer.

TRON uses a rating called TRON Power and Delegated Proof-of-Stake (DPoS) consensus to determine which users vote to elect the witnesses for a transaction. Users can increase their TRON Power by holding as much time as possible to their TRX tokens.

TRON also has a development roadmap that stretches from its inception stage in 2017 to 2027. The TRON roadmap is divided into six steps:

  • Exodus (Aug 2017 – Dec 2018)
  • Odyssey (Jan 2019 – Jun 2020)
  • Fantastic Voyage (Jul 2020 – Jul 2021)
  • Apollo (Aug 2021 – Mar 2023)
  • Star Trek (Apr 2023 – Sep 2025)
  • Eternity (Sep 2025 – Sep 2027)

When the Eternity stage finalizes, users should create their gaming applications on TRON. Content creators should publish, manage, and sell their products quickly on the blockchain-based protocol.

How to buy and own TRON

You can buy TRON and its native digital asset, Tronix, at cryptocurrency exchanges for other cryptos like Ethereum or Bitcoin. Some of the most popular choices include:

Where to store TRON

To purchase TRON, you should first have a TRX-compatible wallet to store the tokens. You can have your choice between:

Hard wallets

Software wallets

Mobile wallets

The advantages of using TRON

  • TRON enables content creators to publish, save and release entertainment products free of any form of creative control
  • TRON uses digital assets to stimulate the enhancement of a creative community where content can be exchanged at a low price and free from the control of centralized authorities
  • TRON lets users create ICOs by distributing digital assets and receiving funds for the development of their products
  • TRON suits the gaming creators that will be able to publish and distribute their products on a decentralized platform where their success will be determined solely by the quality of their creations

The risks of investing in TRON

Besides the slight disturbance caused by the plagiarism scandal, TRON does not seem to present any significant liabilities. Therefore, in the future, there are very few risks in investing in this blockchain-based protocol that has already migrated to its platform.

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