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Morning Edition · Sunday, October 18, 2026Published at 1:40 AM EDT · New York
TRON carried $2.2 trillion in stablecoin transfers but TRX supply rose on each of 108 straight days
Fee burns fell short of new staking rewards every day from July 1 through October 16, so the network's stablecoin traffic did not make its native token deflationary.
TRON moved $2.2 trillion in stablecoins, yet the supply of its native TRX token grew on every one of the 108 days from July 1 through October 16, CryptoSlate reported. The cause is simple arithmetic. TRON burns part of the fees users pay, a…
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Stablecoin Volume Decouples From Chain Tokens
Stablecoin settlement volume keeps generating value for issuers and users rather than for the native tokens of the chains that carry it, so usage metrics and token valuations continue to separate.
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