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Tron strikes big (again); TRX hits BitMart, exchange with over 540k users

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It seems like the month-long cruel bearish trend comes to an end as all the cryptocurrencies in the crypto-space are taking the sigh of relief and starting to ascertain what the recent brutal period has affected them in whole.

While all the giants of virtual-sphere struggled to keep themselves from getting thrashed, there were several instances for the rapidly growing blockchain-based decentralized operating system in the world, Tron, to have achieved exemplary landmarks even during that period.

While it achieved a million transactions per day, more than once, it also succeeded in gaining recognition from few of the top-ranked exchanges in the world. Just a few days ago, Tron also broke the record of 2.53 M transactions per day, to name few of the significant developments of the platform. Seems like the tireless efforts, dedication and on-time decisions of the foundation’s authority are paying off well.

The stride to become the leader of the crypto-verse does not just halt there. Just a couple of days ago, the CEO of Tron, Mr. Justin Sun, took to the Twitter for announcing its another, not easy to be ignored, development. According to his tweet, Tron is going to be listed on BitMart, one of the top 15 exchanges, starting from December 18th:

From December 18 onwards (yesterday), Tron enthusiasts now will be able to withdraw or deposit TRX on BitMart alongside over a half million users, globally, of the digital asset trading platform where it will be paired with Bitcoin, Ethereum Tether and the BitMart’s native token BMX.

Understandably, the announcement brought considerable excitement in the crypto-community who appreciated the news-bearer as follows:

Another Tron lover applauded the efforts of the CEO of their beloved crypto by insisting on the fact that he is doing great work and should continue to do so, says a lot about their excitement on the recent happenings on the platform:

More about BitMart

BitMart is a top-notch digital asset trading platform in the virtual market with over 530,000 users globally. BitMart, at the moment, provides 147 trading pairs at lowest trading fees (competing with some) in the market. Recently, the platform initiated credit and debit card deposit options and is planning to offer full fiat services by the end of this year.

About a couple of weeks ago, BitMart announced that they are going to list TRX on their platform because they believe that it will help them to “reach a consensus in the blockchain community.”

Founder and CEO of the exchange then commented on the development by saying,

“Public chains give developers, and users access to the network with only one entrance and are based on one set of standards. As BitMart’s long-term vision is to help reach a consensus in the blockchain community, our partnership with Tron will undoubtedly facilitate us to achieve this ambition based on our shared goals.”

Tron’s Current Position in the Market

At the time of publishing this piece, Tron is making a positive stride in the market with the price standing at $0.016 by maintaining 11.5% gains in the past 24 hours while having the market cap of $1,069,736,280.

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Justin Sun’s Tron DApp adoption growth prediction becomes half-filled already

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Not too long ago, Tron released its major decentralized exchange called TRXMarket, where the exchange of TRC20 tokens can take place. However, we shouldn’t forget that the exchange of TRC10, which is the major block for the improvement of Tron ecosystem, hasn’t changed on Tronscan.

Both TRC10 and TRC20 token are better advancements to Ethereum’s ERC20 tokens. The TRC10 tokens are tokens that do not need the writings of Smart-contracts. On the other hand, the TRC20 tokens boast the functionalities and the abilities of Smart-contracts.

Undoubtedly, Tron has recorded immerse growth over the past few months despite the bear market. Right now, the cryptocurrency has numerous Decentralized Applications on its network. According to the report released by Tron Foundation itself, it has been revealed that Tron Dapp usage has increased by 50% in the past two weeks.

It is important to know that the Tron Dapp adoption surged and surpassed one million transaction threshold within a day. In an official blog post by Tron last week, it was noted:

“This week, the 24-hour transaction number for Dapps reached 1.04M, a 48% increase compared with last week; the 24-hour trading volume hit 640M TRX, an 151% increase compared with last week.”

We need to recall that Justin Sun himself predicted last month on the growth of Tron Dapp. He twitted last month on his official Twitter page that:

“Today is November 27th 2018. One month after #Tron release #TVM. According to @DappRadar and @dapp_review, there are 20+ dapps built on #TRON. In December, we are expecting 80+ more dapps coming in the pipeline! 400% growth next month! #TRX $TRX.”

And now yesterday, he twitted:

Ethereum’s Dapps Are Nowhere near Tron’s Dapps.

Taking a look at the standings given by DappTRACK, you would think that if Ethereum’s Dapps were close to the reach of Tron’s Dapps activities, then they would have recorded a massive upturn.

Indeed, Tron is making sure all hands are on deck so that Ethereum developers migrate totally to Tron platform – and surely, they have recorded extreme success on this.

Additionally, it is necessary also to know that Ethereum’s IDEX, which is one of the most prominent Decentralized Applications worldwide has also been overtaken by TronBet (a gambling application built on Tron network). Tronbet now boasts more users more than IDEX.

Overall, Tron is a futuristic project and has now become a force to reckon with. The main vision of Tron is to create a decentralized internet majorly for the entertainment industry. Tron came to life only last year and has recorded massive success with a market capitalization $950 million, according to CoinMarketCap as we write this article.

Though the current worth of TRX has decreased by a big value against its all-time high due to market trend this year, the developments on Tron has kept on booming despite that.

No doubts, as things stand (and look), more developments will come on Tron platform which will spur its growth and increase the usage of Tron Dapps in the future.

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Here’s how the bear market uplifted Tron’s network bloom

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About a couple of weeks ago, Justin Sun, Tron’s CEO and founder, published a tweet announcing that the Tron foundation is creating a fund to rescue developers on the Ethereum and EOS networks. There’s a catch though. Said developers can only benefit from that fund if they bring their decentralized apps and project to the Tron Network. That’s a fair twist.

The bear market has been causing projects to stop functioning.

Mr. Sun’s tweet could have been prompted by another tweet issued by the ETCDEV team. It’s one of the main development teams working on Ethereum Classic. They had to stop working because of lack of funding. Mr. Sun also wrote that one of the team’s developers contacted the Tron foundation in another tweet:

https://twitter.com/mary_janex1/status/1071276170157613056

Projects are taking Justin’s offer seriously, and they will boost Tron’s development. One developer from ETCDEV officially announced his tie with Tron just a little while ago.

The awful bear market we’ve seen for almost a year now has provided the perfect conditions so that Mr. Sun’s invitation for Ethereum and EOS developers to join the Tron network will make the network flourish.

This month, the Betguild team moved the Bitizens gaming app from Ethereum to Tron. Also, we saw how the Tron foundation launched the Tron Accelerator program which will spend a million dollars to support the creation of new decentralized apps for the platform.

That financial advantage makes it a lot more likely that dApp developers will move their projects to Tron, which is a platform that’s been hailed for many good reasons. It can manage 2,000 transactions per second (worldwide, it charges zero fees for processing smart contracts that are within a certain bandwidth, and the option to use zk-SNARKS to enhance privacy. Very few blockchains can offer comparable advantages. The niTron summit will take place next month, in San Francisco, and, it just so happens that Tron is compatible with the Ethereum virtual machine.

Final Thoughts

The recent market conditions pushed many dApp projects to either settle for less or just shut down completely. Mr. Sun and Tron foundation, on the other hand, are trying to persuade them to leave Ethereum and EOS behind so they join Tron, which could allow them to keep their projects alive even as the market keeps going down and they’re even providing financial incentives for them.

Tron’s dApp catalog remains very small when you compare it to Etherum. But 2019 could be the year in which we see it explode as developers take Mr. Sun at face value and join Tron. And that’s not a longshot. Everdragons has already made a move, and many other projects are expected to do the same just because of simple self-preservation.

As we write this article Tron’s TRX is trading at $0.014275. It’s trading in green numbers against the dollar (up by 8.87% in the last 24 hours).

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Tronbet, first ever Tron DApp, gets a billion in volume

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Tronbet was the first decentralized application to be deployed in the new, independent Tron main net. Several peculiarities bear mentioning this app. It’s community owned, for a start. Most importantly (and rare) is that it’s fair.

Most betting systems in the world are not fair. No, we’re not saying that betting websites are thieves. They’re not. But they calculate their odds in such a way that winners do not get a return that corresponds to the mathematical probability of winning. The house always offers odds that will allow it to win from 1% to 5% and there’s nothing wrong with that. If the house is not winning something out of every bet (won or lost), then it has no incentive to offer the service to users.

And Tronbet pays you accordingly to the fair mathematical probability, without taking away anything from you so the house can keep going. That in itself is quite extraordinary as online betting or gaming usually is. Also, there are no transaction fees in this app.

It’s being a very successful gaming platform. A couple of days ago, it reached an important milestone by having more than a billion Tronix coins in volume in less than a day.

The community is exceedingly happy about the app because it works and it’s allowing it to earn new coins and having some fun at the same time. It has 2,213 users according to the app’s leadership’s last tweet.

This also shows how optimistic and bullish the Tron community remains about the token’s value, even as the market keeps its price down. The betting app’s volume has been growing exponentially since it came online and it’s gathering more and more interest from the Tron community as well as the crypto community as a whole.

The game is as simple as it is addictive. You just pick an interval from 0 to 99. Then the app will calculate for you the probabilities and odds that a random number will result in a win for you. You place your bet, you roll it, and you find out what happened. Bets are placed in Tron’s native currency (Tronix, TRX), and they are also paid in the said currency.

As Tron aims to decentralize the whole web by means of blockchain technology, the popularity it’s achieved in the community is quite relevant. Tron is now the biggest decentralized network in the world because it includes BitTorrent now. The full integration between Tron and BitTorrent (called Project Atlas) has not been finished in full, but imagine what could happen when it’s finally done.

BitTorrent has about a hundred million users scattered all over the world and, when Project Atlas does its job, each and every one of those users could become a member in the Tron community and also a player of Tronbet. In this context, the gaming app would not be reaching for the sky but the galaxy.

This kind of achievement shows why Tron has been able to keep moving forward even as the market keeps shrinking. Over the last couple of weeks, it’s beaten Cardano and Monero to become the world’s tenth most capitalized cryptocurrency.

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Trading Tron gets quicker and easier as TRX makes it to SwftCoin

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Just a couple of days ago, Tron’s Tronwallet got upgraded with the addition of Decentralized Exchange (DEX), where 5 new pairs have been announced. The stride to magnify their community’s passion does not just pause there.

In one of his recent tweets, Justin Sun, the creator and the CEO of Tron, announced that, to make the crypto trade safer and faster, they have partnered with the cross-chain wallet app Swftcoin. Users now will be able to trade TRX through Swftcoin at low fees and excellent speed, as it utilizes AI & patent-pending cross-chain transfer algorithm.

What’s SwftCoin all about?

SwftCoin is basically a globalized platform for the transfer of digital currencies. The platform provides one-click transaction service which takes merely up to 1 minute to complete the transaction. SwftCoin’s asset transmit services are available for the crypto community on both mediums; website and mobile application.

The main objective of the platform is to better the potency of crypto-sphere by providing cheap, thoroughly-protected and impenetrable transaction services, which is achieved by incorporating AI algorithms, the blockchain, extensive learning, and big data.

The transition of assets through SwftCoin is quite fast and easy to follow because of the cross-chain technology it uses. Also, its AI algorithms help the crypto-community allocate their virtual estate if they wish to.

Tron: What’s more to come

In its weekly report, the Foundation hinted at few of its future plans. They are going to launch Tron Ecosystem Co-builder Plan to support freelance developers, dApp developers, Tron-backed startups and more by catering a permanent platform for them to communicate and to be in cahoots with the Tron foundation. Though the exact date of the launch has not been revealed, the news surely has brought some excitement to the community.

Not too long ago, another interesting announcement came by the Sun-led Foundation in the form of Tron Accelerator program. The program will be promoting innovative ideas and rewarding the best with $200,000. Along with that, they also have a plan to award over 55 teams. Up until now, more than 7000 views have been cited and beyond 100 teams already have signed up for the Tron Accelerator contest.

TRX market right now

For the last 24 hours, the market as a whole hasn’t salvaged any breath even after a long four weeks bearish trend, with most of the cryptocurrencies still in the red, according to the CoinMarketCap. Tron is trading at $0.01309, with a little decrease of around 2% throughout the day. The coin boasts $867,468,760 as its current capitalization.

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Bitcoin is sinking so as Tron and others with it. Now what?

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Bitcoin’s been going down all week long. It’s been bad, and it could go as low as 3k in the next few days, despite several days moving sideways. It could remain moving sideways for a while which is terrible for investors that are either buying or selling short. In other words, current market conditions make you damned if you do and damned if you don’t. So what to do now?

In this article, we’ll try to share our perspective with you, but before we try that, we have to remind you that this is not financial advice at all. If you choose to get into Bitcoin or to get out, it has to be your own decision, which should be informed by doing your own due diligence and research.

We will start by acknowledging the elephant in the room. The year has been terrible for Bitcoin. There’s no doubt about that. Next Monday it will be a year since Bitcoin has kept going down constantly (save a few meaningless fluctuations) and it’s lost roughly 80% of its value. This is terrible news for those who bought tokens almost a year ago when it was at its peak. But does it really mean that BTC was a bubble that popped? We don’t think so.

First of all, this has happened it the past. Bitcoin has sunk four times already by more or less the same percentage that it’s lost this year. And every time, it’s managed to recover and skyrocket again, beating every prediction and reaching previously unsuspected heights. Despite the current situation, Bitcoin remains the most profitable asset over the last ten years (and this includes traditional financial instruments such as stocks, forex, and commodities).

Second of all, you and us, and everybody else need to understand that Bitcoin is not just a digital currency. It is, but it’s also an international payment system. In that regard, it’s been (and it remains) incredibly successful. Whatever way the market behaves Bitcoin is moving money around the world at quantities that are comparable to those of MasterCard and Visa.

In other words: it remains a useful resource, and as long as it’s useful, it will be valuable. In fact, the more useful it becomes, the better suited it will be to be independent of speculative pressure which is what is ruining the market for everybody as we write this.

The third is this: for the last decade the crypto market has been in the hands of retail investors because institutional investors have been too afraid to join the action. That is changing. A partnership among Microsoft, Starbuck’s and ICE (the company that owns the New York stock exchange) is about to bring online a new venture called Bakkt.

The new company will strive to offer financial services based on digital assets so that you can pay for your latte using bitcoin on your mobile phone. And this is not the only such initiative. Many big players in Wall Street are getting ready to wet their feet in crypto finally. This will inject a lot of money and demand for Bitcoin tokens, and it will create a bull run the likes of which have not been seen in ten years.

So what to do? Be patient, be intelligent, be disciplined and well informed. Think usefulness and vision of a coin. Tron, for example, has a powerful vision (of decentralizing the whole internet) and incredible real-life use cases – of course, Bitcoin has a strong case too. Consider value before price. Don’t try to win the lottery in a couple of weeks. We can’t tell you when but things will pick up.

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Tron (TRX) hits 2.42 million transactions in a single day

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As it’s been usual throughout the year, the good news keeps flowing for Tron even as the market remains under a strong bearish run and Tron’s token’s price (TRX) is still low because of the Bitcoin pairing it enjoys (or suffers) in most of the world’s exchanges.

This Monday the Tron network processed 2.42 million transactions in a single day. Why does this matter at all? Because Ethereum, which was the platform on which Tron started, has never processed more than 1.349 million transactions in a single day.

This news is interesting for Tron fans, of course, but any conscious neutral observer in crypto should notice this and draw conclusions. In this article, we will explain to you why.

Ethereum, founded by Vitalik Buterin who is still the project’s leader,  was a pioneer. It was the first second-generation blockchain network; it created smart contracts as well as decentralized apps and that allowed for many other projects to use the network to launch ICOs for tokens based on ETH20 technology and to create blockchain networks that, while functioning over the Ethereum network, were not the same entity. That’s how Tron and EOS came to life for instance.

Ethereum was a breakthrough in crypto, but it’s been plagued by problems over the last year or so. Users have been complaining about the network’s lack of scalability which, in turn, makes it slow or unavailable at times. But the gas price has also become a disadvantage for many users because it’s just too high (and this is a network in which gas price gives you priority for your transfers to be included in the next block).

All those disadvantages gave some of the Ethereum-based projects reasons to develop autonomous blockchains so that they could become independent. But not just independent, also scalable, faster, safer, and much cheaper. That’s what Tron did.

Since Tron became independent, releasing its main net in May this year, many experts have considered it could overthrow Ethereum’s dominance in smart contracts and decentralized apps because everything you can do in Ethereum you can also do in Tron. But in Tron is way faster and cheaper. So there’s been a bit of morbid interest in seeing how and when Tron will take over Ethereum as the world’s premier smart contract and ICOs network.

That hasn’t happened so far. Tron’s dApp catalog remains rather limited, and not that many new projects have chosen to use TRC20 instead of ETH20 to create new tokens and issue ICOs.

But that’s exactly why this seemingly sterile statistic matters so much. Tron may not have that many users, apps, contracts or ICOs as Ethereum. But it’s already processing almost twice as many transfers every single day as Ethereum on its best day.

So it’s early to declare Ethereum dead. Even earlier to say it died because Tron killed it. But Tron keeps growing as Ethereum keeps shrinking. Ethereum lost its place as the second largest coin by market capitalization to XRP a couple of weeks ago while Tron went from 13th to 10th last week.

Tron is here to stay and grow. And while Ethereum doesn’t address the problems it’s had for more than a year now; it’s risking that very status.

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Tron TRXMarket lists three trading pairs as it goes live

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Tron announced that it will launch its new decentralized exchange and will list three trading pairs: BET/TRX, FUN/TRX, GOC/TRX on the platform. That has happened now already. The good news was broke on the official Twitter page of TRXMarket:

Confirming the initial news by TRXMarket, the CEO of Tron Foundation, Justin Sun, also twitted a few hours after that the decentralized exchange is about to be launched and will list the aforementioned trading pairs. The CEO further added to the tweet that this is just the beginning for the decentralized exchange as more developments are set to come up very soon.

According to Tron, TRXMarket will be a decentralized exchange – just like Binance and the rest – where the exchange and trading of Tron-based tokens can be performed. Again, the decentralized exchange will enable the trading on tokens that are produced on Tron’s MaInNet.

Additionally, TRXMarket is also part of Tron Super Representative (SR), as Sun Tweeted a few months ago that TRXMarket will run for Tron Super Representative.

Subsequently, it has also been stated from the company officials that TRXMarket is not controlled by Tron Foundation, due to the fact that the two bodies are distinct from each other. It seems that Sun and his team are poised to maintain a ‘hands-off’ attitude towards the control of whole Tron ecosystem as they aim to make sure it is completely decentralized.

Concerning the tokens that would be listed, as of now, Tron community will now have the opportunity to only trade/exchange BET, FUN, and GOC and as time goes on, more tokens will be added to the exchange.

Nonetheless, there are several positive hints that TRXMarket will also be the decentralized exchange for other digital coins such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple in the future. The decentralized exchange will also to be available across the world, thus, playing a vital role on Tron’s aim to decentralize the internet.

Tron seems to be getting close to achieving its goals every day and the TRXMarket is the most-fresh proof. TRXMarket is a big stride for the blockchain platform, as it has the ability to convert 100-billion ERC20 tokens in few days with fewer efforts. The TRXMarket would be a part of the DAG (TrustNote minable Directed Acyclic Graph) public ledger, due to the inclusion of TRC20 tokens and protocol.

DAG helps to remove any type of blockchain issue acquired by traditional blockchain methods. The DAG system is actively protected by TrustNote consensus, ensuring the scalability of the system. No doubt, this is a big development for the future of TRC20 tokens.

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Tron’s Tronix (TRX) and mass adoption

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Tron has kept advancing at a very fast pace. It’s barely a year old and it’s already released a developer’s toolkit and an accelerator competition that will help quicken the availability of dApps in Tron’s network.

Tom Mao, one of Tron foundation executives, in charge of technical division and writing, recently told CodeXpert that Tron has found a way to solve the scalability problems that have plagued Ethereum and Bitcoin. Those two cryptocurrencies have a massive consensus protocol system that makes them very energy intensive and has centralized the mining activity in a few, powerful hands.

“So what Tron does, what it brings to the table that’s different from Bitcoin and Ethereum – especially different from Ethereum – is that it’s essentially using a very unique delegated proof of stake system where TRX holders have the right to vote for Super Representatives who they feel the best help with the Tron ecosystem and widespread adoption of TRX. So that helps to really democratize and decentralize the power – as opposed to the mining cartels – down to basically you and I who can buy TRX and exercise our voting rights.”

Tron executive added,

“There’s a process to apply to be a Super Representative Candidate (SRC) and the role of a Super Representative (SR) is to produce blocks for the Tron network. But what they really do is they’re trying to help spread widespread adoption of TRX. Make people aware of Tron and TRX. And then also hopefully sponsor projects that create DApps in which TRX is used and adopted.”

Talking about the Tron SRs, Tom said,

“The top 27 Super Representative Candidates become Super Representatives, and the elections are held every six hours.”

Mr. Mao also detailed the recent technical developments, explaining how exciting they are for the Tron community’s growth. He specifically included four major toolkits for coders. Tronbox, Tronstudio, Trongrid, and Tronweb. What are those? Keep reading!

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Tronbox is a framework that allows developers to integrate dApps into the Tron network; Tron studio is an IDE for compiling, testing and deploying smart contracts; Trongrid is a load-balanced API service that allows you to access the Tron blockchain; Tronweb is a colossal API call library that allows for integration with Javascript, Python, and PHP.

He also invited developers to bring their Ethereum dApps into Tron and explained why it’s a good idea in terms of incentives.

Justin Sun, Tron’s founder and CEO has also expressed his interest in having Ethereum projects adopt the Tron blockchain and he explained why: it’s a better network. Cheaper, safer, faster. And some crucial projects (Everdragons, for instance) are taking the invitation seriously and moving to Tron.

Tron has always held the promise to be the definitive Ethereum killer. It hasn’t delivered on that yet, but it’s delivered on everything else so don’t be surprised if, sooner or later, Ethereum loses its developers and users to Tron. Remember that even Tron used to be an Ethereum project that chose to become independent because of all of the problems that have been plaguing Ethereum over months now.

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Transaction fees: Tron vs. Ethereum vs. POA

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The days in which Bitcoin was the world’s only blockchain are long gone. There are hundreds of digital assets right now, and each one is a different blockchain, even if some are not 100% independent than others (for instance, many coins are based on Ethereum’s ETH20 technology, some others on Tron’s TRC20).

So the panorama can be confusing because it takes quite a bit of technical knowledge to understand exactly how each blockchain differs from others (especially when it comes to the consensus protocols). But one question still lingers in every user’s mind: how much will my transactions cost? We’ll endeavor to explain to you exactly that in this article.

Transaction fees: Why do we need them?

A blockchain is comprised of lots of independent nodes working in tandem and reaching consensus according to each network’s protocol. Independence is critical here because it implies that there must be some kind of incentive for those who run and support a node. That incentive usually comes in the form of tokens which come, at least in some proportion, from user transaction fees.

So we need the fees because that’s how we support every blockchain’s infrastructure. And that’s not cheap if you realize that Bitcoin alone is burning more electricity that some countries in Europe.

But that’s not all. Fees are useful also because they prevent users from wasting a network’s resources. For example, it’s not a good idea for hackers to try and do a DoS attack if they have to pay for every single request. So fees keep the network secure and available for significant projects.

So fees are not just an arbitrary thing, They matter a great deal. Now that we’ve (hopefully) persuaded you that fees are important (even good for you), let’s find out in some detail what is the deal offered by three of the most essential blockchain networks.

Ethereum

Ethereum is the first and quintessential second-generation blockchain. That means it created the first smart contract platform using the Proof of Work consensus protocol in which miners run the most important nodes. There are no limitations on the number of miners that can join the network.

They all compete between themselves to solve a mathematical problem (a cryptographic collision in a hash function that will create the next block). The miner who solves it first gets a reward for creating the next block. That needs specialized hardware and lots of power. So miners need to buy hardware and pay for their electricity which is why the rewards must be significant.

In the Ethereum environment, a transaction’s cost equals Gas times the gas price.

Gas: Ethereum needs to know the amount of computer power and storage it must provide to save and complete the transaction. That’s called “Gas.” If your transaction is a simple exchange of tokens, it will be cheap, but if you’re interacting with smart contracts and de dApps, it will be different.

And it could be tricky because the gas amount is computed only after the transaction is done. If you should want to know beforehand how much each of your transactions will cost you will need to ask the dApp provider how much the price has been in the past for similar operations.

Gas price: that’s how much you pay for every unit of gas/computing power, and it depends on your transaction. It’s paid in the native token (ETH in this case). Then miners rank pending transactions by price for blockchain inclusion. Miners get a better deal by processing higher gas prices, so more expensive transactions are completed sooner. The price changes all the time, and if you don’t choose it correctly, your transaction can be left in the Ether (no pun intended) for days.

There’s no doubt that Ethereum is a bonafide decentralized blockchain. But its protocol lacks scalability, and it can be very expensive, or slow, or both, especially when the network is loaded which happens often because of the most trivial reasons, such as betting games.

POA Network

PAO uses Proof of Authority (PoA) as a consensus protocol, hence the name. Unlike Ethereum, the number of miners is limited. Each validator (block producer) builds a block each time. This makes this chain light, efficient, and quick.

Fees are computed in POA using the same formula as Ethereum’s: it’s gas times a fixed price.

Gas: It’s the same definition as with Ethereum.

The difference between POA and Ethereum has nothing to do with the gas definition. The thing is that POA does all the tricks a decentralized blockchain can do while keeping things simpler. The PoA consensus allows for lower gas prices and for a straightforward transaction system. It’s designed to allow horizontal scalability, but not necessarily high loads.

Tron

Yet another consensus protocol for yet another blockchain. In this case, it’s called Delegated Proof of Stake (DPos), and it’s at Tron‘s blockchain’s heart. A limited number of privileged users (known as Super Representatives and elected by the community in a worldwide voting process) are the ones who create the blocks, one at a time. This design has allowed Tron’s blockchain one of the world’s fastest, safest, cheapest, and more reliable.

There are two ingredients needed to calculate Tron’s fees. They’re called Bandwidth and Energy. You take both of them and multiply it times a fixed price.

Bandwidth: this is the piece of the network (so to speak) needed to execute and save your transaction. The price is fixed (almost negligible) for simple financial transactions, but it can vary for dApps and smart contracts. But unlike Ethereum and POA, it can be easily calculated in advance if you just know the size (in bytes) your transactions needs.

Tron’s network allows for a bit of free bandwidth for everybody, roughly equivalent to 15 financial transactions.

Energy: The network needs a certain amount of power to compute and execute your transaction. That’s called “Energy.” If you’re asking for a simple transaction, then the Energy amount you need is zero. But smart contracts and dApps do need a bit of energy (just as Gas in Ethereum), and different transactions cost different amounts.

It’s not as straightforward as with Bandwidth because the SR knows the energy price only after the transaction is completed so, again, you need to have some idea of how previous, similar transactions, cost so you can know how much you’ll need to pay.

Freezing: this is Tron’s extra ingredient. If you freeze some of your Tronix coins, that will get you a bit of free Bandwidth, Energy, and also the ability to vote for SR’s which are often willing to reward voters with free tokens. The more coins you freeze, the more free transactions you get. Freezings also make the token scarcer, so it helps to drive its price up, so it ends up helping users, hodlers (if Tron has any) and SRs.

Tron’s system could seem quite a bit more complicated than the previous two. And it is. But it’s also faster, cheaper, it ensures a number of free transactions for all users.

Even if you overdo things and have to pay for transactions, it’s way cheaper than Ethereum or POA, and it also rewards SRs. Last but not least. These rewards facilitate vertical scalability in the network (unlike POA which is horizontal, or Ethereum, which is basically non-existing).

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