46% of TRX Supply Is Staked as Energy Demand on TRON Surges

Currently, 43.8 billion TRX — representing 46% of total supply — is staked on the TRON network, indicating growing community participation and improved network security and efficiency. Staking TRX not only enables users to vote for Super Representatives but also provides bandwidth and energy to users and DApps, reducing transaction costs and making TRON more attractive for DeFi and stablecoin transfers.

Over half of staked TRX (24.3 billion or 55%) now uses the Stake 2.0 model — a major upgrade launched in 2023 to improve flexibility, transparency, and DApp user experience.

The amount of TRX staked to gain energy has surged 129% year-on-year, from 7.5 billion to 17.2 billion TRX. This reflects rising smart contract activity and the move toward a gasless user experience, where users don’t need to freeze or hold TRX to transact.

TRON network activity is heating up: bandwidth consumption has risen 50%, and energy consumption has jumped 167% in the past year. Over 80% of resource use now comes from staked TRX, showing TRON’s incentive model effectively encourages staking to lower costs.

Additionally, energy subsidized by smart contract owners — who cover user transaction fees — has surged 1,577% to 3.19 billion. Currently, 95% of TRON’s energy consumption is from USDT transfers, highlighting USDT’s dominance within the TRON ecosystem.