As the crypto market shifts from "listening to stories" to "seeing realizations," TRON demonstrates a viable path through its solid ecological foundation and value cycle.
Over the past year, the crypto world seems to have fallen into a maze of "narrative loops." Expectations of interest rate cuts have repeatedly "teased" the market, with new stories like RWA, AI + Crypto, and Meme resurgence taking turns in the spotlight. Each policy benefit and narrative change was once seen as a potential market catalyst, yet the market has remained mired in stagnation and volatility. The once prevalent market logic of "narrative equals opportunity" seems to be failing, and a disconnect between policy benefits and price trends has emerged that is difficult to explain.
When "stories" can no longer easily leverage funds and confidence, we must begin to reflect: is this a temporary lull under macroeconomic pressure, or has the industry entered a "fatigue period" of narrative overload? In today's rapidly merging traditional finance and crypto world, is the market looking for a grander new story, or does it need to re-examine the underlying logic of value creation? This edition of SunFlash Roundtable starts from such confusion, attempting to explore the path to rebuilding market confidence at a cyclical turning point where consensus is blurred.
Why are policies and narratives failing? A crisis of market trust under signal overload
Guest LongTian pointed out that the current market has fallen into a dual dilemma of "information expansion" and "information overdraft." Intensive positive news bombardment has led to aesthetic fatigue among investors, while most promises have failed to translate into actual increments, gradually depleting market trust. "Investors have shifted from 'jumping in at good news' to 'let's wait and see, I don't want to be fooled again,'" and this change in mindset has directly led to the failure of policy signal transmission.
She further proposed a structural issue of "three disconnections": the disconnect between benefits and funds, the disconnect between trends and trading structures, and the disconnect between expectations and ecological implementation. Institutions hesitate due to unclear regulations, while retail investors retreat after being trapped multiple times; even if funds enter the market, it is difficult to form a collective force due to the high concentration of market chips. Most ecological projects remain at the conceptual stage, lacking real users and application scenarios, leading to repeated failures of expectations.
Guest BlackEye also pointed out that when benefits become the norm rather than a rare event, investors' response thresholds significantly increase. "Just like previous news about local policy relaxations and institutional entries, being in a long-term positive environment has led to a continuous decline in the market's freshness and expectations for any single policy." Guest Qiwen described the same phenomenon in more straightforward terms: "It's not that there is a lack of good news; it's that there is too much information, and the market has become numb." He likened it to "the boy who cried wolf," pointing out that the daily bombardment of good news has made it difficult for investors to discern truth from falsehood, and the repeated discounts upon realization have further destroyed the foundation of trust.
0xOldMaster also believes we are in a fatigue period of narrative bubbles. "The pace of past narratives was too intense; the market simply had no time to digest, verify, and settle." He pointed out that most narratives have not even moved beyond the product stage before being prematurely overdrafted by the secondary market, turning narratives into short-term speculative games. He proposed a key turning point: the narrative-driven approach is shifting from "imagination-driven" to "results-driven." The narratives that will survive in the future must connect with reality and bring real benefits or institutional trust.
Narrative failure, realization is king: TRON responds to the market's core demands with real benefits and a deflationary mechanism
When asked about the most critical missing element in the current market, all guests unanimously agreed: the market lacks narratives, but it lacks realizations. Fangyuan pointedly noted that many projects remain in the "PPT stage," attracting users through grand narratives and community operations but lacking sustainable incentive loops and actual products. "If it's just about expressing emotions without bringing actual benefits, people won't buy it." He emphasized that users will ultimately be retained by real product experiences, and market fatigue stems from an excess of narratives and insufficient realizations.
BlackEye systematically summarized this viewpoint: the market is most lacking in "the ability to realize narratives and value" and "verifiable investment certainty." He explained that the former concerns whether a story can be realized, while the latter addresses whether funds dare to enter the market. Many popular projects have only built a basic framework, with core functions not yet realized; some DeFi protocols attract users with high annualized returns, but the source of profits remains the funds of later entrants, which cannot form sustainable trust.
Regarding the birthplace of the next industry consensus, the guests' outlook focused on two key directions: one is institutional assets that can bring real benefits, and the other is cross-application scenarios that can achieve breakthroughs in user benefits. The guests' consensus is precisely reflected in the TRON ecosystem. This ecosystem has not chased the hottest short-term narratives but has focused on building financial infrastructure that can generate real benefits and provide certainty.
l Real benefit engine and capital circulation
According to calculations, as of November 3, the risk-free yield of stablecoins on the TRON chain can reach 8%, significantly higher than the 3%-5% level of other mainstream public chains, with its platform token TRX maintaining a staking yield of 6.88%. According to CoinGecko, the price of TRX has achieved an annual increase of up to 78%, forming a dual advantage of "yield + appreciation."
This outstanding performance is rooted in TRON's solid and active ecological foundation. As a core hub for global stablecoin circulation, the TRON network carries over 50% of USDT circulation, providing ample liquidity and system stability for the entire ecosystem through efficient, low-cost payment infrastructure.
On this basis, a DeFi matrix composed of core protocols such as JustLend DAO, SUN.io, USDD, and SunPerp has built a complete and self-consistent value circulation system. These protocols deeply collaborate in scenarios such as staking, lending, trading, and derivatives: users can not only lend and borrow in JustLend DAO to earn basic returns by staking TRX but can also earn a fixed annualized return of 12% by staking USDT through SunPerp, and engage in liquidity mining on SUN.io. The sTRX obtained from staking TRX can also be used to mint the decentralized stablecoin USDD through the USDD platform and deposited back into JustLend DAO for secondary earnings, achieving circular arbitrage. This not only effectively promotes the closed-loop flow of funds within the ecosystem but also continuously creates and captures value through a compound product combination, forming a scale effect and sustainable development capability that a single product cannot reach.
l Token deflation builds market confidence
On the solid foundation of real benefits, the TRON ecosystem further conveys a clear and powerful value signal to the market through the continuous buyback and burn mechanism of JST and SUN tokens.
Among them, all income from the JustLend DAO protocol, along with the excess returns of the USDD stablecoin, is systematically used to buy back and burn JST. Notably, a buyback and burn plan for JST valued at approximately sixty million dollars has been steadily initiated, with its scale and determination standing out among similar operations in the industry. Currently, the first large-scale buyback and burn of JST tokens has been successfully completed, with the amount burned (559,890,753 JST) reaching about 5.66% of the total supply of JST tokens, demonstrating the strong execution power of the ecosystem in empowering token value with real capital.
Meanwhile, the buyback and burn of SUN tokens is also progressing steadily. As of now, the cumulative number of SUN tokens burned has reached 648,535,242.90. Among them, the buyback and burn from SunSwap V2 trading revenue accounts for 362,655,328.09 tokens, while the buyback and burn from SunPump platform revenue accounts for 285,879,914.81 tokens.
This series of transparent and continuous deflationary operations directly enhances the scarcity value of TRON ecosystem tokens and genuinely returns the dividends generated by the ecosystem's vigorous development to every token holder. This "real capital speaking" realization behavior is the most direct and effective way to build "verifiable investment certainty," powerfully responding to the current market's core demands for value realization and confidence rebuilding.
In a market maze where narratives frequently change and policy effects diminish, this roundtable reveals a clear shift: the crypto world is moving from an era of "listening to stories" to an era of "seeing realizations." The market's coolness is not the end of stories but a necessary purification. It forces the industry to shed extravagance and restlessness, returning to the essence of value creation. The consensus of the new cycle will not be born from a stunning slogan but will be nurtured in sustainable profit models, verifiable ecological data, and the confidence of every real user, as seen in TRON.
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