River promotes the construction of abstract stablecoin infrastructure and receives a strategic investment of 8 million USD from TRON

In today's world where stablecoins have become the core vehicle for global on-chain settlement and value circulation, the competition among public chains is shifting from "single-chain scale" to "cross-ecosystem capital efficiency." As one of the most active networks for mainstream stablecoin usage globally, TRON is continuously expanding the connectivity of its stablecoin financial network through more open and efficient infrastructure collaboration.

Recently, the chain-abstract stablecoin protocol River announced that it has secured a strategic investment of $8 million from TRON. This round of funding will be used to support River's deployment of chain-abstract stablecoin infrastructure, focusing on cross-ecosystem asset minting and stablecoin yield product development, while accelerating deep integration with DeFi protocols on TRON, further enhancing TRON's stablecoin liquidity capacity and cross-chain capital introduction efficiency. This strategic financing is also seen as an important milestone in advancing ecological synergy between River and TRON.

TRON Carries Over $83.4 Billion in USDT Liquidity, Strengthening Stablecoin Network Effects

As a core component of the stablecoin ecosystem, USDT has long dominated on-chain payment, trading, and capital turnover scenarios. According to Tether's latest transparency report, the TRON ecosystem currently carries over $83.4 billion in USDT liquidity, making it one of the largest and most active stablecoin networks globally.

This scale advantage has also been further validated at the on-chain data level. TRONSCAN data shows that the issuance of TRC20-USDT has surpassed 83.4 billion tokens, reaching an all-time high; just this year, the TRON network has issued an additional 2 billion USDT, indicating that the demand for stablecoins continues to grow across multiple scenarios. Meanwhile, the number of accounts holding TRC20-USDT has reached 70.69 million, with cumulative transfer transactions exceeding 3.09 billion. On-chain indicators show that TRC20-USDT is gradually evolving from a medium for trading crypto assets to a value circulation tool for a broader user base, continuously integrating into applications such as cross-border payments, daily transfers, and on-chain finance.

On this liquidity foundation, TRON has formed a stablecoin market with scale effects, providing more external ecological assets and users with access to the mainstream on-chain financial network. River's decision to accelerate integration with TRON at this time is to seize the window of opportunity for infrastructure amid the significant growth in demand for stablecoins and cross-chain finance.

satUSD Connects Cross-Ecosystem Assets and Yield Scenarios, Building TRON's Cross-Chain Yield Network

To address the issues of capital fragmentation and yield disconnection in a multi-chain era, TRON's strategy is to leverage stablecoin super liquidity as a foundation, continuously lowering the participation threshold across ecosystems through infrastructure and protocol layer integration.

River, using satUSD as a cross-ecosystem liquidity entry point, is providing a smoother channel for multi-chain assets to access TRON: users can deposit assets such as wBTC, ETH, and BNB from EVM ecosystems like Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Arbitrum, and receive satUSD on the TRON network, thereby directly participating in TRON's native lending, trading, and yield opportunities.

At the same time, users can also mint satUSD using USDD, USD1, and USDT at a 1:1 equivalent, converging cross-ecosystem stablecoin liquidity into a unified entry point, reducing friction and losses caused by repeated currency exchanges and migrations during the cross-chain process. For the TRON ecosystem, this "cross-ecosystem minting + unified entry" design will more efficiently attract external assets and create on-chain usage demand, further enhancing the accessibility and turnover efficiency of stablecoin funds.

On the ecological cooperation front, the SUN.io platform also supports LPs composed of satUSD and various stablecoins like USDD and USDT, providing more liquidity for the TRON ecosystem. This allows users to participate in stablecoin exchanges, and TRON's leading lending platform JustLend DAO may also support the satUSD market in the future, enhancing the utilization and yield-bearing capacity of stablecoin funds within the ecosystem; ultimately forming a "lending---exchange" linkage efficiency, enabling funds to circulate between different modules and continuously release liquidity depth.

In response to broader yield and liquidity allocation needs, River also plans to launch Smart Vaults for individual users and Prime Vaults for institutional-level users on TRON: Smart Vaults will allow deposits of stablecoins like USDD, USD1, and USDT, providing a more standardized and sustainable yield allocation method; Prime Vaults aim to introduce liquidity of native crypto assets like BTC and ETH into the TRON ecosystem, expanding the strategic space for stablecoin and mainstream asset combinations, and providing accessible, sustainable, and scalable yield and liquidity solutions for larger capital amounts.

Additionally, River will support TRX as collateral for minting satUSD, further enhancing the financial usability of TRX and creating a tighter supply and demand loop for funds within the TRON ecosystem.

In terms of implementation pace, both parties will accelerate progress through a "deploy first, then expand" approach.

The first phase will focus on the official deployment on TRON, completing the foundational capabilities for cross-ecosystem asset minting of satUSD and 1:1 minting of stablecoins, while providing staking yield scenarios for satUSD holders to ensure stable yield acceptance and user retention after cross-ecosystem capital entry; the second phase will expand the yield product system, prioritizing the establishment of liquidity and trading foundations for satUSD on SUN.io, and ensuring price accuracy and risk control with support from WinkLink price feeds, followed by deepening cooperation with JustLend DAO to expand lending and yield scenarios, making satUSD a key asset component across trading, lending, and yield products, forming a stronger stablecoin fund flywheel within TRON and providing TRX holders with more yield options and allocation space.

By continuously enhancing cross-ecosystem connectivity, TRON will further solidify its position as a key infrastructure for the global stablecoin financial network, driving the cross-chain financial network towards higher efficiency, stronger composability, and broader application implementation.