The launch of TRON’s mainnet is imminent, and excitement within the TRON community is high. To stoke the enthusiasm, Justin Sun announced a “candy” giveaway for all TRON holders as a token of appreciation for loyal hodlers.
On May 31, 2018, TRON will complete its token migration and launch its own blockchain—an event the founder, Justin Sun, has positioned as a challenge to Ethereum. This migration marks TRON’s transition from a token to an independent network.
To further engage the community, TRON organized an airdrop open to all TRON holders. Participants were asked to register at the address provided in the official tweet. The “candies” were scheduled to be distributed through June 1, 2018.
$TRX #TRON mainnet will be launched soon, we prepared millions of #TRX candies, join us https://t.co/YJLgD7dtod to get #TRX candies, you can also get more by inviting friends, the airdrop will be ended at 12:00 AM June, 1, if candies were given out, it will be ended in advance. pic.twitter.com/IqLOoUFWd0
— Justin Sun (@justinsuntron) May 23, 2018
According to Sun’s announcement, each participant in the first round received 2 TRX, plus an additional 4 TRX for every friend they referred. While the amount per user is small given the token price, the promotion aimed primarily to generate attention and potentially boost TRX’s market value rather than to make holders wealthy through the airdrop.
As previously reported, TRON recently ran an airdrop for Ethereum holders to attract users and promote TRON as an “Ethereum challenger.”
Many readers asked which exchanges planned to fully support the mainnet launch. Below is a compiled list of exchanges that publicly indicated support. This list may not be exhaustive; please notify us if an exchange is missing so we can update it:
- Binance
- Bitfinex
- Bittrex
- Gate.io
- Bibox
- Bit-Z
- Zebpay
- Coinrail
- Bithumb
- DragonEx
- Liqui_Exchange
- Upbit
- Bixin
- RightBTC
- Bitpie Wallet
- Coinrail
- Cryptopia
In recent days TRON’s price followed the broader crypto market’s slight downtrend, falling 3.95 percent in the last 24 hours and trading at approximately €0.06 at the time of writing. Market capitalization sat near €4 billion, placing TRON among the top 10 largest cryptocurrencies.
The mainnet launch gives TRON the opportunity to demonstrate whether it can deliver on the high expectations of investors. The community and market watchers will be closely observing the network’s performance to see if TRON’s promises hold true.