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The headline numbers
824,998,254 USDT transfers on Tron in 12 months (Apr 2025 – Mar 2026)
10.8 million unique sending wallets in a single month (Dec 2025)
95.2% of all Tron smart contract activity is USDT transfers
67% of USDT transfers are under $1,000, real people, real money
$700 million burned by Tron users in avoidable fees in 2025
$7.9 trillion in USDT moved on Tron in 2025
This is a reference page, not an essay. Below are the numbers we have measured or verified about USDT on Tron, grouped by theme. Each one is liftable on its own, and each links to the full analysis behind it. Where a figure is ours, it comes from SQL run against Google Cloud's public Tron dataset. Where it is someone else's, the source is named.
Scale of the Network
824,998,254
USDT transfers on Tron in one year. Every discrete wallet-to-wallet send between April 2025 and March 2026. That is about 2.3 million per day, 95,000 per hour, 26 every second, for a full year.
Source: TronNRG on-chain analysis · Google BigQuery public Tron dataset · Mar 2026.
10.8M
Unique sending wallets in a single month. December 2025 saw 10,842,400 distinct addresses send USDT at least once, up 28% from 8.45 million nine months earlier.
Source: TronNRG on-chain analysis · BigQuery COUNT(DISTINCT from_address) · Mar 2026.
95.2%
Of Tron smart contract activity is USDT. Across the 12-month study, USDT transfers made up 95.2% of all smart contract calls, reaching 96.5% by March 2026. Tron is, in practice, a USDT settlement network.
Source: TronNRG on-chain analysis · BigQuery · Mar 2026.
How People Use USDT
67%
Of transfers are under $1,000. We checked 75 million transfers. 37.86% fell in the $100–$1,000 band, the remittance and everyday-payment range. This is not whales moving treasury. It is people sending money.
Source: TronNRG transfer-size analysis · BigQuery, 75M transfers · Apr 2026.
−35.8%
Saturday volume drop. USDT activity falls 35.8% on Saturdays. The daily peak is 14:00 UTC, when Asian, European and American hours overlap; the engine starts at 05:00 UTC. Humans take weekends off. Bots do not.
Source: TronNRG timing heatmap · BigQuery, 75M transfers · Apr 2026.
The Fee Problem
13 → 4 TRX
The cost of one USDT transfer. Without Energy the network burns about 13 TRX per send. With delegated Energy it costs about 4 TRX, roughly a 70% cut. A standard transfer needs 65,000 Energy; a first send to a new wallet needs 130,000.
Source: What Is Tron Energy · Energy requirements.
$700M
Burned in avoidable fees in 2025. Tron generated $3.51 billion in revenue that year. 92% of its Energy was consumed by USDT transfers, and about half of that was paid by users burning TRX at full cost instead of loading Energy first.
Source: TronNRG fee analysis · BigQuery · Mar 2026.
3.2M
Failed USDT transfers in a year, every one avoidable. Of 834 million transfers queried, 3.2 million failed, most for lack of Energy or resources. That is roughly 8,851 people a day watching a send bounce.
Source: TronNRG failure analysis · BigQuery, 834M transfers · Apr 2026.
Market Context
$7.9T
In USDT moved on Tron in 2025. More than the annual GDP of Germany. Tron carried roughly 65% of all retail stablecoin transfers globally, with about 1.15 million daily active wallets.
Source: What $7.9T Means · Messari & Nansen year-end reports · Jan 2026.
$7.2T
Stablecoins surpassed US banking rails. In February 2026 stablecoins settled $7.2 trillion in a single month, passing the US ACH network for the first time.
Source: Stablecoins Surpassed US Banking · Apr 2026.
$155B
Total USDT in circulation. Tether's supply reached $155 billion in 2026, making USDT the most transacted crypto asset in the world, more than Bitcoin by transaction count.
Source: Tether's $155 Billion · Feb 2026.
Methodology & How to Cite
Figures marked as ours come from SQL queries run against Google Cloud's BigQuery public blockchain dataset (bigquery-public-data.goog_blockchain_tron_mainnet_us), the official Google-hosted copy of the Tron mainnet. Anyone with a Google Cloud account can reproduce them by running the same queries against the same dataset. Full methodology sits inside each linked post. Figures from third parties (Messari, Nansen, Tether) are attributed to their source and date.
This page is maintained and dated. Numbers are refreshed as new on-chain periods close. The last update is shown in the byline above.
Cite this page
TronNRG, "Tron & USDT Statistics 2026," tronnrg.com/en/blog/tron-usdt-statistics/. Please link to this page rather than copying the table, so readers reach the latest figures.
