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Tether (USDT) on Tron could surpass those on Ethereum

Tether dollars (USDT) issued on the Tron blockchain could soon be more than those issued on Ethereum

In fact, USDT tokens exist on several different blockchains. Initially, they only existed on the Bitcoin blockchain, thanks to the Omni protocol, but then they landed on Ethereum, and later on Tron, EOS, Liquid, Algorand, SLP and Solana. 

In total, there are now almost 46 billion USDT in circulation, 50% of which are on the Ethereum blockchain. 

Since they were also issued on Ethereum, these have taken over, and there are now only less than 3% on Omni. 

However, for some time now Ethereum has suffered from a problem that makes USDT less usable, namely high transaction fees and slow execution times. 

It now takes at least $10 of gas to be able to have a good guarantee that a transaction on Ethereum will be validated quickly, and this certainly hurts smaller transactions in particular. 

Transactions on Tron, on the other hand, have much lower commission costs and better execution speed. Ever since Tether issued USDT on Tron, these have often been preferred to those on Ethereum. 

Tether, 22 billion USDT on Tron

To date, the company has issued nearly 22 billion USDT on the Tron blockchain, which is more than 46% of all USDT issued. 

Therefore, the majority of new USDT tokens issued by Tether are now issued on the Tron blockchain, such that it may not be long before these surpass those issued on Ethereum in number. 

In fact, even comparing the numbers for total daily transactions recorded on the two blockchains, Tron has been outperforming Ethereum for some time now, probably due to the lower cost of gas. 

Moreover, Tron‘s native cryptocurrency TRX also seems to be benefiting from this usage, as its price has risen more than ETH‘s in the last week. 

However, TRX has not yet reached its all-time high of $0.3 from January 2018, while ETH has already far surpassed the peaks it touched in that same month.

Marco Cavicchioli
Marco Cavicchioli
Born in 1975, Marco has been the first to talk about Bitcoin on YouTube in Italy. He founded ilBitcoin.news and the Facebook group" Bitcoin Italia (open and without scam) ".
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