Head to Head: Will Tron Succeed in Dominating Ethereum?
- Trom is set to launch its main net by the end of May.

Rivalry is a quite common phenomenon in the crypto-sphere, but this time it reached a new peak. Recently, two industry titans - Vitalik Buterin and Justin Sun - engaged in a battle to praise their own project and dominate over the other.
Tron, the platform created by Justin Sun, has moved to its next development phase by launching the test net of its native platform last month. This indicated Tron’s migration from ERC20 platform and marks a huge blow to Ethereum Ethereum Ethereum is an open source, blockchain-based distributed computing platform and operating system featuring smart contract functionality. Created in 2014, Ethereum now stands as the second largest cryptocurrency by market cap at the time of writing.As a decentralized cryptocurrency network and software platform, Ethereum represents the most prominent altcoin. Ethereum also enables the creation Distributed Applications, or dapps. Understanding EthereumEthereum boasts its own programming language, called Turing Complete, which is used to build the dapps. Dapps run on a peer-to-peer (P2P0 network of virtual machines. These can be just about anything and are optimized to run on Smart Contracts. Smart Contracts are pieces of code that execute a predetermined set of actions once a certain set of criteria are met. The Ethereum network’s native currency is called Ether, or ETH. ETH tokens can be used to pay for things inside of dapps or to receive payouts from smart contracts. They can also be traded off of the Ethereum network inside of cryptocurrency exchanges or OTC trading platforms. For most of its lifetime, Ethereum has remained as the second-largest and most popular cryptocurrency in terms of its market cap. It was briefly outpaced by Bitcoin Cash near the end of 2017.Ethereum’s origin dates back to late 2013 when crypto researcher and programmer Vitalik Buterin proposed its utility.Its development was subsequently funded by an online crowdsale that took place in the middle of 2014 before going live in July 2015. At its inception, Ethereum went live with 72 million coins minted, accounting for approximately 65 percent of its total circulating supply as of May 2020.Like other cryptos, Ethereum has had a checkered past, resulting in splits. Back in 2016, an exploited vulnerability in The DAO project's smart contract software caused the theft of $50 million worth of ether.As a result, Ethereum was split into two separate blockchains – a newer and separate version became known as Ethereum (ETH), while the original chain continued to be known as Ethereum Classic (ETC). Ethereum is an open source, blockchain-based distributed computing platform and operating system featuring smart contract functionality. Created in 2014, Ethereum now stands as the second largest cryptocurrency by market cap at the time of writing.As a decentralized cryptocurrency network and software platform, Ethereum represents the most prominent altcoin. Ethereum also enables the creation Distributed Applications, or dapps. Understanding EthereumEthereum boasts its own programming language, called Turing Complete, which is used to build the dapps. Dapps run on a peer-to-peer (P2P0 network of virtual machines. These can be just about anything and are optimized to run on Smart Contracts. Smart Contracts are pieces of code that execute a predetermined set of actions once a certain set of criteria are met. The Ethereum network’s native currency is called Ether, or ETH. ETH tokens can be used to pay for things inside of dapps or to receive payouts from smart contracts. They can also be traded off of the Ethereum network inside of cryptocurrency exchanges or OTC trading platforms. For most of its lifetime, Ethereum has remained as the second-largest and most popular cryptocurrency in terms of its market cap. It was briefly outpaced by Bitcoin Cash near the end of 2017.Ethereum’s origin dates back to late 2013 when crypto researcher and programmer Vitalik Buterin proposed its utility.Its development was subsequently funded by an online crowdsale that took place in the middle of 2014 before going live in July 2015. At its inception, Ethereum went live with 72 million coins minted, accounting for approximately 65 percent of its total circulating supply as of May 2020.Like other cryptos, Ethereum has had a checkered past, resulting in splits. Back in 2016, an exploited vulnerability in The DAO project's smart contract software caused the theft of $50 million worth of ether.As a result, Ethereum was split into two separate blockchains – a newer and separate version became known as Ethereum (ETH), while the original chain continued to be known as Ethereum Classic (ETC). Read this Term as Tron has a vast user base on its DApps, who will migrate from Ethereum to Tron as well.
According to Justin Sun, the shortcomings of Ethereum forced Tron to develop its native platform.
Sun’s ambition for Tron is clear with his statement on the launch event of Tron’s test net. He said: “From today to the last day, we are no longer the ERC20 token and in the future, we will compete with Ethereum as a DApp platform.”
“We will compete face to face with Ethereum, and we have confidence we will build a large ecosystem; a much large ecosystem than the Ethereum. I will explain to you why we can surpass Ethereum in the future,” he added.
Earlier this month, Sun compared the two blockchains and tweeted:
Why #TRON is better than #ETH: 1. 10000TPS vs. 25TPS 2. zero fee vs. high fee 3. consistent Coinburn vs. no coinburn 4. Java vs. Solidity 5. strong extensibility vs. no ex. 6. 1 billion USD developers rewards vs. no plan 7. 100 million users vs. small number #TRX $TRX pic.twitter.com/WvxH5EToa8
— Justin Sun 🅣🌞 (@justinsuntron) April 6, 2018
Airdrop sealed the deal
Recently, Tron announced an airdrop of 30 million TRX tokens worth around $1.7 million to the Ethereum community. Though according to Tron’s team, this is a token of “appreciation” to the community of the platform on which Tron started its journey, the real reason is something different.
#TRON wouldn’t be where we are today without #Ethereum. But we want to solve issues when we see them. Stay tuned for a $TRX airdrop today! Use #TRX to experience our high TPS platform & join the #TRON democracy—#ETH offers neither. https://t.co/zvQjnzO7Zu
— Justin Sun 🅣🌞 (@justinsuntron) April 21, 2018
Tron will randomly reward ETH holders with a balance of over 1 ETH after 1st January. This will open the gates for the Ethereum community to try and test Tron’s platform.
If according to Tron’s claim, its new platform succeeds to offer a better experience to the user, this might ultimately hurt Ethereum.
Buterin's response
Ethereum’s founder Vitalik Buterin didn’t hesitate to take on the claims made by Justin Sun and his team against Ethereum.
In a recent interview with Financial Times, Buterin denounced the credibility of most of the altcoin projects, especially Tron. Though he did not shout out the name, Buterin told Financial Times: “There’s projects that never had a soul, that are just like, ra-ra, price go up, Lambo, vrromm, buybuybuy now!”
Earlier, when Sun was bragging about the advantages of Tron’s blockchain over Ethereum, Buterin touched on the controversial topic of Tron’s whitepaper plagiarism.
8. Better white paper writing capability (Ctrl+C + Ctrl+V much higher efficiency than keyboard typing new content)
— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) April 6, 2018
Can Tron take on Ethereum?
Well, dominating Ethereum will not be an easy task for Tron. Ethereum is strongly holding the second position on the market with over $63 billion in market cap, according to CoinMarketCap.com, while Tron’s has a mere $3.5 billion.
However, Tron’s migration will definitely impact Buterin’s project. If the migration of 100 million users of Tron’s DApps, does not impact Ethereum that much, the Airdrop worth $1.7 million definitely will.
Rivalry is a quite common phenomenon in the crypto-sphere, but this time it reached a new peak. Recently, two industry titans - Vitalik Buterin and Justin Sun - engaged in a battle to praise their own project and dominate over the other.
Tron, the platform created by Justin Sun, has moved to its next development phase by launching the test net of its native platform last month. This indicated Tron’s migration from ERC20 platform and marks a huge blow to Ethereum Ethereum Ethereum is an open source, blockchain-based distributed computing platform and operating system featuring smart contract functionality. Created in 2014, Ethereum now stands as the second largest cryptocurrency by market cap at the time of writing.As a decentralized cryptocurrency network and software platform, Ethereum represents the most prominent altcoin. Ethereum also enables the creation Distributed Applications, or dapps. Understanding EthereumEthereum boasts its own programming language, called Turing Complete, which is used to build the dapps. Dapps run on a peer-to-peer (P2P0 network of virtual machines. These can be just about anything and are optimized to run on Smart Contracts. Smart Contracts are pieces of code that execute a predetermined set of actions once a certain set of criteria are met. The Ethereum network’s native currency is called Ether, or ETH. ETH tokens can be used to pay for things inside of dapps or to receive payouts from smart contracts. They can also be traded off of the Ethereum network inside of cryptocurrency exchanges or OTC trading platforms. For most of its lifetime, Ethereum has remained as the second-largest and most popular cryptocurrency in terms of its market cap. It was briefly outpaced by Bitcoin Cash near the end of 2017.Ethereum’s origin dates back to late 2013 when crypto researcher and programmer Vitalik Buterin proposed its utility.Its development was subsequently funded by an online crowdsale that took place in the middle of 2014 before going live in July 2015. At its inception, Ethereum went live with 72 million coins minted, accounting for approximately 65 percent of its total circulating supply as of May 2020.Like other cryptos, Ethereum has had a checkered past, resulting in splits. Back in 2016, an exploited vulnerability in The DAO project's smart contract software caused the theft of $50 million worth of ether.As a result, Ethereum was split into two separate blockchains – a newer and separate version became known as Ethereum (ETH), while the original chain continued to be known as Ethereum Classic (ETC). Ethereum is an open source, blockchain-based distributed computing platform and operating system featuring smart contract functionality. Created in 2014, Ethereum now stands as the second largest cryptocurrency by market cap at the time of writing.As a decentralized cryptocurrency network and software platform, Ethereum represents the most prominent altcoin. Ethereum also enables the creation Distributed Applications, or dapps. Understanding EthereumEthereum boasts its own programming language, called Turing Complete, which is used to build the dapps. Dapps run on a peer-to-peer (P2P0 network of virtual machines. These can be just about anything and are optimized to run on Smart Contracts. Smart Contracts are pieces of code that execute a predetermined set of actions once a certain set of criteria are met. The Ethereum network’s native currency is called Ether, or ETH. ETH tokens can be used to pay for things inside of dapps or to receive payouts from smart contracts. They can also be traded off of the Ethereum network inside of cryptocurrency exchanges or OTC trading platforms. For most of its lifetime, Ethereum has remained as the second-largest and most popular cryptocurrency in terms of its market cap. It was briefly outpaced by Bitcoin Cash near the end of 2017.Ethereum’s origin dates back to late 2013 when crypto researcher and programmer Vitalik Buterin proposed its utility.Its development was subsequently funded by an online crowdsale that took place in the middle of 2014 before going live in July 2015. At its inception, Ethereum went live with 72 million coins minted, accounting for approximately 65 percent of its total circulating supply as of May 2020.Like other cryptos, Ethereum has had a checkered past, resulting in splits. Back in 2016, an exploited vulnerability in The DAO project's smart contract software caused the theft of $50 million worth of ether.As a result, Ethereum was split into two separate blockchains – a newer and separate version became known as Ethereum (ETH), while the original chain continued to be known as Ethereum Classic (ETC). Read this Term as Tron has a vast user base on its DApps, who will migrate from Ethereum to Tron as well.
According to Justin Sun, the shortcomings of Ethereum forced Tron to develop its native platform.
Sun’s ambition for Tron is clear with his statement on the launch event of Tron’s test net. He said: “From today to the last day, we are no longer the ERC20 token and in the future, we will compete with Ethereum as a DApp platform.”
“We will compete face to face with Ethereum, and we have confidence we will build a large ecosystem; a much large ecosystem than the Ethereum. I will explain to you why we can surpass Ethereum in the future,” he added.
Earlier this month, Sun compared the two blockchains and tweeted:
Why #TRON is better than #ETH: 1. 10000TPS vs. 25TPS 2. zero fee vs. high fee 3. consistent Coinburn vs. no coinburn 4. Java vs. Solidity 5. strong extensibility vs. no ex. 6. 1 billion USD developers rewards vs. no plan 7. 100 million users vs. small number #TRX $TRX pic.twitter.com/WvxH5EToa8
— Justin Sun 🅣🌞 (@justinsuntron) April 6, 2018
Airdrop sealed the deal
Recently, Tron announced an airdrop of 30 million TRX tokens worth around $1.7 million to the Ethereum community. Though according to Tron’s team, this is a token of “appreciation” to the community of the platform on which Tron started its journey, the real reason is something different.
#TRON wouldn’t be where we are today without #Ethereum. But we want to solve issues when we see them. Stay tuned for a $TRX airdrop today! Use #TRX to experience our high TPS platform & join the #TRON democracy—#ETH offers neither. https://t.co/zvQjnzO7Zu
— Justin Sun 🅣🌞 (@justinsuntron) April 21, 2018
Tron will randomly reward ETH holders with a balance of over 1 ETH after 1st January. This will open the gates for the Ethereum community to try and test Tron’s platform.
If according to Tron’s claim, its new platform succeeds to offer a better experience to the user, this might ultimately hurt Ethereum.
Buterin's response
Ethereum’s founder Vitalik Buterin didn’t hesitate to take on the claims made by Justin Sun and his team against Ethereum.
In a recent interview with Financial Times, Buterin denounced the credibility of most of the altcoin projects, especially Tron. Though he did not shout out the name, Buterin told Financial Times: “There’s projects that never had a soul, that are just like, ra-ra, price go up, Lambo, vrromm, buybuybuy now!”
Earlier, when Sun was bragging about the advantages of Tron’s blockchain over Ethereum, Buterin touched on the controversial topic of Tron’s whitepaper plagiarism.
8. Better white paper writing capability (Ctrl+C + Ctrl+V much higher efficiency than keyboard typing new content)
— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) April 6, 2018
Can Tron take on Ethereum?
Well, dominating Ethereum will not be an easy task for Tron. Ethereum is strongly holding the second position on the market with over $63 billion in market cap, according to CoinMarketCap.com, while Tron’s has a mere $3.5 billion.
However, Tron’s migration will definitely impact Buterin’s project. If the migration of 100 million users of Tron’s DApps, does not impact Ethereum that much, the Airdrop worth $1.7 million definitely will.