The price of tron (TRX), the native cryptocurrency of the eponymous network, has grown by 24% between January 1 and May 14, 2026. Now, the digital asset is trading at $0.35 and is trying to break through a resistance that has limited its advance since August 2025, in a scenario marked by an increase in the use of its infrastructure for the transfer of capital. Resistance is a price level that an asset cannot easily overcome. This «wall» is between 0.35 and 0.37 dollars, functioning as the final hurdle before the asset can take on its previous all-time high.
The immediate objective of the cryptocurrency is to recover its historical maximum of $0.45, a level that was reached on December 3, 2024. Today, the price is 19% below that mark. To consolidate its rise, the asset must overcome the pattern registered between August and September 2025, when the market retested this range, establishing a local maximum near $0.37 before undergoing a correction, as seen in the graph.
TRX seeks to break the resistance of $0.35. Source: TradingView. The renewed bullish momentum that tron has in 2026 comes from record activity on the network, linked primarily to the stablecoin movement. Tron has managed to maintain its “dominance in real payments despite the cooling of the cryptocurrency market and geopolitical tensions in the first quarter of 2026,” notes a TronDAO report published on May 8. Within the stable cryptocurrency ecosystem, the Tron network consolidates its position as the preferred infrastructure for the use of USDT, the stablecoin with the highest market capitalization. Currently, this network hosts 88.406 million units of USDT, which represents 50% of the entire supply that exists in the global market. This figure is so significant that, according to the TronDAO report, the dominance of the USDT stablecoin within the Tron network itself is 97%, displacing almost any other asset of its type on said network. During the first quarter of 2026, according to TronDAO, the network recorded a transaction volume (across all tokens) of $2 trillion. The specific volume of stablecoin operations on the network reached $1.96 trillion in the first three months of the year, as seen in the image. Although the figure shows a slight moderation due to macroeconomic conditions, it underscores TRON’s «dominance in real-world payments,» the report states.
The stablecoin supply volume decreased between the last quarter of 2025 and the first quarter of 2026. Source: TronDAO. This phenomenon of mass adoption is directly “driven by the low fees and high performance” of the network, according to TronDAO. In parallel with the growing use of Tron as a stablecoin payment network, the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector is showing a clear recovery. In Q1 2026, the total value locked (TVL) on Tron reached 26 billion dollarswhich represents an increase of 7.38% compared to the 24,080 million of the previous quarter. This rebound reflects renewed momentum after a 2025 marked by relatively flat growth.
The peak of the TVL was reached in the third quarter of 2025. Source: TronDAO. In this sense, the increase in TVL reveals a growing adoption of financial services where capital is concentrated in governance and lending solutions. By functioning as an operational haven, this rise in locked value strengthens the stability of the ecosystem in the face of the uncertainty of global markets. Consequently, capital within the network remains highly concentrated in specific protocols. In the DeFi ecosystem, TRX Staking leads with $14.5 billion locked for security and governance. It is followed by JustLend DAO, a decentralized lending marketplace, which registers $6.58 billion, while asset gateway Just Cryptos maintains a level of $2.24 billion. Finally, the network’s stablecoin, USDD, has $2.19 billion and stablecoin exchange platform SUN.io remains comparatively smaller at $490 million.
Tron shows organic and constant growth
According to the analysis firm Santiment, the climate of doubt among TRX retail investors could curiously be the fuel for the next phase of the rally, as reported by BitcoinDynamic. The consultant maintains that prices usually rise when the crowd shows distrustsince a bubble of optimism is not generated that precedes an imminent collapse. Under this logic, Santiment affirms that «the FUD [miedo, incertidumbre y duda] “drives bigger rallies” by keeping capital available and reducing selling pressure. If TRX manages to successfully surpass the $0.37 mark, the path would be clear to try to break the records of 2024. However, a failure at this level could take the price back to the dynamic support that it has been respecting since March 2026.
