Recently, TRON appeared as a gold sponsor at Istanbul Blockchain Week (IBW 2025), providing strong support for Turkeys most influential Web3 industry event. As the worlds leading blockchain network, through this sponsorship, TRON further deepened its strategic layout in Turkey and the Middle East, demonstrating its leadership and influence in the global Web3 field.
Since its first edition in 2020, IBW has attracted over 8,000 participants and more than 180 top global speakers, becoming a Web3 innovation hub connecting Eurasia. TRONs participation not only demonstrates its long-term commitment to the Turkish market, but also promotes the popularization and application of blockchain technology in the region through technology demonstrations and industry dialogues.
TRON strongly supports IBW 2025 and empowers Türkiyes Web3 ecosystem
Since its establishment in 2017, TRON has always adhered to the core concepts of decentralization, financial freedom and individual empowerment, and has grown into one of the most trusted blockchain networks in the world. Its low-cost, high-speed, and highly stable infrastructure provides strong support for global users, especially in Turkey, the worlds fourth largest cryptocurrency trading market. TRC-20 USDT carried by the TRON network has become the preferred stablecoin for Turkish crypto users with its extremely low handling fees and second-level confirmation speed, which has profoundly affected the popularization of local crypto payments and transfers.
In his speech at IBW 2025, Justin Sun, founder of TRON, highly praised the widespread adoption of TRC-20 USDT by the Turkish people, calling it a model of the global stablecoin economy and showing how blockchain drives economic progress. By sponsoring IBW 2025, TRON aims to help Turkeys Web3 ecosystem construction and consolidate its leading position in the global blockchain industry through technology demonstrations, ecological cooperation and industry dialogue.
Regional influence deepens, TRON and the Turkish market head for both sides
As an economic powerhouse linking the Eurasian continent, Turkey has demonstrated its advanced performance in the field of cryptocurrency in recent years. As early as 2023, TRON participated in Binance Blockchain Week Istanbul as a diamond sponsor, and in 2024, it reached a strategic cooperation with the Turkish local exchange Bitci to promote the listing of various ecological tokens such as TRX, BTT, JUST, SUN, and USDD. These measures have laid a solid foundation for TRON in the Turkish market and provided fertile soil for cooperation in IBW 2025.
In Turkey, TRC-20 USDT has become the national standard for crypto payments. The combined effects of the Turkish economic crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic in 2018 have stimulated residents strong demand for stablecoins. TRON has integrated TRX and USDT into the offline payment terminal XPOS through cooperation with the crypto payment platform Pundi X, promoting the popularity of crypto assets in retail scenarios. According to Hakan Akyüz, general manager of Pundi X Turkey, after the integration of the TRON network, user activity on XPOS devices surged by 47%, and almost every Turkish crypto user is using TRC-20 USDT. Whether it is daily consumption or cross-border remittances, TRC-20 USDT has become the preferred tool for Turkish residents with its high efficiency and low cost.
In addition, TRONs efforts in the Turkish market are not limited to the technical and commercial aspects, but also demonstrate social responsibility. During the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquake, TRON founder Justin Sun donated about 1 million liras to support post-disaster reconstruction, leading industry leaders such as Binance and Tether to participate, demonstrating the warmth and responsibility of the Web3 community. This sincere contribution has further narrowed the distance between TRON and the Turkish people, adding human warmth to its appearance at IBW 2025.
As the gold sponsor of IBW 2025, TRON showcased its latest progress in public chains, stablecoins and DeFi to the world through keynote speeches, booth interactions and ecosystem displays.
The TRON network currently has over 315 million user accounts, with a total locked value of $22 billion and an average daily transaction volume of about 9 million transactions, ranking first in the world in terms of USDT issuance, transaction volume and daily active users. In the future, TRON will continue to increase its investment in the Turkish market, provide resource support for local developers and projects, help Turkey become a bridgehead for Web3 innovation in Asia and Europe, and realize the grand vision of a global payment network infrastructure.
