SUN.io's Multi-Dimensional Value Acceleration: SunSwap V4 Drives Liquidity and Trading Volume Surge, SUN Cumulative Buyback and Burn Reaches Nearly 700 Million Tokens

In the first quarter of 2026, the global crypto market experienced a cyclical deep correction, with overall trading sentiment cooling and market activity continuing to decline. Against this backdrop, major public chains generally fell into a battle for existing users, intensifying competition within the industry and highlighting growth obstacles. However, the TRON ecosystem demonstrated remarkable market resilience and structural growth vitality, charting an independent upward growth curve.

According to data from CoinDesk's "2026 Q1 TRON Quarterly Report," amidst a global decline in spot DEX trading volume, TRON's DEX market share bucked the trend, rising significantly from 0.6% to 1%. This growth data, completely opposite to the broader market trend, directly confirms a significant increase in on-chain trading activity on TRON, fully demonstrating its core competitiveness in a sluggish market.

This counter-trend growth achievement is inseparable from the powerful empowerment and drive provided by SUN.io, TRON's core liquidity infrastructure. As the core DeFi hub of the TRON ecosystem, SUN.io leverages its comprehensive DeFi business model, continuously iterated disruptive technological advantages, and tangible value capture and yield empowerment capabilities. Amidst the industry's deep reshuffle, it has not only stabilized TRON's ecosystem fundamentals, serving as a crucial anchor for value and a buffer for risk, but has also become the core growth engine activating the ecosystem's trading activity, fully validating its solid and sustainable long-term value in the Web3 field.

SunSwap V4's Six Underlying Innovations Reshape the DEX Efficiency Revolution, Achieving Extreme Cost Reduction and Scalability Leap

Within the TRON ecosystem, SUN.io has always been the central liquidity hub and benchmark DeFi infrastructure. Through several iterations, the SUN.io platform has evolved into a fully functional, diverse, integrated DeFi service platform, aggregating core functions like the DEX asset exchange SunSwap, innovative Meme asset issuance SunPump, decentralized perpetual contracts SunX, and decentralized governance SUN DAO, comprehensively covering diverse scenarios such as asset exchange, asset issuance, derivatives trading, and ecosystem governance, building a complete DeFi ecosystem service map for TRON.

While horizontally expanding ecosystem boundaries and enriching the product matrix, SUN.io has never stopped its vertical deep dive into underlying technology, continuously innovating and refining core product capabilities. In March this year, SunSwap, the core DEX sector of the SUN.io ecosystem, launched its groundbreaking V4 version. Fully inheriting the core advantages of the V1, V2, and V3 versions, this version innovatively implements six core underlying mechanisms, restructuring the traditional AMM architecture to precisely solve industry pain points of traditional decentralized exchanges, such as lagging multi-route trading, liquidity fragmentation, insufficient scalability, and high transaction costs, leading the DEX within the TRON ecosystem through a technological paradigm shift and sparking a revolution in DeFi trading efficiency.

SunSwap V4 is equipped with six underlying innovative mechanisms: native TRX direct support, singleton architecture (unified pool management), flash accounting (unified net settlement), Hooks (customizable trading rule plugins), custom accounting (customizable settlement strategies), and Subscribers (real-time position change notifications). It achieves comprehensive breakthroughs from trading logic optimization, pool management efficiency, and settlement model innovation to developer customization expansion. While significantly reducing on-chain energy consumption and transaction costs, it endows the ecosystem with extreme scalability, fully upgrading the user trading experience and developer innovation space:

• Restored Native TRX Support: Supports direct pairing and trading of TRX with TRC-20 tokens, eliminating the need to forcibly wrap TRX into WTRX, thus simplifying operations and further reducing transaction energy consumption.
• Singleton Architecture: Centralizes all liquidity pools under a single contract for unified management, disrupting the traditional DEX model of deploying separate contracts for each trading pair. This innovative architecture significantly lowers the cost of creating liquidity pools, optimizes routing efficiency for cross-pool trades, and effectively addresses the issue of liquidity fragmentation.
• Flash Accounting: A new settlement mechanism based on the singleton architecture. For complex multi-step asset swaps, it no longer requires individual transfers. Instead, it records net balance changes via an internal ledger, settling the net difference only upon transaction completion. This drastically reduces energy consumption for complex strategies, making it suitable for high-frequency, complex trading scenarios.
• Hooks: Allows developers to embed customized trading logic directly into liquidity pools (e.g., dynamic fees, custom oracles), enabling each pool to be bound to a specific Hooks contract. Developers can flexibly configure personalized features like dynamic fees, custom oracles, and specific trading rules without modifying the core protocol code, achieving flexible configurations for different pools and unlocking the innovative potential of the developer ecosystem.
• Custom Accounting: Works closely with Hooks to empower professional market makers and institutional users to build their own settlement systems, flexibly adapting to complex hedging strategies and fee models.
• Subscribers: Liquidity providers (LPs) can subscribe to subscriber contracts to receive real-time data notifications about position changes, etc. This mechanism provides core technical support for third-party liquidity management tools and automated market-making systems, helping to professionalize, refine, and intelligently upgrade on-chain liquidity management.

Relying on these six underlying technological innovations, SunSwap V4 has successfully achieved a dual breakthrough in extreme transaction cost optimization and comprehensive protocol scalability upgrade, completing an all-round upgrade of product experience, underlying performance, and ecosystem capabilities.

In terms of cost optimization, core technologies like native TRX support, singleton architecture, and flash accounting drastically compress on-chain transaction paths and streamline settlement processes, significantly reducing on-chain energy consumption and transaction fees, pushing TRON's inherent advantages of low cost and high efficiency to new heights.

Simultaneously, SUN.io has long provided energy subsidies of up to 99%, creating a dual benefit of "technological cost reduction + policy subsidies." On May 19th, the platform successfully completed an upgrade iteration of its general router contract, with the new contract also eligible for the 99% high energy subsidy. The powerful synergy between internal performance optimization and external energy subsidies has significantly compressed on-chain transaction costs for SunSwap V4 users, driving energy consumption infinitely close to zero.

Currently, when users trade assets on SunSwap, the system automatically matches the optimal trading path via intelligent routing to minimize costs: In the common TRX-to-USDT exchange scenario, on-chain energy costs are approaching zero; in the TRX/USDT liquidity addition scenario, for the same capital amount, the V1 version's single transaction Gas cost is $3.83, while the V4 version requires only $0.9, a significant reduction, potentially increasing the number of on-chain operations by 6x within the same budget.

[TRX to USDT Token Exchange Scenario]

[Gas Consumption Comparison: Adding LP on V4 (Top) vs. Adding LP on V1 (Bottom)]

In terms of ecosystem expansion, the platform has fully opened a comprehensive set of developer toolkits, including Hooks, Custom Accounting, and Subscribers, granting the ecosystem high autonomy for customization. Developers can flexibly build personalized liquidity pools, innovative DeFi products, and proprietary trading strategies based on their specific needs, continuously enriching the TRON DeFi ecosystem and laying a solid foundational infrastructure for full-scenario ecosystem innovation.

From the disruptive reconstruction of the underlying architecture to the full-scale opening of developer toolkits, SunSwap V4 represents the culmination of TRON's core advantages of low cost and high efficiency. More importantly, it validates its core value and growth certainty through tangible technological breakthroughs and tangible results implemented. 

 SunSwap V4 Achieves Explosive Growth in Liquidity and Trading Volume Within Two Months of Launch

The leading technological architecture and extreme cost advantages have now fully translated into tangible business growth momentum and market competitiveness for SunSwap V4. Since the launch of the V4 version, within just two months, its pool liquidity and trading volume have both experienced explosive cross-sector growth, charting an independent upward trend in an otherwise flat overall market environment, significantly outperforming the broader market.

According to data from the Sunscan explorer, SunSwap V4's pool TVL has steadily climbed from millions of dollars in its early stages to nearly $112 million today; daily trading volume has also surged from tens of thousands of dollars initially to a recent $29.72 million. This set of rapid growth data directly confirms the substantial breakthroughs SunSwap V4 has made in transaction cost optimization and protocol scalability upgrades, serving as strong proof of the successful implementation of its technological iterations and the comprehensive realization of its product competitiveness.

The cross-sector growth of the SunSwap V4 platform has garnered widespread attention and high recognition from the global crypto industry. Multiple KOLs in the crypto space have posted on the X platform expressing amazement that SunSwap V4 achieved a dual explosion in liquidity and trading volume within just two months of launch, a growth rate extremely outstanding and even astonishing within the same sector.

Industry-renowned KOL @Tonys further deconstructed the core logic behind this rapid growth: Relying on the dual core advantages of a 99% high energy subsidy and native one-click TRX connectivity, SunSwap V4 pushes on-chain transaction fees to historical lows, creating an extremely low trading cost and a clean, seamless operating experience. Concurrently, the V4 version upgrade simultaneously optimized the rights system for liquidity providers, delivering higher and more flexible returns for users. Furthermore, users can monitor on-chain fund dynamics in real-time, and efficiently conduct liquidity operations leveraging the platform's secure non-custodial mechanism and intelligent market-making strategies. With the superposition of multiple advantages, the explosive growth of SunSwap V4 became an inevitable industry trend.

With the new launch of SunSwap V4, SunSwap has formed a synergistic landscape where the V2, V3, and V4 versions work in concert, complementing and empowering each other, collectively driving the continued expansion of the platform's trading scale. According to the latest data from May 26th, the core performance of each version shows clear layering and strong growth momentum:

The V4 version, launched only two months ago, has rapidly caught up with the mature V3 version in terms of liquidity and trading volume, fully unleashing the growth potential of the new technology version and becoming the core engine of new increments for the platform.

Leveraging the ecosystem advantage of multi-version collaborative development, SUN.io's overall business data will continue to be strong. As of May 27th, the total TVL of the SUN.io platform is close to $587 million, with total ecosystem liquidity pools exceeding 26,600, a 7-day total trading volume exceeding $472 million, handling over 68,500 transactions, and the ecosystem scale continues to grow. Breaking it down, SunSwap V4 alone has established over 106 pools, and relying on its liquidity base of approximately $112 million, it achieved a 24-hour trading volume of $29.72 million and 1,005 transactions in 24 hours, with added incremental value becoming increasingly prominent.

The rapid business growth and continuous ecosystem improvement have also directly driven a steady increase in the value of the platform's native asset. CoinGecko data shows that since the launch of SunSwap V4 in March, the SUN token price has steadily risen from $0.015 to $0.02, accumulating a gain of over 30%. Its current total market capitalization stands at $384 million, achieving a positive cycle of technological iteration, ecosystem growth, and asset value.

SUN.io Ecosystem Value Continues to Deliver: Cumulative SUN Buyback and Burn Nears 700 Million Tokens, "Three Pillars" Drive Persistent Token Deflation

In the crypto world, judging whether a DeFi platform is a "castle in the sky" or has "lasting value" hinges on whether its tokenomics is backed by real revenue. SUN.io is continuously releasing multi-dimensional value through its "three pillars" - SunSwap, SunPump, and SunX - using tangible business revenue to drive the SUN token into an era of deep deflation. As of May 26th, SUN token had completed 50 rounds of buyback and burn, with the cumulative amount exceeding 600 million tokens.

On April 25th, SUN completed its 50th round of buyback and burn, repurchasing and burning over 18.83 million SUN tokens (18,835,780.1486). Since the initiation of the SUN buyback mechanism on December 15, 2021, the cumulative total of repurchased and burned tokens has reached nearly 700 million (specifically 669,522,160.92). Of this, SunSwap V2 fees contributed a cumulative burn balance of 374 million tokens; SunPump contributed nearly 285 million tokens burned; and SunX has contributed approximately 9.12 million tokens burned.

Completely different from most projects that rely on inflation or governance tokens "shifting from left hand to right hand," all funds for SUN's buyback and burn come from diversified real business revenue. Based on current burn data, the funds for SUN token buyback and burn mainly originate from three core business lines: SunSwap V2, SunPump, and SunX. This means that regardless of how asset exchange, Meme trends, or PerpDEX derivatives evolve, these three engines can continuously capture on-chain value, constantly injecting healthy "deflationary power" into the SUN token.

It is this buyback mechanism, reliant on real revenue and executed consistently for 50 consecutive rounds, that constitutes the most powerful value validation, fully demonstrating the long-term positive deflationary resilience of the SUN.io ecosystem, as well as the platform's steadfast commitment to long-termism. As crypto KOL Xing Shuo stated: "Seeing SUN complete its 50th round of buyback and burn, my first reaction wasn't how much was burned, but that this mechanism has been running stably for so long. Many projects love to talk about 'deflation,' but few can actually execute 50 rounds consistently and faithfully. The significance of the 50th round lies in proving that this is not just a phased action, but a long-term value loop that has been proven to work and can continue to operate."

While solidifying its fundamentals, SUN.io is also actively expanding into new types of assets. In April this year, SunSwap V4 was launched and became the first to support the new decentralized stablecoin $U (United Stables), concurrently opening the USDT/U liquidity pool, providing the community with richer on-chain asset choices.

More critically, as the liquidity center of the TRON ecosystem,