The TRON project, never one that is often out of the news, has more interesting news for its investors as founder Justin Sun has announced more plans for BitTorrent, which TRON acquired. Sun stated that the platform plans to bring 1 billion BitTorrent users into the collaboration between the two platforms.
We will announce a plan to bring 1 billion #BitTorrent ecosystem users into #TRON and #BTT world with more partership support! $TRX #TRX $BTT
— Justin Sun (@justinsuntron) March 1, 2019
Sun’s bold announcement was met with some disbelief by the larger crypto community, who doubt that such a large number of people would populate the ecosystem that TRON plans to build. BitTorrent has roughly 100 million users.
Meanwhile, TRON has been executing various operations and development plans to upgrade its network.
Recently, the team announced the release of TronGrid 2.0, which avoids the need for developers to run their own full nodes. This means that they can focus almost entirely on development, and avoid the accompanying operational costs of running a full node.
The blog post reads:
Running your own full nodes often requires hardware investment, bandwidth, and time to maintain or secure data. TronGrid provides an alternative for developers that is currently free of charge and fully integrated with developer tools such as TronWeb. TronGrid makes DApp development easy and affordable.
The upgrade of TronGrid 2.0 will significantly reduce the response time needed to query events. This is an important feature for #developers and #DApps. Shoutout to our dev tool team! 😎 https://t.co/6dZylfnpBD
— Justin Sun (@justinsuntron) March 1, 2019
Yue Fang, Product Manager at TRON, said of TronGrid 2.0:
We have seen a lot of development efforts on TronGrid over the last few months. From a performance perspective, but more importantly, a documentation perspective. TronGrid has quickly become one of our preferred TRON blockchain interaction methods.
The TRON platform has grown to become a popular platform for dapp development. According to statistics from dapp monitoring site dapp.reviews, TRON has become the most widely used dapp development platform, quite convincingly trouncing both Ethereum and EOS in terms of the number of dapps released.
TronGrid 2.0 follows a recent hard fork by the project.
