Justin Sun Prize pool now onchain and verifiable via Tronscan, with USDT TRC20 and USDC ERC20 awards at $0.35 TRX price.

According to the source, a social post claimed a 1B USDT mint on the TRON network on Jan 9, 2026; this has not been independently verified and should be confirmed via Tether Transparency and TronScan before trading (sources: Tether Transparency, TronScan). Verification requires identifying a mint transaction from the Tether Treasury address on TRON and a corresponding increase in USDT-TRON supply on Tether’s transparency page (sources: TronScan, Tether Transparency). Tether has previously stated that large mints to the Treasury are often authorized but not issued and used for inventory and chain swaps, which may not immediately expand circulating supply (source: Tether official statements). Traders should, after confirmation, monitor USDT-USD peg stability, TRX perpetual funding rates, and stablecoin inflows to exchanges to assess liquidity impact and potential spillover to BTC and ETH perps (sources: Tether Transparency for supply, major exchange funding rate pages such as Binance and OKX).