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Tron is a smart contract platform for decentralized applications (a blockchain). Tron was founded by Justin Sun and launched in 2018.

TRX holders own and govern the protocol. They currently burn all transaction fees paid by users (revenue). It is important to note that the incentives related to energy and bandwidth are effectively returned as revenue, and this is reflected in the earnings.

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# Tron Token holders Methodology

## 1. Overview

The TRON tokenholders metric measures the total number of unique addresses that hold any amount of TRX (TRON's native cryptocurrency) at specific points in time. This metric provides insight into the distribution and adoption of TRON's native token by counting distinct addresses with non-zero TRX balances. The calculation tracks unique wallet addresses that maintain TRX holdings, serving as an indicator of the network's user base and token distribution.

## 2. Data sources

The metric relies on the following raw data sources:
- **TRON blockchain data**: Native TRX transaction records and account state information
- **TRON address balances**: Snapshot data of TRX balances across all addresses on the TRON network
- **TRON account states**: Current and historical account balance information from the TRON blockchain
- **Balance aggregations**: Pre-processed daily or periodic summaries of address-level TRX holdings

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Native TRX holder identification
- **Purpose**: Identifies and counts unique addresses holding TRX tokens
- **Logic**: The underlying data source aggregates TRON blockchain information to identify all addresses with positive TRX balances. This involves processing account states and transaction data to determine current TRX holdings for each address on the network. Addresses with zero balances are excluded from the count.
- **Key fields**: `timestamp` for temporal tracking, `timestamp_grain` for aggregation periods, `chain` identifier for TRON network, and `tokenholders` containing the count of unique addresses

### Component B: Data standardization and quality control
- **Purpose**: Applies consistent formatting and quality filters to the tokenholder data
- **Logic**: The `finalize_metric_tokenholders` macro standardizes the output format, ensuring consistent timestamp handling, proper chain identification, and metric metadata. The chain availability filter excludes data from periods where TRON blockchain data may be incomplete or unreliable.
- **Key fields**: Standardized `chain_id` field, properly formatted timestamps, and quality-controlled `tokenholders` counts

### Final aggregation
- **Combining components**: The metric directly uses the tokenholder count from the native TRX analysis without additional aggregation since it represents a snapshot metric rather than cumulative values
- **Currency conversion**: Not applicable as this is a count-based metric measuring number of addresses rather than monetary values
- **Time aggregation**: Preserves the original timestamp grain from the source data, typically daily snapshots of unique TRX holders
- **Final calculation**: The final metric value represents the total count of unique addresses holding any positive amount of TRX at each timestamp, cast as a high-precision numeric value to handle large address counts accurately

*This methodology was automatically generated by Token Terminal's methodology analyzer.*

Unique addresses holding a non-zero balance of the project's native token.

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