- The vote to cut Tron’s energy price to 100 sun from 210 has 17 of 27 SRs in favor and needs one more for approval.
- If passed on August 29, fees for energy-consuming transactions would halve while TRX net burn could turn inflationary.
Tron network stakeholders are close to approving a fee reduction that would halve the cost of energy on the blockchain ahead of a Friday deadline.
SR Chain Cloud submits Proposal #104 to reduce the energy unit price to 100 sun
The plan under consideration stems from a public discussion in the Tron Improvement Proposals repository titled “Decrease the transaction fees” and tagged as Issue #789.
It proposes cutting the energy unit price from 210 sun to 100 sun, which would reduce the amount of TRX burned for energy-consuming transactions by roughly 50 percent. One TRX equals 1,000,000 sun, so the adjustment would materially lower the nominal resource cost for users and developers.
The proposer outlined a schedule that targeted creation of the on-chain voting request on August 26 and an effective date of August 29 if approved.
The voting request was initiated on Tron’s governance as Committee Proposal #104 by Super Representative Chain Cloud, according to a community update.
The stated objective is to realign network fees with current market conditions and maintain competitiveness as TRX’s price appreciation has pushed nominal costs higher over the past year.
On-chain tally shows 17 of 27 Super Representatives in favor ahead of Friday cutoff
As of the latest public tally, 17 Super Representatives had signaled support for the measure, leaving the proposal one vote shy of the 18 approvals required under Tron’s governance process.
Voting opened on Tuesday and is scheduled to close on Friday August 29 in line with the published timetable. Participation and vote thresholds follow the network’s rule that at least 18 of the 27 elected block producers must approve parameter changes.
Materials attached to the proposal quantify the potential impact on user reach and network economics. Based on thresholds for typical transactions, the author estimates that lowering the energy price to 100 sun could expand the number of accounts able to complete a standard transfer by about 45 percent.
The analysis also notes that at the current 210 sun setting, the network recorded a net burn of approximately 76 million TRX over a recent measurement period. Reducing the parameter to 100 sun would likely flip supply dynamics to net issuance unless rising activity offsets lower per-transaction burn.
The proposal references the prior fee adjustment executed via Proposal #95, which cut energy costs in 2024 and coincided with an uptick in new smart contract deployments. Advocates argue that a further recalibration would sustain usage growth while preserving flexibility to readjust parameters if on-chain data warrant it.
The author recommends close monitoring of transaction volumes, contract deployments and TRX supply effects after any change to ensure the resource market remains balanced.
At the time of press, TRON (TRX) is trading at US $0.348632, having declined by exactly -0.00180 USD, or -0.18 percent, over the past 24 hours. The intraday high was US $0.350995, and the intraday low reached US $0.344564.
