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On January 19 (SGT), TRON’s flagship project SUN.io announced a strategic Chinese brand upgrade, reintroducing itself under the name “Sun Wukong” (“孙悟空”, Monkey King) alongside a refreshed visual identity. Leveraging the deep cultural resonance of the legendary Monkey King, the move aims to establish a strong cultural layer for TRON’s DeFi ecosystem, one that combines universal recognition with powerful narratives.
This rebrand sees SUN.io’s entire portfolio, including SunSwap, SUN DAO, SunPump and SunX, unite under the Chinese visual identity “Sun Wukong”. This shared narrative transforms SUN.io from a collection of high-performance DeFi tools into a cohesive economic powerhouse, generating deeper synergy and liquidity in the TRON ecosystem.
Vision meets value: SUN.io redefines one-stop DeFi management
This strategic plan builds on the solid foundation of proven experience and market position that SUN.io has built over time. As a proven flagship DeFi platform within the TRON ecosystem, SUN.io has become deeply integrated into the network’s financial fabric, serving as an indispensable infrastructure and critical liquidity hub that underpins its vibrant business.
According to official statistics, SunSwap – the leading decentralized exchange (DEX) in the ecosystem – boasts a total value locked (TVL) of over $490 million as of January 8, with over 25,000 liquidity pools created. It has facilitated over $340 million in trading volume over the past 7 days from over 17,000 traders, handling approximately 90% of the total trading volume on the TRON network. Of these, TRX and USDT are the most actively traded assets, consistently maintaining a 24-hour trading volume north of $100 million.
On the other hand, the launch platform of the meme show, SunPump, demonstrated a strong vitality of the ecosystem. Its AI-powered agent, SunGenX, has redefined the creation of meme pieces on X with a simple one-click broadcast service. Among the more than 100,000 tokens listed so far on SunPump, trending assets such as SUNDOG and PePe have been successfully listed on Binance Alpha, validating SunPump’s role as an innovative asset discovery engine.
In the derivatives industry, decentralized perpetual exchange SunX (formerly SunPerp) is also growing rapidly. As a key margin trading platform in the ecosystem, SunX has seen a steady increase in trading volumes, as well as growing user engagement and greater liquidity. As of January 8, SunX recorded a total trading volume of over 23.94 billion USDT, serving a cumulative total of over 89,000 users, which has firmly established its position as the definitive destination for advanced trading.
Meanwhile, SunAgent, the ecosystem’s AI-powered trading tool, has completed a critical iteration. Featuring an intuitive chat interface, SunAgent acts as a seamless bridge between SunSwap, SunPump and SunX. With a full suite of automated on-chain services spanning token issuance, trading, staking, voting, and data queries, SunAgent removes barriers to complex DeFi operations, providing a seamless, capital-efficient experience for all SUN.io users.
Ecosystem synergy: SUN.io’s value growth driver
SUN.io’s competitive advantage arises from the architectural coordination of its product suite. Rather than operating in isolation, each product line operates as part of a closely linked and mutually reinforcing system. Together, they form a cohesive growth flywheel that guides digital assets throughout their lifecycle, from inception to maturity.
To begin with, SunPump is the engine of this collaborative system that puts innovative ideas into motion. By leveraging the AI-powered SunGenX Launch Tool, SunPump streamlines asset creation to its simplest form, systematically funneling new liquidity and new users into the system. These nascent meme assets then flow to SunSwap for initial liquidity and price discovery, translating novelty into market value.
While creating a streamlined pipeline for new assets to enter the market in synergy with SunPump, SunSwap goes one step further, perpetuating initial liquidity into sustainable yield. In addition to providing efficient trading channels, SunSwap uses dynamic fee structures and diverse pools to reward liquidity providers, fostering a vibrant and healthy ecosystem.
For traders ready to go beyond the basics into complex risk management and margin trading, SunX steps in as an essential value multiplier. As a specialist ecosystem derivatives platform, SunX achieves a breakthrough: it combines the high throughput of an off-chain order book with the efficiency of on-chain settlement, and delivers a lightning-fast trading experience that rivals centralized exchanges, without compromising asset security.
To close this loop, the SUN token buyback and burn program anchors the ecosystem in an autonomous value cycle. While SunSwap V2 allocates 0.05% of each transaction fee to SUN redemptions, SunPump and SunX go even further, dedicating 100% of their protocol’s revenue to burn. According to official data, more than 650 million SUN tokens have been permanently removed from circulation, representing more than 3% of the total supply. This sustainable mechanism systematically tightens the circulating supply of the token, fueling a self-reinforcing deflationary cycle.
Through this masterful architectural design, SUN.io has evolved beyond a simple collection of products into a thriving, self-sustaining crypto-economy. In the future, the ecosystem will continue to perfect the journey from asset issuance to market liquidity and long-term appreciation, thereby transforming into a stronger DeFi ecosystem.
About SUN.io
SUN.io is TRON’s first integrated platform for exchanges, farming, meme launches, on-chain governance and perpetual trading. It has become the largest asset issuance and trading platform on the TRON blockchain and serves as the primary hub of TRON DeFi.
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