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Tron’s recent fee reduction has significantly cut into the revenue earned by its block producers, <a href="https://cryptoquant.com/community/dashboard/68bf1a451fce4a2e2dc0490e#" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="https://cryptoquant.com/community/dashboard/68bf1a451fce4a2e2dc0490e#">according</a> to a new report from CryptoQuant.
The total daily network fees for Tron’s block producers, known as Super Representatives, dropped to $5 million on Sept. 7, the lowest level in over a year. That’s a 64% revenue decline in 10 days, down from $13.9 million the day before lower fees were implemented. Onchain data shows that average gas fees on Tron have decreased by 60% after the network implemented a proposal slashing the energy unit price from 210 sun to 100 sun. Gas fees are transaction costs paid on the Tron network, measured in its smallest unit, called sun.
Tron Proposal #789, labeled “Decrease the transaction fees,” went live on Aug. 29 after a vote from the Super Representative community.
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 <figcaption style="text-align: center;">Tron transaction fees since January 2024. Source: <a href="https://cryptoquant.com/community/dashboard/68bf1a451fce4a2e2dc0490e#" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">CryptoQuant</a>
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Community member GrothenDI issued the proposal in August, <a href="https://github.com/tronprotocol/tips/issues/789" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">arguing</a> that lower transaction fees would “ensure the sustainable and healthy development of the Tron ecosystem."
GrothenDI estimated that cutting the gas fees to 100 sun from 210 sun could result in an additional 12 million potential transfers from users. One TRON (<a href="/tron-price-index" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">TRX</a>) equals 1 million sun, the lowest divisible part of TRX.
Related: <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/tron-inc-adds-110m-trx-treasury-holdings-220m" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Tron Inc. adds $110M in TRX to treasury, total holdings now top $220M</a>
<h2 id="tron-dominates-blockchain-revenue-among-l1s">Tron dominates blockchain revenue among L1s&nbsp;</h2>
Although Proposal #789 reduced gas fees on Tron, the blockchain still leads other layer-1 chains in revenue, <a href="https://tokenterminal.com/explorer/projects/tron/metrics/revenue?interval=90d" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="https://tokenterminal.com/explorer/projects/tron/metrics/revenue?interval=90d">according</a> to data from Token Terminal.
Over the past seven days, Tron captured 92.8% of total revenue among layer-1 networks, ahead of Ethereum, Solana, BNB Chain and Avalanche. Fees generated from transactions on Tron amounted to $1.1 billion over the past 90 days.
<figure><img alt="Tron’s gas fee reduction cuts daily revenue by 64% in 10 days" src="https://s3.cointelegraph.com/uploads/2025-09/01993fc0-22ff-72da-9698-5bf9bf8e8b80" title="">
 <figcaption style="text-align: center;">Revenue generated by layer-1 blockchains over past 90 days. Source: <a href="https://tokenterminal.com/explorer/projects/tron/metrics/revenue?interval=90d" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Token Terminal</a>
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 Ethereum has led revenue generation over the past five years with $13 billion, compared to Tron’s $6.3 billion. Magazine: <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/ethereum-l2s-interoperability-roadmap-complete-guide/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Ethereum L2s will be interoperable ‘within months’ — Complete guide</a>

Tron’s gas fee reduction cuts daily revenue by 64% in 10 days

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