TRON was attacked by social engineering, the official Twitter was hacked, but network fees reached a new high.

Hacker Attack Reversal Drama

The official TRON DAO X account was attacked by social engineering on May 2, with hackers impersonating the official account to distribute suspicious contract addresses and send mass DMs. The team has regained control of the account and warns users to ignore and delete any DMs received that day — as TRON never actively sends contract addresses.

Interestingly, founder Sun Yuchen subsequently requested OKX to freeze the funds transferred by the Hacker, claiming that law enforcement had already intervened. However, OKX CEO Star Xu directly rebutted this, saying: “We have not received any official freeze order, and we've checked our inbox (including the spam folder), and found nothing.” He even publicly asked Sun Yuchen if he could upload a screenshot from the law enforcement agency as proof. This question directly led to Sun Yuchen deleting his post.

Currently, TRON DAO is cooperating with law enforcement to investigate and has identified multiple suspicious addresses on X and Telegram.

But this is not a bad news story

Ironically, TRON has been doing quite well recently:

Network Upgrade: The Kant mainnet upgrade has been launched, enhancing Ethereum compatibility and security. The underlying optimizations include a reconstruction of the contract event system and improvements in node API performance. These updates are not visible to ordinary users but are crucial for TRON's goal of becoming the global settlement layer.

User Growth: The total number of addresses has exceeded 304 million.

Fees Reign Supreme: The most outrageous is the April fee ranking — TRON sits on the throne with $51.7 million, even surpassing the total of Solana ($36.9 million), Ethereum ($21 million), and Bitcoin ($15.4 million).

Market Stability: TRX has a market value of $23.3 billion, consistently ranking in the top ten, with a 4% increase over the past 30 days and an annual decline of only 3.78%.

Summary

Although the hacker incident is embarrassing, the fundamentals of TRON are actually heating up. The fact that fees have surpassed the combined total of ETH and BTC indicates that on-chain activities are indeed concentrating on TRON — this is a positive signal for both the ecosystem and the token.