Tron proposes 50% fee cut – Can TRX handle the inflation risk?

Key Takeaways 

Tron’s fee-cut proposal could help it regain market edge because it’s relatively expensive than Ethereum for transactions. But TRX supply will increase in the near term if fees are cut. 

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Tron’s [TRX] proposal to cut transaction fees by half has gained positive momentum ahead of the voting deadline on the 29th of August. 

At press time, 20 super representatives had voted for the proposal, while seven were yet to make their decision. 

Since the proposal only needed a minimum of 18 ‘YES’ votes out of the 27 super representatives to pass, it meant that it could sail through unopposed. 

Impact on TRX, market competition

The proposal was first floated earlier in August, a move that the team billed as a way to ‘enhance Tron’s competitiveness’ and ecosystem growth. 

“Currently, the transaction fees on TRON continue to rise, making it imperative to reduce fees in order to enhance TRON’s competitive advantage and promote the development of the ecosystem.”

For perspective, Tron is the second-largest network in terms of stablecoin dominance, handling over $82 billion. It’s second only to Ethereum [ETH]. 

Tron became an alternative for stablecoin transfers, especially for USDT in emerging markets like South America, Asia, and Africa, because of its low cost. 

But a spot check by AMBCrypto established that this changed in early 2025. It has been relatively more expensive to use Tron for stablecoin transfers than Ethereum for the past six months. 

On average, Ethereum’s transaction fee has been about $0.75, while Tron charged $1.7, over 2x higher, according to Token Terminal data.   

Unlike in 2024, when Ethereum charged over $5 for transactions, the current low cost could tip it to attract more flows from Tron. As such, the proposal made sense to keep Tron competitive. 

Unfortunately, there will be unintended consequences that could impact TRX negatively in the short term if the proposal is adopted. 

The team highlighted that a 50% fee reduction would make TRX supply inflationary by over 66 million tokens. 

This could put pressure on TRX price action in the near term.

But the project added that the lower fees could attract more transactions and facilitate the future burning rate of the token. This could offset the inflationary trend. 

“However, lowering transaction fees can stimulate increased transaction volume, potentially boosting future TRX burning scale.”

Meanwhile, there was a notable whale accumulation trend for the altcoin in the past few days.

However, price action was still stuck near the range low near $0.34 as the market awaits for clear direction from Bitcoin [BTC].