New Report Aims to Answer Whether Tron Is a 'Scam’

The latest report from Flipside Crypto takes a deep look into Tron (TRX) with the hope of answering a question many critics in the cryptocurrency space have posed: "Is Tron a scam?” The report starts by rehashing the Tron’s compromised origins story — from the allegedly plagiarized white paper to the promise of the $20 million giveaway that was never fulfilled.

However, the report comes an unexpected conclusion: The report notes that users are staking, both whales and regular users are using decentralized apps, TRX is traded on decentralized exchanges, and both node operators and voters get rewarded. Summing up its findings, the researchers state that Tron is "more real" than 90% of the blockchain projects they have examined: “But what if that’s just the intellectual snobbery in the space focusing too much on Twitter trolls, and not enough on TRON’s successful business model?.

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