The Tron (TRX) community was beside itself on Wed, Feb. nineteen after founder Justin Sun'southward accost was shown to have voted in 2 Tron Foundation apps equally a Super Representative (SR). Both Tron-Ace and Tron-Bet were voted in as Super Representatives by the Zion address, the same account which received 99 billion TRX from the money'south genesis block.

Super Representatives are responsible for overseeing block production on Tron's blockchain. Every bit such, they receive a sizable portion of the coin rewards from each cake. In plain terms, this means that Tron'south community rules were bypassed, arguably to further enrich its own foundation.

That'south despite Tron CEO Justin Dominicus's insistence that he and his foundation have nix to do with customs voting.

Tron founder in vote buying controversy?

The candidate addresses with 200 1000000 and 310 million votes belong to Tron-Bet and Tron-Ace respectively. The accost shown happens to be the Zion address, the same account that received 99 billion TRX following Tron'southward mainnet launch in 2022. This equates to the entirety of the TRX coin supply at the fourth dimension.

Tron Super Representative vote results from Feb. 19. Source: tronscan.org

Tron Super Representative vote results from Feb. xix. Source: tronscan.org

The use of an accost and then clearly affiliated with the Tron Foundation has upset many members of the coin's community. I Tron Club member took to Twitter on Wednesday forenoon to demand an explanation from founder Justin Sun:

"The vote in of the Tron-Bet and Tron-Ace was done using the ZION account. Can we get an explanation please."

The same user later added to the statement that the Zion account " was used to vote in SRs which Justin is 'invested' in even subsequently the statement from Justin [maxim neither] he nor the foundation have participated in voting."

TronWalletMe marketing and communications manager Misha Lederman after noticed a 3rd SR voted for past the Zion account. Lederman pointed out that the Poloniex SR had likewise benefited from Tron's Zion business relationship.

The Poloniex exchange was purchased by Tron founder Justin Sun in November 2022.

Tron founders flout customs rules

Tron dApp developer Rovak summed upward the situation for not-technical users, noting: "It is not OK to apply these tokens if the elections are supposed to exist 100% customs driven."

Tron documentation written by Justin Sun clearly states that neither he nor the Tron Foundation engage in customs voting. According to Sunday, all voting is carried out by TRX holders and the community at large, as stated in a Medium mail service by Justin Sun from early on February.

Last September, Cointelegraph reported that Binance had get the number one Tron SR after it launched staking for TRX users. Those funds were and so used to vote Binance in as lead Super Representative.

A Tron insider who wanted to remain anonymous noted at the time that "they have enough votes to vote in 20 SRs and basically start Binance Chain version two. The community is pretty pissed virtually it."

Nearly half-dozen months on and Binance remains the meridian Tron SR, controlling 53% of the network.

In the wake of Wednesday'south revelations, Binance'due south command of the Tron blockchain came upwardly in one case again. Twitter user @GodOvCrypto predicted the worst for Tron in the long-term:

"I am surprised there are yet community SR's in the top 27. Give it a year and they will be way down every bit businesses will do what @binance did and just purchase their way to the summit. Only adept thing volition be that all TRX will be frozen."

Tron did non respond to a request for annotate.