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Founded by prominent entrepreneur Justin Sun, TRON made waves in the broader information technology community in July 2018 when Sun acquired BitTorrent -- the popular P2P file-sharing network. Since then, TRON has integrated BitTorrent into its platform with BitTorrent implementing its own TRON token -- BitTorrent Token (BTT) -- which sold out in minutes during its IEO on the Binance Launchpad earlier this year. TRON exists among a class of smart contracts platforms, such as Ethereum, where developers can build ‘unstoppable applications’ that run atop the network’s core protocol. TRON was one of several smart contracts platforms whose original initiative was to improve the performance of Ethereum, which was grappling with scaling problems around the time of TRON’s introduction.