Justin Sun’s Journey to Wealth

Recently, Brother Sun has been in the spotlight due to his joining Huobi, so I have compiled Brother Sun’s history of making a fortune for you. Let’s take a look at it.

At the end of 2013, Justin Sun joined Ripple Labs, an Internet finance company based in Silicon Valley, to explore a new Internet virtual currency protocol - the Ripple protocol.

In 2014, Justin Sun returned to China as the chief representative of Ripple Labs in Greater China. He started a business based on the Ripple open source protocol, founded Ripple and served as CEO. He is one of the earliest evangelists of the blockchain concept in China.

In April 2015, Ripple, a company founded by Justin Sun, received tens of millions of US dollars in Series A financing from multiple investment institutions.

In July 2017, the blockchain project "TRON" was created, dedicated to building a global decentralized free content entertainment system.

On May 31, 2018, the TRON mainnet was officially launched.

On July 24, 2018, TRON successfully completed the acquisition of BitTorent and all its products, and integrated them into the TRON ecosystem, making the TRON ecosystem officially the world's largest decentralized Internet ecosystem.

On August 2, 2018, the total number of accounts on the TRON mainnet exceeded 100,000.

On August 10, 2018, TRON completed the acquisition of the domain name BlockChain.Org.

On August 30, 2018, the TRON Virtual Machine (TVM) was officially launched.

In December 2018, the total number of accounts on the TRON mainnet exceeded 1 million.

On October 22, 2019, the TRON wallet was added to the desktop and mobile browser developer Opera browser.

On October 30, 2019, TRON reached a cooperation with Samsung Group, allowing users to send and receive TRX through Samsung's built-in wallet.

On November 13, 2019, Justin Sun made a strategic investment in Poloniex, a world-renowned digital currency exchange, and cooperated in many fields including TRC20-USDT stablecoin, DeFi decentralized finance, and TRON trading zone.

On February 14, 2020, the decentralized social platform Steemit reached a strategic cooperation with TRON and officially joined the TRON ecosystem.

On March 5, 2019, Tron and Tether announced a partnership, with Tether launching the TRC20-based stablecoin USDT on the Tron blockchain.

In June 2019, he won the opportunity to have lunch with Buffett with the highest bid of US$4.567 million.

In December 2019, Justin Sun’s Sina Weibo account was shut down.

On January 1, 2020, the TRON Foundation launched the largest multi-party computing (MPC) torch incentive program in history.

On January 23, 2020, Justin Sun finally succeeded in having dinner with Buffett after standing him up twice.

On April 4, 2020, Djed, a stablecoin lending platform test network based on TRON, was officially upgraded to JUST and its main network was officially launched.

On June 17, 2020, the BTFS mainnet was launched, redefining the storage method and opening up a new mining profit model.

On July 7, 2020, the TRON4.0 Age of Navigation began, and the TRONZ anonymous smart contract was officially launched.

On August 12, 2020, BitTorrent's global installation volume officially exceeded 2 billion.

On August 19, 2020, the JustSwap platform was launched.

On September 2, 2020, SUN started Genesis Mining.

On September 19, 2020, the total number of accounts on the TRON mainnet exceeded 10 million.

On December 1, 2020, BitTorrent and Huawei became partners.

In January 2021, Justin Sun, the founder of the Tron Foundation, was specially appointed as a member of the editorial board of the national information journal "China Information Industry".

On January 25, 2021, the total number of accounts on the TRON mainnet exceeded 20 million.

On July 26, 2021, Justin Sun announced his entry into Gamefi and NFTfi.

In December 2021, Justin Sun was appointed by the Government of Grenada as Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organization and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

On May 5, 2022, Tron issued USDD.

On October 10, 2022, Justin Sun, the founder of Tron, became a member of Huobi’s Global Advisory Committee.