TRON Adopts Chainlink: Its TVL Explodes By 3.4 Billion TRX

TRON DAO has just officially adopted Chainlink as the data oracle solution for its ecosystem, triggering a spectacular rise of 3.4 billion TRX in its total value locked (TVL) in less than a week. Could this strategic alliance be the catalyst that finally propels the TRX price beyond the critical resistance of $0.30?

TRON abandons WINkLink for Chainlink

On May 15, 2025, TRON DAO officially adopted Chainlink Data Feeds as the oracle data solution for its entire blockchain ecosystem.

This strategic decision follows TRON’s joining of the Chainlink Scale program in October 2024 and represents a major evolution for the blockchain’s DeFi infrastructure.

Thodoris Karakostas, Head of Blockchain Partnerships at Chainlink Labs, highlighted the importance of this collaboration:

With over $5.5 billion in DeFi TVL on TRON now secured by Chainlink oracles, this integration marks a decisive step in the TRON DAO community’s commitment to developing a robust and scalable DeFi infrastructure.

The effects of this partnership were immediate and significant on both ecosystems. On the Chainlink side, trading volume jumped 28% within two hours of the announcement, reaching $320 million.

For TRON, the impact was even more remarkable: its total value locked increased by 3.4 billion TRX in just five days, pushing its total TVL to 24.2 billion TRX (approximately $6.6 billion), according to DeFiLlama data.

This collaboration allows TRON to consolidate its position as the third-largest blockchain by TVL, just behind Ethereum and Solana. JustLend, the largest DeFi lending application on TRON, particularly benefits from this upgrade in terms of data security and reliability.

A strategic positioning in the real asset tokenization market

This alliance comes at a perfect time as the real-world asset (RWA) tokenization market reaches $3.5 billion according to Coingecko. Thanks to Chainlink infrastructure, TRON can now compete with Ethereum in this rapidly expanding segment.

Sergey Nazarov, co-founder of Chainlink, recently stated at the Consensus 2025 conference: “the tokenization of assets should significantly accelerate capital flows in traditional markets.”

This strategic positioning allows TRON to access a potential $2 trillion market by 2028, according to forecasts from the U.S. Treasury.

Chainlink integration also provides TRON with enhanced credibility among traditional financial institutions.

JPMorgan Chase recently conducted a tokenized U.S. Treasury bond transaction leveraging Chainlink interoperability, demonstrating the growing adoption of these technologies by major financial players.

Technically, the TRX indicators are positive. The price has held above key bands of the Adaptive Regression Line (ARL), with strong support between $0.256 and $0.262. The MACD indicator confirms this bullish trend, with a rising histogram and a growing gap between the MACD line and the signal line.

If the current momentum holds, TRX could soon test the $0.30 resistance, even reaching $0.35 if overall crypto market sentiment improves, notably with a bitcoin stable above $100,000.