What if I told you in the last 24 hours, Tron (TRX) delivered a 533% gain.
533% in a single day. Have you ever seen Tron do that in its eight years of existence?
Now if you were looking at its price chart on Coingecko you might be a little confused as to what I’m talking about.
That’s the Tron 24-hour chart and it does not show a 533% gain.
But let me show you another chart…
That’s the five-day chart for SRM Entertainment (NASDAQ:SRM) and that’s a 533% return in 24 hours.
So…
What the heck is going on? Well, let me tell you this…
That 533% return from SRM is directly because of Tron.
How?
Well, I sure didn’t (and I bet you didn’t either) have Tron goes public via NASDAQ listed toy company on my 2025 crypto bingo card.
But here we are.
Let me explain more and why this is how crypto completely takes over the stock market in 2025.
Why Billionaires Are Stockpiling This ‘Boring’ Token
The world's largest financial institutions are building massive positions in a protocol most retail investors consider too ‘unsexy’ to notice. As markets are volatile post-tariffs, this coin continues setting transaction records while flying almost completely under the radar.
Yesterday, SRM Entertainment, a tiny Nasdaq-listed toy merchandise company, announced a (sort of) merger with Tron. Yes, that Tron.
And yes, this is about as unbelievable as it seems. One of SRM’s biggest most recent announcements about a New York toy fare where the company proudly announced[1],
‘With the upcoming July 2025 launch of the Smurfs Movie featuring Rihanna, SRM will feature our officially licensed Smurfs collectible Sip with Me drinking cups.’
Tron, the $26 billion crypto market cap juggernaut, that’s been running for eight years and with one of the largest user bases in all of crypto (and most controversial founders) decides to merge their operation with a NASDAQ listed minnow…
The result, SRM stock exploded 533% in a single session. The TRON crypto never had a day like that…ever!
I should also point out, this isn’t just some random merger. This has Trump fingerprints all over it.
SRM will undertake a ‘TRON Token Treasury Strategy’. Justin Sun (founder of Tron) will take on an advisory position. The company will change its name to ‘Tron Inc.’ I expect the ticker will also become TRON[2].
Also, of considerable note in the announcement was this[3],
‘As blockchain technology gains wider adoption globally, TRON has become the industry leader for cross border settlement in U.S. dollar stablecoin. We are excited to invest into the future of the world’s next generation financial infrastructure.’
Where Trump ties come into play is that it was Dominari Holdings that brokered the deal. The same Dominari that’s at the heart of the American Bitcoin/Gryphon Digital merger, and the same Dominari which has both Eric Trump and Don Jnr on its advisory board.
Furthermore, as we know, it’s the Tron network that is integrating with the Trump-backed World Liberty Financial (WLFI) USD1 stablecoin. And it’s this read as a stablecoin play that I find most interesting. Because that’s exactly what the Trump administration and Trump family are pushing across all their enterprise…the integration of stablecoins and their own stablecoins within U.S. trade and commerce.
We also know WLFI that holds a substantial number of TRON tokens as part of its crypto treasury. And Justin Sun is said to have as much as $75 million worth of WLFI (along with a suspected massive holding of the $TRUMP memecoin).
This again seems to be an expansion of the Trump crypto empire through another crypto-to-stock-market deal with stablecoins at its heart.
Is the Stock Market the Final Frontier for DeFi?
Look I’ve been banging on this drum for months now. DeFi is coming for TradFi.
Just in the last few months we’ve seen:
21 Capital, the Tether-backed Bitcoin fund, finalising its merger with Cantor Fitzgerald’s CEP SPAC.
Strive Capital, the DeFi-native venture outfit, has announced a SPAC merger with Asset Entities.
Smarter Web Company, the ‘Strategy of the U.K.’ IPO in April and is now trading at over 100x its listing price. Yes, 100x.
The OG Strategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) continues to smash buy Bitcoin and launch innovative ways to absorb more cash to buy more.
Metaplanet, the ‘Strategy of Japan’, soar 500% since April by going all-in on Bitcoin.
Circle go public and raise $1.1B at a $6.9B valuation and then almost 5x from its IPO price.
Plasma, a stablecoin infra platform, raise $500M in minutes then upsize deposits to $1 billion.
American Bitcoin announce its deal to merge with Gryphon Digital.
And now Tron pulls the reverse merger lever. I mean, I expected things to accelerate but this is utterly wild!
But this is the market telling us what matters, not just Bitcoin itself, but crypto’s complete takeover of TradFi.
This is no longer just about the crypto markets, altcoins and the promise of DeFi. This is mega money, from TradFi, finding ways to completely upend the stock market and the returns right now are making previous altcoin cycles look tame.
Maybe this cycle’s altcoin boom is really all the ‘alt-stocks’ on the NASDAQ?
I guarantee you 99% of investors out there have absolutely no idea this is all taking place. And that there’s massive and fast money being made every day on the stock market thanks to crypto.
I believe this is a golden window, that won’t last forever. Before the analysts catch on, before the institutions rerate, before mainstream media gets its bobbly head around it all, before the TikTok ‘finfluencers’ even have time to check AI for what SPAC means.
Now is the time.
So don’t fade the stock market because it’s TradFi stocks. If anything, the biggest crypto gains right now are coming from stocks, because of crypto.
Like I said, nobody had a Tron/toy company merger on their bingo card. But it’s exactly the kind of wild move we should expect in this new era of crypto capitalism and one that investors need to switch on to.
It also won’t be the last thing like this we see in the coming weeks.
Whoa, a 533% gain in 24 hours? That's wild! What's driving that kind of surge?