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TRON’s Energy Rules Can Raise Costs for Businesses Accepting USDT

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Businesses accepting Tether USD (USDT) on TRON may face network costs after a customer’s payment arrives, because a treasury sweep or payout adds transfers whose Energy use can vary with recipient balances and contract activity. Energy covers execution of the USDT contract, while Bandwidth covers transaction data. A network check at 9:39:32 a.m. ET (13:39:32 UTC) Oct. 17 set the burn rates at 100 sun for each Energy unit and 1,000 sun for each Bandwidth unit; one TRON (TRX) equals 1 million sun. Bandwidth includes a free allowance of up to 600 units per account over a rolling 24-hour period, limited by the quota remaining. Energy has no free allocation.

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