Kobe Bryant made an appearance along with Tron founder Justin Sun at the NiTron Summit.
Kobe Bryant made an appearance along with Tron founder Justin Sun at the NiTron Summit.
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Tron’s 28-year-old CEO wants to use blockchain games and BitTorrent to decentralize the internet

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 8 min

An estimated 80 percent of the companies that raised funding via initial coin offerings (ICOs) have been called scams by researchers at the Satis Group. But Justin Sun, the 28-year-old CEO of Tron, wants to prove that his company is different.

Sun, a Chinese entrepreneur who became wealthy as the creator of Peiwo, China’s version of Snapchat, has been working on a sometimes hard and ambitious battle to earn trust for the year-old Tron and its TRX cryptocurrency. Tron raised $58 million in an ICO in September 2017.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.