It Took Just A Day for Tron's Founder to Win His Own Blockchain's Election

An unconventional candidate has triumphed in tron's ongoing blockchain elections: its own founder Justin Sun.

After announcing his candidacy to become a tron "Super representative" just one day ago, Sun has successfully garnered enough votes to run one of just 27 nodes that will operate the $2.5 billion tron network.

As of press time, Sun had acquired over 120 million votes according to tron's Tronscan feature.

As reported by CoinDesk, tron kicked off its election in June as part of the launch of its own proprietary blockchain.

Sun's decision was not wholly unexpected, as it was foreshadowed in an April Medium post in which he wrote, "I myself will participate in the tron super representative election along with all other candidates."

Later, Sun clarified in his statement that his candidacy was "a completely personal action" and will not represent the Tron Foundation, of which he is the CEO. He previously promised that the foundation would not use its 34 billion tokens to vote in the election, though he did not disclose his personal TRX holdings in the announcement.

At the time, Sun largely sought to downplay the potential impact that his influence in the community could have on the election.

Still, tron's ongoing election is part of a broader trend among public blockchains, one that finds notable projects experimenting with novel ways to coordinate stakeholders to update the software.

Sun's announcement was greeted with some skepticism by tron users.

The Tron Foundation and Justin Sun did not immediately respond to requests for comment.