SF Summit Shows BitTorrent Is Boosting Tron's Appeal

That's how crypto YouTuber Ben Armstrong, known around the web as 'BitBoy,' described how he felt about Tron prior to its acquisition last summer of file-sharing platform BitTorrent.

Now, outside Day 2 of Tron's niTROn Summit in San Francisco this week, BitBoy felt differently: Tron was worth paying attention to.

Moving on from memes and hype, Tron has made a bet that by acquiring this long-standing company at the center of an early protocol it can leapfrog the crypto adoption problem.

Barter systems work OK, but Tron's BitTorrent thesis is that adding a unit of value, the BitTorrent Token, will make the system work even better.

BitTorrent also allows Tron to associate with a known and established brand.

The main purpose of that appearance seemed to simply be associating Tron with a name that basically everyone knows.

While Kon is based in London, she traveled to San Francisco because she says UTRUST is seeing demand from holders of its UTK token to integrate Tron.

Galia Benartzi, a co-founder of Bancor, spoke at the conference and took a similar position toward Tron as Kon.

Tron would also be attractive for Bancor because it's actively encouraging new tokens on the platform.

The rank-and-file TRX holder asked, "How high do you think Tron can go?".