TRON Defies $1.4B Selloff: Why TRX Price Is Showing Unshakable Strength
TRX bulls aren’t backing down—even as whales dump $1.4 billion worth of tokens. Here’s why TRON’s price refuses to collapse.
### The Whale Exodus That Couldn’t Sink TRX
While most altcoins would buckle under a nine-figure selloff, TRON’s decentralized ecosystem is eating the pressure for breakfast. Trading volume suggests retail traders are gobbling up discounted TRX—classic ‘buy the dip’ behavior.
### Liquidity vs. Leverage: The Hidden Battle
Behind the scenes, TRON’s deep liquidity pools are absorbing sell orders like a blockchain sponge. Meanwhile, perpetual swap funding rates remain neutral—no panic, just opportunistic accumulation.
### The Cynic’s Corner
Of course, no crypto rally is complete without bagholders cheering ‘this time it’s different.’ But with staking yields still beating traditional savings accounts (and bank CEOs still clueless about DeFi), maybe they’ve got a point—for now.
TRX holds steady despite strong selling activity
TRX saw the largest profit-taking among large-cap cryptocurrencies on Tuesday, with investors booking profits of over $1.4 billion, according to Glassnode data. This marks its second-highest profit event in 2025.
Notably, TRX investors have maintained a high profit-taking bar above $1 billion per day since Saturday. "This marks the most sustained wave of realized profit for TRON in months," wrote Glassnode analysts in an X post on Tuesday.
Most of the realized profits flowed from holders who bought TRX within the past three to five years. TRON's Spent Output Profit Ratio (SOPR) staying above 1 shows that this cohort is selling after experiencing substantial gains. SOPR is a metric that reflects market sentiment by determining whether investors are selling their coins at a profit or a loss.
TRX Realized Profit by Age. Source: Glassnode
Despite the surge in profit-taking, TRX futures open interest (OI) is recovering, rising from 1.49 billion TRX on August 1 to 1.56 billion TRX on Tuesday. This indicates that futures traders are still showing conviction and are keeping their positions open.
Open interest is the total worth of outstanding contracts in a derivatives market.
However, these traders could begin downsizing their holdings with US President Donald Trump's reciprocal tariffs set to go into effect on Thursday. The new tariffs will impose levies on roughly 68 countries, including Brazil, India, and the EU. The tariff rates will range from 10% for nations with trade surpluses to as high as 50% for others like Brazil.
After declining from a year-to-date high of $0.35 over the past week, TRX is showing recovery signs, tackling the resistance at $0.33 despite the surge in profit-taking.
TRX/USDT daily chart
A recovery above this level could see the native token of the TRON blockchain retest the $0.35 resistance. On the downside, TRX could find support NEAR the 50-day Exponential Moving Average (EMA), with the $0.30 support level just below it.
The Relative Strength Index (RSI) and Stochastic Oscillator (Stoch) are above their neutral levels, indicating dominant bullish momentum.
