Tron ( TRX USDT ) mainnet is preparing for an important technical upgrade. According to the latest announcement from the Tron community, the upgrade proposal for version 4.8.0 has entered the community discussion stage, with a formal voting process scheduled to begin on June 23.

This upgrade will introduce a new virtual machine instruction set, achieving technical compatibility with Ethereum's Cancun upgrade, and optimizing the underlying consensus verification mechanism. On the surface, this seems like just a part of a technical iteration, but a deeper analysis reveals that TRON's strategic intentions are very clear:

Tron is strategically approaching the Ethereum technology ecosystem to enhance the platform's openness and developer friendliness.

From a strategic perspective, the reasons for TRON's compatibility with the Ethereum Cancun upgrade mainly include:

The Ethereum Cancun upgrade is an important evolution of the EVM technology system, mainly enhancing Rollup performance, data sharding processing capabilities, and transaction consistency assurance. Although TRON is not derived from an Ethereum fork, its TVM virtual machine is highly similar to the EVM architecture, which has successfully attracted numerous Solidity developers.

The 4.8.0 version upgrade essentially conveys clear information to the blockchain development community:

"Developing and deploying applications on the TRON network will provide an experience similar to that of Ethereum."

This strategy will bring two key advantages:

First, developers can easily migrate Ethereum ecosystem development tools, smart contracts, and Rollup components to the TRON network;

Secondly, the TRON network will achieve significant improvements in on-chain transaction processing capacity.