Today the CEO of blockchain startup Tron Justin song (Justin Sun) announced on Twitter it is time to launch the next update of the network. Activation Odyssey 3.1 will be held at 15:00 Moscow time; according to Suna, after the upgrade Tron will be more convenient to embed decentralized application environment than projects with a higher market capitalization:

“[…] Function Tron Committee and TVM will be available immediately after the update, ushering in the era of Smart Contracts [network TRON]. TRON will be 200 faster than ETH, and is 100 times cheaper than EOS. Developers and users of decentralized applications, this is for you!”

News about the update has caused a positive reaction of investors. In addition to some words of support have focused on the fact that Tron has implemented “every promise”.

On the background of a recent interview Justin Suna, and news about network optimization, quotes native token TRON, TRX, rose more than 11% (at the exchange rate at the time of publication of the material). The company plans to continue optimizing in the first quarter of 2019, to bring TRX “in the top 10 over the next six months.” Now the token TRON takes 11-th line in the rating of capitalization of cryptocurrencies.

Tron has moved to its own blockchain in June of this year. Next year the platform will complete the integration with peer-to-peer network BitTorrent, which Justin sung has also acquired in June, shortly before the migration of TRON on a separate blockchain.