H.E. Justin Sun 👨‍🚀 🌞 (@justinsuntron) — Twitter Score 772 out of 1000

H.E. Justin Sun founded TRON, a blockchain network, and serves as an advisor to HTX and World Liberty Financial. H.E. Justin Sun's Twitter Score is 772 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, placing him at rank #78 (top 0.1%) out of 389,587 accounts tracked on this platform, with 4,047,430 followers as of July 2026 and 22,402 posts.

H.E. Justin Sun launched the TRON Foundation and TRON Protocol in 2017; the network's native token is TRX, and the project's ICO raised US$70 million shortly before China's September 2017 ICO ban. TRON acquired BitTorrent for $140 million, with the deal closing in July 2018, integrating BitTorrent into TRON's blockchain ecosystem. TRON also launched USDD, an algorithmic stablecoin that briefly lost its dollar peg in June 2022; he stated that TronDAO would deploy $2 billion to defend it. He previously worked at Ripple Labs as chief representative to China and previously served as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Grenada to the WTO, stepping down in March 2023 after a change of government. He is affiliated with Poloniex, serves as Prime Minister of Liberland, advises B.AI, and rang the opening bell for Nasdaq-listed TRON Inc. in 2025.

H.E. Justin Sun has faced significant legal and regulatory scrutiny. In March 2023, the U.S. SEC charged him, Tron Foundation Limited, BitTorrent Foundation Ltd., and Rainberry Inc. with the unregistered offer and sale of TRX and BTT securities, alleged wash trading of TRX (more than 600,000 alleged trades between April 2018 and February 2019, generating $31 million from alleged illegal sales), and undisclosed celebrity promotions. In February 2025, the SEC paused its market-manipulation investigation into him and his companies. In November 2023, hackers stole an estimated $120 million from Poloniex; he publicly offered the attackers a 5% white-hat bounty if they returned the rest within 7 days. Former TRON employees also filed a civil lawsuit in 2020 alleging fraud, harassment, and whistleblower retaliation; per reporting mentioned by Forbes, the case went to private arbitration.

H.E. Justin Sun invested approximately $75 million total in World Liberty Financial, committing $30 million in late November 2024 and a further $45 million weeks later, and was named an advisor to the project. In April 2026, he sued World Liberty Financial alleging it illegally froze his WLFI tokens; in May 2026, World Liberty Financial filed a defamation lawsuit against him alleging token misconduct and a reputational smear campaign, which he denied. Forbes estimates his net worth at $8.5 billion as of June 2026, primarily from cryptocurrency holdings, and describes him as controlling a crypto empire spanning Tron, Poloniex, HTX, and BitTorrent. His tracked portfolio includes Poloniex Exchange, Valkyrie and LayerZero. H.E. Justin Sun has been mentioned by 2,527 accounts, with 13,873 total mentions.

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