NOWPayments benchmarks TRON, BNB, and Solana payout performance
TRON (TRX)
Editor:
Eugene Serbin
cvj.ai reports that NOWPayments released six months of enterprise payout data comparing TRON, BNB Smart Chain, Solana, Bitcoin, and Ethereum. The study reveals that these five networks accounted for 94.04% of payout volume and 77.84% of transactions during the analyzed period. TRON moved 43.69% of payout volume, indicating it is the preferred network for higher-value transfers.
In contrast, BNB Smart Chain handled 48.23% of individual transactions but only 21.75% of volume, suggesting it suits high-frequency, lower-value payments. Solana recorded the fastest average speed at 1 minute and 45 seconds, while Ethereum was the slowest at 5 minutes and 56 seconds. Bitcoin followed Solana at 2:53, ahead of TRON at 3:08 and BNB Smart Chain at 3:13.
Despite its speed, Solana accounted for only 3.08% of volume and 3.86% of transactions. Kate Lifshits, Commercial Director at NOWPayments, stated, “The useful question is not which network tops a leaderboard. It is what a specific payout flow needs to optimize: value, frequency, speed, or cost.”
How the market reacted
Whalio's own Binance spot order flow for TRX, measured when this story was written up on 21 September 2026. Not the outlet's figures.
TRON is trading at $0.3427 with a 1-hour buy ratio of 20.1%, indicating immediate selling pressure after a stronger 4-hour buy ratio of 58.9%. The 24-hour buy ratio stands at 47.1%, showing that buying interest has faded compared to the recent 4-hour window. Volume delta reflects this shift, dropping by $870,603 in the last hour while gaining $1,722,333 over the past four hours. Over the full day, the volume delta is negative at -$2,021,531, though cumulative volume delta remains positive at $951,562. This suggests that while net selling has occurred recently, the overall daily flow remains net positive. The market processed $34,595,616 in spot volume across 67,593 trades in the last 24 hours.
The latest daily buy ratio of 49.7% sits at the 33rd percentile of the last 322 days, against a median of 52.4% - ordinary for this coin.
Was that an ordinary day?
The same Binance spot measurements for TRX, averaged over the days leading up to the story.
Over the preceding week, TRON saw a 7-day average buy ratio of 51.4%, which is 4.3 percentage points higher than the current 24-hour reading. Volume over the last eight days was 1.31 times the average, indicating significantly higher activity than usual. Net buying occurred on 5 of the 7 days, with a total volume delta of +$3,322,787 for the period. The price increased by 1.3% over the eight-day window, reflecting steady accumulation despite recent hourly volatility. This represents an ordinary but active trading environment, with volume well above the baseline average.