TRON powers 65% of World Cup ticket settlements using USDT

Here’s something that would have sounded absurd five years ago: a meaningful chunk of FIFA World Cup tickets were purchased with stablecoins on a blockchain. Not as a gimmick. Not as a proof of concept. As a straightforward payment method that thousands of fans actually chose to use. Uquid Tickets, a blockchain-enabled ticketing platform, processed just under 5,000 ticket sales for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Over 65% of those transactions were settled in USDT on the TRON network, using the TRC-20 token standard. That makes TRON the dominant rail for what might be one of the largest real-world crypto payment events tied to a single sporting tournament. The numbers behind the noise Uquid Tickets launched in March 2026 and formally announced its TRON integration on April 13, 2026. So the platform had only a few months of runway before the World Cup kicked off, which makes the volume more notable. During the tournament, Uquid reported a 450% surge in platform traffic. The platform works in a fairly intuitive way. Users pay with crypto, blockchain confirmations process, and digital tickets are delivered. No intermediary bank transfers, no currency conversion headaches for international fa...