Introducing order and rules to a world he created by hand, which is growing wildly.

Prologue

In the autumn of 2025, when the Blue Origin rocket tore through the atmosphere, sending Sun Yuchen into the weightless universe, the world's perception of him was at a delicate tipping point.
On the ground, he was once a defendant in an SEC lawsuit, the most controversial "public enemy" in the crypto world, a symbol wrapped in public opinion and speculation. But beyond the ground, a "financial Cthulhu" built by his own hands was surging with over ten billion transactions, flowing through every capillary of global finance.
This space journey was both a long-awaited coronation ceremony and a moment of reflection. It presented Sun Yuchen's two lives—the defendant in the eye of the storm and the architect of a new world—simultaneously to the public in an unprecedented way.

1. The Defendant's Seat (Eye of the Storm)

In March 2023, when the SEC's lawsuit announcement spread globally, many felt that the noisy and controversial era belonging to Sun Yuchen was coming to an end. Every word in the announcement—"fraud," "market manipulation"—seemed to seal his past public image: the embodiment of the "original sin" of the crypto world, a financial speculator skilled in making empty promises and hype. The story seemed to have turned to the last page, but a new chapter was just beginning.

In the center of the storm, Sun Yuchen remained remarkably calm. He did not engage in fierce rebuttals on social media but instead issued a brief, restrained statement. Less known was that he was orchestrating the most thrilling and successful capital operation in the history of the crypto world through encrypted video conferencing.
At that time, the crypto industry was in its "darkest hour" following the FTX collapse, with trust shattered and liquidity nearly exhausted. The exchange Huobi (later rebranded as Huobi HTX), where he had just taken on the role of global advisor, was a small boat adrift in this storm. Everyone thought he had chosen the most dangerous moment to support a faltering platform.

However, Sun Yuchen demonstrated his cold and precise side as a strategic advisor. Under his primary recommendation, HTX's focus was not on market manipulation but on rebuilding trust. Huobi HTX published important data such as "Merkle Tree Reserve Proof" every month, transparently showcasing the platform's asset status to all users. This "suicidal" act of transparency later became the cornerstone and standard for rebuilding trust across the entire industry.

He firmly believed that after the panic, what people craved most was not false prosperity but genuine security. This advice proved to be correct. While other exchanges were struggling with bank runs, funds quietly flowed back to this most honest platform like a tide.

At that moment, the outside world began to vaguely realize that the Sun Yuchen they thought would only manipulate public opinion had a true weapon that was perhaps not his words but a profound insight into human nature and the flow of capital.

2. The Invisible Empire

Beyond public view, Sun Yuchen had long been quietly playing the role of "creator of the new world system." He was obsessed with building infrastructure, those tedious, complex, yet life-and-death foundational rules of an ecosystem.

The first pillar is a freely flowing value network.

He never tried to package TRON as the most cutting-edge public chain but instead built it into a "highway." His goal was almost boringly clear: to infinitely reduce transaction costs.

While the industry was keen on discussing various sophisticated consensus algorithms, he only cared about one thing: how to reduce the cost of transferring $1 on-chain for a young person in the third world from $10 to one cent.

By 2024, the power of this highway was fully revealed, as TRON, with its unparalleled low fees, became the world's largest stablecoin circulation network, quietly becoming a "systemic tool" for millions to hedge against real-world risks.

The second pillar is a world-class asset issuance and trading center.

After stabilizing his footing, under Sun Yuchen's advisory influence, Huobi HTX transformed from a simple "exchange" into a "hub for asset issuance and liquidity." Through its investment arm HTX Ventures, it launched a series of Web3 incubation and investment programs, screening promising startups globally.

Unlike traditional platforms, Huobi HTX not only provided funding but also a complete set of ecological services: from underlying technical support and token economic model design to initial user traffic introduction. Huobi HTX was no longer a "landlord" waiting for projects to come knocking for rent but had become an "incubator" for new species.

The third pillar is a channel of influence leading to the future.

While the entire crypto industry was trying to appease the establishment in Washington, Sun Yuchen once again went against mainstream views: embracing the Trump family. In 2024, he keenly captured that as the U.S. elections approached, Trump and the political forces he represented were viewing cryptocurrency as an "anti-establishment" banner to combat the existing financial system and attract young voters. He decisively bet his resources and industry influence on this emerging political wave.

He began to engage in public interactions with the Trump family in the crypto space and attended Trump's dinner. At this point in the game, he was no longer the "diplomat" trying to find a place under the old world rules but had transformed into the crypto think tank behind the new political force. He exchanged real money and substantial community influence for a ticket to the future power center.

Sun Yuchen at Trump's dinner

When the three pillars were firmly in place like the massive roots of Yggdrasil, people suddenly realized that under the cover of controversy, Sun Yuchen had quietly built a vast digital economy based on TRON's value network, with HTX as the strategic hub he advised, and connected to the core channels of future influence.

3. A Look Back from Space

In the autumn of 2025, when the Blue Origin rocket sent Sun Yuchen into suborbital space, people's views of this "Brother Sun" were quietly changing.

Controversial or unconventional, this "Brother Sun" was building "infrastructure for humanity's path to the future" in his own way. Once a defendant, he was now an undeniable business leader.

In the weightless cabin, Sun Yuchen gazed out the window at the blue planet. What he saw were no longer the borders on a map but an invisible network covering the globe, composed of data flows.

Sun Yuchen in space with a childhood photo

On this blue planet, a USDT from Country A was being paid to a freelancer in Country B via the TRON chain; a small startup team was building the next potentially world-changing application with the support of Huobi HTX; and on the desks of certain officials, there might be drafts of future cryptocurrency regulatory frameworks that included his proposals.

Everything he built was operating on that planet at a frequency of millions of times per second, impacting countless lives. It was a god-like perspective, a great satisfaction for an architect gazing at his masterpiece.

After returning from space, he became more pragmatic, expressing views on promoting industry improvement as an "industry advisor." He seemed to be trying to play a new role: introducing order and rules to a world he created by hand, which is growing wildly.

He remained a seasoned capital player, but his game table had expanded from the simple crypto market to the grand chessboard of the global economy. He was still a creator of the new world's systems, but he began to think about how this new world could coexist and integrate better with the old world.

Sun Yuchen's story is one about how controversy can become the best camouflage, about how ambition can construct reality. He proved over a decade that in the center of the storm, one can not only survive but also build. As for whether what he built is a lighthouse leading to the future or his own Tower of Babel, perhaps only time will provide the final answer.

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