Technology
By James Thorp
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How the Prize Actually Works. Sun built the prize to run differently from anything else in academic recognition.
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Sun's Track Record and the Money Behind It. Sun has donated over $45 million to various causes. He's said he wants to focus his philanthropic…
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What the Prize Signals for Crypto and Science. The on-chain disbursement angle is worth sitting with for a second.
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Justin Sun just handed out a million dollars for solving one of the hardest problems in mathematics. Not a lifetime achievement. Not a committee vote.
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The inaugural round of the Justin Sun Prize wrapped up with 66 mathematical problems tackled across the board.
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The Navier–Stokes equations describe how fluids move. Think turbulence, weather systems, blood flow.
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Sun built the prize to run differently from anything else in academic recognition. No nomination cycles. No lifetime achievement committees. No institutional gatekeeping.
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The problem list is public, maintained on GitHub, and open to community input. Problems proposed by renowned mathematicians, including Paul Erdős, are part of the mix.
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Winners get money, a certificate, and a medal. The medal carries a Latin inscription: "Quod probatur, solvitur" — "Proved, then paid." Pretty much sums up the whole philosophy.
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Payment goes out in USDT on TRON or USDC on Ethereum, winner's choice. And every disbursement record sits on-chain, permanently visible.
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The problem list includes some of the heaviest unsolved challenges in mathematics. The Poincaré Conjecture is on there. So is the Riemann Hypothesis. These aren't warm-up problems.
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Sun has donated over $45 million to various causes. He's said he wants to focus his philanthropic energy on the prize going forward — returning wealth generated by technology…
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He's the founder of TRON, which has processed over $13 trillion in transactions, with particularly heavy stablecoin usage across emerging markets.
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The Office of Justin Sun manages his initiatives across technology and scientific research. The prize sits inside that broader structure.
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