Justin Sun: B.AI Leads AI Agent Financial Infrastructure, Ushering in a New Era of Autonomous Agent Economy | Hong Kong Web3 Festival

On April 21, Justin Sun, founder of TRON, attended the Hong Kong Web3 Carnival and delivered a keynote speech titled "From TRON to B.AI: Infrastructure as the Key Variable in the AI Era."

In his speech, Sun placed significant emphasis on B.AI, an AI Agent financial infrastructure project for which he recently became an advisor, announcing that B.AI's user base has surpassed 1 million. He pointed out that B.AI, as the world's only truly privacy-preserving multi-model AI aggregation platform, is laying a dedicated operational and financial track for the upcoming Agent economy, enabling AI Agents to truly possess economic independence and autonomous transaction capabilities.

Sun emphasized that at the critical juncture where AI is gradually evolving from an "advanced tool" to an "autonomous executor," B.AI is becoming the most underestimated yet indispensable underlying variable in the AI era.

Hong Kong, China: The Optimal Landing Ground for AI and Blockchain Integration

At the beginning of his speech, Sun stated that now is a very opportune time to develop B.AI and integrate AI with blockchain in Hong Kong. He noted that the Hong Kong SAR government has begun issuing stablecoin licenses this year, which not only demonstrates the stability of the entire industry but also continues the sustained support from virtual asset trading licenses to stablecoin licenses. Simultaneously, Web3 technology has been incorporated into the government's roadmap, meaning everyone can engage in entrepreneurship and innovation within a sufficiently broad Web3 conceptual framework.

He further emphasized that the integration of AI and Web3 is an accelerator for Web3's transition from the "experimental phase" to the "real-world operational phase." This is also a key reason why he is attending not only as the founder of TRON but also as an advisor to B.AI. The future will see accelerated development towards the convergence of AI and blockchain.

TRON: A Stable, Secure, and Decentralized Global Settlement Infrastructure

Discussing the real-world operational status of TRON, Sun presented a set of data: TRON is currently one of the world's largest and most stable stablecoin settlement networks, with on-chain USDT amounting to $86.4 billion. Including other stablecoins, the total approaches $90 billion. With approximately 376 million global accounts, it provides high-frequency, stable cross-border payment and settlement services to users worldwide daily.

Sun mentioned that recent hacking incidents on Ethereum indirectly validate a principle: the core standard for financial services is not low cost, but stability and security. He stated that the fundamental reason TRON is chosen as the primary settlement network globally, even by many users who "don't even know me," is that it provides a stable, secure, and predictable environment.

Addressing security, Sun specifically disclosed a major upgrade for TRON. TRON will deploy quantum-resistant addresses to its mainnet next quarter, becoming the world's first public chain network resistant to quantum computing. He pointed out that AI and quantum computing are advancing rapidly, and it's not impossible that Bitcoin could face the risk of being compromised by quantum computing before 2029. Therefore, quantum resistance has become one of the most critical security scenarios for public chains. He also took this opportunity to call for Bitcoin to adopt quantum-resistant algorithms as soon as possible and reassured TRON users: "Everyone need not worry about the security of their TRON accounts."

AI's Evolution from Chatbot to Agent: The Existing Payment System is Severely Incompatible

Discussing the development path of AI, Sun divided it into two stages. The first stage is the Chatbot era, represented by ChatGPT and Doubao, which are essentially single-step Q&A tools where humans make decisions, bear the results, rely on manual intervention, and answers are not necessarily accurate.

The second stage is the accelerating arrival of the AI Agent and Agent Harness era. AI Agents can autonomously decompose and execute complete tasks, automatically call tools and resources, operate without human supervision, and demonstrate real-world effects in actual scenarios.

Sun illustrated this with a personal example. He mentioned he never wore a watch before but started wearing one recently to collect body data due to his deep involvement in AI work, then feeding this data to AI for comprehensive analysis. He believes that if more people adopt this habit and technology, many tragedies like sudden cardiac death could potentially be avoided in advance, which is one of the values the AI era brings to ordinary people.

However, he then pointed out a structural contradiction: existing human payment systems like banks, Alipay, and WeChat Pay are fundamentally incompatible with AI. Bank accounts assume the user is human, requiring in-person account opening in strict scenarios. Even electronic banking requires facial recognition to confirm identity. "If you say you're not human, you're a machine, you're AI, can you open an account? That's not allowed."

Therefore, AI cannot independently manage funds. Every payment requires human authorization, which cannot support AI's high-frequency decision-making, is strongly tied to human identity, and inevitably becomes a scalability bottleneck as participant numbers grow. In other words, as long as payment tools remain bound to human accounts, AI can only ever be an "advanced execution tool," not a true execution entity.

B.AI: The Underlying Financial Infrastructure Built for the AI Agent Era

Based on this assessment, Sun focused on introducing B.AI. He stated that B.AI is the underlying financial infrastructure built for the AI Agent era, possessing several key capabilities.

First, on TRON, every AI does not need to be human. It can autonomously manage keys through cryptography, call services via a unified API interface, and complete every on-chain payment and settlement using a dedicated on-chain wallet, completely resolving the structural incompatibility between traditional financial accounts and AI Agents.

Second, B.AI is the world's only truly privacy-preserving multi-model AI aggregation platform. Users only need a wallet address to anonymously call the world's strongest models, leaving no payment traces or behavioral profiles. Third, each on-chain address establishes a verifiable, continuously accumulating unique identity for an AI Agent, making it a true on-chain entity with autonomous economic capabilities.

In terms of product form, on the payment side, B.AI not only relies on TRON but also integrates Ethereum and all major Layer 2 networks. On the AI model side, it aggregates globally leading open-source and closed-source large models, including international mainstream models like Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, as well as domestic newly released models like MiniMax, Kimi, and the soon-to-be-integrated DeepSeek V4.

Users only need to log into B.AI to freely call all mainstream global large models as needed. Sun particularly emphasized that this is currently the only platform capable of simultaneously calling both domestic and international models. Domestic manufacturers cannot call international models, and international manufacturers struggle to call domestic models. Even if they could call all, they cannot use a blockchain address as an identity to complete payments. Therefore, B.AI possesses a strong moat in the AI Agent track.

Sun revealed that since its launch, B.AI has had over 1 million users complete actual calls. Currently, B.AI has launched Chatbot functionality and Agent Cloud functionality (corresponding to "Bai Cloud," akin to OpenCloud).

Coming Soon: B.AI Brain "Clone Brain," First Version is the "Brother Sun Model"

The most buzzworthy disclosure in the speech was Sun's first public announcement of B.AI's upcoming new feature—B.AI Brain (Bai Brain), which he called the "Clone Brain."

Sun explained that there is a very important theory in AI: the more data you possess, the more an AI understands you after reading and distilling it. Based on this, he is turning on all microphones and recording devices at home, carrying recording devices with him, saving personal data like videos, images, and sounds to cold wallets and offline cold storage devices, then distilling it through B.AI's strongest large model to ultimately generate a B.AI version of the "Brother Sun Model."

He stated that the "Brother Sun Model" is expected to launch version 1.0 next week. "Those who agree with Sun's philosophy" can directly call "Brother Sun" on B.AI, combining it with models like Claude and Kimi as desired. Users can consult "Brother Sun" for opinions or have an Agent use the Brother Sun Model to handle tasks on their behalf. Simultaneously, the team is intensifying security efforts to prevent prompt injection and distillation attacks that could lead to personal life data being extracted through reverse questioning.

B.AI Brain also opens the capability for all users to build their own "Clone Brain." As long as users upload sufficient data in various forms such as emails, chat records, and recordings, B.AI can "distill" it into a new digital "you" to handle your affairs and even predict your future behavior to some extent. Sun mentioned that after feeding multi-source data to large models in the lab, the models could predict what users might do in the next five days, such as specific behaviors like "wanting to eat hotpot tomorrow afternoon," with considerable accuracy.

He joked that with B.AI and B.AI Brain, achieving "cyber fortune-telling" in the future is not impossible, "and it's very accurate, almost free." However, he also cautioned that this capability "can only be used for legal and compliant purposes."

Data Security: Guard Your Data Like You Guard Your Private Key

Towards the end of his speech, Sun returned to the topic of security. He emphasized that data security is more important than ever in the AI era. "Taking your data is equivalent to taking yourself." Therefore, he advised users to complete all data uploads through the official B.AI website and conduct extensive data analysis using offline local models as much as possible to prevent data leaks.

He urged users to guard their data as carefully as they guard their private keys in the future. B.AI will also adopt a "private-key-like" standard to safeguard all user data, avoiding the current situation where some giants are too casual with user data custody, leading to frequent security incidents like "database breaches." He stated that B.AI will continue to invest significant effort in AI security to eliminate risks such as user data leaks and prompt distillation attacks.