Hong Kong Web3 Carnival Sparks Debate: Justin Sun Predicts AI Could Crack Bitcoin by 2029, TRON Races Ahead with Post-Quantum Blockchain
- Core Viewpoint: Justin Sun believes blockchain is a key infrastructure for the AI era. Centered on this core, he elaborated on B.AI's strategic layout, the reshaping of national landscapes by AI Agents, the urgency of post-quantum cryptography, and the immense opportunities and security challenges brought by the integration of AI and blockchain.
- Key Elements:
- Proposed the core narrative that "Blockchain is the infrastructure born for AI," arguing that blockchain is the only viable path for payments, settlements, and collaboration among AI Agents.
- Revealed the upcoming launch of the B.AI Brain product, which will allow users to clone their own "brains" and utilize large language models to handle tasks, ensuring data privacy through on-chain signatures.
- Emphasized the urgency of post-quantum cryptography, stating that TRON is fully advancing the implementation of NIST post-quantum encryption standards on-chain to protect its approximately $190 billion in on-chain assets.
- Predicted that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) might be achieved next year, and analogized the current stage of AI + Crypto to the early days of DeFi five years ago—full of immense potential but also accompanied by risks.
- Pointed out that AI will reshape the concept of the nation-state, suggesting that future national power may depend on the number of AI Agents possessed rather than population and territory size.
- Proposed a security layered architecture: innovation on open-source platforms (e.g., GitHub), with scaled services in the cloud (e.g., B.AI Cloud), to ensure the security and controllability of commercial services.
On April 21, at the main venue of the Hong Kong Web3 Carnival during the roundtable discussion titled "Discussing the Star Applications of the Year: Open Claw, Prediction Markets, Dex, and Others," Justin Sun, founder of TRON, shared a series of forward-looking insights on topics including AI Agents, blockchain infrastructure, stablecoin security, and post-quantum cryptography.
This roundtable was moderated by YQ Jia, founder of AltLayer, and featured heavyweight guests such as Peter H.K. Koh, Executive Director and Group CEO of Oceanus Group; Nina Rong, Executive Director of Growth at BNB Chain; Chef Kids, CEO of PancakeSwap; and SungMo Park, Head of Asia Pacific at a16z. The venue was packed to capacity.
Throughout the discussion, Justin Sun consistently emphasized the core narrative that "blockchain was born for AI." He not only outlined B.AI's complete product matrix from cloud to "brain" but also pushed topics like post-quantum cryptography, AI governance, and the Agent economy to the forefront of the industry agenda. At this pivotal moment with AGI approaching and quantum threats on the horizon, the strategic urgency and accelerated pace demonstrated by Justin Sun and the TRON ecosystem are becoming a force that the global Web3 industry cannot ignore.
"Blockchain is Infrastructure Born for AI": Justin Sun Presents the B.AI Strategic Blueprint
Responding to the moderator's first question, Justin Sun stated unequivocally that the integration of AI and blockchain remains the greatest opportunity, both now and in the future.
He approached it from a highly insightful angle: AI cannot open human bank accounts, making blockchain the only viable path for payments, settlements, and collaboration between AI Agents.
"In this sense, blockchain is essentially the ignition engine prepared for AI. Everything we build today, while seemingly for humans, is actually serving AI," Justin Sun emphasized.
Based on this perspective, B.AI, founded by Sun, is building a two-way bridge connecting AI and blockchain: on the AI side, it integrates global mainstream large models like Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, Kimi, and MiniMax; on the blockchain side, it connects all major EVM networks including BNB Chain, Tron, Ethereum, and Arbitrum.
He bluntly stated that the Chatbot era has ended, and the Agent era is beginning. The key question is how to enable AI to "achieve 100% or even 1000% output with 1% input."
Redefining "Nation": Hundreds of Billions of Agents Will Reshape National Power Dynamics
During the roundtable, Justin Sun shared insights from his recent visit to Kyrgyzstan. He expressed a bold view to the President of Kyrgyzstan: the future concept of a "nation" will be completely reshaped by AI.
"Today, a nation is measured by its population and territory. But in the future, a small country with only one million people could become the world's largest nation if it has hundreds of billions of AI Agents working for it continuously. Conversely, a country with 300 million people might become a small nation if it lacks AI computing power deployment," Sun stated. He urged every country to take the AI trend seriously, as AI already possesses the capability to handle vast amounts of complex tasks and could potentially crack Bitcoin by 2029.
B.AI Brain Launch Imminent: Giving Everyone a "Clonable Brain"
When discussing B.AI's implementation timeline, Justin Sun revealed for the first time in public that B.AI Brain will be officially launched soon. This product allows users to clone their own "brain" and overlay any large language model (like Kimi, Claude, etc.) to handle various tasks. Sun himself will be the first tester, followed by a rollout to all users.
Regarding security architecture, B.AI Brain ensures user data privacy through on-chain address signature verification. Only the user whose signature is authorized can access their own "brain" data. "In the future, people will want to decide what to do using their own brain combined with a large model. This will be revolutionary."
Simultaneously, he issued a security warning to the industry: "In the past, hackers targeted your wallet; in the future, hackers will target your brain."
Recent thefts in the crypto industry involving hundreds of millions of dollars are still occurring. In the future, if users grant improper authorization to AI, the risk of brain-level intrusion is equally significant.
Dialoguing the AGI Era: DeFi's History is Repeating Itself in the AI Arena
When asked by the moderator whether the next generation of crypto users would be Agents, Justin Sun offered a more radical prediction: AGI progress is far exceeding expectations and could be achieved as soon as next year. He believes the current state of crypto + AI is reminiscent of the early days of DeFi five years ago, a time rife with hacks, yet the industry chose to move forward relentlessly, ultimately giving birth to a $200 billion DeFi ecosystem.
"In the future, users will increasingly authorize AI to execute trades and manage assets. Methods to attack AI will inevitably emerge; risks are unavoidable. But at the same time, a person who truly knows how to use AI can accomplish 100 times the workload of the past alone."
Sun also shared an interesting internal management practice: his company has started tracking each employee's daily Token consumption data to analyze work efficiency and AI usage patterns, helping the team learn to utilize AI more effectively. "If an employee consumes 100 million Tokens a day, they are either highly productive or stuck in a bug loop. The data will tell us the truth."
Security Boundaries: Open-source Innovation Belongs to GitHub, Scalable Services Belong to the Cloud
When asked about ensuring Agent security and accountability in the AGI era, Justin Sun proposed a clear layered architecture: "Innovation always happens on GitHub, but real commercial services must run in the cloud."
He pointed out that open-source solutions like Open Claw are essentially sandbox environments suitable for developers to explore freely. However, production-level services for consumers and enterprises must have a cloud-hosted, data-encrypted, address-level permission verification architecture. B.AI Cloud is built on this philosophy, offering AI × blockchain cloud services that are cheaper and faster than AWS while ensuring data cannot be accessed without authorization.
The Endgame for Stablecoins: Post-Quantum is the Next Race
In response to Peter H.K. Koh's question about the future of stablecoins, Justin Sun revealed TRON's latest strategic direction: comprehensively advancing the on-chain implementation of NIST post-quantum cryptography standards, vying to become the "world's first post-quantum blockchain."
He disclosed that the current asset scale on the TRON chain is approximately $190 billion. Protecting these assets by completing cryptographic upgrades before AI computing power becomes uncontrollable is the top priority.
"Google's research paper gives a conservative timeline: quantum technology could break Bitcoin by 2035. But if AI continues to accelerate, that day could come as soon as next year. We only have three years left; we must deploy post-quantum technology on-chain as soon as possible."
Sun stated that he is a firm believer in technological accelerationism—advancing the implementation of post-quantum NIST standards with one hand while using stablecoins to unleash the freedom of AI Agents with the other, constructing a trinity architecture of "stablecoin security, blockchain security, Agent security."
2026's Top Bets: AI, B.AI, and Claude
When the moderator asked each guest to predict the "star application direction in the next year and a half," Justin Sun gave three keywords: AI, B.AI, Claude.
He highly praised Claude's iteration speed. "Every new version release could potentially cause a competitor's stock to drop 20%. That's the real power of AI." He believes the market has not overreacted but has actually underestimated the pace of AI development. "AI is moving faster than anyone imagined, which is also why predicting the future is so difficult."
