Opinion: "Token Export" Could Become a New Application Scenario for Central Bank Digital Currencies

According to Odaily, Caixin Online published an article stating that "Token Export" is not yet a standard concept in regulatory documents or corporate annual reports, and there has been no fully disclosed case in the public market that covers both the "overseas client calling tokens from China's AI data center" and "completing cross-border payments, clearing, and final settlement through central bank digital currencies."

Discussions surrounding cross-border payments using central bank digital currencies are shifting from the grand narrative of monetary sovereignty and international financial competition towards new scenarios with more realistic transaction foundations. Among these, the AI inference service "Token Export" is seen as a potential key entry point, packaging model capabilities, computing power, electricity, data centers, and industry engineering capabilities into tradable AI services for export. The core value of central bank digital currencies lies in their "trusted settlement protocol" attributes, including the final settlement capability of central bank money, cross-border real-time clearing efficiency, programmable payment capabilities, multi-party automatic profit-sharing mechanisms, and embedded regulatory visibility. This can be integrated with enterprise-level AI service metering systems to realize a closed-loop process from invocation and billing to clearing and settlement.