View: "Token Export" May Become a New Application Scenario for Central Bank Digital Currencies

Odaily reported that Caixin.com 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 open market that simultaneously covers both "overseas clients calling tokens from China's AI data centers" and "completing cross-border payments, clearing, and final settlement through central bank digital currencies."

The discussion surrounding cross-border payments via central bank digital currencies is shifting from the grand narrative of monetary sovereignty and international financial competition towards new scenarios with a more realistic transactional foundation. 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 attribute as a "trusted settlement protocol," including the final settlement capability of central bank money, cross-border real-time clearing efficiency, programmable payment capabilities, multi-party automatic revenue-sharing mechanisms, and embedded regulatory visibility. These can be combined with enterprise-level AI service metering systems to achieve a closed-loop process from invocation and billing to clearing and settlement.