Agentic AI and the Financial Rails of the Future
EthCC[9] · 2 Apr 2026 · 8:39
Justin Sun discusses TRON’s AINFT and Bank of AI initiatives for AI-driven payments and DeFi. The presentation considers how collaboration with ecosystems including Ethereum could support liquidity and interoperable financial infrastructure.
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Hello everyone. Thanks for being here. The talk right now will be recorded just so you know. Enjoy. >> Hi, I'm Justin Sun, founder of Tron. Today I want to talk about how we can bridge crypto and traditional finance to create a unified financial system. When I first got into crypto in 2012, blockchain was the mostly an experiment among developers and researchers.
But today, millions of people around the world rely on blockchain networks every day for payment, savings, trading, and digital commerce. The next stage of blockchain will be building the rails for unified financial system where digital assets, traditional finance and emerging technologies can operate on a sheer infrastructure. Just as the internet create a common layer for global communication, blockchain is beginning to create a common layer for how value moves around the world.
And one of the biggest drivers for this shift is AI. As AI become more common in everyday technology, the amount of machine-driven economy activity will grow quickly. AI system are began to perform real tasks in both business and consumer environments. Over time, autonomous AI agents will make decisions, execute transaction and interact with global services for people. To support these activities, we need infrastructures that is fast, reliable, and global
accessible. This is where blockchain networks like Tron can play an important role. The scale and the efficiency of Tron network make it well suited to support the level of the activities we expect from AI system and AI agents. In many ways, Tron is the best solution for agentic AI payment infrastructure. This development also aligns with a larger goal bring crypto and traditional finance.
In markets where financial infrastructure is already strong and well established, blockchain and AI can expand that system into a more open and programmable digital environment. New infrastructure has already been launched in Trong ecosystem. My example is Bank of AI.io. This is an AI agent framework designed to help developers build and deploy autonomous AI agent on TR network. The system use a layered and scale design
with a clear responsibility at each level. Bank of AI already has more than one half a million user. It shows strong demand for tours that connect AI with blockchain infrastructure. Alongside this, we are also building a financial infrastructure layer that allow AI agent to execute onchain payments, identity verification, and the D5 infrastructure on Trunk and BNB network.
Together, these systems show how blockchain can support new technology like AI while helping digital assets network in the traditional financial system that built over many decades. Another important component of this unified financial system is stable coin. Stable coin are becoming the bridge between traditional financial system and the blockchain network and across the Tron ecosystem. We are seeing strong momentum drive this trend.
The Tron network has becoming a leading blockchain for stable coin settlement and everyday digital payments. This is more than $85 billion in USDT on Tron with over 360 million user accounts on the blockchain. The network settles more than 22 billion in daily transaction volume. We are also seeing increasing participant for traditional financial institution.
For example, the PayPal USD stable coin are launching on Tron network and the Tron recently join Mascar crypto partner program and collaboration on scaling innovation and connecting blockchain technology with practical application for people around the world. Of course, building financial rails require collaboration across the entire system. That's why integration remains a central focus within Tron ecosystem.
Key integration including MetaMask base couch near Kraken Wally connect ledger WBTC and many more. All of the integration of Tron strengthen the infrastructure that supports a unified infrastructure. As infrastructure grow, trust and security become equally important. A unified financial system must be safe and responsible one. In September 2024, Tron Tether and TRM Labs launched a T3 financial crime unit or T3 FCU. And in a year, T3 FCU analyses millions of transaction globally,
monitoring more than $3 billion US dollars in total volume and support phrase of over 300 million USD in illicit assets across five continents. This milestone shows blockchain technology has power to protect as much as is in power. Finally, building the rails for a unified financial system requires investing in a next generation of builders.
Technology evolves quickly, but this is the people behind it who shape this future. Tron has expanded collaboration with blockchain club at Columbia Hover and D Mouse building on a early partnership with MIT, Princeton, Yale and UC Berkeley. Through this collaboration, we aiming to give students the tours, mentorship and opportunities needs to build next generation of decentralized application.
As we look ahead, the most important challenges is building the infrastructure that allows all parts of the financial system to work together. A unified financial system will combine the strength of traditional finance with openness and efficiency of blockchain network. It will support global payments, digital commerce, decentralized finance and new economy activities driven by technology like AI. And this transformation will be built not by a single company or a network. It will be built through collaboration.
Thank you.