Justin Sun’s core AI strategy ‘AINFT’… set to lead the era of agent finance

On-chain finance rises as the agent economy spreads

TRON-based AI platform ‘AINFT’ in the spotlight

Emerging as next-generation digital economy infrastructure

“An era is coming in which AI agents trade directly and carry out financial activities. AINFT will create a new digital economy as the AI-and-blockchain convergence era unfolds.”

Justin Sun (pictured), founder of TRON, said this while introducing TRON-based AI infrastructure project ‘AINFT’ at Consensus 2026 held in Hong Kong last month. He projected that as AI agents emerge as key economic actors, blockchain networks will come to serve as a new layer of financial infrastructure.

Sun in particular stressed that the TRON network could become core infrastructure for an AI on-chain finance ecosystem. “The combination of AI technology and blockchain will create a new digital economic structure,” he said, adding, “We are placing the TRON-based AI infrastructure project AINFT at the center of this strategy.”

As AI advances, the internet’s user structure is also changing. In an internet environment once centered on humans, AI agents are emerging as new economic actors. Against this backdrop, Sun has laid out a strategy to realize on the TRON network a digital economy in which AI itself executes trades and financial activities.

‘AINFT’, the core platform of TRON’s AI strategy

AINFT is an AI-agent infrastructure platform designed to enable AI agents to interact directly with blockchain networks. According to its white paper, AINFT provides a foundational environment that allows AI agents to use various services and applications via blockchain wallets.

AINFT explained that it “supports AI agents in interacting with various services based on blockchain wallets,” adding that “through this, AI can expand beyond a simple program into a new digital actor active in the blockchain economy.”

In this process, a non-fungible token (NFT)-based asset structure is also used. It supports issuing or managing AI agents in NFT form so that ownership and activity records can be stored on-chain.

Sun also underscored the shift. “AI agents will use a range of digital services through AINFT and interact directly with blockchain networks,” he said, adding that “the combination of AI and Web3 can create a new internet economic structure.”

Agent finance infrastructure ‘Bank of AI’

AINFT is pushing to expand on-chain financial functions through ‘Bank of AI,’ an AI-agent-based financial infrastructure unveiled last month.

On its official Medium channel on the 22nd (local time), AINFT said, “Bank of AI is financial infrastructure designed to enable AI agents to participate in on-chain financial activities,” adding that it “builds an environment in which AI can autonomously manage assets and execute transactions.”

Bank of AI is designed to perform a range of financial functions based on AI agents’ wallets and a payments system. The core is to build an environment where AI can hold digital assets and carry out payments and transactions.

To build AI-agent infrastructure, AINFT combined multiple technical architectures: the x402 protocol supporting AI payments; the 8004 system managing AI agents’ on-chain identity; and MCP (Model Context Protocol), which connects AI models with blockchain services—enabling agents to engage directly in on-chain economic activity.

AINFT emphasized that it was “designed so AI agents can carry out payments, transactions, and DeFi activities on blockchain networks,” adding that “on this basis, AI agents can expand from simple command-execution tools into full participants in the on-chain economy.”

TRON aims to become AI on-chain finance infrastructure

Sun is positioning the TRON network as the foundational infrastructure for an AI-agent financial framework. He said, “We aim for TRON to become the hub for AI-based on-chain financial applications.”

Because countless transactions can occur when AI purchases data or pays service fees, fast and low-cost blockchain infrastructure is essential. TRON is characterized by high transaction throughput and low fees. It is already used as a global stablecoin payments network and has posted high transaction volume.

Analysts also note that these characteristics align with an environment in which AI agents execute transactions frequently—one reason interest is growing in TRON’s role if AI-agent-based on-chain activity expands.

Lee Young-min, Bloomingbit reporter 20min@bloomingbit.io