Dialogue with Sun Yuchen: B.AI and its underlying AGI ambitions, why is financial infrastructure the key piece in the evolution of AI Agents?

On April 9, the heavyweight AI project B.AI (Chinese brand name: 白B.AI), with TRON founder H.E. Justin Sun serving as strategic advisor, officially launched and held its first X Space event simultaneously.

In the themed dialogue "B.AI Official Launch," B.AI showcased its core infrastructure to the industry. By integrating three major product pillars: the BAIClaw intelligent AI assistant, LLM top model intelligent routing, and the AI Agent on-chain financial operating system, it achieved a complete underlying financial infrastructure for AI Agents.

This Space attracted attention from the entire industry. Mr. Justin Sun, founder of TRON, was invited to attend and engaged in deep discussions with representatives from mainstream media such as TechFlow, ChainCatcher, Planet Daily, and MetaEra, as well as several leading industry KOLs. All parties reached a high consensus during the exchange: B.AI is using underlying financial infrastructure as an entry point to reconstruct the "rules of survival" for AI Agents, thereby creating a core engine to accelerate the arrival of AGI.

Dialogue with Justin Sun: Why does AGI need to achieve economic sovereignty for AI Agents?

Looking at the current AI landscape, OpenClaw is booming, and the public's enthusiasm for shrimp farming has surged. The focus of AI capabilities has shifted from "the explosion of large models" to "the landing of AI Agents." However, behind this flourishing scene, a long-ignored structural contradiction is surfacing: AI Agents, which already possess "super brains," lack accounts, cannot make autonomous payments, and cannot access the existing closed financial system. This lack of financial operational capability confines AI to the "dialogue box," preventing it from truly entering the real economic cycle.

In this Space, Justin Sun, founder of TRON and strategic advisor of B.AI, pointed out the biggest pain point in the current AI landscape: AI without independent accounts and autonomous payment capabilities is essentially still a tool that heavily relies on human "blood supply." Once humans stop paying for its computing power, its operation will immediately come to a halt. To break this limitation of traditional financial gateways, B.AI officially launched with a clear mission: to become the underlying economic engine for the evolution of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence).

• Core Narrative: Granting AI economic sovereignty is the "key puzzle" for the evolution of AI Agents

In Justin Sun's view, the combination of blockchain and AI is a necessity for giving AI autonomous vitality. Discussing the evolution path of AGI, he pointed out that every technological explosion in the AI era is essentially accompanied by "granting AI more autonomy."

He vividly compared this process to the four stages of parenting: the first stage is the earliest Chatbot era, where AI can only provide passive responses based on input; the second stage is the AI Agent era, where AI Agents are granted certain permissions and trust, enabling them to help humans complete specific tasks like "BAIClaw"; the third stage is the Harness (rules control) stage, where humans only need to define a "cannot do" red line, and all decisions within that red line are fully handled by AI Agents autonomously. The launch of B.AI marks the opening of the crucial fourth stage: unlocking the economic sovereignty of AI Agents, establishing accounts for them, and granting payment and settlement capabilities.

Justin Sun further emphasized: "If the intelligent entities of the AGI era cannot have their own independent accounts and cannot pay for computing power themselves, what is the meaning of their 'conscious awakening'?" The birth of B.AI is precisely to cut the "financial umbilical cord" that hinders AI evolution. Through the B.AI infrastructure, intelligent entities in the digital world can not only write code and produce daily reports but also recharge themselves, purchase computing power across platforms, and even hire other AI Agents to collaborate. When silicon-based beings can operate independently from the carbon-based economic system, the comprehensive explosion of AGI will truly have the soil of reality.

• B.AI's Three Major Product Pillars Launched

Grand narratives cannot be separated from hardcore technological implementation. At the Space event, Justin Sun first unveiled the "banquet-style" product matrix that B.AI launched upon going live:

1. One-stop Token Hub (LLM Intelligent Routing): In this era of "thousands of models dancing together," B.AI has created a super intelligent routing system that supports users in accessing top AI resources globally. Currently, B.AI fully supports top global models such as GPT-5, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Kimi. By introducing the x402 payment protocol, B.AI can also support AI Agents in automatically purchasing the required Tokens (tokens). Justin Sun made a forward-looking judgment here, stating that in the future, measuring the economic strength of an entity or even a country may no longer be traditional GDP, but rather the number of Tokens consumed and produced daily. B.AI will become the core engine driving this vast economic system.

2. Ultimate Security for Privacy and Frictionless Access: B.AI relies on top security backgrounds, connecting the dual account systems of Web2 and Web3. To minimize the usage threshold and enhance access convenience, the platform supports one-click quick login with Google accounts. For users and developers who prioritize extreme privacy, B.AI supports one-click anonymous login through mainstream crypto wallets such as TronLink, MetaMask, and OKX Wallet. At the same time, the platform offers a mechanism where new users receive 100,000 free points upon registration, achieving a true "pay after use, seamless experience."

3. Full-stack AI Agent Financial Operating System: Justin Sun pointed out in the discussion that entering the AI Agent era is fundamentally about "granting intelligent entities real permissions and execution power." To achieve this goal, B.AI not only provides underlying computing power routing but also directly connects financial operational capabilities for AI Agents from the protocol layer to the application layer.

At the level of underlying protocols and expansion components, B.AI integrates multiple modules such as the x402 payment protocol, 8004 identity authentication protocol, MCP Server, Skills, and OpenClaw Extension, supporting developers in ultra-simple deployment, quickly granting AI Agents financial settlement and identity verification capabilities. As a benchmark for this capability implementation, the flagship application product BAIClaw maximizes the autonomy of AI Agents. It not only supports real-time switching of top global models but also, through a unique intelligent routing network, supports multi-agent collaboration and independent memory management. More importantly, BAIClaw can connect to six major mainstream communication tools such as Telegram and Discord, achieving 24/7 automated hosting. Relying on over 55 built-in Skills, users do not need to understand any contract code; with just natural language commands, BAIClaw can automatically complete complex financial operations such as DEX exchanges, contract trading, and multi-signature management in the background.

Justin Sun revealed on-site that in addition to the already launched BAIClaw, BAICode, designed specifically for developers, will also be launched soon, further perfecting the full-stack AI Agent ecosystem.

Media Q&A: From Underlying Settlement to Business Closed Loop, Multi-dimensional Breakdown of B.AI's Core Barriers

From forward-looking strategic planning to the landing of real business scenarios, B.AI has demonstrated disruptive underlying potential. However, as a brand new "financial infrastructure" track, what exactly are B.AI's core competitiveness and business barriers? At the Space event, four leading media outlets, TechFlow, ChainCatcher, Planet Daily, and MetaEra, representing the industry's most keen observers, posed direct and hard-hitting questions to Justin Sun.

1. TechFlow: You mentioned in your vision that you want to "accelerate the comprehensive birth of AGI," which is a very grand macro narrative. But at the micro operational level, B.AI chooses to start from "payment settlement" and "identity standards." Do you believe that AGI cannot evolve within the traditional closed financial system?

Justin Sun: Personally, I believe that using blockchain for the economic model of AI is definitely better now. This is similar to the logic of traditional import and export trade; it's just that in the AI era, future major power games or commercial exports may no longer be physical goods but Tokens. When the productivity of the entire world begins to be measured by "how many Tokens have been consumed," this massive and borderless computing power trade based on the internet will require a most primitive, borderless infrastructure.

From this perspective, blockchain will become the simplest and possibly the only Token export and settlement tool. B.AI's entry through payments aims to establish a low-cost, instantaneous, and global computing power payment settlement model. As long as we build this underlying settlement network well, it will not only greatly assist the arrival of AGI, but the productivity improvements it brings will also present geometric growth.

2. ChainCatcher: There is currently a certain "narrative fatigue" in the market regarding AI Agents. People may question what verifiable capabilities or data B.AI has to prove that this is not just a vision?

Justin Sun: Frankly speaking, most current AIs are indeed still at the stage of improving work efficiency, but this is precisely the significance of B.AI's early layout of the underlying infrastructure. B.AI is not a concept that remains on paper; it is already a resource hub that has run through the business closed loop. The verifiable actual capability of B.AI is that it provides a very simple model calling method and has also opened up a frictionless Token payment system. Additionally, B.AI has empowered AI Agents themselves by providing very simple underlying calling and deployment methods, allowing these intelligent entities to truly run and play a role on the platform. B.AI's core positioning is to build a very simple calling infrastructure well, thereby preemptively positioning itself to become the hub and settlement center for future Token trade.

3. MetaEra: In the future, if large model companies like OpenAI connect their own payment capabilities or even directly create a financial system for AI Agents, where will B.AI's long-term competitive barriers lie?

Justin Sun: Let large model companies compete on parameters; B.AI only does the "last mile" for the entire industry. First of all, B.AI has a natural advantage in payment genes. TRON itself is one of the largest blockchain settlement systems globally, and we are entering the AI track from the settlement layer we are best at. Compared to traditional large model vendors building settlement networks from scratch, B.AI has deep infrastructure advantages. Even if large model vendors really want to connect on-chain payments in the future, B.AI welcomes it because, from a bottom logic perspective, they are likely still calling and using underlying settlement infrastructures similar to B.AI.

On the other hand, there is a certain inevitability in industry division of labor. Even giants like OpenAI cannot cover everything; the recent shutdown of the Sora (video generation tool) business precisely confirms this commercial reality. Large model companies must focus most of their energy on enhancing the foundational capabilities of models and the "involution" of computing speed; they have no time or energy to manage the vast and complex peripheral ecosystem like underlying payments and settlement networks.

In fact, B.AI and large model companies are not in a competitive relationship but rather empower each other. Model companies are responsible for producing intelligence with focus, while B.AI acts as a bridge for distribution and settlement, distributing Tokens of these top computing powers to global developers and users at a larger scale and better cost. The inclusiveness of this ecosystem and professional settlement capabilities are B.AI's unshakeable long-term barriers.

4. Planet Daily: In the long run, as "AI Agent financial infrastructure," what will be B.AI's core business model? Will the revenue sources lean more towards API calls, payment channels, or the network effects of the AI Agent ecosystem itself?

Justin Sun: Our business model is very clear and direct. Just like exchanges earn transaction fees, B.AI primarily profits through the Token price difference from API calls and a small amount of fees (currently about 5%). It is important to emphasize that for ordinary developers and users, using the B.AI channel will not be more expensive; it may even be cheaper. Because B.AI, with its huge throughput, can obtain extremely low wholesale discounts from model vendors. At the same time, the upper-layer AI Agent products provided by the B.AI platform, including BAIClaw, are all free and open, further expanding the underlying API call flow through the feedback of these tool ecosystems, forming an unbreakable commercial flywheel.

Conclusion

Computing power determines the IQ ceiling of AI, while financial infrastructure defines the survival boundaries of AI Agents. As Justin Sun said, B.AI does not intend to compete with giants for the "strongest brain," but is focused on laying the "financial highway" to the AGI era. When intelligent entities in the digital world truly possess complete financial operational capabilities, and when borderless Token trade flows frictionlessly on this underlying hub, a new era of digital economy driven by AI Agents has already begun.