Hong Kong Web3 Carnival Debate: Sun Yuchen predicts that AI may crack Bitcoin by 2029, TRON rushes ahead with post-quantum blockchain

On April 21, during the roundtable discussion "Discussing Annual Star Applications: Open Claw, Prediction Markets, Dex, and Others" at the Hong Kong Web3 Carnival main venue, TRON founder Justin Sun shared a series of insights, providing forward-looking judgments on topics such as AI Agents, blockchain infrastructure, stablecoin security, and post-quantum encryption.

The roundtable was hosted by YQ Jia, founder of AltLayer, and featured heavyweight guests including Peter H.K. Koh, Executive Director and CEO of Oceanus Group, Nina Rong, Growth Executive Director of BNB Chain, Chef Kids, CEO of PancakeSwap, and SungMo Park, head of a16z Asia Pacific, with a full house in attendance.

Throughout the discussion, Justin Sun emphasized the core narrative that "blockchain is born for AI," outlining the complete product matrix of B.AI from the cloud to the "brain," while pushing topics like post-quantum encryption, AI governance, and the Agent economy to the forefront of the industry agenda. At this pivotal moment as AGI approaches and quantum impacts are anticipated, the strategic urgency and acceleration demonstrated by Justin Sun and the TRON ecosystem are becoming an undeniable force in the global Web3 industry.

"Blockchain is the Infrastructure Born for AI": Justin Sun Unveils the B.AI Strategic Blueprint

In response to the host's first question, Justin Sun clearly stated: the combination of AI and blockchain remains the greatest opportunity both now and in the future.

He approached the topic from a highly insightful angle: AI cannot open human bank accounts, thus blockchain is the only viable path for payments, settlements, and collaborations between AI Agents.

"In this sense, blockchain is essentially the launch engine prepared for AI. Everything we build today appears to be for humans, but in reality, it serves AI," Justin Sun emphasized.

Based on this judgment, the B.AI that Justin Sun founded is building a two-way bridge connecting AI and blockchain: on the AI side, it integrates mainstream global large models such as Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, Kimi, and MiniMax; on the blockchain side, it connects all mainstream EVM networks including BNB Chain, Tron, Ethereum, and Arbitrum.

He candidly stated that the era of Chatbots has ended, and the era of Agents is beginning, with the key question being how to enable AI to "achieve 100% or even 1000% output with just 1% input."

Redefining "Nation": Hundreds of Billions of Agents Will Rewrite National Power Dynamics

Justin Sun shared his recent experiences from a visit to Kyrgyzstan during the roundtable. He expressed a bold viewpoint to the President of Kyrgyzstan: the future concept of "nation" will be completely reshaped by AI.

"Today, the standard for measuring a nation is population and territory, but in the future, a small country with only one million people, if it has hundreds of billions of AI Agents continuously working for it, could become the largest country in the world. Conversely, even a country with three hundred million people could become a small nation if it lacks AI computing power," Justin Sun urged that every country should take the trend of AI seriously, as AI now has the capability to complete a large number of complex tasks and may even crack Bitcoin by 2029.

Upcoming Release of B.AI Brain: Allowing Everyone to Have a "Clonable Brain"

When discussing the rollout pace of B.AI, Justin Sun revealed for the first time in a public setting that B.AI Brain is about to be officially launched. This product allows users to clone their own "brain" and overlay any large language model (such as Kimi, Claude, etc.) to handle various tasks. Justin Sun himself will be the first tester, followed by opening it to all users.

In terms of security architecture, B.AI Brain ensures the privacy of user data through on-chain address signature verification, allowing only the authorized user to access their "brain" data. "In the future, people will want to use their own brain combined with large models to decide what they should do. This will be revolutionary."

At the same time, he issued a security warning to the industry: "In the past, hackers targeted your wallet; in the future, hackers will target your brain."

Recent theft incidents in the crypto industry worth hundreds of millions of dollars are still occurring, and if users improperly authorize AI in the future, the risk of brain-level invasions cannot be underestimated.

Dialoguing in the AGI Era: The History of DeFi is Replaying in the AI Track

In response to the host's question about whether the next generation of crypto users will be Agents, Justin Sun provided a more radical judgment: the progress of AGI is far beyond expectations and could likely be achieved next year. He believes that the current combination of crypto and AI is akin to the scene five years ago when DeFi was born, at which time hackers were rampant, but the industry still chose to move forward resolutely, ultimately giving rise to a DeFi ecosystem worth $200 billion.

"In the future, users will increasingly authorize AI to execute transactions and manage assets. Methods to attack AI will inevitably emerge, and risks are unavoidable. But at the same time, a person who truly knows how to use AI can accomplish work equivalent to 100 times what was done in the past."

Justin Sun also shared an interesting internal management practice: his company has begun tracking the daily Token consumption data of each employee to analyze work efficiency and AI usage patterns, helping the team learn to call AI more efficiently. "If an employee consumes one hundred million Tokens a day, they are either highly productive or stuck in a bug, and the data will tell us the truth."

Security Boundaries: Open Source Innovation Belongs to GitHub, Scalable Services Belong to the Cloud

When asked how to ensure the safety and accountability of Agents in the AGI era, Justin Sun proposed a clear layered architecture: "Innovation always happens on GitHub, but real commercial services must run in the cloud."

He pointed out that open-source solutions like Open Claw are essentially sandbox environments suitable for developers to explore freely; however, production-level services aimed at consumers and enterprises must be cloud-hosted, data-encrypted, and address-level permission-verified architectures. B.AI Cloud is built on this concept, providing AI × blockchain cloud services that are cheaper and faster than AWS while ensuring data cannot be accessed without authorization.

The Endgame of Stablecoins: Post-Quantum is the Next Competition

In response to Peter H.K. Koh from the traditional finance world regarding the future of stablecoins, Justin Sun revealed TRON's latest strategic direction, fully promoting the on-chain implementation of NIST post-quantum encryption standards, vying for the title of "the world's first post-quantum blockchain."

He disclosed that the current asset scale on the TRON chain is approximately $190 billion, and protecting these assets by completing encryption upgrades before AI computing power goes out of control is the top priority.

"Google's research paper provides a conservative timeline: by 2035, quantum technology could break Bitcoin. But if AI continues to accelerate, this day could come as soon as next year. We have only three years left, and we must quickly deploy post-quantum technology on-chain."

Justin Sun stated that he is a firm believer in technological accelerationism—pushing for the implementation of post-quantum NIST standards while using stablecoins to release the freedom of AI Agents, constructing a trinity architecture of "stablecoin security, blockchain security, and Agent security."

2026 Betting: AI, B.AI, and Claude

When the host asked each guest to predict "the star application direction in the next year and a half," Justin Sun provided three keywords: AI, B.AI, Claude.

He highly praised the iteration speed of Claude, stating, "Every new version release could cause competitors' stock prices to drop by 20%; this is the true power of AI." He believes the market has not overreacted and has truly underestimated the pace of AI development. "AI is running faster than anyone imagines, which is why future predictions are so difficult."