Alongside JPMorgan and OpenAI: TRON joins the AI Council under the Linux Foundation

Recently, TRON officially announced its membership as a Gold Member of the Agentic AI (AAIF) Council, hosted by the Linux Foundation, the world's largest open-source technology consortium, securing a seat in this core international organization. This marks another significant move by TRON in the AI field.

TRON founder Justin Sun expressed his excitement about TRON joining Agentic AI! TRON will continue to support and participate in building the next phase of this autonomous economic innovation. He also stated, "The next wave of digital payments will be driven by machines. We are ready to embrace it."

As a top global open-source technology hub that supports 90% of the world's cloud computing infrastructure, the Linux Foundation's AAIF Council has always been a focal point for tech giants. The council currently includes global fintech leaders such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, JPMorgan Chase, and Circle. TRON's move breaks through the boundaries of the Web3 industry and showcases a highly explosive new field: providing an irreplaceable open financial infrastructure for global AI autonomous agents.

The Necessity for Payment-focused Public Chains to Break Out

Looking at the current cryptocurrency market, an undeniable fact is emerging: the traditional narratives of Web3 have reached their end. Whether it was the once-boisterous "X-to-Earn," the heavily homogenized Layer 2 infrastructure wars, or the various token cycles competing for limited funds, none can provide substantial growth or imaginative space for the industry anymore. As the internal "pass-the-parcel" game hits a ceiling, both capital and developers are anxiously searching for the next breakthrough point that can carry trillion-level value.

It must be acknowledged that for a top public chain like TRON, which focuses on payment and settlement, relying solely on existing users within the crypto circle is no longer sufficient to match its vast infrastructure capacity. To achieve a true exponential leap in its ecosystem, TRON must "break out." It needs to attract a broader range of real users outside the circle, traditional Web2 companies, and even a future mass of intelligent machines, seamlessly integrating real-world business scenarios into the blockchain.

The artificial intelligence industry is the perfect bridge for TRON to achieve this strategic leap.

By 2026, artificial intelligence has transitioned from merely "conversational large models" to "Agentic AI." These AIs are no longer just tools for providing information; they can autonomously execute tasks, call services across platforms, and even engage in commercial negotiations and transactions with other AIs.

As thousands of AI agents work continuously in the digital world, they face a critical pain point: the traditional fiat financial system (like Visa, SWIFT) cannot support the massive, high-frequency, small-amount machine-to-machine (M2M) automated settlements between AI systems. AI needs a native, always-on, low-friction digital payment network. This is the true holy grail of blockchain.

Why TRON? Moat and Underlying Strength

Many public chains are also trying to ride the AI wave, but the vast majority remain stuck in the hype phase. TRON's ability to enter the AAIF Council under the Linux Foundation stems from its strong moat built over years in the payment field.

Currently, TRON has already become the world's largest stablecoin settlement layer. The network processes an average daily transaction volume of up to $22 billion, supporting a circulation of over $85.4 billion in USDT. TRON's average daily transaction volume has surpassed 8 million, with smart contract interactions centered around USDT contributing the majority of the activity, processing over 4.5 million settlement transactions daily. Compared to Ethereum's high fees, TRON has become the de facto "global digital payment railway."

For AI agents, they do not need volatile governance tokens for commercial settlements; they require stable fiat equivalents pegged to the dollar. TRON is the largest reservoir of digital dollars.

TRON has maintained nearly 100% uptime since its launch, and during several extreme market fluctuations in 2025 that caused congestion in public chains, TRON was one of the few that maintained second-level confirmations and zero downtime. Moreover, for AI agents, single small-amount M2M transactions are frequent and sensitive. TRON's mechanism of "Staking for Free Transactions" allows enterprise-level AI applications to complete massive concurrent transactions at low or even zero cost.

Justin Sun has recently stated that TRON's core development focus for 2026 is AI. TRON's high concurrency processing capability and minimal transaction fees are inherently tailored for the continuous high-frequency microtransactions of AI agents.

At the same time, with the recent formal dismissal of all charges against Justin Sun and the TRON Foundation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), TRON has completely shed its historical burdens. This has further cleared the biggest obstacle for TRON to engage in deep, compliant cooperation with traditional financial giants and top global AI institutions.

Reshaping the Valuation Model: From "Crypto Payment Channel" to "AI Economic Hub"

TRON's entry into the Agentic AI Council is not just a simple PR collaboration but a strategic anchor point for its entry into the next generation of internet infrastructure standards. As a council member, TRON will directly participate in establishing global shared standards for how AI agents interact with digital financial infrastructure.

This will completely overturn the traditional valuation model of TRON in the eyes of the public. While other public chains are still fighting for a few million "real human users," TRON has already set its sights on the future billions of tireless, 24/7 operating AI agents. In the future, once AI agents begin to autonomously pay API call fees, purchase computing power, and engage in cross-platform arbitrage, the number of transactions and the speed of capital flow on the TRON network will experience exponential growth.

The outdated Web3 narrative has come to an end, and TRON is poised to complete a magnificent upgrade by leveraging its absolute dominance in stablecoin settlements, combined with the historic opportunity of the explosive growth of AI autonomous agents. TRON is opening a new upward channel with limitless market value and ecological potential, officially becoming the "financial-grade API" for humanity's transition to the AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) era.