TRON DAO has launched a $1 billion artificial intelligence fund, expanding its investment in early-stage startups building the infrastructure for the agentic economy. The fund focuses on agent identity systems, stablecoin-based payment rails, tokenized real-world assets (RWA), and developer tooling for autonomous financial systems.
With over 370 million user accounts and $21 billion in daily transaction volume, TRON’s blockchain is positioned to support high-frequency AI agent interactions. Founder Justin Sun emphasized the need for fast, low-cost networks, citing TRON’s three-second confirmation time-faster than Ethereum’s 12 seconds-as ideal for machine-to-machine commerce.
The move follows Ethereum Foundation’s launch of the dAI Team, aiming to position Ethereum as a trust layer for AI coordination, while TRON targets speed and scalability for AI-driven transactions.