- Justin Sun has revealed that developing AI infrastructure is the top priority for the TRON network in 2026.
- Sun singled out AI NFT as one of the pioneers, giving users a Web3 gateway to AI.
Artificial intelligence will feature prominently on this year’s roadmap for the TRON network, founder Justin Sun has revealed.
“I think this year, our focus is definitely on AI. Right now, we’re thinking very seriously about how to build infrastructure for AI first,” Sun stated in a recent interview shared by the TRON DAO. AI has become foundational to how digital systems operate and transact, the DAO added.
“TRON’s focus for 2026 is definitely on AI.” — H.E. @justinsuntron
AI is no longer optional infrastructure. It’s becoming foundational to how digital systems operate and transact.
🧵👇 pic.twitter.com/W2NZ2EVfKp
— TRON DAO (@trondao) February 27, 2026
The DAO says that today, users can rely on TRON to get access to the global AI infrastructure. The network supports high-volume payments globally as the second-largest stablecoin network after Ethereum. Combined, the two networks control over 80% of the stablecoin market.
The DAO says that this matters since AI agents require predictable and scalable transaction rails.
With agentic AI commerce in sharp focus in recent years, stablecoins have gained prominence as the best tokens to power this high-volume and high-throughput use case. Some networks like Polygon are burning up to $1 million in gas fees from agentic commerce, as we reported, with others like Sui positioning its network as the most suited for agentic transactions due to its native full-stack execution platform.
AI Agents on TRON
Sun has been vocal about the impact that AI will have, in crypto and beyond. Responding to the news that Jack Dorsey’s Block was laying off nearly half its staff due to AI alignment, he stated:
“This isn’t a cycle. It’s a rebuild. AI is becoming the new operating layer. TRON is built for scale and real-world usage.”
Sun identified AINFT as the pioneer of artificial intelligence in the TRON ecosystem. Originally built as APENFT, AINFT gives NFTs AI capabilities, moving them from plain JPEGs to interactive agents that can chat, make decisions and execute.
But while Sun has been pushing AINFT, the platform has failed to attract investors. Over the past seven days, its marketplace shows that it has only moved 140 TRX across just two collections. With TRX trading at $0.2795, that’s an average of $5.6 daily in trading volume over the past week, an underwhelming return for the network’s premier AI project.
Still, Sun remains bullish on AI. At the Consensus Conference in Hong Kong earlier in February, he stated that he is working on Web 4.0, which fuses AI with the TRON blockchain.
While products like AINFT have not been a success, TRON continues to record massive transaction numbers. In the last quarter of last year, the network processed 994 million transactions, a 16.5% increase from the previous quarter, data from Lookonchain shows.
Tron processed 994M transactions in Q4 2025, up 16.5% QoQ.
Daily transactions peaked at over 12.6M on October 28.https://t.co/kLGWAwmlA8 pic.twitter.com/OK4PuLVHUN
— Lookonchain (@lookonchain) February 25, 2026
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