TRON Teams Up With Circle and JPMorgan in Linux Foundation AI Initiative

• TRON has joined the Agentic AI Foundation, established by the Linux Foundation to drive transparent development of agentic AI.
• It joins other global giants like Circle. Google, IBM, Bloomberg, Cloudflare, Microsoft, OpenAI and Amazon.

TRON DAO, the decentralized autonomous organization that governs TRON, has joined the Agentic AI Foundation as a gold member. It will also serve on the governing board.

The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) was launched by the Linux Foundation last December, with founding contributions from OpenAI, Block and Anthropic, who all contributed open-source agent technologies. Amazon, Bloomberg, Google and Cloudflare joined the three as platinum members, with gold members including IBM, Ericsson, Shopify, Cisco, SAP, Oracle and Salesforce.

Last month, Linux announced 97 new members to the Foundation, among them stablecoin company Circle, American Express, JPMorgan, Lenovo and Huawei.

TRON DAO is now joining this extensive list of companies, and it says the network’s scale and operational efficiency will provide the capacity required for all the members to operate high-frequency decentralized AI agents.

Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin commented:

TRON to Support Agentic AI Through Stablecoin Payments

The new membership aligns with TRON’s roadmap for 2026. As CNF reported, founder Justin Sun said the focus would “definitely be on AI,” and that the network would build infrastructure that is ‘AI-first.’

According to Sun, autonomous AI agents will require “open, reliable, and globally accessible infrastructure to operate securely at scale.” He added:

One of the key infrastructure needs for autonomous AI agents is payment rails. The agents need effective, high-throughput rails at low cost to make payments among themselves and to pay for access to APIs and other services. Traditional financial infrastructure is not built for this, as most platforms do not support micropayments, are slow and often charge unreasonable fees for small transactions.

Blockchain networks are vying to be the alternative, but since most cryptos are too volatile for such systems, stablecoins have emerged as the solution. This is where TRON has an edge over most networks, with Ethereum the only blockchain processing more stablecoin payments than its $22 billion daily volume.

The new membership comes just days after the US SEC dropped securities violations charges against the TRON Foundation and Sun. As CNF reported, Sun has threatened legal action against those criticizing the deal and smearing US authorities.