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back in the day when doing TRON—Brother Sun didn’t go “chasing” apps, and he didn’t build the flashiest DApps. What he went after was a deeper, more foundational layer: the network where value can flow.
Who runs on top of it doesn’t matter. What matters is that as long as you’re on this chain, you can’t get around it.
In that cycle, what he took hold of was the infrastructure for “value transfer.”
Put it into the AI track: fundamentally, nothing changes—only the form of expression changes. Today, everyone is competing on model capability, but what truly bottlenecks the industry is actually a more basic issue: there are many models, but the entry points are fragmented. Accounts, calls, and payments are split apart, so you can’t independently complete a closed loop.
So you’ll find that no matter how strong AI is, at its core it’s still a tool.

1 / On top, do model aggregation—whoever is stronger gets used
2 / Below, add accounts and payments—so that “calling” becomes a closed loop
This structure is actually already very close to TRON’s playbook back then: it doesn’t define applications; it locks in the “path.”
Why is this called a “TRON moment”? The key is just one sentence: once you lock the indispensable path, growth is no longer linear.
Back then, as long as value flowed on-chain, it would go through TRON.
Now if
the logic is almost identical.
And Brother Sun directly lowered the barrier at the “usage layer,” very straightforwardly:
1 / New user credit limits are raised directly to 500,000 points
2 / Top-ups are matched 1:1—effectively cutting call costs in half
3 / On top of that, each user can receive up to a $100 subsidy
4 / There’s also a $10,000 daily subsidy pool being released
This isn’t storytelling. This is a hard push for usage. You might not agree with the long-term narrative, but it’s hard to refuse this cost structure—let you use it first, and then gradually understand what it’s doing.
So now, looking at it:
1 / In the short term, it’s a cheaper, more convenient AI entry point;
2 / In the long term, what it wants to lock is the entire layer of accounts, calls, and settlement.
So, calling this Brother Sun’s “TRON moment” isn’t because it has already achieved something.
It’s because the choice of positioning for this step is very similar to back then:
1 / Don’t go for the hottest layer
2 / Don’t compete on the most superficial capabilities
3 / Go straight for the position that’s hardest to replace
The rest is left to time.
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