Sun Yuchen Interviewed by Hurun Rich List: The New Order of Value Flow and Certainty in the Cycle of Transformation

TRON Founder Justin Sun Recently Interviewed by Hurun Rich List, Delving Deep into Web3 Development Trends
(Background: Heated Debate at the Hong Kong Web3 Carnival: Justin Sun Predicts AI May Crack Bitcoin by 2029; TRON Is Racing Ahead on Quantum Blockchain)
(Additional context: TRON Has Joined the Linux Foundation’s AI Council, Working Alongside JPMorgan and OpenAI)

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Against the backdrop of the Web3 industry entering deeper waters and the acceleration of restructuring in global financial infrastructure, blockchain is shifting from early exploration to large-scale application. As a well-known authority with extensive influence in business and investment, the in-depth interview with renowned magazine Hurun Rich List is seen as an important industry barometer. Recently, during an interview with Hurun Rich List, TRON founder Justin Sun systematically discussed key topics including stablecoin payments, global expansion paths, and AI convergence trends—sharing his judgment on industry evolution and long-term value. His views also reflect a crucial phase in which Web3 infrastructure is moving from “feasibility validation” toward “global mainstream adoption.”

Stablecoins Build a Global Value Circulation Network, and Web3 Infrastructure Enters a Scaling Stage

In the Hurun Rich List interview, Justin Sun summarized his long-term core goal in extremely concise terms: “To enable anyone in the world—no matter where they are, and whether or not they have a bank account—to transfer and use their own funds at low cost and with high efficiency.” This statement fundamentally reveals the essence of value in blockchain technology—building an open and inclusive value internet.

He further pointed out that after multiple bull-and-bear cycles in the blockchain industry, projects that can truly outlast the cycles must be built on real demand and actual usage. The continuous growth of the number of on-chain users and transaction volume is an important basis for his assessment of industry direction. Against this backdrop, on-chain payment systems centered on stablecoins have become the most mature application scenario today, with the capability to scale.

In the Hurun Rich List interview, Justin Sun mentioned that TRON has developed, in a short period of time, into one of the largest stablecoin circulation networks globally. The scale of its on-chain asset transfers has even surpassed that of some traditional payment networks. This growth is not driven by short-term market sentiment, but by the sustained usage by real users in scenarios such as cross-border remittances, value storage, and daily payments. Official data shows that the circulating USDT on TRON currently exceeds 863 hundred million USD (i.e., more than $86.3 billion). This scale reflects strong network effects driven by genuine user demand.

From a structural advantage perspective, the scaling of stablecoin payments benefits from two factors: on the one hand, blockchain networks are open and permissionless, enabling coverage of user groups that traditional financial systems struggle to reach; on the other hand, the limitations of traditional cross-border payment systems in terms of efficiency, cost, and user experience create significant room for replacement by new-generation infrastructure. Justin Sun believes that this trend is essentially a “natural replacement” of existing financial systems brought about by technological progress, rather than short-term competition.

Globalization Strategy and Technology Integration Move Forward Together, Building Long-Term Competitive Advantages for Web3

When discussing corporate growth and strategic decision-making, Justin Sun proposed a highly systematic methodology in the Hurun Rich List interview. He summarized the key success elements as “a combination of data-driven iteration, fast execution, and user orientation,” and emphasized that in a rapidly changing technological environment, capabilities in a single dimension can no longer support long-term competitiveness. High-efficiency experimentation and precise decision-making must be achieved through the synergy of all three.

At the organizational level, he proposed a management framework of “clear direction, tiered support, and a sense of ownership across the entire team,” to prevent deviation and loss of control during rapid expansion. Such an organization structure that emphasizes flatness and agility is considered an important foundation for Web3 companies to maintain competitiveness in highly uncertain environments.

For specific key strategic decisions, Justin Sun, in the Hurun Rich List interview, looked back on the case of TRON’s partnership with Tether to launch TRC-20 USDT. He said that this decision was based on a comprehensive assessment of market trends, the competitive landscape, and the risk-reward ratio: stablecoins are a long-term trend in the evolution of the financial system; leading assets have significant network effects; and the upside potential in this area is far greater than the potential risks. In practice, this partnership has proven to become an important growth engine for the TRON ecosystem and has helped establish its core competitive moat in the stablecoin domain.

In terms of global expansion, Justin Sun emphasized that although Web3 naturally has cross-border attributes, real-world applications still highly depend on local regulatory compliance and cultural fit. In the Hurun Rich List interview, he pointed out that different markets differ significantly in regulatory frameworks, user habits, and business environments. Whether a project can succeed often depends on how deeply it understands these differences and its ability to build local partnership networks.

In addition, Justin Sun also expressed a clear judgment on the development of AI technology. In the interview, he said AI is not merely a simple tool upgrade, but a reconstruction of “thinking and decision-making capabilities.” The integration of AI with blockchain in terms of data, computing power, and intelligent execution will become an important direction for the next stage of technological evolution. Blockchain provides decentralized infrastructure for AI, while AI enhances the intelligence and user experience of blockchain systems. The integration of the two has long-term strategic value.

For industry participants and young entrepreneurs, Justin Sun’s core advice in the Hurun Rich List interview is: in a highly uncertain environment, continuous learning and rapid adaptation are the most critical capabilities. At the same time, based on an understanding of the industry as a whole, one should focus investment and build an irreplaceable core advantage—rather than dispersing resources across multiple fields.

From early technology validation and market exploration, gradually moving into the scaling application stage represented by stablecoins, and extending into AI integration and global compliant deployment—through infrastructure capabilities, global strategies, and forward-looking technology positioning, TRON is continuously advancing the realization and evolution of the value internet.

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