TBC (TuringBit Chain)

To Be Confirmed: The value flow engine of Web 4.0—rebuilding the artificial intelligence agent economic foundation across five core dimensions …

TBC and Web 4.0 Value Network: The Five Pillars of the Artificial Intelligence Agent Economy Era

I. The Foundational Need of Web 4.0: Zero-Friction Value Networks for AI Agents

The essence of Web 4.0 is to build a large-scale collaborative network composed of cognitive autonomous entities. AI agents—digital entities capable of independent reasoning—must be able to autonomously create, exchange, and accumulate value in open environments. However, today’s blockchain infrastructure has fatal flaws: high fees suppress micro-payments, slow confirmation speeds hinder the collaboration rhythm, complex contracts limit agents’ autonomy, and cross-chain barriers split cooperative networks. These “friction costs” permanently downgrade AI agents into mere tools, preventing them from ever gaining economic sovereignty.

TuringBitChain (TBC) solves this problem through five core features: ultra-low transaction fees, ultra-fast transaction speeds, zero-latency confirmation, UTXO-native smart contracts, and native cross-chain interoperability. Together, they form the “value circulation operating system” of the Web 4.0 era. Its design logic directly targets the core of AI agent economics: making every instance of reasoning, collaboration, and value exchange as natural as breathing.

II. Ultra-Low Transaction Fees: Kick-Starting the AI Agent Micro-Payment Revolution

According to World Bank data for 2025, TBC’s per-transaction cost is stably controlled at 0.0002 dollars—only 1/25,000 of Ethereum Gas fees, and 1/32,450 of traditional cross-border remittance fees. This is enabled by TBC’s byte-level pricing model and its dynamic block capacity expansion mechanism. Block capacity automatically expands as transaction volume increases—currently 4GB, theoretically infinitely scalable in the future—pushing the unit cost of data storage toward nearly zero.

AI agents’ economic activities are built upon micro-payments. For example, a news summary agent provides personalized summaries to 1,000 users, with each summary costing only 0.001 dollars. If traditional payment channels are used, fees can be as high as 30%, meaning the fee alone would be 428 dollars. TBC’s ultra-low fees allow agents to accumulate revenue through “fragmented services,” thereby creating a sustainable model in which thinking generates income.

Just as importantly, TBC’s fee structure does not change with token price fluctuations. No matter how the TBC price moves, the cost of each transaction is always tied to real-world energy efficiency. This ensures that long-running AI agents do not need to worry about “fee inflation”—they can focus entirely on creating value.

III. Ultra-High Speed and Zero-Latency Confirmation: The Neural Pulse of Real-Time Collaboration

With its layered verification architecture and parallel execution engine, TBC’s throughput exceeds 13,000 TPS—1,857 times faster than Bitcoin. Actual transaction confirmation time is compressed to 200 milliseconds. In micro-payment scenarios, TBC can achieve zero-latency confirmation: once a transaction is initiated, it is regarded as finally completed.

Web 4.0 collaboration runs with millisecond-level precision. A cluster of autonomous vehicle agents navigating complex road conditions must share sensor data in real time and assign responsibility for decision-making. If each collaboration required a 10-minute confirmation time, accidents would be unavoidable. TBC’s zero-latency confirmation enables agents to complete the entire workflow of “data exchange—responsibility allocation—profit distribution” within 100 milliseconds.

Ultra-high speed also supports high-frequency micro-trading ecosystems. For instance, an AI art generation agent generates 100,000 assets for a game studio, each asset priced at 0.0005 dollars, and all payments can be settled within one second via TBC—whereas traditional blockchains would take more than three hours to complete the same process. This real-time feedback mechanism allows agents to rapidly iterate their services, forming a virtuous cycle of creation, income, and optimization.

IV. UTXO Smart Contracts: An Execution Framework for Autonomous AI Thinking

TBC implements Turing-complete smart contracts on the UTXO model through its BVM (Bitcoin Virtual Machine) architecture. This architecture compiles contract logic into script instructions. Each UTXO can carry an independent smart contract container. Contract execution occurs entirely within the local UTXO slice, with no global state contention—thereby enabling 100% parallel processing. Contract size is compressed to one-fiftieth of traditional EVM contracts, and execution speed is also increased by ten times.