TLDR
- TRON expanded its AI Fund from $100 million to $1 billion.
- The fund targets early-stage agentic economy startups and acquisitions.
- TRON open-sourced Open Wallet Standard for local wallet storage and signing.
- OWS supports wallet access across EVM, Solana, Bitcoin, TRON, TON, and Cosmos.
- TRON said the fund backs identity, stablecoin rails, RWAs, and developer tools.
TRON has expanded its AI Fund from $100 million to $1 billion. The move targets startups and acquisitions in the agentic economy. The company said the fund will support infrastructure for AI agents that use blockchain-based finance.
The expanded fund will focus on agent identity systems, stablecoin payment rails, tokenized real-world assets, and developer tooling. TRON said the strategy follows its 2023 view that AI and blockchain would merge. That shift, it said, would increase demand for programmable and permissionless financial infrastructure.
Open Wallet Standard enters the stack
Alongside the fund update, TRON introduced the Open Wallet Standard, or OWS. It described OWS as a local-first wallet protocol for AI agents and developer tools. The standard is open source and built to support key storage, wallet management, and transaction signing across major blockchains.
TRON said OWS gives developers “one vault, one interface, every chain.” The company said the system is meant to reduce wallet fragmentation. It also aims to lower the risk tied to private keys stored in plain text files or environment variables.
The company said OWS is not a payment protocol. Instead, it sits under payment systems such as x402, MPP, and A2A. TRON said the wallet layer fills a gap because those systems define payments, but not wallet storage or key protection.
Local wallet model targets agent deployments
TRON said today’s agent builders often manage several keys across different chains. That can require separate libraries, formats, and signing methods. The company said this setup can increase the risk of leaks through logs, crash dumps, or software context windows.
OWS uses one BIP-39 seed phrase to derive accounts across chains. TRON said supported networks include EVM chains, Solana, Bitcoin, TRON, TON, and Cosmos. It added that the implementation uses a Rust core with Node and Python bindings.
The company said keys are encrypted with AES-256-GCM and a scrypt key derivation function. It said keys are decrypted only during signing, held in locked memory, and then erased. TRON presented this as a local model for systems that need fast signing without cloud delays.
Fund strategy follows growth in self-hosted AI
TRON linked the OWS launch to a wider move toward self-hosted AI agents. It said more agents now run on private machines, local systems, and VPS infrastructure. In that setup, the company said local wallet signing can work better than a remote service.
The firm argued that cloud wallet providers can add latency, outside trust dependencies, and transaction costs. By contrast, it said local signing keeps the private key, transaction hash, and signature process on the same machine. The only network step, it said, should be broadcasting the signed transaction.
TRON said wallet interoperability needs a shared format and a shared interface. It said a common standard could let tools move across wallets without exposing raw keys. With the AI Fund now at $1 billion, TRON is pairing capital with open wallet infrastructure for the agentic economy.
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