PANews, June 20 – According to a report by Caixin, "Token export" is not yet a standard concept in regulatory documents or corporate annual reports, and no fully disclosed case has emerged in the public market that simultaneously covers both the "overseas clients calling Tokens from Chinese AI data centers" and "completing cross-border payment, clearing, and final settlement via central bank digital currency."

Discussions around cross-border payments using central bank digital currencies are gradually shifting from grand narratives of monetary sovereignty and international financial competition toward new scenarios with a more practical transaction basis. Among these, AI inference service "Token export" is seen as a potential key entry point — packaging model capabilities, computing power, electricity, data centers, and industry engineering capabilities into tradable AI service outputs. The core value of central bank digital currency lies in its "trusted settlement protocol" attributes, including the final settlement capability of central bank money, cross-border real-time clearing efficiency, programmable payment capabilities, multi-party automatic fund distribution mechanisms, and embedded regulatory visibility, which can be integrated with enterprise-grade AI service metering systems to achieve a closed-loop process from invocation and billing to clearing and settlement.