{"id":360548,"date":"2026-03-23T07:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/360548\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T07:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:39:09","slug":"what-is-tokenomics-and-how-would-china-gain-the-edge-in-artificial-intelligence-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/360548\/","title":{"rendered":"What is \u2018tokenomics\u2019 and how would China gain the edge in artificial intelligence era?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTokens are the new commodity,\u201d said Nvidia CEO <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3347427\/nvidias-huang-calls-china-formidable-robotics-company-bets-physical-ai?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jensen Huang<\/a>, clad in his iconic leather jacket, at the company\u2019s annual flagship developer conference, GTC, last week in San Jose, California.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The chip designer\u2019s helmsman wants to recast his company not as a silicon vendor but as the architect of what he calls \u201cAI [artificial intelligence] factories\u201d, whose standard product is \u201ctoken\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">While Nvidia is busy writing the rules of a new token economy, a parallel debate is emerging in China around the idea of \u201ctoken exports\u201d. AI-generated intelligence is essentially a tradeable good measured by token, and China is positioning itself across the value chain \u2013 from energy and computing power to models and output.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">This explainer examines how \u201ctokenomics\u201d works \u2013 and why some believe China has the edge.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"AI-generated intelligence is essentially a tradeable good, and China is positioning itself across the value chain \u2013 from energy and computing power to models and output. Photo: Shutterstock\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ac646420-f829-4c09-8008-79406d241aa7_53933fe2.jpg\" title=\"AI-generated intelligence is essentially a tradeable good, and China is positioning itself across the value chain \u2013 from energy and computing power to models and output. Photo: Shutterstock\"\/>AI-generated intelligence is essentially a tradeable good, and China is positioning itself across the value chain \u2013 from energy and computing power to models and output. Photo: ShutterstockWhat is a token, and why does it matter?<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In AI, a token is the smallest unit of data an AI model processes or generates. Unlike crypto tokens \u2013 which encode ownership or speculative value \u2013 AI tokens are purely computational: they are what users pay for, and what models produce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cTokens are the new commodity,\u201d said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, clad in his iconic leather jacket, at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,5682,163128,3468,218,219,114,8061,4067,1711,157129,61,60,14742,21648,233,14897,80,1188,90],"class_list":["post-360548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-alibaba-group-holding","tag-alibaba-token-hub","tag-amazon","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-china","tag-claude-opus","tag-deepseek","tag-google","tag-gtc","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jensen-huang","tag-minimax","tag-nvidia","tag-san-jose","tag-technology","tag-tesla","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}