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Unlocking the trillion-token era: B.AI’s global settlement layer for the agent economy

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September 20, 2026 — B.AI has surpassed 1.51 trillion tokens in daily throughput just five months after launch, marking a more than 71,500-fold increase since its first day of operation. The milestone comes as B.AI expands its infrastructure beyond AI model routing to combine compute distribution, decentralized settlement and agent-native tools designed to support the growing machine-to-machine economy. B.AI achieved in just over 100 days what took OpenRouter, an early aggregation pioneer, roughly two years. Driven by the integration of settlement networks with core infrastructure, the exponential growth pulled off by B.AI highlights the viability of its full-stack commercial strategy while…

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