APENFT: Creating a comprehensive NFT ecosystem anchored by physical artworks.

With the rising prices of Bitcoin and Ethereum hitting new highs, the crypto asset market is heating up across the board. Recently, the NFT sector has also shown significant signs of recovery, with blue-chip NFT projects like CryptoPunks, Bored Ape Yacht Club, and Moonbirds seeing substantial increases in both floor price and volume. According to NFT data platform Cryptoslam, the trading volume of the NFT market exceeded $178 million in the past week, with the number of buyers surging by 190% to 215,000; in July, the global NFT market trading volume reached $574 million, a month-on-month rise of over 50%, indicating a significant rebound in market activity.

With the overall recovery of the NFT industry, the core platform APENFT of the TRON ecosystem has become the focus of market attention due to its innovative ecological layout.

According to the latest “Tron TRON Q2 2025 Report” released by Nansen, despite fluctuations in the encryption market, the total volume of NFT transactions on the Tron TRON chain rose by 78% in Q2, demonstrating strong ecological vitality and market demand.

Since the beginning of 2025, the APENFT platform has been frequently delivering good news, with its native token NFT continuously being listed on top global exchanges CEX. First in February, the NFT token was launched on the compliant platform HashKey; then in March, the global compliant leading exchange Kraken announced support for NFT spot trading; subsequently in July, the NFT token was launched as the first asset in the TRON ecosystem on Binance Alpha zone; recently, Binance Alpha announced that it has opened NFT market order trading, and the Binance wallet has also completed deep integration with it, allowing users to seamlessly access the APENFT platform through the Binance ecosystem, achieving comprehensive connectivity and interaction of assets and applications with the Binance ecosystem. The support from multiple top exchanges for the NFT token serves as a direct manifestation of the market’s recognition of APENFT’s development prospects.

In terms of ecological construction and technological expansion, APENFT continues to break boundaries. Last year, APENFT partnered with SunPump to launch the first NFT fair issuance platform, NFT Pump, which allows any user to “issue NFT assets with zero threshold and one-click,” significantly simplifying the issuance and collection process of NFTs; at the beginning of this year, NFT Pump introduced the new TRC404 standard, supporting the split trading of NFTs, further enhancing the liquidity of NFT assets and user experience. Through the synergy of NFT Pump and the TRC-404 protocol, APENFT has created a fairer and more efficient environment for NFT issuance and trading, effectively solving the liquidity problem of NFTs, allowing NFTs to truly become inclusive assets accessible to the public.

Today, APENFT has broken through the positioning of a single NFT trading platform and has built a comprehensive ecological system covering NFT trading, GameFi center, TRON inscription market (TRONscription), NFT fair issuance platform (NFT Pump), and other diversified scenarios.

What is more noteworthy is that APENFT has recently released multiple signals regarding the integration of NFT and AI on platform X, exploring the deep empowerment of AI technology on NFT creation, interaction, and experience. For example, improving NFT creation efficiency through AI-generated content (AIGC) or using AI algorithms to optimize NFT interaction experiences.

From top-tier art collections to an innovative encryption art ecosystem, APENFT creates a differentiated NFT value hub.

APENFT is not merely a simple hub for showcasing, circulating, and trading art works on the chain, but an innovative encryption art ecosystem that integrates physical art collection, digital asset certification, and ecological incubation among other functionalities.

APENFT launched the NFT trading market APENFT Marketplace in April 2022. This platform utilizes BTFS technology for decentralized storage and adopts a multi-chain deployment strategy spanning popular public chains such as TRON, Ethereum, and BSC. It completes asset cross-chain through BitTorrent, providing users with a convenient and efficient NFT trading experience. Since its launch, the APENFT trading platform has achieved the free circulation of over 2 million on-chain NFT assets, with a cumulative trading volume exceeding tens of millions of dollars, becoming a core force in the NFT field that cannot be ignored.

Currently, the APENFT Marketplace has become the most active preferred NFT trading market on the TRON chain, featuring over 2 million NFT assets, supporting multi-chain and multi-coin trading, and serving as the core hub of digital assets with diversity and vitality within the ecosystem.

Behind all of this lies the meticulous planning and relentless efforts of the APENFT Foundation since its establishment in March 2021. Since its inception, the APENFT Foundation has been committed to promoting the blockchainization and NFTization of artistic or cultural works, vigorously supporting the growth of native NFT artists in the crypto world, and hoping to accelerate the development of the creator economy through blockchain technology. From the very beginning, it received strong support from TRON founder Justin Sun, who has repeatedly donated priceless collection-level treasures to the foundation, such as Picasso’s “Sleeping Nude with Necklace”, Andy Warhol’s “Three Self-Portraits”, Beeple’s “Ocean’s Front”, and Alberto Giacometti’s “The Nose”, among others. These precious art collections not only add cultural depth to the foundation but also lay the artistic asset foundation for the development of the APENFT platform. These top-tier collections not only establish the cultural foundation of APENFT but also provide the platform with a unique endorsement of artistic assets.

With this core advantage, APENFT has rapidly risen to become the world’s first cross-border platform spanning the crypto field and traditional top art collections, building a crucial bridge for traditional artists to enter the NFT space, and accumulating profound influence in both traditional art and the crypto sector. Its cross-border cooperation has achieved remarkable results: In June 2021, APENFT collaborated with Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Binance NFT to tokenize masterpieces such as Andy Warhol’s “Three Self-Portraits” and auctioned them for a high price of $2.8 million, igniting the wave of “traditional art tokenization”; in October of the same year, APENFT partnered with TRON to establish a $100 million “Art Dream Fund” to support hundreds of emerging artists and quality NFT projects; in October 2023, it once again teamed up with TRON, the Giacometti Foundation, Dior, and LVMH to jointly hold the “Nose” art exhibition in Paris, and so on.

At the same time, Sun Yuchen’s art collection continues to inject scarce resources into the APENFT Foundation. Last year, he purchased the controversial installation work “Comedian” (a banana fixed with waterproof tape) by the Italian national treasure artist Maurizio Cattelan at Sotheby’s for $6.24 million, which caused a dual sensation in both the art world and the crypto space. This work has now become a new collection of the APENFT Foundation.

As of August, the APENFT Foundation has built a world-class collection system that includes traditional masterpieces and avant-garde digital art, with its collections appraised by authoritative institutions such as Sotheby’s and Christie’s at over $100 million, featuring classics from masters like Picasso, Andy Warhol, Beeple, and Giacometti.

In the crypto space, well-known KOL @Multi recently expressed on platform X: “APENFT is much more than just a trading market; it is a museum-level NFT curation library backed by top-tier artworks.”

The ecological system built by APENFT, which integrates traditional art and digital art, not only becomes an irreplaceable value hub connecting physical art and the encryption world but also opens up a unique development path in the NFT industry. Currently, mainstream NFT platforms such as OpenSea and Blur are still focused on the issuance and sales of NFTs, while APENFT takes physical art as the core anchor point. Through the innovative model of NFTizing physical artworks, it achieves a deep integration of physical collections and on-chain art. It breaks through the boundaries of mere trading functions, allowing users to touch the deep value of art during the participation process while also experiencing the new realm created by the collision of physical and digital art, thereby expanding the space for the integration of art and the encryption field.

In the current NFT trading market, deeply entrenched in homogeneous competition and rate involution, APENFT has successfully shaped an irreplicable core competitiveness with its unique strategy that focuses on physical art, continuously leading the wave of industry innovation.

From the NFT trading market to a comprehensive ecosystem of digital assets.

While maintaining the stable development of its core NFT business, APENFT has always actively explored and laid out new business areas. Through continuous product iterations and business extensions, APENFT has gradually built a comprehensive digital asset ecosystem covering various scenarios, including NFT trading, GameFi, inscription asset deployment and trading, fair issuance of NFTs, and fragmented liquidity, from its initial single NFT trading platform. This process not only reflects its precise grasp of the trends in the encryption market but also demonstrates its determination to reshape the value ecology of NFTs.

Game assets are the core scenario for the implementation of NFTs. Since the launch of the NFT trading market APENFT Marketplace in 2022, APENFT has focused on GameFi as a key area of development. That year, the APENFT platform invested $500,000 to host the GameFi hackathon, attracting over 40 teams to participate. Subsequently, special GameFi awards were continuously added in the TRON ecosystem hackathons, forming a long-term support mechanism. Later, separate GameFi section awards were established multiple times in subsequent TRON ecosystem hackathons. In this ecological environment, the platform has given birth to several star GameFi projects, including the horse racing game Win NFT Horse, promoting the penetration of NFTs from static collections to dynamic gaming scenarios.

In 2023, the Bitcoin inscription craze has spread to multiple public chains, triggering a wave of inscription minting across the entire industry. APENFT quickly responded to the industry trend and rapidly launched the inscription market TRONscription based on the TRON platform. This platform focuses on the full lifecycle service of inscriptions, providing a complete service process for inscription deployment, minting, and trading, creating a one-stop professional service platform for TRON ecosystem inscription enthusiasts, further expanding the application boundaries of NFTs and making on-chain asset forms more diverse.

Last year, the rise of the Meme coin one-click issuance platform sparked a new wave of market enthusiasm. APENFT, in collaboration with the TRON ecosystem Meme issuance platform SunPump, launched the first NFT fair issuance platform, NFT Pump. It inherits the fair issuance mechanism of SunPump, allowing users to mint NFTs as easily and quickly as issuing Meme coins, truly achieving “one-click issuance of NFT assets,” significantly lowering the entry barriers for NFT issuance and trading, enabling ordinary users to easily participate in NFT creation.

In February this year, NFT Pump upgraded to version 2.0, innovatively introducing the TRC-404 standard, which supports splitting a single NFT asset into multiple tradable units. By purchasing the corresponding Token, users can hold a share of the NFT. Through a dynamic binding mechanism, TRC-404 enables seamless conversion between NFTs and Tokens, addressing the issue of insufficient NFT liquidity. For example, traditional TRC-721 standard NFTs need to be bought and sold as a whole, while TRC-404 can split a single NFT into multiple smaller units and generate the corresponding number of Tokens. Users can purchase Tokens to hold the corresponding share of the NFT. Meanwhile, NFT Pump allows users to create and issue TRC-404 standard NFTs with one click, and after meeting the conditions, the tokens can be directly listed on Sunswap.

Through the collaborative operation of NFT Pump and the TRC-404 standard, APENFT effectively balances the incentive mechanisms of creators, holders, and secondary market participants, significantly enhancing the liquidity of on-chain NFT assets. From the evolution of NFT Pump 1.0 to 2.0, the platform continuously optimizes the creation, trading, and user experience of NFTs on the TRON network, promoting the NFT ecosystem to develop in a more open and efficient direction, making NFTs no longer exclusive to big players, but rather becoming accessible assets that everyone can participate in.

Currently, APENFT has integrated a diverse product line including the APENFT Marketplace (NFT trading market), GameFi Center (game asset trading), TRONscription (TRON inscription market), and NFT Pump (fair issuance and liquidity platform), forming a comprehensive ecosystem covering various scenarios such as NFT trading, creation, gaming, and inscriptions, becoming a one-stop cultural and entertainment hub in the TRON ecosystem.

Behind this series of product matrices lies APENFT’s profound insights into the encryption and NFT markets, as well as its ability to predict trends. This keen capture of market trends and rapid implementation capability is evident from seizing the opportunity of the inscription craze with the launch of TRONscription, to solving liquidity issues through NFT Pump and the TRC-404 standard. Each innovation precisely addresses industry pain points, consistently striving to provide users with a more convenient and secure trading experience.

From the “NFT Museum” backed by physical art to a diverse digital asset ecosystem, APENFT always centers on the core concept of “connecting the physical and encryption worlds.” Through continuous product innovation and ecological layout, it constantly expands the application boundaries of NFTs, carving out a unique path of value upgrading in the NFT space. This not only demonstrates its outstanding strength in ecological construction but also explores a more open and inclusive development path for the industry with a forward-looking vision.

The token NFT has entered the deflationary era, consecutively landing on top exchanges Kraken, Hashkey, and Binance Alpha.

In the process of continuous product innovation by APENFT, its platform’s native token NFT has achieved multiple milestone accomplishments this year, being listed on top global exchanges such as HashKey, Kraken, and Binance Alpha. This not only serves as a strong affirmation of APENFT’s ongoing efforts in NFT innovation and ecosystem development but also reflects the market’s unanimous optimism regarding its development prospects.

NFT, as the only official governance token within the APENFT ecosystem, allows NFT holders to stake for voting rights and participate in ecological governance decisions, from determining the selection of artworks within the ecosystem to participating in core aspects such as planning different levels of activities, and unlocking differentiated rights based on the amount held.

The NFT tokens were fully issued in May 2023, which means their total circulating supply is completely fixed, and no new tokens will enter the market. In September last year, TRON founder Justin Sun announced the implementation of a “100% transaction fee buyback and burn” policy, whereby all NFT transaction fees on the APENFT platform will be directly used to buy back and destroy NFT tokens. This move directly propelled NFT tokens into a deflationary era, further enhancing their market value. As of August 20, the cumulative number of NFTs burned by APENFT has exceeded 98 trillion.

Since entering 2025, NFT tokens have gradually gained recognition and cooperation from top global exchanges such as HashKey, Kraken, and Binance Alpha.

In February, Hong Kong compliant platform HashKey Global launched NFT tokens first, simultaneously introducing a recharge and trading reward event with a total prize pool of 20,000 USDT, followed by an NFT token trading competition.

In March, the established compliant exchange Kraken in the US launched NFTs, opening up spot trading pairs NFT/USD and NFT/EUR, and initiated the “Reef Program” airdrop of NFTs worth $90,000 in equivalent tokens. The landing of NFTs on this platform is not only an important milestone for APENFT itself but also a significant breakthrough for the TRON ecosystem to enter the US compliant trading market, accelerating the global layout of the TRON ecosystem.

In July, Binance Alpha launched NFTs as the first asset on the TRON ecosystem, opening the NFT/USDT and NFT/USDC trading pairs, and simultaneously kicked off a dedicated trading competition with a value of $4 million. This achievement is significant; leveraging Binance’s targeted traffic, the trading volume of NFT assets has directly increased, and liquidity has been significantly enhanced. This not only acknowledges Binance’s recognition of the development potential of the APENFT platform but also opens the gateway to the global market.

In August, Binance Alpha further deepened cooperation by supporting NFT market order trading, and APENFT also completed deep integration with the Binance wallet. Users can now directly access the APENFT official website and NFT Pump platform through the Binance ecosystem, seamlessly realizing the minting, trading, and collection of NFTs. This means that APENFT has achieved efficient flow and resource interconnection with top CEXs, allowing traffic from the Binance ecosystem to be seamlessly imported into APENFT, accelerating its ecological development.

As of August 20, NFT tokens have been listed on approximately 40 major exchanges worldwide, including well-known platforms such as HTX, OKX, Bithumb, and Kraken, with a market capitalization exceeding $463 million and over 2.15 million wallet addresses. On August 8, NFT tokens officially launched on the Indian exchange CoinDCX, further expanding into emerging markets.

From the innovation of token deflation mechanisms to the intensive layout of global top exchanges, APENFT is building a new value paradigm in the NFT field through technological iteration, ecological co-construction, and compliance breakthroughs. As more platforms are integrated and the destruction mechanism continues to advance, NFT tokens are expected to further consolidate their benchmark position in decentralized governance and digital assets.

Open a new chapter of “AI + NFT” integration, continuously leading the innovation in the NFT industry.

The achievements that APENFT has attained today are not only due to the continuous innovation of its product matrix but also rely on the comprehensive support provided by the TRON ecosystem. Over the past six months, TRON’s global influence has continued to expand, achieving several key breakthroughs: maintaining its position as the largest stablecoin network in the world, surpassing 320 million on-chain addresses, establishing a strategic partnership with Binance Alpha, achieving ecological integration with the Binance wallet, successfully listing on NASDAQ, and founder Justin Sun successfully completing the first space exploration plan, among others. These milestones not only push TRON to the center stage of the global arena but also provide solid support for APENFT’s ecological expansion in terms of technical resources, traffic entry, brand momentum, and more.

At the infrastructure level, the comprehensive DeFi application matrix within the TRON ecosystem provides crucial support for the collaborative development of APENFT. From the one-stop DEX hub Sun.io, lending center JustLend DAO, to core components like SunPump and the stablecoin USDD, the seamless integration of various infrastructures offers a participation channel for NFT assets to quickly engage in on-chain activities such as staking, trading, and lending, promoting value discovery and ecological penetration on-chain.

APENFT has also made substantial progress in the synergy with the TRON ECO ecosystem applications: on the product level, it has launched NFT Pump in cooperation with SunPump and achieved traffic sharing, while TRC404 assets can be quickly deployed to the SunSwap platform, accelerating the circulation efficiency of NFT assets; in terms of user experience, users can rent energy through JustLend to reduce Gas costs in APENFT transactions; in terms of industry influence, APENFT has repeatedly collaborated with core projects such as SunPump, JustLend DAO, BitTorrent, and WinkLink to hold online and offline events, such as making a collective appearance at the 2025 Istanbul Blockchain Summit this June, and has frequently collaborated to initiate token trading competitions and ecological user activities, continuously expanding its ecological influence.

Recently, APENFT has repeatedly released signals of the integration of NFT and AI on the X platform, exploring the deep empowerment of AI technology on NFT creation, interaction, and experience. For example, enhancing NFT creation efficiency through AI-generated content (AIGC) or utilizing AI algorithms to optimize NFT interaction experience.

If the current achievements of APENFT are defined as “the practical integration of art and NFT”, that is, innovating the storage, display, and ownership models of traditional artworks through tokenization technology; then in the next phase, APENFT will enter a new stage of “the triple integration of art, blockchain, and AI.”

With the continuous empowerment of the TRON ecosystem and the deep penetration of AI technology, creators will soon be able to complete the minting, listing, and bidding of NFTs through conversational commands, and can leverage AI agents to formulate personalized NFT issuance and trading strategies. This forward-looking layout is expected to significantly broaden the application scenarios and value space of digital assets, continuously leading the innovation wave of the TRON ecosystem and even the global NFT industry.