APENFT upgrades to AINFT, focusing on building the next-generation crypto AI infrastructure
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APENFT upgrades to AINFT, focusing on building the next-generation crypto AI infrastructure
From APENFT to AINFT, a paradigm shift from the "on-chain art殿堂" to the "distributed AI industry foundation" has officially begun.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsOn October 9, APENFT, the largest NFT platform in the TRON ecosystem, officially announced a strategic rebranding to "AINFT" and simultaneously unveiled its new strategic direction: shifting focus from NFT trading to building encrypted AI infrastructure.
This upgrade is more than just a name change. AINFT will center on the deep integration of "AI + blockchain," focusing on establishing AI infrastructure and an innovative framework for AI Agents within the TRON ecosystem.
The transition from APENFT to AINFT marks the beginning of a paradigm shift—from an "on-chain art殿堂" to a "distributed AI industry foundation." This move not only reflects AINFT's accurate judgment and practical response to the convergence of AI and Web3 but also represents a key strategic step by the TRON ecosystem in the "AI + Crypto" domain.
The Paradigm Revolution of APENFT’s Upgrade to AINFT: A Glorious Transformation from “NFT Trading Platform” to “Encrypted AI Infrastructure”
AINFT’s strategic transformation is not built on fantasy but rooted in APENFT’s hard-earned strengths accumulated over nearly five years in the NFT space: millions of users, a mature digital asset ownership system, and proven on-chain operational experience—foundations that will firmly support AINFT’s evolution into AI infrastructure.
Since its launch in 2021, APENFT has centered on "redefining art and digital collectibles through blockchain technology," building a full-cycle ecosystem covering digital asset issuance, ownership verification, trading, and incubation. Its core product, APENFT Marketplace, remains the largest NFT trading platform in the TRON ecosystem, facilitating the circulation of over 2 million on-chain NFTs with cumulative trading volume exceeding tens of millions of dollars, maintaining its position as the most preferred and active NFT platform on the TRON chain.
In art curation, APENFT has established a prestigious collection bridging traditional masterpieces and crypto art, including Picasso’s *Reclining Nude with Necklace*, Andy Warhol’s *Three Self-Portraits*, Beeple’s *Ocean’s Front*, algorithmic artist Pak’s *Cube*, and Maurizio Cattelan’s banana installation *Comedian*. The total valuation exceeds 200 million RMB, providing the brand with profound cultural capital and offering reference models for the "ownership and pricing" of AI-generated content.
Technologically, APENFT has continuously innovated. By expanding its business scope, it has evolved beyond a single NFT marketplace into a multi-scenario digital asset ecosystem. In addition to its core NFT trading (APENFT Marketplace), APENFT has ventured into GameFi (issuance and circulation of on-chain gaming assets), inscription asset deployment and trading (TRONscription), and fair NFT issuance with fractional liquidity (NFTPump), forming end-to-end capabilities across "issuance–ownership–circulation–appreciation" of digital assets.
Now, APENFT officially launches its comprehensive upgrade, with the new AINFT brand focusing on encrypted AI infrastructure development.
AINFT Ushers in a New Paradigm of AI + Web3 Integration
Despite remarkable achievements in the NFT space, the APENFT team did not rest on its laurels. With keen insight, they identified multiple limitations within traditional NFT architectures amid the AI revolution.
Traditional NFTs exhibit clear "static" characteristics—existing merely as "proof of ownership" and "ownership tools"—lacking interactivity and self-evolution capabilities. In the AI era, demand for dynamic interaction is growing stronger, making traditional NFTs increasingly obsolete. It is foreseeable that future digital assets should no longer be limited to "proof of ownership" but should evolve into interactive, learning, and creative AI Agent entities.
Meanwhile, standalone AI and blockchain each face significant challenges. AI struggles with "data black boxes" and "unfair value distribution," where data usage lacks transparency and rewards are unevenly allocated. Blockchain, on the other hand, lacks "intelligent decision-making" capabilities, limiting its effectiveness in complex scenarios. These pain points form the core rationale behind APENFT’s evolution into AINFT.
AI and blockchain possess inherent complementary qualities, offering a clear path forward. Web3’s core strength lies in decentralized blockchain architecture, leveraging token economics, smart contracts, and distributed technologies to precisely define data ownership and enhance business efficiency via token incentives—key solutions to the AI industry’s issues of "opaque data and unclear value distribution." Conversely, AI can improve user experience and performance in crypto products, such as using AI to automatically detect code vulnerabilities in Web3 projects or employing AI Agents for automated crypto asset management.
Precisely recognizing this deep synergy between AI and blockchain, the APENFT team decisively advanced its strategy: transitioning fully from an NFT trading platform to encrypted AI infrastructure, firmly believing that the fusion of AI and blockchain will give rise to a new ecosystem of self-evolving AI Agents.
The strategic leap from APENFT to AINFT reflects an accurate grasp of technological trends and core user needs. It moves beyond the singular function of proving NFT ownership, aiming instead to build a new encrypted AI ecosystem featuring autonomous, interactive, and learning-capable AI Agents to meet the demands of a new era.
The emergence of multimodal systems like Sora, capable of transforming text into context-rich videos, marks AI’s breakthrough beyond unimodal text-based limitations. AINFT aims to integrate external multimodal models like Sora into its decentralized AI ecosystem, embedding advanced AI generation capabilities into AINFT’s AI Agents. This enables AI Agents to interpret unstructured data, simulate complex scenarios, and autonomously generate verifiable NFT assets and experiences, achieving creation, tokenization, and monetization of AI Agents within on-chain environments.
Sun Yuchen, founder of TRON, publicly stated earlier this year that AI Agents will become a major trend—intelligent programs capable of autonomous task execution may play pivotal roles in crypto asset management, trading decisions, and even DAO governance.
By deeply integrating blockchain’s "trusted foundation" with AI’s "intelligent vitality," AINFT aims to create a next-generation encrypted AI digital ecosystem. Within this ecosystem, encrypted AI applications will efficiently handle complex cognitive tasks—such as dynamic market analysis and multi-scenario decision-making—while ensuring fair value distribution, advancing digital assets from "static proof of ownership" to a new era of "dynamic AI Agents."
Building Core AI Infrastructure for the TRON Ecosystem
AINFT aims to become the "core AI infrastructure + AI Agent innovation application framework" of the TRON ecosystem, supporting large-scale deployment, model training, and asset-backed issuance of AI Agents, ultimately creating a new-generation encrypted AI economic ecosystem where AI Agents operate autonomously, data ownership is clearly defined, and the economy is self-sustaining.
This goal goes beyond simple technical stacking—it achieves deep AI-blockchain integration through "two-way empowerment." On one hand, blockchain addresses AI’s issues of data trustworthiness, computing power monopolies, and unfair revenue sharing. On the other, AI enhances blockchain’s security, usability, and automation, truly unlocking the combined value of "intelligence + trust."
To tackle AI industry pain points such as untrustworthy data, computing monopolies, and unfair profit distribution, AINFT will build decentralized markets for data, computing power, and models on the TRON network, returning AI control to the community and creating an inclusive, shared AI economy. Whether data contributors, computing providers, algorithm developers, or model users—all participants can fairly share the value created by AI based on their contributions. Meanwhile, by introducing AI, AINFT enables real-time on-chain security monitoring, automatic smart contract auditing, and one-click execution of complex on-chain tasks via AI Agents, significantly lowering user barriers.
This "AI + Web3" integration will propel the TRON ecosystem from "value transfer" toward "intelligent services." To realize this vision, AINFT has outlined four core product lines:
● AINFT Agent Framework (Multifunctional AI Agent Development Toolkit): Provides developers with an AI Agent development framework to rapidly build multi-agent collaborative applications.
● AINFT Nova (AI Agent Launch Platform): Enables one-click creation of AI Agents and associated tokens, integrated with mainstream social platforms like Twitter.
● AINFT AgenTX (AI-Powered DeFi Trading Framework): An AI-driven foundational trading framework for DeFi, offering intelligent asset management solutions.
● AINFT Grid (Decentralized AI Model Training Platform): Supports model training via a distributed computing network, distributing token rewards based on contribution.
These four business segments mutually reinforce and operate synergistically, collectively forming AINFT’s full-stack AI infrastructure—from foundational development frameworks and application creation to financial empowerment and distributed AI model training.
In terms of tokenomics, AINFT will continue using APENFT’s native token NFT as the sole governance token of the ecosystem. This means the utility of the NFT token will significantly expand—from its original NFT ecosystem to encompass AI Agent invocation, model training payments, computing contribution rewards, and more across the entire chain, greatly enhancing its liquidity and functional value.
In terms of product positioning, AINFT aims to become a Web3-native, privacy-first AI aggregation gateway. Unlike mainstream AI aggregation apps like Poe or Perplexity, AINFT does not directly compete in the mass market but focuses on carving a new niche—bridging Web3 and cutting-edge AI services.
As core AI infrastructure for the TRON ecosystem, AINFT will accelerate TRON’s overall intelligence transformation. With large-scale deployment of AI Agents, TRON will not only become an ideal environment for AI Agent operations but also significantly enhance the intelligence level of core ecosystems like DeFi through deep AI integration. This marks a substantial and meaningful step in TRON’s evolution from a "value transmission network" to an "AI-powered intelligent value network."
This is not merely a deep integration of AI and Web3 technologies, but a structural upgrade toward the next generation of the digital economy. As AI Agents are deployed and the model ecosystem thrives economically, AINFT is poised to become an industry benchmark in "AI + Web3" convergence, leading the encrypted AI world into a new era of openness, intelligence, and co-governance.
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