APENFT has upgraded to AINFT, focusing on building the next generation of crypto AI infrastructure

The largest NFT platform in the TRON ecosystem, APENFT, officially announces a strategic upgrade of its brand, renaming itself to "AINFT," and simultaneously releasing its latest strategic direction: shifting from focusing on NFT trading to fully committing to the construction of crypto AI infrastructure.

This upgrade is not merely a change of brand name. AINFT will center on "deep integration of AI and blockchain," focusing on building the AI infrastructure of the TRON ecosystem and the innovative application framework for AI Agents.

The transition from APENFT to AINFT marks the official start of a paradigm shift from "on-chain art hall" to "distributed AI industry foundation." This is not only AINFT's accurate judgment and practical implementation of the AI + Web3 integration trend but also a key move in TRON's strategic layout in the "AI + Crypto" field.

The Paradigm Revolution of APENFT Upgrading to AINFT: A Glamorous Turn from "NFT Trading Platform" to "Crypto AI Infrastructure"

AINFT's strategic transformation is not a castle in the air but is rooted in the hard-core strength accumulated by APENFT in the NFT field over the past five years: a user base of millions, a mature digital asset rights confirmation system, and market-validated on-chain operational experience. These accumulations will provide solid support for AINFT's upgrade to AI infrastructure.

Since its launch in 2021, APENFT has always centered on "redefining art and digital collectibles through blockchain technology," building a full-chain ecosystem covering digital asset issuance, rights confirmation, trading, and incubation. Its core product, the APENFT Marketplace, is the largest NFT trading market in the TRON ecosystem, supporting the circulation of over 2 million on-chain NFT assets, with a cumulative trading volume exceeding ten million dollars. It remains the preferred and most active NFT trading platform for TRON on-chain users.

In art collection, APENFT has established a significant collection system spanning traditional classics and crypto art, covering top works from Picasso's "Nude Woman with Necklace," Andy Warhol's "Three Self-Portraits," to Beeple's "Ocean's Front," algorithmic artist Pak's "Cube," and Maurizio Cattelan's banana installation "Comedian," with a total valuation exceeding 200 million RMB. This has not only enriched the brand's cultural capital but also provides a reference paradigm for the "rights confirmation and pricing" of AI-generated content.

In terms of technological innovation, APENFT continues to break through. By constantly expanding its business boundaries, APENFT has long since transcended the single NFT trading platform category, evolving into a digital asset ecosystem covering multiple scenarios. In addition to the core NFT trading (APENFT Marketplace), APENFT has also ventured into GameFi (on-chain game asset issuance and circulation), inscription asset deployment and trading (TRONscription), NFT fair issuance, and fragmented liquidity (NFTPump), forming a full-chain service capability for digital asset "issuance - rights confirmation - circulation - value addition."

Now, APENFT officially launches a comprehensive upgrade and transformation, with the new brand AINFT focusing on the construction of crypto AI infrastructure.

AINFT Opens a New Paradigm of AI + Web3 Integration

Despite its remarkable achievements in the NFT field, the APENFT team has not stopped there. With keen insight, they have recognized that the traditional NFT architecture has multiple limitations in the wave of AI technology.

Traditional NFTs exhibit obvious "static" characteristics, existing merely as "proof of ownership" and "rights confirmation tools," lacking interactivity and self-evolution capabilities. In the AI era, the demand for dynamic interaction is increasingly strong, while traditional NFTs have clearly fallen out of sync. It is foreseeable that future digital assets should not be limited to "proof of ownership" but should evolve into AI Agent intelligent entities with interactivity, learning, and creative capabilities.

At the same time, the problems of AI and blockchain each "fighting alone" become apparent. AI faces the dilemmas of "data black box" and "unfair value distribution," with opaque data usage and uneven value distribution; blockchain lacks "intelligent decision-making" capabilities, making it difficult to cope with complex scenarios. These pain points are the core reasons for APENFT's upgrade to AINFT.

AI and blockchain have natural complementary characteristics, providing direction for breaking the deadlock. The core advantage of Web3 lies in its decentralized blockchain architecture, which, relying on token economics, smart contracts, and distributed technology, can not only precisely define data ownership but also enhance the efficiency of business models through token incentive mechanisms. This is key to solving the AI industry's "data opacity and vague value distribution" pain points. Conversely, AI technology can enhance the user experience of crypto products and strengthen various product performances, such as using AI to automatically detect code vulnerabilities in Web3 projects or employing AI Agents for automated management of crypto assets.

It is precisely by accurately perceiving the deep complementary value of AI and blockchain that the APENFT team decisively promotes strategic evolution: fully transitioning from an NFT trading platform to the construction of crypto AI infrastructure, firmly believing that the integration of AI and blockchain will give rise to a new AI Agent intelligent ecosystem with self-evolution capabilities.

The strategic leap from APENFT to AINFT is a precise grasp and proactive response to technological trends and core user needs. It no longer limits itself to the single function of proof of ownership of NFT digital assets but focuses on creating a new AI ecosystem of crypto AI with autonomous interaction and learning capabilities to meet the new demands of the times.

The emergence of multimodal systems like Sora, which support the transformation of text into context-rich videos, marks that AI has broken through the limitations of text-based unimodal systems. AINFT is committed to integrating external multimodal models like Sora into its decentralized AI ecosystem, incorporating high-end generative capabilities of AI into AINFT AI Agent intelligent agents, enabling AI Agents to interpret unstructured data and simulate complex scenarios, autonomously generating verifiable NFT digital assets and experiences, and achieving the creation, tokenization, and monetization of AI Agents in an on-chain environment.

TRON founder Justin Sun publicly stated earlier this year that AI Agents will become an important trend in the future. These intelligent programs capable of autonomously executing tasks are expected to play a key role in crypto asset management, trading decisions, and even DAO governance.

By deeply integrating the "trustworthy foundation" of blockchain with the "intelligent vitality" of AI, AINFT aims to build a new generation of crypto AI digital ecosystem. In this ecosystem, crypto AI applications can efficiently handle complex cognitive tasks, such as dynamic market analysis and multi-scenario decision-making, while ensuring fair value distribution, promoting the transition of crypto digital assets from "static proof of ownership" to a new era of "dynamic AI Agents."

Building the Core AI Infrastructure of the TRON Ecosystem

AINFT is committed to becoming the "core AI infrastructure + AI Agent innovative application framework" of the TRON ecosystem, supporting the large-scale deployment, model training, and asset issuance of AI Agents, ultimately constructing a new generation of crypto AI new economic ecosystem where AI Agents operate autonomously, data rights are clear, and the economic system is self-circulating.

This goal is not a simple overlay of technologies but is achieved through "bilateral empowerment" for the deep integration of AI and blockchain. On one hand, it utilizes blockchain technology to solve issues of data trustworthiness, computational power monopoly, and profit distribution in the AI industry; on the other hand, it enhances the security, usability, and automation level of blockchain through AI, truly releasing the integrated value of "intelligent + trustworthy."

To address the pain points of data untrustworthiness, computational power monopoly, and unfair profit distribution in the AI industry, AINFT will build a decentralized market for data, computational power, and models based on TRON, returning the dominance of AI to the community and creating an inclusive and shared AI economic ecosystem. Whether data contributors, computational power providers, algorithm developers, or model users, all can fairly share the value created by AI based on their contributions. At the same time, by introducing AI technology, it will achieve real-time security monitoring on-chain, automatic auditing of smart contracts, and one-click execution of complex on-chain tasks using AI Agents, significantly lowering the user entry barrier.

This integration of "AI + Web3" will also promote the TRON ecosystem from "value transfer" to "intelligent services." To realize this vision, AINFT has planned four core product lines:

• AINFT Agent Framework (AI Agent Multifunctional Framework Toolbox): Provides developers with an AI Agent development framework to support the rapid construction of AI Agent multi-agent collaborative applications.
• AINFT Nova (AI Agent Issuance Platform): Supports users in creating AI Agents and accompanying tokens with one click, integrating them into mainstream social platforms like Twitter.
• AINFT AgenTX (AI-driven DeFi Trading Framework): An AI trading infrastructure framework aimed at DeFi, providing intelligent asset management solutions.
• AINFT Grid (Decentralized AI Model Training Platform): Supports model training through a distributed computational power network, distributing token rewards based on contributions.

These four business segments support and collaborate with each other, collectively forming a full-stack AI infrastructure covering AI Agent from underlying development frameworks to application creation, financial empowerment, and distributed AI model training.

In terms of the token economic model, AINFT will continue to use the native token NFT of APENFT as the only governance token of the ecosystem. This means that the application scenarios of the NFT token will achieve significant expansion, extending from the original NFT ecosystem to AINFT's AI Agent invocation, model training payments, computational power contribution rewards, etc., significantly 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 applications like Poe or Perplexity, AINFT does not directly participate in mass market competition but focuses on opening new tracks and building a bridge connecting Web3 with cutting-edge AI services.

As the core AI infrastructure of the TRON ecosystem, AINFT will comprehensively accelerate the intelligent process of the TRON ecosystem. With the 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 its core ecosystems like DeFi through deep integration with AI technology. This means that TRON has taken a substantial and meaningful step in upgrading from a "value transfer network" to an "AI intelligent value network."

This is not only a deep integration of AI and Web3 technologies but also a structural upgrade towards the next generation of the digital economy. With the deployment of AI Agents and the economic prosperity of the model ecosystem, AINFT is expected to become an industry benchmark for the integration of "AI + Web3," leading the crypto AI world into a new era of greater openness, intelligence, and co-governance.