APENFT has upgraded to AINFT, focusing on building the next generation encryption AI infrastructure.

On October 9th, the largest NFT platform in the TRON ecosystem, APENFT, officially announced a brand strategic upgrade, renaming itself to “AINFT”, and simultaneously released its latest strategic direction: shifting from focusing on NFT trading to fully engaging in the construction of encryption AI infrastructure.

This upgrade is not just a simple change of brand name. AINFT will focus on building an AI infrastructure and AI Agent (Artificial Intelligence Agent) innovation application framework for the TRON ecosystem, with “AI + deep integration of blockchain” as its core.

From APENFT to AINFT, a paradigm shift from the “on-chain art hall” to the “distributed AI industry foundation” officially begins. This is not only AINFT's precise judgment and practical implementation of the AI + Web3 integration trend but also a key move in the strategic layout of the TRON ecosystem in the “AI + Crypto” field.

APENFT's upgrade to AINFT marks a paradigm revolution: a magnificent transformation from “NFT trading platform” to “encryption AI infrastructure”.

The strategic transformation of AINFT is not a castle in the air, but is rooted in the hard-core strength that APENFT has accumulated 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 operation experience. These accumulations will provide solid support for the upgrade of AI infrastructure for AINFT.

Since its launch in 2021, APENFT has always focused on “blockchain technology reshaping art and digital collections,” building a full-chain ecosystem covering digital asset issuance, confirmation of rights, trading, and incubation. Its core product, 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, and it remains the top choice and most active NFT trading platform for users on the TRON chain.

In art collection, APENFT has established a heavyweight collection system that spans traditional classics and encryption art, covering top works from Picasso's “Nude Woman with Necklace”, Andy Warhol's “Self-Portrait (Three Times)”, 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, which has accumulated deep cultural capital for the brand and will also provide a reference paradigm for the “rights 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 jumped out of the single NFT trading platform scope and developed into a digital asset ecosystem that covers multiple scenarios. In addition to its core NFT trading (APENFT Marketplace), APENFT is also involved in GameFi (on-chain game asset issuance and circulation), inscription asset deployment and trading (TRONscription), NFT fair issuance and fragmented liquidity (NFTPump), among other scenarios, forming a full-link service capability for digital assets from “issuance - confirmation of rights - circulation - value-added”.

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

AINFT opens a new paradigm for the integration of AI and Web3.

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

Traditional NFTs present a clear “static” characteristic, existing merely as “proof of ownership” and “confirmation tools,” lacking interactivity and self-evolution capabilities. In the AI era, the demand for dynamic interaction is increasingly strong, whereas traditional NFTs have evidently become disconnected from this. It is foreseeable that future digital assets should not be limited to merely “proof of ownership,” but should evolve into AI Agent intelligent entities that possess interactivity, learning, and creative abilities.

At the same time, the problems become prominent when AI and blockchain operate “independently”. AI faces the dilemmas of “data black box” and “unfair value distribution”, with opaque data usage and uneven value distribution; blockchain, on the other hand, lacks “intelligent decision-making” capabilities, making it difficult to cope with complex scenarios. These pain points have become the core reason for APENFT's upgrade to AINFT.

AI and blockchain have a natural complementary relationship, providing direction for breaking through challenges. The core advantage of Web3 lies in its decentralized blockchain architecture, which relies on token economics, smart contracts, and distributed technology. This not only allows for precise definition of data ownership but also enhances the efficiency of business models through token incentive mechanisms, which is key to addressing the pain points of the AI industry, namely “data opacity and unclear value distribution.” Conversely, AI technology can enhance the user experience of encryption 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 encryption assets.

It is precisely the keen insight into the deep complementary value of AI and blockchain that has led the APENFT team to decisively advance their strategic evolution: fully transitioning from an NFT trading platform to the construction of an encryption AI infrastructure, firmly believing that the integration of AI and blockchain will give rise to a new AI Agent intelligent ecosystem with the ability to evolve automatically.

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 ownership proof function of NFT digital assets, but focuses on creating an AI Agent encryption AI new ecosystem with autonomous interaction and learning capabilities to meet the new demands of the times.

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

The founder of TRON, Sun Yuchen, publicly stated at the beginning of the year that AI Agents will become an important trend in the future. These intelligent programs, which can autonomously execute tasks, are expected to play a key role in areas such as encryption asset management, trading decisions, and even DAO governance.

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

Build the core AI infrastructure for the TRON ecosystem.

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

This goal is not a simple overlay of technology, but rather a deep integration of AI and blockchain achieved through “dual empowerment.” On one hand, blockchain technology is used to address issues of data credibility, computing power monopoly, and profit distribution in the AI industry; on the other hand, AI enhances the security, usability, and automation level of blockchain, truly unleashing the integrated value of “intelligent + trustworthy.”

In response to the pain points of unreliable data, computing power monopolies, and unfair profit sharing in the AI industry, AINFT will build a decentralized market for data, computing power, and models based on TRON, returning control of AI to the community and creating an inclusive and shared AI economic ecosystem. Whether data contributors, computing power providers, algorithm developers, or model users, everyone can fairly share the value created by AI based on their contributions. At the same time, by introducing AI technology, it will achieve on-chain secure real-time monitoring, automatic auditing of smart contracts, and the use of AI Agent to execute complex on-chain tasks with one click, significantly lowering the user entry barrier.

This integration of “AI + Web3” will also drive 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 issuing platform): supports users to create AI Agents and accompanying tokens with one click, and integrates them into mainstream social platforms such as Twitter.

● AINFT AgenTX (AI-driven DeFi trading framework): An AI trading infrastructure aimed at DeFi, providing intelligent asset management solutions.

● AINFT Grid (Decentralized AI Model Training Platform): Supports model training through a distributed computing network, with token rewards allocated based on contributions.

These four major business segments support and collaborate with each other, collectively forming a full-stack AI infrastructure for AINFT that covers AI Agent from the underlying development framework to application creation, as well as financial empowerment and distributed AI model training.

In the token economic model, AINFT will continue to use the native token NFT of APENFT as the only governance token for the ecosystem. This means that the application scenarios of the NFT token will achieve significant expansion, extending from the original NFT ecosystem to the full chain, including AINFT's AI Agent invocation, model training payments, computing power contribution rewards, etc., with significant improvements in both liquidity and functional value.

In terms of product positioning, AINFT is committed to becoming a Web3 native, privacy-first AI aggregation gateway. Unlike mainstream AI aggregation applications such as Poe or Perplexity, AINFT does not directly compete in the mass market, but focuses on opening up new tracks and building a bridge that connects Web3 with cutting-edge AI services.

As the core AI infrastructure of the TRON ecosystem, AINFT will comprehensively accelerate the intelligent progress of the TRON ecosystem. With the large-scale deployment of AI Agents, TRON will not only become an ideal environment for the operation of AI Agents but will also enhance the intelligence level of its core ecosystem, such as DeFi, through deep integration with AI technology. This means that TRON has taken a significant 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 technology 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 the industry benchmark for the integration of “AI + Web3”, leading the encrypted AI world into a new era of greater openness, intelligence, and co-governance.