Driven by the rising prices of Bitcoin and Ethereum, the cryptocurrency market is heating up overall. Recently, the NFT sector has also shown a significant recovery trend, with blue-chip NFT projects like CryptoPunks, Bored Ape Yacht Club, and Moonbirds all seeing significant increases in floor prices and trading volumes. According to NFT data platform Cryptoslam, the trading volume in the NFT market has surpassed $178 million in the past week, with the number of buyers increasing by 190% to 215,000; in July, the global NFT market trading volume reached $574 million, with a month-on-month growth of over 50%, significantly increasing market activity.
With the overall recovery of the NFT industry, APENFT, as the core platform of the Tron TRON ecosystem, has become the focus of market attention due to its innovative ecological layout.
According to the latest report published by Nansen (Tron TRON Q2 2025 Report), despite fluctuations in the cryptocurrency market, the total NFT trading volume on the Tron TRON chain still grew by 78% in Q2, demonstrating strong ecological vitality and market demand.
Since the beginning of 2025, the APENFT platform has frequently reported good news, with its native token NFT listed successively 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; followed by the NFT token's debut as the first asset of the Tron TRON ecosystem on the Binance Alpha platform in July; recently, Binance Alpha announced that it has opened NFT market order trading, and the Binance wallet has also completed deep integration with it, enabling users to seamlessly access the APENFT platform through the Binance ecosystem, fully connecting assets and applications with the Binance ecosystem. The support of multiple top exchanges for NFT tokens directly reflects the market's recognition of APENFT's development prospects.
In 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, allowing any user to 'issue NFT assets with zero threshold in 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 trade of split NFTs, further enhancing the liquidity and user experience of NFT assets. Through the synergistic effect 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, making NFTs truly accessible to the public.
Now, APENFT has surpassed the positioning of a single NFT trading platform, building a comprehensive ecosystem covering NFT trading, GameFi center, Tron TRON inscription market (TRONscription), NFT fair issuance platform (NFT Pump), and other diverse scenarios.
What is worth noting is that APENFT has recently released signals on the X platform about the integration of NFTs and AI, exploring the deep empowerment of AI technology in NFT creation, interaction, and experience, such as enhancing NFT creation efficiency through AI-generated content (AIGC) or optimizing NFT interaction experience using AI algorithms.
From top art collections to an innovative crypto art ecosystem, APENFT builds a differentiated NFT value hub.
APENFT is not just a simple hub for displaying, circulating, and trading art on the blockchain; it is an innovative crypto art ecosystem that integrates physical art collection, digital asset rights confirmation, and ecological incubation.
APENFT launched the NFT trading market APENFT Marketplace in April 2022. This platform uses BTFS technology to achieve decentralized storage and employs a multi-chain deployment strategy across popular public chains including Tron TRON, Ethereum, and BSC, completing asset cross-chain transactions through BitTorrent to provide users with a convenient and efficient NFT trading experience. Since its launch, the APENFT trading platform has realized the free circulation of over 2 million on-chain NFT assets, with cumulative trading volume exceeding tens of millions of dollars, establishing itself as a core force in the NFT field.
Currently, APENFT Marketplace has become the most active preferred NFT trading market on the Tron TRON chain, listing over 2 million NFT assets and supporting multi-chain and multi-currency trading, serving as the core hub for digital assets with both diversity and vitality.
None of this would be possible without the careful planning and tireless 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 tokenization of art 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 beginning, it received strong support from Tron TRON founder Justin Sun, who has repeatedly gifted the foundation with priceless collectibles he acquired at high prices, such as Picasso's (Nude Woman Lying with Necklace), Andy Warhol's (Three Self-Portraits), Beeple's (Ocean’s Front), and Alberto Giacometti's (Nose). These precious art collections not only enrich the cultural heritage of the foundation but also lay the foundation for the development of artistic assets on the APENFT platform. These top collectibles not only establish the cultural foundation of APENFT but also provide the platform with unique artistic asset endorsement.
With this core advantage, APENFT has rapidly emerged as the world's first cross-domain platform bridging the crypto field and traditional top art collections, establishing a crucial link for traditional artists to enter the NFT space, accumulating far-reaching influence in both traditional art and the crypto field. Its cross-domain collaborations have been remarkable: for example, in June 2021, APENFT collaborated with Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Binance NFT to tokenize and auction masterpieces like Andy Warhol's (Three Self-Portraits) for a high price of $2.8 million, igniting the wave of 'traditional art tokenization'; in October of the same year, APENFT, in partnership with Tron TRON, established a $100 million 'Art Dream Fund' to support hundreds of emerging artists and quality NFT projects; in October 2023, it co-hosted the (Nose) art exhibition in Paris with the Giacometti Foundation, Dior, LVMH, etc.
Meanwhile, Justin Sun's art collection continues to inject scarce resources into the APENFT Foundation. Last year, he purchased the controversial installation work (Comedian) by Italian national treasure artist Maurizio Cattelan for $6.24 million at Sotheby’s, causing a dual sensation in the art world and the crypto field. 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 covering traditional masterpieces and avant-garde digital art, with its collections valued by authoritative institutions such as Sotheby’s and Christie’s at over $100 million, including classic works by masters such as Picasso, Andy Warhol, Beeple, and Giacometti.
Renowned KOL in the crypto field @Multi recently remarked on the X platform: 'APENFT is far more than just a trading market; it is a museum-level NFT curation library backed by top artworks.'
The ecosystem APENFT has built, which merges traditional and digital art, has not only become an irreplaceable value hub connecting physical art and the crypto world but has also opened a unique development path in the NFT industry. Currently, mainstream NFT platforms like OpenSea and Blur are still focused on the issuance and sales phases of NFTs, while APENFT centers around physical art as a core anchor point, realizing a deep integration of physical collectibles and on-chain art through the innovative model of tokenizing physical artworks. It breaks the boundaries of pure trading functionality, allowing users to touch the deeper values of art while experiencing the new realms created by the collision of physical and digital art, expanding a broader space for the integration of art and crypto.
In the current NFT trading market, which is deeply trapped in homogeneous competition and rate wars, APENFT has successfully shaped an irreplicable core competitiveness with its unique strategy of focusing on physical art, continuously leading the wave of industry innovation.
The leap from the NFT trading market to a comprehensive digital asset ecosystem.
While maintaining stable development of the core NFT business, APENFT has always actively explored and laid out new business areas. Through continuous product iteration and business extension, APENFT has gradually built a comprehensive digital asset ecosystem covering NFT trading, GameFi, inscription asset deployment and trading, fair NFT issuance, and fragmented liquidity, moving beyond the initial single NFT trading platform. This process not only reflects its precise grasp of the trends in the crypto market but also demonstrates its determination to reshape the NFT value ecosystem.
As the core scenario for the landing of NFT, gaming assets have been a key focus area for APENFT since the launch of the NFT trading market APENFT Marketplace in 2022. That year, the APENFT platform invested $500,000 to host the GameFi hackathon, attracting over 40 teams to participate; subsequently, the Tron TRON ecosystem hackathon continued to add GameFi special awards, forming a long-term support mechanism. Later, the Tron TRON ecosystem hackathons set up separate GameFi section awards multiple times. In this ecological soil, several star GameFi projects including the horse racing game Win NFT Horse were born, promoting the penetration of NFTs from static collections to dynamic gaming scenarios.
The Bitcoin inscription craze spread to multiple public chains in 2023, triggering a wave of inscription minting across the industry. APENFT quickly responded to the industry trend, swiftly launching the Tron TRON inscription market TRONscription. This platform focuses on the full lifecycle service of inscriptions, providing deployment, minting, and trading services, creating a one-stop professional service platform for Tron TRON ecosystem inscription enthusiasts, further expanding the application boundaries of NFTs and making on-chain asset forms more diverse.
Last year, the rise of one-click issuance platforms for Meme coins sparked a new wave of market trends. APENFT collaborated with the Tron TRON ecosystem’s Meme issuance platform SunPump to launch the first NFT fair issuance platform, NFT Pump. It inherits SunPump's fair issuance mechanism, allowing users to mint NFTs as simply 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 of 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, allowing users to hold NFT shares by purchasing the corresponding tokens. Through a dynamic binding mechanism, TRC-404 achieves seamless conversion between NFTs and tokens, solving the liquidity issue of NFTs. 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 a corresponding number of tokens, allowing users to purchase tokens to hold corresponding NFT shares. At the same time, NFT Pump supports users to create and issue TRC-404 standard NFTs with one click, and after meeting certain conditions, the tokens can be directly launched 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 continues to optimize the creation, trading, and user experience of NFTs on the Tron TRON network, promoting the NFT ecosystem to develop in a more open and efficient direction, making NFTs no longer exclusive to large holders but accessible to the public as inclusive assets that everyone can engage with.
Currently, APENFT has integrated various product lines including APENFT Marketplace (NFT trading market), GameFi Center (gaming asset trading), TRONscription (Tron TRON inscription market), NFT Pump (fair issuance and liquidity platform), forming a comprehensive ecosystem covering multiple scenarios of NFT trading, creation, gaming, inscriptions, etc., becoming a one-stop cultural and entertainment center in the Tron TRON ecosystem.
Behind this series of product matrices reflects APENFT's deep insight into the crypto and NFT market and its ability to predict trends. This keen capture of market trends and rapid implementation capability, from launching TRONscription to seize the opportunity of the inscription craze, to solving liquidity issues through NFT Pump and the TRC-404 standard, every innovation has accurately targeted industry pain points, consistently striving to bring users 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 idea of 'connecting the physical and crypto worlds.' Through continuous product innovation and ecological layout, it continuously expands the application boundaries of NFTs and has carved out a unique path of value upgrading in the NFT track. This not only highlights its exceptional strength in ecological construction but also explores a more open and inclusive development path for the industry with forward-looking vision.
NFT tokens have entered the deflation era, landing successively on top exchanges like Kraken, Hashkey, and Binance Alpha.
In the process of continuous product innovation, APENFT's native token NFT has achieved several milestone achievements this year, having successively been listed on top global exchanges like HashKey, Kraken, and Binance Alpha. This not only represents high recognition of APENFT's continuous efforts in NFT innovation and ecological construction but also reflects the market's optimistic outlook on its development prospects.
As the only official governance token within the APENFT ecosystem, NFT holders can obtain voting rights through staking to participate in ecological governance decisions, from deciding on the selection of artworks within the ecosystem to participating in planning different levels of activities and unlocking differentiated rights based on holding amounts.
NFT tokens completed their entire issuance in May 2023, meaning that their total circulation has been completely fixed, and no new tokens will flow into the market. In September last year, Tron TRON founder Justin Sun announced the implementation of a '100% transaction fee buyback and destruction' policy, whereby all NFT trading fees on the APENFT platform would be directly used to repurchase and destroy NFT tokens. This move has directly pushed NFT tokens into a deflation era, further enhancing their market value. As of August 20, the cumulative number of NFTs destroyed by APENFT has exceeded 98 trillion.
Since the beginning of 2025, NFT tokens have been recognized and collaborated with top global exchanges such as HashKey, Kraken, and Binance Alpha.
In February, the compliant platform HashKey Global in Hong Kong was the first to launch NFT tokens, simultaneously launching a recharge and trading reward activity with a total prize pool of 20,000 USDT, followed by an NFT token trading competition.
In March, the long-established compliant exchange Kraken in the US launched NFTs, opening up NFT/USD and NFT/EUR spot trading pairs and initiating the 'Reef Program' airdrop of NFTs worth $90,000. The landing of NFTs on this platform is not only an important milestone for APENFT itself but also a significant breakthrough for the Tron TRON ecosystem entering the US compliant trading market, accelerating the global layout of the Tron TRON ecosystem.
In July, Binance Alpha launched NFTs as the first asset of the Tron TRON ecosystem in a dedicated area, opening NFT/USDT and NFT/USDC trading pairs, and simultaneously launching a dedicated trading competition worth $4 million. This achievement is significant; leveraging the targeted traffic of the Binance ecosystem, the trading volume of NFT assets directly increased, and liquidity significantly enhanced. This not only recognizes Binance's acknowledgment of APENFT platform's development potential but also opens up global market entry for it.
In August, Binance Alpha further deepened cooperation, supporting NFT market order trading, and APENFT also completed deep integration with the Binance wallet. Now users can access the APENFT official website and NFT Pump platform directly through the Binance ecosystem, seamlessly enabling NFT minting, trading, and collecting. This means that APENFT has achieved efficient communication of traffic and resources with top CEXs, allowing traffic from the Binance ecosystem to be seamlessly directed to APENFT, accelerating its ecological development.
As of August 20, NFT tokens have been listed on about 40 mainstream exchanges globally, including HTX, OKX, Bithumb, Kraken, and others, with a market value exceeding $463 million and over 2.15 million holder addresses. On August 8, NFT tokens officially landed on the Indian trading platform CoinDCX, further expanding the emerging market landscape.
From the innovation of token deflation mechanisms to the intensive layout of global top exchanges, APENFT is constructing a new value paradigm in the NFT field through technological iteration, ecological co-construction, and compliance breakthroughs. With the continuous advancement of more platform integrations and destruction mechanisms, NFT tokens are expected to further solidify their benchmark position in decentralized governance and the digital asset field.
Opening a new chapter of 'AI + NFT' integration, continuously leading innovation in the NFT industry.
The achievements APENFT has made today are attributed not only to its continuous innovation of the product matrix but also to the comprehensive support provided by the Tron TRON ecosystem behind it. In the past six months, the global influence of Tron TRON has continued to expand, achieving several key breakthroughs: maintaining its position as the world's largest stablecoin network, surpassing 320 million on-chain addresses, reaching a strategic cooperation with Binance Alpha, achieving ecological connectivity with the Binance wallet, successfully listing on NASDAQ, and founder Justin Sun completing the first space exploration plan. These milestones have not only pushed Tron TRON to the center of the global stage but have also provided solid support for the ecological expansion of APENFT from various aspects, including technological resources, traffic entry, and brand momentum.
On the infrastructure level, the complete DeFi application matrix within the Tron TRON ecosystem provides key support for the collaborative development of APENFT. From the one-stop DEX hub Sun.io, lending center JustLend DAO, to core components such as SunPump and stablecoin USDD, the seamless connection of various infrastructures provides a pathway for NFT assets to quickly access staking, trading, and lending activities on-chain, promoting value discovery and ecological penetration on-chain.
APENFT and the cooperative applications of the Tron TRON ECO ecosystem have also made substantial progress: on the product level, in collaboration with SunPump, it launched NFT Pump 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 transactions on APENFT; in terms of industry influence, APENFT has repeatedly partnered with core projects such as SunPump, JustLend DAO, BitTorrent, and WinkLink to hold online and offline events, such as collectively appearing at the 2025 Istanbul Blockchain Summit in June this year, and has repeatedly collaborated to initiate token trading competitions and ecological user activities, continuously expanding its ecological influence.
Recently, APENFT has frequently released signals on the X platform about the integration of NFTs and AI, exploring the deep empowerment of AI technology on NFT creation, interaction, and experience, such as enhancing NFT creation efficiency through AI-generated content (AIGC) or optimizing NFT interaction experiences using AI algorithms.
If we define APENFT's current achievements as 'the practical integration of art and NFTs,' that is, through tokenization technology to innovate the storage, display, and ownership models of traditional artworks; then in the next stage, APENFT will enter a new phase of 'the triple integration of art, blockchain, and AI.'
With the continuous empowerment of the Tron 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 use AI agents to formulate personalized NFT issuance and trading strategies. This forward-looking layout is expected to greatly broaden the application scenarios and value space of digital assets, continuously leading the innovative wave of the Tron TRON ecosystem and even the global NFT industry.
