Recently, the APENFT Foundation received a complete set of Beeple NFT works donated by Justin Sun, the founder of Tron. One of the works "ABUNDANCE" was sold for US$250,000 (about 1.5 million RMB) in the NFT auction dinner held at WDAS 21×Huobi Charity on May 20. ), all the money was donated to Huobi Charity, which will be used to help the global fight against the new crown, autism patients, support gender equality, racial equality, environmental protection projects, etc.
This set of NFT works created by Beeple includes 5 NFT artworks ("ABUNDANCE", "GIGACHAD", "REBIRTH", "BIOLOGICAL COLLECTIBLE", "JANUARY 1ST, 2021") and 5 corresponding NFT objects. Among them, the NFT object is composed of an aluminum base, a frame and an LED screen with custom programming, and has a unique color mode when lit. This is the first time that Beeple has launched an NFT artwork with an object. According to public data, Beeple is currently the most valuable artist in the field of NFT art, with more than 140 million US dollars (900 million yuan).
According to media reports, this set of works was bought by Sun Yuchen, the founder of Tron, at an auction of the well-known NFT auction platform Nifty Gateway on May 2 at a price of US$950,000. Later, in order to support APENFT in the "block Justin Sun donated this set of works to APENFT for the innovation of "Chain + Art".
In addition, on May 14, 2021, APENFT also announced that it has received a batch of important works of art donated by TRON founder Justin Sun, including Picasso's "Nude with a Necklace", Andy Warhol's " Three Self-Portraits" and "Ocean Front" by the world-renowned encryption artist Beeple, etc., with a total value of nearly 200 million yuan. Justin Sun also publicly stated that he highly recognizes the development vision of APENFT, and is willing to open up the TRON ecosystem and fully support the foundation.
It is reported that APENFT was officially registered and established in Singapore on March 29, 2021. It is supported by the world-renowned public chain Ethereum and the underlying technology of TRON, combined with BitTorrent, the world's largest distributed data storage system, and is committed to bringing the world's top A professional foundation for NFTization and blockchainization of artworks. Among them, NFT, as the official governance token issued by APENFT, is a decentralized digital asset developed based on the ERC-20/TRC-20 protocol, and it is also the proof of APENFT's rights and interests. NFT holders will have rights and interests such as voting, profit sharing, and participation .
On May 20, 2021, APENFT's governance token NFT was launched for the first time on the well-known digital currency trading platform Huobi's preferred channel Prime, and then successively logged on Poloniex, LBank, Bitrue and other major global trading platforms.
