Shoot the "Digital Zodiac Beast Head", the next step of Sun Yuchen's NFT layout

On March 31st, Sun Yuchen, founder of TRON, successfully auctioned a full set (12 pieces) of digital zodiac animal head artworks for 9.8325 million yuan at the Poly Xiamen Auction Metapoly XM - Digital Zodiac Animal Head.

It is understood that the series is based on the "Zodiac Animal Head" as the prototype, casting on NFT technology, and only one set remains, and the auction of this collection has also received widespread attention in the field of collection, encryption and culture. Sun Yuchen said shortly after the auction that he hoped to donate the entire set of works in the future for the public to enjoy. One of the beast-headed NFTs will also be auctioned on the APENFT Marketplace.

1. Digital revival of traditional culture and art

The Zodiac is a representative of Chinese folk culture and the embodiment of the unique philosophical thinking of the Chinese nation. The most well-known work of art about the Zodiac is the Head of the Zodiac in the Yuanmingyuan, which not only has high artistic value, but also has a unique historical status.

Of course, from ancient times to the present, there are a vast number of works around the zodiac, and the medium of creation has also evolved with the changes of the times.

With the popularity of NFT and metaverse, the integration of traditional artworks with NFTs and metaverses has become a hot topic while also placing high hopes, and how to revitalize traditional culture and art through blockchain technology has become the direction of exploration for many creators.

Sun Yuchen's "Digital Zodiac Beast Head" collection series is also based on the "Zodiac Beast Head" as the prototype, recast through blockchain technology, which can be said to be the gathering of the Twelve Beast Heads in the meta-universe space.

At present, only one set of the collection remains, which has a certain scarcity and commemorativeness, and the auction price of nearly 10 million also intuitively highlights its artistic value.

Zodiac Animal Head + NFT, this series of collections can be called a case of using digital technology to interpret the values and spirit of traditional Chinese culture, and is another major attempt of blockchain in the field of cultural and artistic revival. Traditional Chinese arts and cultures are expected to be revived and continued with NFT and metaversity as the carrier, and the digitization of the zodiac animal head can be said to be a forerunner.

Of course, as in the past, Sun Yuchen also said after photographing this collection of animal heads that he hoped to donate the set of works in the future for the public to enjoy.

2. APENFT Foundation, Sun Yuchen's NFT layout

In recent years, Sun Yuchen has been particularly fond of NFT artworks. Before successfully winning the digital animal head of the zodiac, he has participated in the auction of high-priced artworks and NFTs for many times, including works by well-known artists such as Picasso and Beeple.

After photographing these works, Sun Yuchen often donates them all to the APENFT Foundation.

The APENFT Foundation was established in March last year with the original intention of enabling everyone to become a promoter of the development of NFT artworks, while promoting the creator economy, promoting the integration of finance and culture and art in the metacosm, and promoting the NFT and blockchainization of the world's top artworks.

As we all know, the master's expensive works of art are only circulated in a small group of collectors, which can be said to be a game for the rich, and it is difficult for the common people to participate in it. What the APENFT Foundation wants to do is to deeply combine art with blockchain to promote the popularization of art, so that more people can not only get the aesthetic enjoyment of NFT artworks, but also deeply participate in it and enjoy the industry development dividends brought by NFT artworks.

For example, the APENFT Foundation and Tron Tron have jointly created a virtual art pavilion in Decentraland, so that these top NFT artworks can be presented in the metaverse, so that the public can better appreciate the previously untouchable masterpieces through the Internet. For example, APENFT previously launched a governance token NFT, allowing users to hold tokens to deeply participate in and enjoy the redistribution of benefits brought by NFT artworks.

In addition, the APENFT Foundation has launched a $100 million Art Dream Fund to identify, cultivate and support high-quality artists and promote the development of digital art from the root.

Returning to Sun Yuchen, the APENFT Foundation can be said to be an important measure for Sun Yuchen to lay out NFTs, and it is also an important piece of the puzzle of Tron ecology in the field of NFTs. By constantly "betting" on the APENFT Foundation in the form of donations, Sun Yuchen is constantly exporting and strengthening his own and TRON's voice in the field of NFTs and art collections.

Of course, we can also see that with the blessing of Sun Yuchen, in just one year or so since its establishment, the total value of the APENFT Foundation's collection has exceeded 1 billion yuan, becoming a giant whale-level art collection foundation in the crypto world, which is also known as the "NFT version of grayscale", occupying a pivotal position in the field of NFTs and artworks.

At present, the APENFT Foundation is still non-stop in the field of NFT development, at present, its focus is the NFT trading platform - APENFT Marketplace, it is reported that the platform has completed the testnet release at the end of March.

The NFT, one of the digital zodiac head animal heads mentioned above, will also be auctioned on the APENFT Marketplace.

3. APENFT Marketplace, a better NFT infrastructure

Although the APENT Marketplace only launched the testnet in March this year, as early as the end of last year, when the APENFT Foundation and Valuart joined forces to release the Vanity Fair magazine NFT cover series, it was announced that it would be listed on the APENFT Marketplace for auction. This means that the APENFT Foundation has been laying out the Marketplace platform for some time.

From the perspective of the development of the NFT track, the NFT trading platform is the traffic center and value precipitation platform of the track. Backed by the APENFT Foundation, the AGENFT Marketplace is the best window for the tron ecosystem to reach NFT users, and will rely on the underlying foundation of the tron public chain to show its advantages.

We know that OpenSea is currently the largest NFT trading market, with good trading depth and NFT asset capacity, but there are also problems such as high GAS fees, inefficient transactions and user-friendly. Therefore, "the world is suffering OpenSea for a long time" has become the voice of countless users.

In addition, OpenSea, which relies on the rise of Web3 users, has also been controversial in the community because of its overtures to traditional VCs and the "rumors" of IPOs.

In contrast, the APENFT Marketplace will be able to provide a trading experience that is superior to that of most Ethereum NFT trading platforms, including OpenSea, in terms of transaction efficiency, because it is built on top of TRON.

In addition, the APENFT Marketplace uses the world's largest distributed storage system BitTorrent File System (BTFS) as the way to store metadata, which means that the NFT metadata created based on the APENT Marketplace will be stored in a distributed form, rather than relying on centralized servers, so that the security and decentralization characteristics of NFTs are greatly improved.

Most importantly, compared to a centralized trading platform like OpenSea, APENFT Marketplace pays more attention to community opinions as a product of the DAO ecosystem. For example, the developer "Racing Race" recently launched by the APENT Marketplace attaches great importance to the testing experience and modification suggestions of the developer participating teams for the platform to further improve the security, product functions and user experience of the AGENFT Marketplace platform.

Relying on the APENFT Foundation, it is foreseeable that more and more institutions and professional collectors will become users of the APENFT Marketplace, especially after the high-end NFTs represented by the beast head NFT auctioned by Sun Yuchen have been auctioned on the APENFT Marketplace, the popularity of the APENFT Marketplace will be further enhanced and the attractiveness of users will be further enhanced.

Moreover, as more and more traditional cultures are "resurrected" by cryptography under the impetus of the APEFT Foundation, the APENFT Marketplace will become an excellent place and important infrastructure for the circulation of NFT artworks.

Although the tron NFT ecology started late, Sun Yuchen has always been promoting the tron NFT ecology to continue to advance. Whether it is to continuously bring top art into the tron ecology through the APENFT Foundation, or to let traditional culture return to value in the tron ecology, these are fully prepared for the rise of the tron NFT ecology. The AGENFT Marketplace can be said to have undertaken the heavy responsibility of the AGENFT Foundation and the ecological development of Tron NFT, which has important value and significance, and will play an important role in the future.

By donating sky-high NFT and artworks to the APENFT Foundation to promote the popularization of art, by bidding for the digital zodiac animal head to let more people pay attention to the combination of traditional culture and art and NFT, with the help of direct or indirect ways, Sun Yuchen in addition to creating personal and tron ecology in the field of NFT influence, but also to promote the development of traditional art in the direction of digital art, promote the NFT artwork out of the circle and value discovery.

As the donor of the first full set of NFT form animal heads, Sun Yuchen has also previously cooperated with a number of well-known platforms in the field of crypto art, aiming to empower art through digital technology and innovative models, based on the most valuable well-known IP of traditional culture, deeply excavating its aesthetic value and cultural connotation, refining and displaying the spiritual identity of Chinese traditional culture to the world, and interpreting the era value and spirit of Chinese digital culture.

With the development of NFTs and encrypted digital art, it is foreseeable that with Sun Yuchen's personal influence and appeal, the perfect underlying infrastructure of the Tron public chain and the various practices of the APOENFT Foundation, the tron system represented by Sun Yuchen will occupy a higher position in the field of NFT and digital artworks and radiate greater influence.