APENFT was officially registered in Singapore on March 29, 2021 to meet opportunities and address pain points in the industry. The president of APENFT, Steve Z. Liu, holds a bachelor in Electrical Engineering from Zhejiang University and an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School. He has extensive experience in the international capital markets, previously spent over 20 years working for major financial institutions including Fidelity International, Salomon Smith Barney, Nomura International, Ant Financial Group, etc. Prior to this, Steve has successfully established and managed institutional equity business for a number of Chinese securities firms.

Core businesses of APENFT include: investing in top NFT platforms and artworks, incubating leading NFT artists to build a bridge between world-class artists and the NFT world; sponsoring galleries, organizing art exhibitions or publications, and setting up awards to support art creation and criticism; establishing art collections, etc.

By applying blockchain technology into the NFT world, APENFT expands the use cases of blockchain. APENFT purchases well-known traditional and NFT artworks as underlying assets, and works to improve the NFT trading standard. It provides support to government agencies, universities, lawyers and industry elites in issuing policies that govern the healthy development of the industry. There are now three major use cases in the blockchain industry, namely value exchange, collaboration, and record-keeping. The unique NFT fits in all three of the use cases. It is not only a hot trend in the blockchain industry, but also a critical element that is very likely to revolutionize the industry and take it to the next level. As a blockchain enterprise, APENFT will invest in artworks and promote traditional and digital art by leveraging its strengths in technology, market, industry and policy research, with the aim of introducing blockchain into diverse use cases

Mission

APENFT is committed to registering world-class artworks as NFTs on-chain.

Vision

APENFT is aimed at becoming the ARK Funds in the NFT space to build a bridge between top-notch artists and blockchain, and to support the growth of native crypto NFT artists.

Value

APENFT holds onto the value of making artworks accessible to all.

APENFT Ecosystem

Capabilities

Turn artworks and artists into NFTs

APENFT will help convert artworks and artists on-chain in just one click, injecting new values to classic art pieces.

Redefine the value of artworks

APENFT will facilitate fairer and more transparent pricing of artworks by transforming the way classic art pieces are valuated.

Cultivate and incubate

NFT artists APENFT will invest great amount of resources to nurture NFT artists and provide them with a complete development path.

Support artists and relevant institutions

As a organization, APENFT not only focuses on registering works as NFTs on-chain, but also sees supporting artists and relevant institutions as its mission.

Industry and policy research

APENFT will recruit a great number of professionals to observe and guide the industry through in-depth researches into policies and reports on the industry