

In the future, APENFT will launch support regularly through open calls, art grants, and artist in Residence programs. Such as what kind of religious worship, new artistic origins, literary inspirations, and subversive scientific discoveries will be brought by humanity’s vision of the Metaverse? What does this for human consciousness, including all experiences, feelings, and emotions? What is the nature of reality? What will the future look like when artists participate in the construction of the Metaverse through digital art? The open call aims to explore the questions that arise when our lives and social relationships become more closely intertwined with technology as social mediation. ‘Art Dream Fund’ hopes to unleash and resource bold and unbridled creativity by inspiring artists to present their Second Life – a story that has yet to unfold. As technology profoundly changes the way we play, learn, organize, socialize, and create, there is an urgent need to explore what a highly intelligent and networked society requires us to be and what a high-tech but humanized world would look like. This is an open invitation for artists to portray their dream lives and futures through digital media. NFT and on-chain games are bringing people’s vision of the metaverse closer to reality than ever before. We are now living in the digital golden age, enjoying tremendous technological and scientific progress with the accelerated development of blockchain.



“Second Life” is a concept closely related to the metaverse, and NFT is seen as the “ticket to the metaverse.” Since the late 1970s and early 1980s, utopian and dystopian visions of Web3.0 the Internet has been put forth, capturing the emergence of increasing complexities and variability of human life and hybrid experiences. The first open call of the ‘Art Dream Fund’ invites artists and creators to explore the theme of “Second Life” in the metaverse. APENFT aims to collect meaningful stories and promote the fusion of finance, culture, and art in the metaverse and will do so by building three main pillars: acquisition of culturally significant NFT artworks, investment and incubation of NFT projects, and the creation of an NFT marketplace. APENFT, the premier NFT foundation and fund, and TRON have announced the formal establishment of the $100million ‘Art Dream Fund’ to explore, cultivate, and support talented NFT and digital artists. Singapore, Singapore, 2nd November, 2021,
