Animecoin (ANIME) unites anime fans around the world

For some developers, the purpose of creating cryptocurrencies is to unite a community whose members are connected by specific interests. Animecoin, which will be discussed in this article, can be attributed to such projects.

What is Animecoin?

Animecoin (ANIME) is a cryptocurrency created to unite fans of anime culture. For this reason, It has been dubbed a "cultural cryptocurrency." The" developers of this project aim to create a decentralized and community-driven anime ecosystem based on blockchain technology.

Another goal of the Animecoin project is to support the creativity and innovation of anime culture supporters and their communities.

The Animecoin Foundation organization is behind the project's creation. Animecoin is closely related to the Azuki NFT project, a collection of 10,000 unique NFT tokens issued as early as 2022 in ERC-721 format on the Ethereum blockchain, with images of anime characters. Azuki has become one of the most significant NFT projects in the Ethereum ecosystem for the crypto community.

How does Animecoin work, and why does it need blockchain?

The developers of the Animecoin project aim to solve one of the anime industry's main problems related to centralized services by using distributed blockchain technology.

The fact is that centralized platforms provided to anime content creators take away a significant part of their income, and the rights to the works themselves do not belong to the creators.

In the Animecoin ecosystem, intellectual property rights are fully controlled by the content creators themselves, and they receive rewards for their work directly from customers. The blockchain allows creators and the community to interact without intermediaries, which is integral to audience engagement. The community can also participate in decision-making on the development of the platform itself and the channels of content creators and media companies.

ANIME token

The ANIME token was issued in January 2025 based on the Ethereum blockchain platform and Arbitrum's ERC-20 Layer-2 or L2 network. Ten billion ANIME tokens were issued, 5.5 billion of which are already circulating on the crypto market.

The maximum supply of tokens is limited to 10 billion. This means that ANIME is a deflationary crypto-asset, and no new tokens will be issued in the future, provided that the project community does not jointly decide to do otherwise.

ANIME serves as a service or utility token and a management token in its ecosystem. ANIME token holders can participate in the governance of the AnimeDAO decentralized autonomous organization by voting for proposals to develop the anime ecosystem.

As of February 2025, the value of the ANIME token is $0.025, and its market capitalization is $139.9 million. This indicator ranks Animecoin 319th among crypto assets.

Since listing, the price of the ANIME cryptocurrency has fallen by more than 80%. Animecoin's price high (ATH) was recorded at $0.18 in the first days after listing on exchanges.

The future of Animecoin

The Animecoin project could play an essential role in developing global anime culture. According to some estimates conducted in 2025, more than a third of the world's population, or 2.88 billion, consumes content in the anime genre in some way, and the number of fans exceeds 600 million.

Analysts expect that the anime market will reach $60 billion by 2030 at an average annual growth rate of 15%. In addition, according to statistics, anime is one of the fastest-growing segments of the media industry worldwide.

In the near future, the Animecoin team, in collaboration with the Arbitrum Foundation, plans to launch its own blockchain, Animechain. According to the developers, the mission of this blockchain is to increase the global Internet community's involvement in anime culture and "scale its space."

According to the Animecoin team, Animechain will be an L3 blockchain running on top of Arbitrum's Layer 2 network, based on Arbitrum Orbit technology. The Arbitrum Foundation team introduced this technology specifically to develop Layer 3 networks designed to scale the Ethereum ecosystem even further. In the future Animechain ecosystem, the ANIME altcoin will be the leading service and gas token to pay the network's fees, ensuring a constant demand for the digital asset.