AdaSwap

A AMM based DEX also featuring a launchpad, an NFT marketplace, and “stake and forget” liquidity pools featuring unique rewards.

The AdaSwap DEX operates on a automated market maker, AMM, algorithm. On their DEX AdaSwap are promoting what they call a “Free Financial Model” where swaps which involve the platforms native token, ASW, are subject to no platform fees. This is designed to encourage the use and adoption of the platform and its native token.

A launchpad

Little information currently exists about AdaSwap’s launchpad and how it will work besides saying that they will “protect the community through secure listing” where they verify multiple elements of a project.

NFT Marketplace

The NFT marketplace from AdaSwap is being billed as an "exclusive" NFT marketplace. Users will need to hold ASW to use the platform and each user will be placed in a tier that is based on their ASW holdings. The more ASW a user has then the greater the say they have in voting NFT collections onto the platform. New artists and collections are accepted onto the platform through governance voting my platform members.

Each tier will also receive airdrops, staking rewards, and access to high-tier-only NFT sales.

“Stake and Forget” Stake pools

On the AdaSwap platform users can stake select tokens to select pools that are called as “stake and forget” pools. For staking to these pools users will receive the same rewards as other liquidity providers on the platform. In addition to these standard rewards stakers who stake to these pools will also receive airdrops of tokens from projects launching on the AdaSwap launchpad.

Projects launching from AdaSwap’s launchpad have to pay a fee to use the service. This fee is paid in the launching project's native tokens. This fee is then airdropped to the stakers in the “stake and forget” pools. To become eligible for these airdrops "stake and forget" stakers must first meet a minimum staking period in these liquidity pools.

Long term stakers on AdaSwap pay 0% fees

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NFT Marketplace

A Cardano NFT marketplace, a.k.a. CNFT marketplace, is where you can go to find the NFTs from Cardano NFT projects for sale. This Cardano NFT marketplace list provides you with independent information about each of the CNFT marketplaces that you can shop for Cardano NFTs on.

Many Cardano NFT degens will tell you that Cardano NFT projects are unique because Cardano NFTs are native tokens, unlike on other chains where they’re managed by smart contracts. The best Cardano NFT marketplace is up for debate, and the best Cardano NFT marketplace is often the one that has the NFT you want for sale.

Some of these marketplaces are art focused, bringing artists to Cardano. Other marketplace on this Cardano NFT marketplace list have a social impact focus. Others are just focused on bringing you a great user experience when buying Cardano NFTs, and are steadily upgrading their features to offer you a greater experience when buying Cardano NFTs. There are also some marketplaces here that are dedicated to a specific Cardano NFT collection.

NFT Collections

These are all NFT collections on the Cardano blockchain. This Cardano NFT projects list is split into four different categories to help you find exactly what you’re looking for in your search for your next NFT project to join. This lists includes Cardano NFTs with utility, along with Cardano NFT projects that are PFPs, those that are focused around charitable causes, and the Cardano NFT collections that have more of an art focus.

It is worth noting that many Cardano NFT projects fit into multiple of these categories, and here they have been categorized them as the type that they best fit into.

Cardano NFT collections and projects might not be as popular as those on other chains however they offer just as much (some diehard Cardano fans would say more) than the NFT projects on other chains. If you are the developer or artist of a Cardano NFT project then please feel free to add your collection our site here.

NFT

If you’re looking for a Cardano NFT then you’ve found the place for you! listed here are all the projects that feature NFTs in some form on Cardano. NFTs are no longer just the PFP collections that made them famous, although many do still exists and you can find Cardano NFT projects here, NFTs are assets with multiple different types of utility, depending on which project’s NFTs your buying.

A Cardano NFT is a native asset on Cardano which means that, unlike on other (specifically EVM-based) chains, an NFT is not managed by a smart contract, meaning that it behaves and is managed differently to the chain’s base asset, ada. On Cardano NFTs behave the same as the chains base asset as they are native to the chain.

On this page you’ll find everything from Cardano NFT projects to DeFi projects and decentralized identity (DID) solutions that have incorporated NFTs, to the Cardano NFT marketplaces you can use to purchase NFTs.

Launchpad

The term launchpad is often used in the same sentence as the terms incubator and accelerator, but the three have their own subtle differences. Many launchpads also operate an accelerator and/or an incubator. But what does a launchpad do?

A launchpad connects new projects to investors, and allows the project to raise funds by giving investors access to an exclusive, early, and often discounted, token sale. So the project gets the funds in needs to proceed with development and investors get tokens at a discounted rate before they’ve even hit the market. To offer security to their investors, and to uphold their name, launchpads will conduct through KYC into the projects applying to be on their launchpad.

Some launchpads will also offer many of the same services offered by incubators to the fledgling projects that conduct token sales through them.

Launchpads are often a sidearm of an exchange, of both the centralized or decentralized varieties, as they already have the capacity to sell tokens and can then offer a guaranteed place for the tokens to be listed once the project is ready to release them to the public.

DEX

Here is a Cardano DEX list for you to explore all the decentralized exchanges built on Cardano. There are multiple Cardano DEX projects for you to choose from, each with a different take on the DEX concept and the way of managing a decentralized exchange protocol.

Listed here are Cardano DEX projects that are based on both the automated market maker (AMM) and the traditional order book style of exchange. Both types of DEX on Cardano, like any other exchange, require a good amount of liquidity to operate effectively. This leads many to say that the best Cardano DEX is the one with the most liquidity. However, there are many other factors that the users of these DEXes would tell you to take into account before deciding which is the best Cardano DEX, and which one you should interact with (although a high amount of liquidity is a good indicator for users).

Interestingly, many Cardano exchanges, such as Sundaeswap, use the concept of “batchers” to collect, order, and execute transactions. This reliance on a small group of batchers to order and execute user transactions reduces the decentralized nature these exchanges as these entities could easily collude to front run transactions from particular wallets or to censor transactions from other wallets.

AMM

AMM stands for Automated Market Maker. This is an algorithm, often supplemented by oracles, that facilitates the pricing and exchange of assets between users. Assets are exchanged at market value through liquidity pools. These pools are created by Liquidity providers, LPs, who deposit assets to the exchange in pairs. This “asset pair” then allows users to swap one asset for the other through the liquidity pool. Fees are paid to the LPs who provided the liquidity. The more liquidity a pair has the less “slippage” a user experiences, meaning the less likely the user is to experience a price change in their trade.

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