CNFT Awards

An annual awards ceremony for Cardano NFTs where nominees are submitted and voted for by the community.

Two of the biggest players in the Cardano NFT space, NFT-MAKER.IO PRO and CNFT.IO, have come together and gathered partners and supporters from all corners of the ecosystem to put on the inaugural CNFT Awards of 2021.

Submissions

All Cardano community members were invited to submit individual NFTs to one of several categories between January 12th - 26th. These categories are:

Best Digital Art
Most Impactful
Best Collectible
Most Inovative
Zeitgeist CNFT
Best Community Driven
Best Roadmap
Best Generative Art
CNFT of the Year 2021

When you nominated an NFT you were not nominating the project as a whole, instead you were nominating a single NFT from that project.

Filtering and Voting

After voting, the official partners and supporters of the CNFT Awards analyzed each NFT submission and narrowed the results down to 5 NFTs in each category. This phase of the timeline lasts for 11 days.

On February 7th these final 5 NFTs for each category are announced to the community and on-chain voting is opened up to every ADA holder.

Voting closes after 5 days, on February 12th, and then what is being called “the big count” begins. This lasts for 5 days, from February 13th to February 18th.

An Awards Show

On February 19th the big awards night is held! This will be held on YouTube. The winners will be announced and there will be special guest appearances from members of the Cardano community.

The CNFT Awards have called themselves the “Official Cardano NFT Awards” But, in the decentralized world we are building how do we come to defines the word official? Can anything like this be "official"?

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Glossary

On-Chain

These are all the on-chain NFTs, and on-chain NFT collections, that currently exist on Cardano. Many people consider on-chain NFTs to be better, or more special, than off-chain NFTs.

In regards to the on-chain vs off-chain NFT argument, the image represented by an off-chain NFT is found by following a link, typically stored on the IPFS, from the NFTs metadata. This can be changed by the person who uploaded it. The image represented by an on-chain NFT is coded into the metadata and is, therefore, immutably coded into the blockchain's history. This is usually, but not always, in the form a language that your browser understands, allowing your browser to interpret that information and display the NFT.

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.

DeFi

Here are all the Cardano DeFi projects complete with descriptions and tags. If you’re looking for a Cardano DeFi exchange, a lending protocol, a launchpad, a Cardano stablecoin, or platforms on which to tokenize real world assets then you’ve come to the right place. The Cardano DeFi ecosystem is maturing and, as it does, we will continue to list the new Cardano DeFi projects here. If you look at Cardano in 5 years this list will be substantially different, some projects will have left it, but many many more will have been added.

If you’re looking to simply swap Cardano native tokens then a Cardano DEX is your best choice. If you’re looking to utilize your crypto holdings for a loan then take a look at all the Cardano lending and borrowing platforms on offer and choose which one fits your needs. There is much more utility in the Cardano DeFi world and we invite you to explore it here!

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Filtering and Voting

An Awards Show

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