CNFT.IO

An NFT marketplace where users can buy and sell NFTs at fixed prices. Also offering an escrow service for NFT auctions.

CNFT.io features fixed pice listing of verified NFT collections, sold via smart contract. Purchases can be completed with a few clicks using an integrated wallet or users can manually input the details into their wallet or scan a QR code to complete their purchase with a wallet that is yet to be integrated.

There is also the functionality for a user to send the seller an offer for an NFT that is for sale (but only if the seller elects to receive such offers). CNFT.io also offers an escrow service for timed NFT auctions where the winner is the highest bidder at the end of the allotted time.

All users must be registered on the platform via email and KYC is required for those sending/receiving over €10,000.

Marketplace

A search on the CNFT.io marketplace can be intuitively narrowed down in multiple ways. These include:

By collection (users can select multiple collections)
Sale type e.g. fixed price, auction, open to offer, etc
Setting a preferred price range
Sorting NFTs by price, most viewed, auctions ending soon, and more!

Fees

2.5% commission is charged by CNFT.io for each NFT sold and this, along with any transaction fees associated with the sale, is deducted from the agreed sale amount before it is sent to the seller’s wallet.

Royalties

CNFT.IO Supports the CIP-0027 royalties standard. NFT collections that were minted before the standard started being used will be able to elect a royalty percentage for their collection on the platform.

On the CNFT.io home page users can insert a wallet address into a search bar and explore their wallet and the NFTs it contains on pool.pm.

Coming Soon

Development is moving forward at CNFT.io and users can expect the following functionalities to be integrated into the platform in the near future:

Bundled Smart Contracts - Allowing users to sell a batch of NFTs in a single sale
Smart Contract Auctions - Highest bidder after a set time wins (seller will be able to set a hidden reserve price)
metadata Search Functionality - allowing a users to search a collection by its attributes
NFT Minting Functionality
A Launchpad - #CNFT token holders will be granted early access to projects on here
A DEX

The owners of the CNFT.io platform are exploring DAO functionalities for future management of the platform. This will likely be done using their $CNFT token. Token holders will also get early access to BETA releases of new products.

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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.

Metadata

Metadata is an element of a Cardano transaction that can be inputed by the user or automatically generated. It is stored on the blockchain with the transaction that it was sent with. This means that, just like the transactions themselves, metadata is immutable, i.e. unchangeable, and stored forever on the Cardano blockchain.

Anyone can add metadata into a transaction and that metadata is then stored on the blockchain. Many wallets allow you to add custom metadata to a transaction.

Metadata can only be made up of characters i.e. numbers, letters and punctuation, and cannot be a file type, i.e. you cannot unload files like PDFs or MP3s to the blockchain. The size of the metadata you can add to a transactions is limited to 16KB, and a character is, typically, 1 Byte, so that means you can add up to 1600 characters as metadata with any transaction.

Metadata can be used for many purposes the most common is to give some form of context to the transaction. Metadata has been used to store supply chain data, to send arbitrary message to be stored on the blockchain, and to store the hash of a document (allowing the blockchain to be used for proof-of-existence). People have used metadata, on the testnet, to immortalize the Cardano whitepaper, by writing it onto the blockchain as transactions across multiple transactions.

Many block explorers allow users to view and search transaction metadata. Remember, anything you add as metadata to a transaction will always be publicly available on the blockchain.

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.

DAO

If a project on Cardano operates with a DAO that you’ll find it tagged and listed on this page. All of these Cardano DAO projects have, in some form or another, incorporated or plan to incorporate a DAO. Not all of them will be full autonomous and this may be for one of many reasons, be it that features are being released gradually, that they will never actually be a full and proper DAO (and this a debate for another time).

There are specific Cardano DAO projects listed here, and these are those that operate as a full DAO, who’s direction is guided by the votes of its members. Others on here are projects and protocols built on Cardano, and these can take various forms, including: DeFi projects, NFT projects, and gaming projects.

Regarding full Cardano DAO projects, these have been created around many different topics, the most popular being Cardano investment DAOs that invest in Cardano NFTs and tokens. However, there are other DAOs focused around things such as the development of open-sourced tooling, the growth of the DAO idea itself, and art.

Auction

An auction is when something is put up for sale and people place bids to determine who wins, a.k.a. buys, the item. There are multiple types of auction out there and below are the most common types:

English Auction: An item starts at a certain price and people places bids that raise in value with each bid and the winner is the person who places the highest bid. They then pay the value of their bid.

Dutch Auction: An item starts at a certain high price. The price is then progressively lowered until someone claims it and they pay the price that they stopped the auction at.

Sealed Bid Auction: People write down their bids for an item and submit them. Once the time for submitting bids is over then all the bids are opened and the highest bidder wins the auction.

Vickery Auction: Works in almost the same way as a sealed bid auction. However, when all the bids are opened the highest bidder wins but they pay the price of the second highest bid.

Auctions, especially English auctions, often have reserves attached to them. A reserve means that the seller sets a minimum price for the item. If the price is not met by the buyer then the item is not sold. Reserves can be kept hidden, which is most common, or they can be disclosed to the bidders.

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