MermADA Minting

A white-glove NFT Minting service offering a wide range of options from Vending Machine Sales to Token Faucet Sales run by TAILS pool Team

Looking to bring an NFT project to Cardano? MermADA Minting is a white-label Cardano NFT Minting Service providing solutions customized to your brands needs. Our focus is our client's goals & helping bank the unbanked through the world of Cardano DeFi. We aim to make navigating this ecosystem user friendly. From 1:1 Cardano NFTs to small batches; bulk mints to vending machine sales; airdrops to token faucets MermADA Minting and Stake Pool TAILS can help get your Cardano NFT project minted!

Mint 1 NFT Tool

Our single NFT mint tool - 4 ADA to the public and 1.5 ADA for TAILS Pool delegates. This is often used in conjunction with our Metadata Reference Guide. NFT creators on the Cardano Blockchain use this tool to mint small NFT sets to sell through Discord, secondary markets, or auctions.

Mint 10+ NFTs Tool

Our "mint up to 20 NFTs" tool. Creators on the Cardano Blockchain use this tool to mint small NFT sets to sell through Discord, secondary markets, or auctions.

NFT Vending Machines

Mint on Purchase NFT Vending Machine. Allows sellers to customize the page's look or to simply integrate it into their own website for easy branding. We are very hands on through this process, helping set the NFTs themselves up, as well as allowing customizable parameters, swaps and accepting native assets for their sale. We charge 10% for none pool delegates and 5% for pool delegates.

Token Faucets

Mint on Purchase Token (FT) Vending Machines. These allow for a deeper variety of options for projects, from exchanging tokens for NFTs to pool staking token rewards. We charge 10% for none pool delegates and 5% for pool delegates.

NFT Airdrops/Giveaways

NFT Airdrops & Giveaways are what they sound like. We work with you to build the NFT out, while you gather your giftee/airdropees wallet addresses for delivery. While we charge 0.44 ADA or 0.25 ADA + 1 TAILS Token per NFT, the pricing of this service varies on the size of the NFT being sent out and how many we can fit in one transaction. We include an invoice for these situations so that clients have a record of what was spent and why.

On-Chain Voting/Poll

What to run a poll for your community's feedback & have results verifiable? We offer an on-chain voting/poll set-up. We charge 15 ADA or 25 TAILS Tokens

Artwork Generation

Have a layered project and need help generating the images and metadata? We can assist! We charge 100-200ADA depending on project complexity.

1:1 Consultation Calls

Want feedback on what you are envisioning or wondering what is even possible for your project? We offer 1:1 hour long consultation calls for you to ask questions. Gain insight and advice for your ideas and what you can do with an NFT project! We charge 50 ADA for a half hour to hour long call - Tuesday and Wednesday availability only.

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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.

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.

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!

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.