NFT-DAO

Building an open-source suite of NFT standards, tools, and dApps on Cardano. As well as a cross-chain bridge between Cardano and Avalanche.

NFT-DAO is trying to standardize the NFT world, on both Cardano and other chains, and also create a suite of tools for people to be able to easily utilize NFTs for what they want.

Boxcar

Initially NFT-DAO is looking to create a network of NFT marketplaces on Cardano by creating a plugin, NFT marketplace framework that is called “Boxcar”. Technical and non-technical people will be able to use this plugin to add an NFT marketplace to their website or platform and use it create and sell NFTs.

Akkadia - The Demo

Akkadia is an NFT marketplace on the NFT-DAO website that is utilizing the Boxcar framework and showcasing its potential to users. Initially Akkadia will be used to sell the NFT memberships to the NFT-DAO (more on this in a moment) and after that it will open as an NFT marketplace for users to use and will be the first working example of the Boxcar framework in action.

Cross-Chain Bridge

The NFT-DAO are currently developing an Avalanche/Cardano cross-chain bridge. This will allow people to mint their NFTs on Avalanche, where it is much cheaper to do so, and move them to Cardano to use them. This was expected to be released in Q1 2022, but due to changes being introduced to the Avalanche protocol, which are due to be published some time late in Q1 2022. Release is being postponed until in can be ensured that the cross-chain bridge is compatible with the updates released by Avalanche Labs.

When this cross-chain bridge is released the Akkadia marketplace will work as the demo for it.

When they are complete, both the Avalanche/Cardano cross-chain bridge and the marketplace plugin will open sourced.

Standardizing Metadata

NFT-DAO played a large part in formulating the CIP 25 metadata standard for NFTs on Cardano.

NFT-DAO envisions a world where all NFTs on all chains use the same metadata standard, creating a cohesive, cross-chain NFT world. With this aim in mind they are working with the Senior Test Engineer, Gabriel Cardona, of Avalanche Labs to propose that the Cardano metadata standards be adopted by them too. Thus creating the first cross-chain metadata standard.

A DAO

The NFT-DAO is currently a DAO in the sense that one may want to think of one. The governance architecture of the DAO is currently under construction and they are hoping to deploy it by the end of Q2 2022.

The NFT-DAO is currently an open DAO where anyone can join and provide contributions in a whole manner of ways.

NFT tickets sold via the Akkadia platform will form the basis of membership with holder of those tickets receiving governance tokens at the token generation event. All of those who have join and contributed to NFT-DAO before the DAO itself is actually formed will also be air dropped governance tokens, with the size of each persons drop will be based on their collaboration and contributions to the platform.

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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

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.

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.

Cross-Chain

The protocols and projects tagged here are interoperable with one or multiple other blockchains. Projects with this tag include those that provide the infrastructure of this inter-chain-operability, such as the providers of blockchain bridges, or they could be protocols or projects that operate across multiple chains by utilizing these blockchain bridges. There are also projects that can be cross-chain without these blockchain bridges, however these usually rely on a 3rd party, custodial entity to facilitate this, instead of a trustless, blockchain bridge.

Boxcar

Akkadia - The Demo

Cross-Chain Bridge

Standardizing Metadata

A DAO

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