NMKR

A white-label, NFT minting service that can be integrated into dApps and websites to facilitate and manage the minting and sale of NFTs on a large scale.

Different elements of NMKR can be integrated into dApps and websites through a set of APIs. This allows users to facilitate the sale of NFTs through their own platform where they have already curated a community, fan-base, or following. When creating their NFT collection a user has complete control over all aspects of an NFT's metadata, its policy ID, and a they can set multiple parameters on the purchase of their NFTs, including:

Time-limited reservations
Requiring that a particular NFT already exists in the purchasing wallet
Requiring that a particular NFT does not already exists in the purchasing wallet
Time periods with different prices

To help users create and manage their NFT collection(s), NMKR offers an intuitive dashboard through which they can view data points and track their NFTs. Through this dashboard users can:

Create and manage multiple NFT collections
View sales data over various time periods
View transactions
View the amount of revenue generated
See how many NFTs are currently available, reserved, or sold

Many of these data points are available as easy-on-the-eye visualizations.

NMKR also offers a payment gateway, with multiple Cardano wallet integrations, allowing users to simply accept ADA as payment from buyers of their NFTs. ADA used to purchase NFTs can be sent straight to the wallet of the collection creator’s choosing, but NMKR fees and Cardano transaction fees are deducted first.

Technical Know-How

NMKR does require some technical knowledge to utilize it to its fullest extent, however a user doesn’t necessarily need to be a highly adept developer to use NMKR. At minimum a user should be able to utilize APIs, write scripts, and set up metadata to CIP25 standard.

Whilst there is this technical knowledge requirement to use the NMKR service to its fullest extent the protocol does take some -maybe foreign- technical aspects off the user's plate, namely interacting with the Cardano blockchain. The protocol also scales with heavy on-chain loads to ensure a smooth UX for buyers of a user's NFT collection.

Other Notable Features

Alongside the above described features the following are also present on the NMKR protocol:

Incorporating royalties into a collection per the proposed and widely recognized CIP27 standard
Minting NFTs ahead of drop time for the users to use as they wish e.g. promotional giveaways
A wide variety of file formats are accepted as content for NFTs in the following categories: images, audio, text, application, and video
A testnet functionality. This is used for soft launches of new features and users can test new and existing features on the testnet. (Note that testnet use requires a separate account)
A knowledge hub offering an in-depth walk-through of how a user can get the most out of the protocol

Fees

Fees for using the NMKR service vary by the quantity of NFTs minted through the service. Note that the counter resets each month and the user starts again at the most expensive tier. The first 5000 NFTs minted each month are charged at a cost of 2ADA each (plus Cardano transaction fees). Then the price per NFT incrementally decreases until the user has minted 100,000+ NFTs in a month, where the creators say to contact them regarding pricing.

NFTs are minted at the time of purchase by the buyer, and the user of the NMKR protocol is only charged when an NFT is minted. This means, for example, that if only 5 NFTs from a 10,000 NFT collection are minted then the user only pays the fees for minting those 5 NFTs.

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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 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.

API

API stands for Application Programming Interface.

An API is an intermediary or go-between that allows computers or computer programs to talk to each other and pass information back and forth. APIs act as the messengers that take the request from the computer or computer program to the source that can provide the answer to that request, retrieves the answer, and then bringing it back to the computer or program that initiated the request.

In the blockchain space APIs are mainly used to query the blockchain. This is to say, that an API can be used to abstract specific data points from the blockchain so that a computer or program can use those data points to inform its user or its actions.

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Other Notable Features

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