Very few people realize that blockchain technology allows to prove ownership of property and trade property titles without any intermediary.
A game where NFTs represent rights to a part of online image. It visualizes the idea of land ownership, while creating ever-changing art.
This is the total amount allocated to Collaborative painting using NFTs.
A brief note from 2030
The State of the Market is a famous painting which was created at the beginning of Goguen Era and has been updated since then by uncountable authors. The painting changed numerous times but each step of its evolution is recorded forever thanks to the everlasting blockchain of Cardano.
The initial creators, claiming to be members of a cryptic group named Catalyst Fund, divided a rectangular area into squares of pixels. For each of those plots an NFT had been created and auctioned. Then free circulation began, allowing owners to trade the tokens and — even more importantly — paint their plots however they fantasized.
An eternal contract allowed the painting process to last forever. NFT owners could do it any time they wanted, for a small fee, from which both the authors and the entire Catalyst Fund gained steady income. Each act of painting made another version of SotM generated, stored on IPFS and recorded into the blockchain with hash proving they were original.
Some of the NFTs were lost, burnt or otherwise withheld, making parts of the painting immutable forever, intentionally or not. However, the majority of the image remains in trade, making the entire digital masterpiece a testament of the early era of the cryptocurrency market.
Why?
The idea represents simplified property market based on blockchain and NFT. It visually proves these transactions could be fast, inexpensive and done without intermediaries.
History shows that both collective painting and blockchain games get viral and bring broad attention even from spectators or people who just read about it.
Technical and business details
A draft of the technical description follows. This is a descriptive text and I would like not to declare any numbers before the project starts and deep technical analysis will have been done.
However, some important things need to be declared.
Catalyst Fund remittance
The project will divert at least 10% of income back to the Catalyst treasury. These numbers will be guaranteed by the contracts handling auction and painting.
The painting process should start as soon as the first NFTs hit the market. Each operation will incur a minimum fee from the token owner, but will allow a higher payment as a form of donation to the authors and Catalyst Fund. All such income will be also subject to 10% remittance for Catalyst.
Planned functionality
Please note that Plutus is an emerging environment and perhaps no one could be called expert nowadays, definitely not me and probably not the people I'd hire to the team. Some of the declarations below might just be impossible or simply too costly to implement within the budget.
However, the following list is prioritized and in case that an item would prove impossible to achieve, the next one will be taken from the list.
Feature list
While points 1-6 are mandatory, I reserve the right to drop up to 2 features from points 7-12 should they prove too hard to implement.
Budget
The project requires input from at least 6 people, although roles may be split or combined:
The devops part can be carried out initially by the team members. Then incoming revenue should finance growing demands for storage and image rendering.
The network fees for NFT creation, setting up initial auctions and other operations will be paid by the team.
Roadmap
The following dates are relative to the day of funding:
Defining success
The project success could be described in 3 stages:
Myself, as the project leader: