NFT Community & Ecosystem

NFTs play a crucial role in the Cardano Ecosystem. A Catalyst Challenge would incentivize the building of NFT based Projects on Cardano.

Kicking off Community based solutions to build NFT Tools & Platforms, to offer Services, Events and Research.

At the end of this challenge we will ask ourselves: Did we manage to make it easier for NFT Projects and developers to build on top of Cardano?

- Filling in gaps defined in the exploration stage.

- Number of NFT Projects actively building on top of Cardano

- Defined solutions to issues in the NFT ecosystem

- Number of repos on Github using the tooling. (Month over month increase)

- A sense of community and conversations. Having people around to talk and connect with.

- Number of new Cardano NFT related initiatives submitted as proposals in Catalyst

Potential Directions ::

- Developing NFT Tools

- Developing Platforms and Marketplaces

- Developing NFT Standards

- Proposing and actively developing NFT related CIPs

- Change existing tools to support and adopt new standards

- Organizing Community Events with a focus on NFTs

- Providing services that help increase the Communication, Coordination and Collaboration between NFT projects and initiatives

- Academic research and analytics on topics related to NFTs or NFT tooling

- Investigating or developing new use cases for NFT technology

The NFT community and ecosystem are vibrant and crucial parts of the overall Cardano ecosystem. In 2021, a large part of the transaction volume on the Cardano network was related to NFTs.

In past funding rounds, the needs of the NFT Ecosystem were not properly represented by Project Catalyst challenges. By introducing this challenge we aim to take the first major step in connecting the NFT community to Project Catalyst by creating a space where NFT related ideas and experiments can be born.

The Original Submitters also commit to take charge of running the Challenge Team, if the Challenge will be voted:

Challenge Team

CENT - Stake Pool operator of the pool CENT since December 2019. 20 years of experience from software development. Creator of the community tool Cardano Blockchain Intelligence. Project Catalyst proposer since F6. Active member of the NFT Guild

Felix Weber - Bridge Builder & Networker, Funded Proposer, CA & Catalyst Circle v1

Peter Wolcott - Driving Catalyst, HeartBeat.Team, SWARM Veteran & CC Admin Secretary

Anamaria Kövesdi (NewMindflow)

Artist and entrepreneur, in the CNFT space since day 1, creator of the Trybbles & Icons Cardano NFT projects.

Project Catalyst participant since F3, proposer in F4, F5 & F7, CA in F5 & F7, VCA in F7. Member in various Catalyst projects, initiatives & communities over more than a year. Active member of the NFT-Guild.

Rares Kövesdi (NewMindflow)

Artist and entrepreneur, in the CNFT space since day 1, creator of the Trybbles & Icons Cardano NFT projects.

Project Catalyst participant since F3, proposer in F4, F5 & F7, CA in F7. Member in various Catalyst projects, initiatives & communities over more than a year. Active member of the NFT-Guild.

Jenny Lau (SushiBytes)

Creator of the SushiBytes NFT project and active participant in the CNFT community since April 2021. Certified public accountant with 13 years of experience in financial and tax reporting. Experience with managing non-profits.

Stephen Whitenstal (QDAO)

Stephen Whitenstall has 30 years' experience in organizing academic, community and business projects. Relevant experience for this proposal includes Program Test Management (IBM) and Quality Assurance Management (BNP-Paribas). He currently develops, maintains documentation and provides technical project management support for various Catalyst projects.

Challenge amounts should only be proposed in increments of $25K. Other amounts not in these increments will be rounded up. E.g. $27,500 will be rounded up to $50,000.