NFT Guild Operations

[GENERAL] Summarize your solution to the problem.

The NFT Guild identifies common problems and needs, coordinates efforts, creates open spaces for discussions.

[GENERAL] Summarize your relevant experience.

The NFT Guild was started in November 2021 by the Cardano Foundation and is now spearheaded by Cardano community members. 

We have very diverse backgrounds and expertise: 

Developers, SPOs, artists, NFT project creators, community managers and organisers.

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[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

The NFT Guild is an Assembly of highly engaged and dedicated Cardano Community members which come together to identify & initiate solutions for the healthy growth of the NFT Ecosystem

We organise Community Events & Initiatives to nurture collaborative efforts of Community members, key players and thought leaders of the NFT space

Weekly Community Calls ( Public Events )

In these Events we hold general discussion on the NFT Guilds operations & activities while receiving input & feedback from the Community. This helps us stay close to the real needs and challenges the NFT Ecosystem and community are facing.

Cardano NFT Roundtable

The Cardano NFT Roundtable (CNR) is an initiative between Cardano Community Members, NFT Platforms, Minting solution providers, Toolmakers, Cardano Ambassadors the NFT Guild and the Cardano Foundation, coming together to discuss and align on common challenges and to identify & initiate solutions to support the healthy growth of the Cardano NFT Ecosystem and its Community.

What this Event tries to solve

The NFT Ecosystem consists of various groups, projects and interests, often acting in silos and therefore blocking its own emergence and evolution. The NFT Roundtable aims to gather influential people and projects within the NFT Ecosystem, start some first conversations across multiple centers and to break existing silos and to gather crucial feedback on common challenges

Calls happen on Zoom and are recorded & uploaded for an open access to the NFT Guild Youtube Channel and website.

CNRs takes place on a bi-weekly basis.

These calls are hosted & moderated by the NFT Guild.

The NFT Roundtables have been a great success so far and we are able to have a strong list of Roundtable participants which are able to drive a strong impact on discussed topics

Roundtable #1

Roundtable #2

Part of our mission has been to identify the needs of the Cardano NFT community and formalise them as a Challenge Setting in Project Catalyst.

The Fund 10 version of the challenge setting is here:

https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/417910

Further, there is a serious demand of time investment from the NFT Guilds members to communicate, coordinate & collaborate our actions across the Cardano NFT Ecosystem and Community.

[IMPACT] Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.

The NFT Guild aims to become a nascent DAO structure on Cardano and provide the framework for how other innovative DAOs can operate on our blockchain.

Our members have great experience with setting up and organising community frameworks and our medium to long-term goals seek to codify this experience and create tools and infrastructure for the community.

[IMPACT] What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?

The main risk is a lack of participation from the Community to engage in the NFT Guilds solutions & ideas

To mitigate this risk, we are looking to collaborate with strong community projects which are able to raise awareness of the NFT Guilds activities and operations and to ensure that Community members are aware, motivated and encouraged to participate in our initiatives.

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed plan, including timeline and key milestones for delivering your proposal.

Q3 2022

• Hosting & Organising the weekly NFT Guild community meetings 
• Hosting & Organising the bi-weekly NFT Guild Roundtable Meetings
• Constantly being in touch with the Cardano NFT community and identifying its common needs and problems
• Finding solutions to common issues and helping to formalise them as CIPs or tools
• Building connections between the most important actors of the Cardano NFT space

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

This Budget Breakdown covers a timeframe of 4 months from September to December 2022

Weekly Guild Operations & Misc. Expenses (tools & services)

$625/week x 16

Weekly Guild Community Calls

$625/week x 16

Biweekly NFT Guild Roundtables - Organisation & Communication

$625/week x 16

TOTAL: $30000

It should be noted that we have collectively decided to allocate 42.5% of the total budget of our funded F7 proposal to the guild treasury for Q2 2022 NFT Guild operations.

https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/NFT-Alliance/384031-48088 

However this is a symbolic amount as the funds for that proposal represented simply a test and validation of the NFT Guild concept.

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide details of the people who will work on the project.

NFT Guild Core Team

CENT ( @cent )

Stake Pool operator of the pool CENT since December 2019. 20 years of experience in software development. Creator of the community tool Cardano Blockchain Intelligence. Graduate of the Plutus Pioneers Program cohort 1, 2021. Project Catalyst proposer since F6. 

Felix Weber ( @felixweber ) - Bridge Builder & Networker, Funded Proposer, CA & Catalyst Circle v1

Anamaria Kövesdi (New Mindflow)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anamaria-k%C3%B6vesdi-354649106/ 

Rares Kövesdi (New Mindflow)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rares-k%C3%B6vesdi-551260106/ 

Artists and entrepreneurs, in the CNFT space since day 1, creators of the Trybbles & Icons Cardano NFT projects. Project Catalyst participants since F3. Members in various Catalyst projects, initiatives & communities over more than a year. 

Award-winning filmmakers, film and animation directors, app and game developers. In 2021 they moved into the web3 economy granting new life to one of their projects in the form of an NFT collection on Cardano.

Peter Wolcott ( @sirwolcott )

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

Stephen Whitenstall 

( @swhitenstall ) has 30 years' experience in organising academic, community and business projects. He develops, maintains documentation and provides technical project management support for Catalyst Swarm.

In Fund 6 of Project Catalyst, Stephen's organisation QA-DAO https://quality-assurance-dao.github.io was funded on several significant projects, including Distributed Auditability https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Distributed-Auditability/366707-48088 and Oversight of Catalyst Circle https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Oversight-of-Catalyst-Circle/370088-48088, and Stephen was co-proposer on a number of other successful proposals around community engagement, auditability and transparency.

In Catalyst Circle v2, Stephen was the representative for Catalyst Coordinator (Funded Proposers) .

Other NFT Guild Proposals

NFT Community & Ecosystem (Fund10 Challenge Setting)

https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/417910  

NFT Swap Infrastructure Templates 2

https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/417999 

[FEASIBILITY] If you are funded, will you return to Catalyst in a later round for further funding? Please explain why / why not.

As we do not aim to develop a business model on top of the NFT Guild, it is most likely that we return to future Catalyst Funding rounds to enable resources for a further development of the NFT Guilds activities and operations

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or any member of your team working on any other proposals in this Fund9?

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or your team working on any other proposals from previous Funds?

[AUDITABILITY] Please describe what you will measure to track your project's progress, and how will you measure these?

The NFT Guild hosts a weekly call where progress is shared and discussed in addition to the calls needed for collaboration on this particular project. We would be glad to have you join any of our calls to hear the progress or join our project.

Join our Discord for more details: https://discord.gg/7HCxDryPHk

All transactions and contributor rewards are transparently tracked in the NFT Guild Discord Server. 

KPIs / OKRs:

• Number of new voters/collaborators from the NFT industry into Catalyst

• Number of NFT projects following the agreed standard

• Number of NFT marketplaces that have implemented the standard

• Number of NFT minting tools using the standard

• Number of NFT projects that implement the open-source tools developed by the NFT Guild

• Number of NFT Guild Community Events and Initiatives

• Onboard 250 Guild Members by the end of 2022

The NFT Guilds activity & operation are tracked on 

Discord https://discord.gg/EAb4wmxAuR 

Dework https://app.dework.xyz/i/5GIhGAttV2lcEThoUUVWck 

Website: https://www.nft-guild.io 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/the_nft_guild 

GitHub: https://github.com/NFT-Guild 

[AUDITABILITY] What does success for this project look like?

A well-established NFT Guild with an active community server with discussions and events to establish standards. A Github site with standards, specifications and best practices freely available to the Cardano NFT space.

Vibrant & constant community engagements & interactions in our events, Discord and social media channels.

The success of this proposal will also be defined by having resources to maintain the core activities and operations of the NFT Guild and to build a center of gravity for general ideas, visions and solutions which support the healthy growth of the Cardano NFT Ecosystem and which provides an open and collaborative space for the community to engage & interact.

[AUDITABILITY] Please provide information on whether this proposal is a continuation of a previously funded project in Catalyst or an entirely new one.

An entirely new proposal