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List of NFT Projects​

Asset Hub​

The Asset Hub is a system chain which provides functionality for deploying and transferring assets — both Fungible and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). The Asset Hub currently hosts Uniques pallet (its use on AssetHub is not encouraged) and the NFTs pallet.

A more in-depth overview of the Asset Hub pallets and developer resources available to the developers can be found in the dedicated section about NFT pallets.

Astar​

Astar Network and its sister network Shiden Network are smart contract infrastructure in the Polkadot Ecosystem, i.e. they are rollups that support EVM smart contracts. Astar supports NFTs developed with EVM smart contracts and Wasm smart contracts.

Astar has all the toolings available that every EVM NFT developer knows. The availability of those toolings makes the onboarding to Astar networks desirable to any developer looking to explore the Polkadot Ecosystem. Astar has an active community of artists and NFT enthusiasts. Besides supporting all EVM toolings, Astar also bootstrapped the Wasm smart contract environment for NFT developers writing smart contracts with ink! based on PSP34 (Polkadot Standards Proposals).

The main advantage of having a multi-virtual machine environment for NFT developers is that it gives builders more possibilities for the use cases they are developing. With the support of Wasm smart contracts, developers can create solutions like RMRK with smart contracts.

Developer tools and documentation links:

Basilisk​

Basilisk is a Kusama parachain that provides liquidity for the ecosystem. It also has a full-featured NFT platform based on the Uniques pallet. One of the key features of Basilisk is that it allows minting NFTs with a royalty fee. This royalty fee is distributed to the original creator of the NFT via the runtime pallet. Additionally Basilisk offers a feature that allows creating a buy order for a specific NFT.

These NFTs can be viewed and interacted instantly on KodaDot.

nft-basilisk

Crust​

Crust is primarily a storage solution. A separate section is dedicated to NFT storage solutions.

Darwinia Network​

Darwinia Network is a decentralized heterogeneous cross-chain bridge protocol built on Substrate. It focuses on decentralized cross-chain token swap, exchange, and market and it is an EVM-compatible blockchain.

NFT marketplace available here.

KodaDot​

KodaDot is an open-source NFT marketplace that operates on the Polkadot Ecosystem and beyond (Polkadot and Kusama Asset Hubs, Mantle, Base, and Immutable zkEVM), striving to aggregate various NFT standards and enhancing user experience.

KodaDot's strength lies in its commitment to open-source collaboration. It has transformed into a collaborative hub where creators, developers, and community members work collectively for decision making, amassing an extensive network of over 90 open-source contributors. This robust collaboration has earned KodaDot the number one rank as a dApp in the Polkadot ecosystem on Github.

See below a video tutorial about how to mint your NFT on the Polkadot Asset Hub using KodaDot.

KodaDot Tutorial on Minting NFTs

For more information about minting using KodaDot see this step-by-step tutorial.

History of KodaDot​

KodaDot began as the first unofficial explorer for RMRKv0.0.1 contributing to RMRK protocol. It later received Kusama Treasury funding, which propelled the team to create great end-user experience on the Asset hub.

In the summer of 2022, KodaDot won the first prize at the Polkadot North American event for implementing MoonBeam and MoonRiver NFT EVM smart contracts and enabling read-only access to existing components for seamless end-user interaction.

The team successfully launched with Basilisk NFT Marketplace pallet in Fall 2022, where an increasing number of artist collections are emerging, providing artists the opportunity to receive offers on unlisted NFTs and earn on-chain royalties.

KodaDot's upcoming integrations are based on PSP-34, leveraging smart contracts written with ink!.

Ecosystem Tools by KodaDot​

KodaDot has enriched the Polkadot ecosystem by offering a comprehensive API interface for builders, based on the SubSquid indexer. This platform also presents searchable items and collections, translating on-chain transactions into deep insights about collection ownership dynamics for end-users. For more info about KodaDot check out link.

MNet Continuum​

MNet Continuum (ex BitCountry) specializes in providing Metaverse as a Service (MaaS) to all networks. Their decentralized application (dApp) offers users the tools to create and customize a metaverse, run and reward a community through immersive quests, and mint and trade NFTs. Users can enjoy metaverse gaming, learning and networking.

Minting And NFT Generators

Moonbeam​

Moonbeam and its Kusama counterpart Moonriver are full EVM deployments with Ethereum RPC endpoints.

This means that the entire toolkit offered to other EVM chains (stacks like Hardhat, Remix, Truffle, Metamask, etc.) are available to Moonriver / Moonbeam users and developers, giving it a noticeable head start in attracting existing userbases.

Several dozen high profile teams are launching their products (or re-launching) on Moonriver / Moonbeam, however, it is essential to note that Moonbeam is an EVM chain and will therefore suffer from the same limitations as any other EVM chain in regards to customization and feature-richness of NFTs.

A notable advantage, however, is that Moonriver / Moonbeam is still a Substrate chain, meaning integration of custom pallets into the runtime is still possible, making NFT specific optimizations at the chain runtime level a reliable way to keep EVM compatibility of tools while at the same time optimizing storage and interactions for rich NFTs.

A convenient directory of Moonbeam dApps can be found here: Moonbeam dApps

Developer tools and documentation links:

Minting a Cross-Chain NFT with Axelar SDK Deploying an ERC-721 Contract Example

Mythical​

Mythical Games is an online gaming platform that implements NFTs in its gaming ecosystem. Mythical Games has Mythos Chain, an L1 rollup in the Polkadot ecosystem that implements the Polkadot NFTs pallet to provide advanced NFT functionalities.

Mythical offers a platform for game developers with comprehensive documentation and onboarding guides, to ensure anyone can get up and running in time. The primary integration path is REST APIs, but SDKs are also available upon request.

Developer tools and documentation links:

NFTMozaic​

NFTMozaic is a Polkadot project created with a goal to establish Polkadot as the leading ecosystem for NFT-related applications by providing effective technology, support, business development and marketing efforts focused on this market segment.

Its efforts are focused on strengthening the positioning of Polkadot’s NFT ecosystem through strategic content, alliances, and growth programs. It aims to launch a grants program for consumer-facing MVPs, an NFT-focused website, educational journals, and more.

NFTMozaic aims to provide a comprehensive entry-point for both business and development aspects of the NFT technology. To achieve this it brings together all interested members of the Polkadot ecosystem that provide NFT functionality in their projects to the table and strives to establish a common guidance and cooperation platform as a way to ensure that all the contributors benefit from a joint effort and the best possible solution is sought.

NFTMozaic links:

Nodle​

The Nodle Network is a decentralized wireless network, composed of Nodle Edge Nodes, powered by the Nodle Chain, and the NODL token.

Nodle NFT Minting Tool

Unique Network​

Unique Network is a specialized Polkadot parachain offering advanced “NFT 2.0” capabilities—including dynamic, nested, fractionalized and composable NFTs—coupled with a hybrid environment that blends EVM and Substrate. Positioned as a front-runner for innovative NFT solutions, Unique Network streamlines creation, management, and cross-chain functionality via sophisticated developer tools and an in-house NFT SDK that substantially simplifies implementation of advanced NFT features and shortens the time-to-deployment. This approach allows dApps to harness both advanced Substrate logic, security and native speed and EVM compatibility, which aligns with Polkadot’s emerging “Cloud + Hub” framework.

Unique Network focuses on B2B use cases, aiming to be an infrastructure provider for others to build on, rather than entering the NFT space themselves as an end-product.

Unique Network is spearheading the effort to develop the XCM utility towards accomplishing a bridgeless and secure cross-chain interoperability and transfer mechanism for NFTs in the Polkadot ecosystem.

The Unique Network blockchain is specifically designed to support advanced NFT features. One very successful example of how this approach resolves complexities is demonstrated in the following unique way to create NFTs. In the Unique Network blockchain implementation builds NFTs as independent addressable objects instead of enumerated entities of a contract (ERC-721, Ethereum, EVM approach.) Since they are addressable, they can explicitly become recipients of a transfer. This means that they can receive and contain another NFT just like a wallet does and in this the receiving NFT becomes a container to the contained/received NFT thus forming an object tree with a parent/child relationship. As a result the nesting mechanism stems from the nature of transferability of blockchain objects, requires no additional contracts and is intrinsically a fast operation managed by simple transfers instead of dedicated nesting operations.

These are the additional advantages of Unique Network dedicated NFT 2.0 blockchain:

  • Nested NFTs can be organised into structured bundles
  • NFT bundles can contain NFTs, RFTs and fungible tokens
  • The metadata format of an NFT can have arbitrary attribute structure and complexity
  • An NFT is intrinsically multi-asset
  • Mutability of attributes can be limited to only specific addresses or contracts providing access control to metadata modification
  • Management rights capability allows for management roles i.e. separation of application and owner rights to metadata management
  • Intrinsic mutability of metadata provides out-of-the box, contractless dynamic NFT capabilities
  • NFTs can be fractionalised (RFTs - refungible tokens)
  • Due to metadata format flexibility and mutability, it is possible and very simple to implement on-chain data obfuscation for enhanced privacy

Unique Network provides a fully featured EVM with a few perks:

  • The EVM address space (0x…) is mapped to the corresponding Substrate address space which simplifies object and contract access between the EVM and Substrate objects via CrossAddressing mechanism. This means that you can mix and match technologies. For example you can have a native NFT call an EVM contract. This is the core mechanism for extending and customising NFTs for specific use cases.
  • This also means that a native Substrate object is addressable in EVM applications without an intermediary address handling contract, i.e. applications like the Metamask wallet can address Unique Network Substrate objects directly. This greatly improves efficiency.
  • Unique network EVM utilities contain interfaces to the blockchain’s core Substrate pallet functions which allows Solidity contracts to directly invoke them.
  • This interoperability is fully supported by the JS/TS SDK allowing rapid development even in the mix-and-match scenario.

The recommended and most efficient way to build on Unique Network is via the JS/TS SDK version 2.0. The SDK interacts with the blockchain via an RPC eliminating the need to build and maintain a complex development environment. It fully implements the Unique Metadata Schema 2.0. The Unique SDK allows the creation of NFT assets on the Asset Hub as well which makes it a very versatile tool for NFT management and creation on the Polkadot ecosystem.

Developer tools and documentation links:

The most prominent projects that currently implement Unique Network’s advanced NFT capabilities are

A more comprehensive list can be found on the pages of the official website.