Funded Proposal 900024 - Monthly Report 1 - November 2022

As described in the proposal the first one to two months will be dedicated to crafting the guides on which the consultations will be based on. The guides will also be made available publicly to a larger audience upon completion. We have completed the first version of the guides structure, which we have included in the last part of this report (also see attachment), as well as started writing the content of several chapters.

As part of the preparations to make the guides public, and host them on a publicly available website, we have also purchased the following domain names (receipt attached): • cardanonft.art • cardanonfts.art

As part of the preparations for the design of the visual elements of the guide we have also purchased an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription.

On the 19th of November 2022 we attended the Bangkok Cardano Summit and gave a short presentation on the state of Cardano NFTs and the assistance we and the NFT Guild can provide to projects and entities wishing to build projects on Cardano. Both during the summit’s main event and in the networking session that followed we have discovered a large number of people and organisations wishing to build projects on top of Cardano NFTs, in a variety of fields, ranging from arts and crafts distribution to agricultural products traceability. The connections we have made will undoubtedly prove valuable, both for this project, but also for the wider onboarding efforts that we are working on as core members of the NFT Guild.

Cardano NFT Creators Guides (Version 1 Structure)

Introduction? ⁃ Why Cardano? ⁃ What is Cardano? ⁃ How to view Cardano NFTs? ⁃ In Visualisers - pool.pm ⁃ In Wallet Galleries - Eternl - NuFi - Nami - ⁃ Why the need for these guides?

How to mint? ⁃ Minting services ⁃ Marketplaces ⁃ Collaborate with a developer

Mint Preparations ⁃ Metadata ⁃ Storage (IPFS/Arweave) ⁃ Metadata Limitations ⁃ Policy Keys ⁃ Royalty Considerations

Understanding Policy IDs ⁃ Open ⁃ Closed ⁃ Open vs Closed ⁃ CIP 68 ⁃ Reading Policy ID data

How to Sell? ⁃ At Mint Best Practices & Considerations ⁃ Aftermarket Marketplaces ⁃ Royalties

Additional Services for Mint ⁃ Whitelist ⁃ Claims ⁃ Airdrops ⁃ In-Wallet Dapp Connector ⁃ Mint Referrals ⁃ Staking Services

Fungible Tokens ⁃ Tokenomics/Distribution ⁃ Minting ⁃ Token Distribution Services

Community Services ⁃ Discord Roles/Access for Holders ⁃ Tiered Access/Rewards ⁃ NFT Linked Merch

Marketplaces ⁃ Overview of Cardano NFT Marketplaces ⁃ Verification - How to register a policy ID? ⁃

Interacting with the Chain ⁃ Explorers (cardanoscan) ⁃ How to read Cardano TXs?

Wallets ⁃ What to use? ⁃ What to recommend? ⁃ Capabilities vs Ease of Use

Mint Calendars ⁃ Options ⁃ When to apply?

Following the Markets ⁃ Market Statistics (Opencnft.io, Cnftjungle.io) ⁃ Collection Statistics (Cnft.tools, Cnftjungle.io) ⁃ …

Cardano Ecosystem Maps & Indexers ⁃ Ecosystem Explorers (Cardanocube.io) ⁃ Ecosystem Updates (Cardanofeed.com) ⁃ …

Other Cardano NFT Ecosystem Services ⁃ NFT AI Image Recognition and Protection (Argus/Aegis NFT) ⁃ Collection Storefront Builder (Niftify) ⁃ NFT Financial Services (Lending Pond) ⁃ P2P NFT Trading (Trading Tent)

Other Capabilities ⁃ Updatable NFTs ⁃ Multimedia NFTs ⁃ …

Since our last report we have written several more chapters of the Cardano NFT guides for newcomer artists. But overall progress has been a bit slower than predicted for several key reason: • A period of approximately 10 days of illness, a third of this month, caused by a severe flu and fever • The guides keep growing in scope. As the work on them progresses, we discover new topics that would be useful for artists new to NFTs on Cardano. We are mindful of scope creep, however what we have added so far are relevant topics that we think would be very useful for the guides to cover. Examples of entirely new chapters that we have added include Understanding Cardano Standards; Problems, Errors & Troubleshooting & About the Authors (we included a full list in the previous month’s report.) We hope to make more progress over the course of the next month as things will be quieter with the other projects that we’re working on, and hopefully we’ll not be further delayed by illness.

We want to reiterate for reference that after completion the guides will be publicly accessible on the following domains: • cardanonft.art • cardanonfts.art

This will be in addition to a pdf document that we plan to offer for download free of charge. We are also considering if it would make sense to create a GitHub repository with the guides, however, since they are primarily aimed at artists, the usefulness of this is debatable.

Although not directly in the scope of this proposal, the funding for this proposal has also allowed us to also continue our work with the Cardano NFT Guild. The treasury for that organisation is almost depleted, since it hasn’t received any funding since Catalyst Fund8. Among other things our roles (Anamaria & Rares Kövesdi) in the organisation are: project management, setting up and organising the bi-weekly Round Table events, post-production of the events, making relevant announcements, Cardano NFT consulting during our weekly open community, website updates and maintenance, treasury management and handling member payments. We estimate our contributions to be around an average of 12 hours/week/person. We mention this here as our work with the NFT guild has, among other things, served to onboard and offer guidance to people new to the Cardano NFT ecosystem, something that is very much aligned with the intent of these guides. If you are unfamiliar with the work of the NFT Guild, visit our website https://www.nft-guild.io