There have been substantial changes to our development this month as we decided to transition much of our backend and transaction building infrastructure to Lucid https://github.com/spacebudz/lucid

As Lucid makes us of Node.js and JavaScript it is easier to implement and deploy with the other components of the project.

Given this transition is still underway no new commits have been made to the GitHub repo of the project, but all the progress that has been made so far can be viewed on: https://github.com/NFT-Guild/NFT-Swap-Infrastructure-Templates

As mentioned in the previous monthly report, given that the second part of the project was not funded in Fund 9, development will slow down in the coming months, as we need to refocus our priorities, but we are dedicated to seeing the project to completion.

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

We have prepared and included a comprehensive Development Status Report for the month of November 2022 (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VV4DI2wFd69YzddcywLraOX-UfUsk3GVzTgumGVJ9pI/edit?usp=share_link).

Our GitHub repo also demonstrates the progress that has been made since our last report. https://github.com/NFT-Guild/NFT-Swap-Infrastructure-Templates

In addition to the smart contract code the GitHub repository also includes the accompanying documentation.

Work has also begun on adapting the UI/UX flow that we have attached last month. Progress is expected next month.

Given that the second part of the project was not funded in Fund 9, development will most likely slow down in the coming months, but as of now we are dedicated to seeing the project to completion.

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 ⁃ …

NFT-Guild: NFT Royalty Standards - Report 5 - 800266 - October 2022

Since our report last month we have held the 8th and 9th Roundtable events focusing on presenting ways of improving the royalties and NFT verification standards. The main focus of Roundtable 8 held on September 21, 2022, was exploring an alternative NFT verification model based on public keys, signatures, and hashes, while in the 9th NFT Guild Roundtable, held on October 5, 2022, we continued the NFT Verification standard discussion, and presented the community with a dilemma. Watch the recordings and read more on our dedicated page www.nft-guild.io/the-nft-roundtable

As usual, video recordings of the NFT Roundtable meetings are made available to the wider Cardano NFT community on our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4aKv2_v4Zm8YFJS3VJLuOw

The NFT Guild CIP editor, Filip Blagojević, has drafted a first version of the new royalties CIP and has posted it to the Cardano Forum for community consultation, following standard CIP procedure. https://forum.cardano.org/t/cip-draft-nft-royalties-functionality-expansion/109166

The NFT guild CIP editor, Filip Blagojević has been so far compensated from the budget of this funded proposal. Please find a detailed tracking of his work so far here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1riVCBk9VjYMP8s-RZpschFsBIZZEz_y-ny0nSiRYBfI/edit?usp=sharing

Compensation for Filip’s contributions has been sent with: Transaction ID 42bea5ff017d46bf12019d26d107f4f7d913a3ae0817829eaf97b8d6c6a9fbb1 e45ab1eff4a73b01d201fff718da1b81f9fca2711315a0dadb7229b5c67deef5

Starting in May 2022 we have begun organising and hosting the NFT Roundtable, in collaboration with the Cardano Foundation, with representatives of key projects from the Cardano NFT space in order to explore the possibilities that community collaboration can create for reaching the untapped potential Cardano has as core infrastructure for digital assets.

Besides the Roundtable, the weekly NFT Guild calls are a regular event, Tuesdays at 15:00 UTC, we’ve been hosting since January 2022. Our most recent open community call, from Tuesday October 18, 2022 had as its main feature a presentation/demo from Catalyst Fund 8 grant winner NFTify - a whitelabel NFT Marketplace solution, already live and available to all Cardano project creators (2.5% tx fees) - https://nftify.network/ https://youtu.be/ma_tMBTLXqo

Transcripts of our meeting are available on our website. We are archiving all our NFT Roundtable documentation and resources, as well all the other data related to the activities of the guild on our website: https://www.nft-guild.io/the-nft-roundtable

Apart from our public meetings and and the biweekly NFT Guild Roundtable event we are also hosting weekly internal working calls, each Friday at 15:00 UTC.

Our Discord community has grown steadily this past month and we are now sitting at 256 members: https://discord.gg/7HCxDryPHk , meaning that we have already surpassed our goal of onboarding 250 members by the end of the year.

Our Twitter community has also grown steadily and our account is now sitting at 136 followers, meaning a 13.9% increase from the 120 followers reported last month https://twitter.com/the_nft_guild

Starting in July we have started paying a monthly stipend of $1250 to the 5 NFT Guild contributors. The amount is payed half from the treasury of this proposal 800266 and half from the treasury of the proposal 800324 NFT-Guild: Standard for verification of NFTs - https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/398372

Since the NFT Guild has not received any funding in Fund 9, we have taken the decision to cut the monthly compensation to $850 starting October. This represents a symbolic amount, that in no way is a fair reflection of the volume of work put in by the core contributors to keep the guild operational. However we have taken the decision to continue our activities for the foreseeable future.

All budget movements for this proposal, as well as all other NFT Guild proposals are transparently tracked in the dedicated channels of the NFT Guild Discord server: https://discord.gg/7HCxDryPHk

Since our last report we made substantial progress on the smart contract side.

We published the first version of the smart contract template on GitHub. https://github.com/NFT-Guild/NFT-Swap-Infrastructure-Templates

In addition to the SC code our GitHub commit also includes a draft of the documentation that will be polished over the coming months.

We have also made progress on the UI/UX design side of things and have completed a design for the users flow and are in the process of creating the needed elements (see attached image).

We have prepared and included a comprehensive Development Status Report for the month of September 2022 (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lAlTo6DF7QsgJ_ieMRjXfa5civqUN8SJp797QSyjaOs/edit?usp=sharing).

Development is currently focused around the backend functionality, namely the smart contracts. We have encountered some issues, as described in the dev. report, but we are actively working to address them.

Since last month development on some front end functionality has also started, as described in the status report.

Since our report last month we have held the 6th and 7th Roundtable events focusing on presenting ways of improving the royalties and CIP-68 & CIP-67. The main focus of Roundtable 6 was a presentation & discussion with Thomas Vellekoop, co-creator of CIP 67 & 68 (new token metadata standards) while in Roundtable 7 we went over 6 possible directions in which the royalty standard for NFTs on Cardano could be evolved.

As usual, video recordings of the NFT Roundtable meetings are made available to the wider Cardano NFT community on our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4aKv2_v4Zm8YFJS3VJLuOw

Since August the NFT Guild recruited Filip Blagojević in the role of CIP editor. Having now successfully conducted several workshops, presentations and consultation calls with the community and key players in the Cardano NFT space, our next step is to draft the first version of an improved and updated NFT royalties CIP, which we have already begun doing.

The NFT guild CIP editor, Filip Blagojević has been so far compensated from the budget of this funded proposal. Please find a detailed tracking of his work so far here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1riVCBk9VjYMP8s-RZpschFsBIZZEz_y-ny0nSiRYBfI/edit?usp=sharing

Compensation for Filip’s contributions has been sent with: Transaction ID 42bea5ff017d46bf12019d26d107f4f7d913a3ae0817829eaf97b8d6c6a9fbb1

Starting in May 2022 we have begun organising and hosting the NFT Roundtable, in collaboration with the Cardano Foundation, with representatives of key projects from the Cardano NFT space in order to explore the possibilities that community collaboration can create for reaching the untapped potential Cardano has as core infrastructure for digital assets.

Besides the Roundtable, the weekly NFT Guild calls are a regular event, Tuesdays at 15:00 UTC, we’ve been hosting since January 2022.

We have also started providing transcripts of our meeting on our website. We are archiving all our NFT Roundtable documentation and resources, as well all the other data related to the activities of the guild on our website: https://www.nft-guild.io/the-nft-roundtable

Apart from our public meetings and and the biweekly NFT Guild Roundtable event we are also hosting weekly internal working calls, each Friday at 15:00 UTC.

Our Discord community has grown steadily this past month and we are now sitting at 236 members: https://discord.gg/7HCxDryPHk , meaning that we are well on track to achieving our goal of onboarding 250 members by the end of the year.

Our Twitter community has also grown steadily and our account is now sitting at 120 followers. https://twitter.com/the_nft_guild

Starting in July we have started paying a monthly stipend of $1250 to the 5 NFT Guild contributors. The amount is payed half from the treasury of this proposal 800266 and half from the treasury of the proposal 800324 NFT-Guild: Standard for verification of NFTs - https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/398372

All budget movements for this proposal, as well as all other NFT Guild proposals are transparently tracked in the dedicated channels of the NFT Guild Discord server: https://discord.gg/7HCxDryPHk

We have prepared and included a comprehensive Development Status Report for the month of August 2022 (link attached).

219 Discord members; 115 Twitter followers

Starting in May 2022 we have begun organising and hosting the NFT Roundtable, in collaboration with the Cardano Foundation, with representatives of key projects from the Cardano NFT space in order to explore the possibilities that community collaboration can create for reaching the untapped potential Cardano has as core infrastructure for digital assets.

Most recently, in the third roundtable event we have also been joined by a number of IOG representatives eager and willing to listen and assist the NFT builders community through the platform we are providing.

For now our discussions have mainly focused on the verification standard, however the royalty standard has been brought up multiple times during our talks and our weekly calls.

The weekly NFT Guild calls are a regular event, Tuesdays at 15:00 UTC, we’ve been hosting since January 2022.

Video recordings of the NFT Roundtable meetings are made available to the wider Cardano NFT community on our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4aKv2_v4Zm8YFJS3VJLuOw

We have also started providing transcripts of our meeting on our website. We are archiving all our NFT Roundtable documentation and resources, as well all the other data related to the activities of the guild on our website: https://www.nft-guild.io/the-nft-roundtable

We have also begun collecting survey data from our members and partners for feedback on the topics of our discussions, as seen in the attached image.

Apart from our public meetings and and the biweekly NFT Guild Roundtable event we are also hosting weekly internal working calls, each Friday at 15:00 UTC.

Our Discord community has grown steadily this past month and we are now sitting at 202 members: https://discord.gg/7HCxDryPHk , meaning that we are well on track to achieving our goal of onboarding 250 members by the end of the year.

Our Twitter community has also grown steadily and our account is now sitting at 81 followers. https://twitter.com/the_nft_guild

Starting in July we have started paying a monthly stipend of $1250 to the 5 NFT Guild contributors. The amount is payed half from the treasury of this proposal 800266 and half from the treasury of the proposal 800324 NFT-Guild: Standard for verification of NFTs - https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/398372

We have completed defining the user stories and have build the first smart contract prototypes and deployed on the testnet.

Our lead developer, CENT, is taking most of the month of July off for his summer activities, but development on the project should resume as scheduled after that.

We are well underway with the development of the project and have defined a large number of user stories that will guide our development process forward. We are keeping track of the user stories on a Miro board available here: https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVOvXGmd0=/?share_link_id=646499859679

On the project management side we have identified the key stages of the project and are planning to keep track of our progress here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vPJJvi-F61nRmD4f370uCgAhxtiTkz-LJyLTcV8H5Fw/edit?usp=sharing

We have also already started presenting the project and proposed solution to Cardano NFT projects and developers.

We’ve been hosting regular recurring NFT Guild weekly calls since January 2022.

Starting in May 2022 we have begun organising and hosting the NFT Roundtable, in collaboration with the Cardano Foundation, with representatives of key projects from the Cardano NFT space in order to explore the possibilities that community collaboration can create for reaching the untapped potential Cardano has as core infrastructure for digital assets.

Working on improving the royalty standard is one of the key areas we’re focusing on.

The NFT Roundtable will serve as a starting point for us to gather information and organise more in-depth, working meetings and focus groups to devise solutions, and compile those solutions into a new CIP.

Video recordings of the NFT Roundtable meetings will be made available to the wider Cardano NFT community. The recording of the first meeting has been meticulously timestamped and is available at: https://youtu.be/O8ITNnRcP8I

We also plan to archive all our NFT Roundtable documentation and resources, as well all the other data related to the activities of the guild on our website: https://www.nft-guild.io

We organised the first NFT Guild working meeting on 20.05.2022 to discuss next steps for all the funded NFT Guild standards proposals. We have planned additional sessions to go into more depth about the implementation and needs of each project.

We had the initial meeting with our developer, CENT. We have planned several additional high-level and working meetings.We are currently in the process of determining if/when we will be bringing other development talent onboard.