Please describe your proposed solution.
In collaboration with Harmonic Labs, Empowa has implemented an ecosystem specific marketplace that allows community members to trade NFTs using a Cardano native token that is unique to that ecosystem. If the NFTs being traded are related to the ecosystem (e.g. metaverse, music publishing, games) and therefore valued in that ecosystem’s token, this marketplace removes the risk of needing to exchange the token for ADA to trade the NFTs on generic-use marketplaces. Fees collected for trades are also kept within the ecosystem, to be used to benefit the project.
The smart contracts for this marketplace have been developed in plu-ts, which demonstrates to potential future Cardano developers that there are other alternatives to the existing smart contract development options. The code repository for the smart contracts is available for review at <https://github.com/empowa-io/ecosystem-marketplace>.
A fully implemented version of the marketplace (including frontend processes), is available in the Preprod version of the Empowa Explorer at <https://preprod.empowa.app>.
This proposal is requesting funds to perform the following:
- Prepare test cases to support its open source and auditing.
- Have the smart contracts audited by a reputable third party (e.g. MLabs, Anastasia Labs, Vacuumlabs).
- Whitelabel the frontend components used for interacting with the marketplace.
- Provide documentation.