Please describe your proposed solution.
Stoa is a groundbreaking new way for projects and community members to connect.
Atrium has nearly completed development of Stoa, a smart contract that allows users to create and customize a profile NFT. Developed by Kompact, Stoa will store users' name, bio, status, XP, customization options, connections, and more in the smart contract’s datums.
Stoa NFTs follow the CIP-68 metadata standard. They can be updated using our user-friendly interface, giving users and projects the ability to customise the appearance of their publicly facing profile, whilst recording activity and ‘level up’ with engagement, earning rewards along the way.
The opportunities for Stoa to evolve are endless due the way the datums interact with smart contracts, opening the door to a wide range of on-chain activity linked to the profiles.
Minting
Minting an NFT profile, starts with choosing whether to approach the platform as an individual user, or as a larger organisation. Choosing an account name, display name, and including a brief about section.
User Profiles
For an individual profile, the user can add links to other social media accounts, and select profile tile visibility, in case you want to hide information from the profile. Options to change avatar, profile images and other theme customisations can be selected. The list of options will grow as profiles ‘level up’. More on that later.
Once the profile is created, users will be able to display their NFTs, tokens, staking stats and connections they make on the platform. They will also have a feed which is composed of objectives created by the projects they own and the projects/users they choose to follow.
Project Profiles.
For larger organisations, enhanced customisation options are available to allow brands to shine. Token projects can showcase key token data and price action. NFT projects can show off collections, whilst displaying the NFTs you yourself own. Stake pools can display their metrics, whilst allowing users to stake directly through the profile. Non-token organisations can display corporate info, news feeds and project information. In the future, projects with applications such as DEX’s can build swap functionality into their profile.
Level up.
Stoa NFT profiles can earn experience points through a variety of ways, daily logins, claiming tokens, posting messages, staking, swapping just to name a few. As profiles level up in experiences, new unlockables such as profile customisation items, avatars, special edition NFTs become available. Partner organisations are welcome to contribute to this.
The proposal put forward here focuses on funding the front-end platform that displays Project information from the NFT, and grants access to the profile. We have other proposals to help us fund other sections of development, as this is a continuous project that we aim to expand over time with new and exciting features on our roadmap.
How does your proposed solution address the challenge and what benefits will this bring to the Cardano ecosystem?
Project profiles will eventually allow developers to integrate their working on-chain products directly into their NFT. Smart contract developers that release open-source code without a working product can display all of their contracts on one page. We're building a way for developers to connect to users.
How do you intend to measure the success of your project?
User feedback will be our measure of success. Continuous onboarding of Cardano projects and users will be another metric.
Please describe your plans to share the outputs and results of your project?
The outputs of this proposal will be a platform that lives on Âtrium offering the ability for users to mint a profile & project NFT, add information such as display names, status, links, connections and imagery.