NFT (movement) on Astar is about to start, Feb. 2022

Mario Vukelic
5 min readFeb 18, 2022

Let’s take a peek at some of the upcoming NFT releases, marketplaces, and news on Astar and Shiden Networks. If this is your cup of tea make sure you load up with ASTR cookies on time. In case you need them, here are a few good tutorials:
How to transfer ASTR tokens from Exchanges
How to buy ASTR on a DEX
How to load up your MetaMask with ASTR

Astar Degens

Astar Degens is the first big DAO project on Astar. Their goal is to incubate promising projects and bring new ideas to the Astar Ecosystem, through the help of their community-governed DAO fund. Their upcoming NFT mint will be utilized to bootstrap their DAO treasury, with 70% of the funds going directly into the DAO wallet immediately upon minting. As a community without hierarchy, they are aiming to reward their DAO members by incentivizing active community engagement, and supportive cooperation within Astar and the wider Polkadot ecosystem. Whether you are an artist, creator, influencer, developer, passionate degen, or ape; all are welcomed, and all will be rewarded for their constructive contributions. The DAO ultimately hopes to be a conduit for bringing new ideas forward, and becoming a catalyst for helping to build a robust future for the interoperable block-chain space,
This project is supported by the core Astar team.

astardegens.com
Mint date: 2022-Feb-21, 13:00 UTC
Mint Price: 600 ASTR
Tokens: 10000, max 5 per person
Marketplace: TofuNFT
Priority list: No, all degens are born equal
Royalties: 3% and all goes to DAO account
dApps-staking rewards: all rewards go to DAO account

Astar Bots

The uniqueness of its art and the low mint price make a perfect combination of low barrier entry to start rolling the first collection of NFTs on this Blockchain. Utility? All AstarBots holders will participate in the DAO, where the future of the project will be determined along with getting rewarded. In addition, it is the first of their projects to introduce a deflationary system (“graveyard system”) that will be activated by default 48 hours after the minting is done. This system will sweep the floor a random number of times daily/weekly and burn them, causing the size of the collection to decrease over time. When will it stop? DAO will decide.

astarbots.com
Mint date: soon
Mint Price: 150 ASTR
Tokens: 8800, max 2 per person (more for priority listed)
Marketplace: TofuNFT
Priority list: Yes

Astar Punks

Astar Punks is the first NFT collection derived from CryptoPunks built on top of the Astar network. It focuses on being a gateway and support for artists who wish to build their NFT collections on Astar. They will build a DAO where the community will run the projects. Among its future plans is also to build a staking dApp to benefit Astar Punks holders.

astarpunks.com
Mint date: 2022-Feb-25
Mint Price: 150 ASTR
Tokens: 8888, max 2 per person (more for priority listed)
Marketplace: TofuNFT
Priority list: No.

SFY

SFY is a team of digital creatives focused on 3d art. They are the creators of Donkey Gang, a collection of badass NFT donkeys that live on Kusama which have received great success. The team wants to present themselves in the Astar ecosystem with a collection of 10 unique 3D artworks and in Q2–2022 they will mint their high-quality NFT collection on Astar Network. More information will be shared very soon.

SFY Twitter

TofuNFT

TofuNFT is a multi-chain NFT marketplace for collectibles and GameFi. They provide numerous creative improvements to the existing marketplace experience like incentivized bidding, real-time notification, attributes filtering, bulk listing, and rarity explorer.

Marketplace: TofuNFT

Real1

Real1 is developing a marketplace dedicated to the issuance of certified NFTs, EVM, and WASM compatible. These NFTs will be connected to digital and physical artworks. Two partnerships have been concluded with the first two content providers: ARTTS and NFG. NFG for Non-Fungible Galaxy is a marketplace that will be managed by a French music label and radio: FG. This label has contributed to the emergence of all the big stars of the French electro scene.

Real1 Team Twitter

NFTYLabs

NFTY Labs is a foundation focusing on the growth of NFT ecosystems by building open-sourced, community-based tools that will unlock inherent utility and value within NFTs. NFTY Lab’s goal is to create new applications that offer new utilities for NFTs, and they aim to do this by utilizing a core feature of all NFTs: ownership.

NFTYLabs Twitter

About Astar

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