NFT / Web3 Toolset Breakdown 101☕🦩 (2024 Updated)
I have seen many projects, be that by brands or web3 natives, not utilizing the proper infrastructure which can help them scale and grow their projects. So here’s a quick breakdown of some of the platforms which can be useful if you are in the web3 space.
In no particular order, and some might not seem to fit the scope, but when you put your imagination to use, anything goes.
Premint — The Web3 Allow list platform allowing creators to define the audience for their project by setting specific requirements such as Minimum ETH Balance, Passwords, Twitter AUTH, NFT Ownership etc..
Learn more about Premint here: https://www.premint.xyz/
SZNS — Platform which enables you to tokenize NFTs and own the NFT together with others. Depending on the tokens allocation, you can easily vote to buy, sell, earn together with other owners through DAO proposal structure.
Learn more about SZNS here: https://www.szns.io/
ZORA — Marketplace and toolset for building NFT Products and Collections. Enables artists and builders to mint their own collection with few steps + much more.
Learn more about ZORA here: https://zora.co/
Guild.xyz — Enables Token gating and membership management for your communities. It’s platform agnostic (supporting: discord, telegram, and others)
Learn more about Guild.xyz here: https://guild.xyz/
POAP Place — Extension of the POAP Ecosystem, it enables you to create POAPs using a simple interface and directly create an event with the POAP within the interface.
Learn more about POAP Place here: https://snowdot.github.io/poap-place/
Percs — Seamlessly activate loyalty programs and incorporate token-gating to NFT collection post-mint.
Learn more about Percs: https://www.getpercs.com/
PartyBid — Enables you to form a party/group to join forces and buy NFTs as a team.
Learn more about the PartyBid: https://www.partybid.app/
Artiva — Enables you to create a custom NFT Marketplace with a no-code platform.
Learn more about Artiva here: https://artiva.app/
Fair.xyz — Proprietary Blockchain Tech startup which enables users and brands to create fair, safe, and transparent NFT launches for collections. Enabling no-code launch will layer-based mechanics.
Learn more about Artiva here: https://fair.xyz/
Nouns Builder is a tool that allows any DAO to form and govern completely on-chain in the format of Nouns DAO.
Nouns are an experimental attempt to improve the formation of on-chain avatar communities. While projects such as Cryptopunks have attempted to bootstrap digital community and identity, Nouns attempt to bootstrap community and identity with the additive layer of governance and a treasury.
Project was created by the team at ZORA.
You can learn more about the project itself here https://nouns.build/
Linkdrop is a platform that enables brands/creators to create claim links to deliver NFTs to any users, even those who don’t have a wallet yet.
Creators / Brands mint the NFTs on the blockchain, and distribute the claim links to their audience in physical or digital formats. There is also an ability for the user not to pay any fees (Polygon example)
Learn more: https://linkdrop.io/
Tropee is a platform targeted toward existing communities and NFT collections. In summary, the platform enables creators/brands and others to pick templates and build exclusive utility-based experiences for any community, either your own or as an add-on to an existing collection (Partnership)
Holders of the NFT from a specific community can then access those utilities, where some of them include:
- Whitelists
- Physical
- Merchandise
- Event Tickets
- Exclusive Content
- Raffles, to name a few.
The platform also allows specific NFT trait targeting. Meaning you can unlock utilities for specific traits of the NFT Collection.
- Example: “If BAYC has golden fur — He is eligible for the utility”
Learn more about the Tropee: https://www.tropee.com/
Highloop is a platform crafted by the team at Exclusible which, in summary, acts like a CRM Tool for brand based web3 collections/drops.
It enables brands to create digital collectibles in a few click and distribute them according to their needs/vision.
The platform is targeted toward onboarding brands within the web3 space. Hence it is user-accessible and does not need coding, wallet, or crypto.
Furthermore, Highloop supports in-depth community/collection moderation and analysis features.
Learn more about the Highloop here: https://www.highloop.io/
Artblocks Engine is the newest offering of the famous generative art platform Artblocks. The goal of the platform is to bring immaculate on-chain generative art towards the masses and enable brands to create compeling products and drops with generative art.
Engine offers 2 types of licensing. Fully on-chain or off-chain.
Other things to note is that when partnering with Art Blocks Engine brands are able to bring their own artists to create the generative art or they can ask Art Blocks team to connect them with artists within the ecosystem.
Learn more about Art Blocks Engine here: https://www.artblocksengine.io/
Ready Player Me is a known platform within the space of virtual avatars and identities. It enables users to create their own personalized avatar which can be used within numerous platforms that support RPM.
In terms of the brands RPM enables them to create their own garments and pieces for the virtual avatars and mint them as NFTs.
Learn more about RPM here: https://readyplayer.me/
Tekuno.xyz is probably the newest application within this list. Created on top of the NEAR Blockchain tekuno enables brands / creators & artists to create NFT Based campaings.
Platform uses social login to create custodial wallets for the users which in term means that users do not need to open wallets by their own when interacting with the platform but rather have an option to export their private key to their own account if they choose to.
Learn more about Tekuno.xyz: https://tekuno.xyz/
Uniqly.io is a one stop shop of NFT based physical and digital merchendise. Platform enables you to create a webshop which is print-on-demand based.
Brands / Creators & Projects are able to choose if they wish to handle the supply and shipping on their own or leave it up to the uniqly.io team.
Users are able to purchase physical pieces on the platform through crypto and fiat. After the merchendise arrives it’s connected with the NFC reader and enables the user to get the corresponding NFT of the physical asset.
Futhermore, Uniqly supports metaverse based platforms meaning except for the digital and physical users are able to recieve Sandbox, Decentraland and other corresponding wearables.
Learn more about Uniqly.io: https://www.uniqly.io/
IYK is a platform which offers products in-charge of verifying the ownership and IRL attendance such as:
- Tokenized Apparel
- Authenticated GuestBooks
- IRL Minting
- Targeted Rewards
They have partnered with POAP previously and offered people the ability to have their own personalized POAP based cards.
Learn more about the IYK: https://www.iyk.app/
Hypermint is a sister company of MoonPay. It enables brands fast, secure and scalable solution for NFT minting.
Futhermore, platform is directly connected with the MoonPay system, enabling end-customers to purchase NFTs directly through FIAT.
Learn more about the HyperMint: https://hypermint.com/
NiftyKit is an no-code solution for NFTs which enables ease of creation of numerous NFTs without the need of development.
Platform supports multiple features such as:
- Token Access (Embedded Content, Media)
- Waitlist (Access List)
- Revenue Split between the members of the project & more.
Learn more about NiftyKit: https://niftykit.com/
Nilos is a all in one payment platform to recieve, track and pay in Crypto & FIAT. If you are a project looking to hire external or in-house team to help you scale your vision this is the payment solution you should be looking at.
Learn more about Nilos: https://www.nilos.io/
Certhis is a no-code NFT platform enabling brands, corporations and traditional users to create their NFT collections across multiple chains. Users also have the ability to manage the NFT collection and integrate it to their website.
Learn more about Certhis: https://certhis.io/
Kalder is a unified web3 tooling platform for brands and creators to drive meaningful engagement, onboard new users, and reward communities of super fans. They recently announced the collaboration with the NEAR Blockchain and currently allowing waitlist access.
Learn more about Kadler: https://kalder.app/
Tribute Labs is the go-to open source framework for DAO creation. Whether you want your project to have a DAO based governance or you want to build your own DAO from the ground up Tribute labs is here to support.
Learn more about Tribute Labs: https://tributelabs.xyz/
Mojito is a web3 consumer engagement platform which enables brands, corporations and traditional users to a wide range of products ranging from: Proof of Attendance NFTs, Airdrops, Auctions, Drops, Token-Gated Experiences, Marketplaces, Memberships and Loyalty Based campaigns among others.
Learn more about Mojito: https://www.getmojito.com/
Polyflow is a powerful web3 customer insight and analytics tool. It enables web3 dApps to view who their customers are and what is their on-chain activity.
Learn more about Polyflow: https://polyflow.dev/
3Mint is a web3 toolkit for brands and customers alike. It enables users to create a wide-variety of marketing / product based campaigns while utilizing NFT based technology.
Some of the primary use-cases 3Mint is offering include:
- Loyalty & Rewards
- Engagement Campaigns
- Token Gated Commerce
- Digital Community
Learn more about 3Mint: https://www.3mint.io/
Galxe is the leading platform for building web3 community. With over 11 million unique users to date, Galxe has propelled the growth of Optimism, Polygon, Arbitrum, and more than 2700 partners with reward-based loyalty programs ranging from traditional tokens to NFTs.
Learn more about Galxe: https://galxe.com/
RMRK is a set of NFT standards that compose several “NFT 2.0 lego” primitives. Putting these legos together allows a user to create NFT systems of arbitrary complexity. Firstly build on the polkadot network it expanded to EVM and currently has multiple standards which allow developers to create multi-resources and modular NFT.
Learn more about RMRK: https://www.rmrk.app/
QuestN is a do-to-earn platform where projects and protocols fund a liquidity pool that is quest-based. Users earn as much as they participate in these quests. Unlike some other Web3 quests platforms, signing up on QuestN is relatively easier as the users can simply log in with their Discord and Twitter profile rather than only their wallet addresses. The platform is not only limited to the supported quests, as various protocols or platforms can create their own quests as well.
Learn more about QuestN: https://app.questn.com/
The Manifold protocol is a complete NFT toolkit that aims to return full control to digital creators through NFTs. Enabling creators to mint unique and dynamic NFTs through immutable contracts, as well as create NFT galleries and auction sites. Developers can also use Manifold to build on NFT experiences with configurable widgets, APIs, and frameworks.
Learn more about Manifold: https://manifold.xyz/
These are some of my personal favorites, and we always strive to utilize them while working with different brands and projects within RZLT.
If you are ever in need of a better understanding of the tools, processes, or anything in between, feel free to reach out to us. We are always building something cool in the web3 space.
