Building with RARI | Meet the Finalists of Ecosystem Grants Program Sprint #1
RARI Foundation is happy to announce the finalists of Sprint #1 of the Ecosystem Grants Program: CryptoRank, Dropframe, DAOSpace, Mintpad and Floor. Woot woot!
We are excited to welcome these 5 teams into the RARI Ecosystem and to work together on projects that align with RARI Foundation’s mission: to facilitate the growth of the NFT space via innovation on NFT use cases and financial opportunities for creators.
The teams were invited to build with Rarible API and on RARI Chain, and get a matching grant for building on both products.
Grantees, chosen from among 64 applications, were selected to receive 77,000 RARI in total grants for the building period of three months.
With Ecosystem Grants and this sprint in particular, RARI Foundation specifically focuses on:
Innovative NFT marketplaces and/or apps that scale the NFT use cases
Expanding NFT use in web3 verticals such as gaming, social, brand loyalty, digital collectibles, governance
Innovating on NFT primitives such as fractionalization, lending, non-transferable NFTs, (just to name a few)
Meet the grantees
CryptoRank is a well-established crypto analytics company that provides professionally curated research, price analysis, and crypto market news to help make informed trading decisions.
With the grant, the company will develop an NFT tracker page to represent most traded NFT collections using Rarible protocol and a cross-bridge to move NFTs minted on other chains to RARI Chain.
The latter allows users to cross-mint their NFTs from any chain support in the dApp to RARI Chain.
Dropframe will bring Farcaster Frames to RARI Chain and allow no code NFT drops on Frames. The mechanics are simple: add an image, choose a chain, choose parameters, add gas, paste in your link to Farcaster!
This integration will allow a simplified creator experience for minting as well as collecting NFTs on RARI Chain straight from Farcaster.
DAOSpace builds an on-chain reputation and identity protocol for DAO contributors using NFTs as proof of work that will appear on RARI Chain.
Their mission is to make DAO contribution more fun and enjoyable by creating a gamified system that incentivizes active participation in a DAO through Contributor Cards that are dynamic based on DAO participation. The ultimate goal is to make working in a DAO fun while allowing contributors to achieve financial freedom while maintaining an optimal work/life balance.
The grant with RARI Foundation will allow DAOSpace to run a pilot program with RARI DAO contributors and experiment with innovative use cases for NFTs such as implementing SocialFi which utilizes a reputation system for DAO members.
Mintpad, a no-code creator tooling platform, will launch NFT collections on RARI Chain. To date, Mintpad supports 30+ chains, with over 90k collections created on the platform.
Mintpad, your go-to free NFT launchpad, simplifies the process of introducing your unique collection to the digital world. With just your artwork and a cryptocurrency wallet, you're ready to go. The platform handles all the intricacies, offering an NFT creator tool that supports multiple chains and features a user-friendly, no-code solution. Their primary aim is to empower creators by seamlessly bringing their artwork, passes, tickets, and more onto the blockchain.
The first goal with the funding would be to get Mintpad working flawlessly with the RARI chain. This would give Rarible and RARI chain users access to all of the current creator tools as well as on-going support from Mintpad team.
Floor is the onchain everything app! Floor helps people discover new platforms, creators, and blockchains and stay connected to the onchain assets that they currently own.
This integration aims to help collectors discover RARI Chain NFTs and mint them directly through the app using in-app purchases.
Floor's Mobile Minting abstracts away the need to bridge across chains, simplifying the process to collect art, whether it is someone new to web3, or the most experienced web3 collector!
Additionally, Floor will provide NFT tracking support for the Rarible marketplace for both Ethereum and RARI Chain NFTs, enhancing the discoverability of current collections on the marketplace.
Want to build with RARI?
Ecosystem Grants is a joint initiative of RARI DAO and RARI Foundation to accelerate the growth of the RARI ecosystem and provide support to projects that align with our mission: facilitate the growth of the NFT space via innovation on NFT use cases.
RARI Ecosystem consists of Rarible Protocol and RARI Chain (L3 on Arbitrum).
The RARI Ecosystem Grants Program is designed to support builders, creators and other contributors to Rarible Protocol and RARI Chain with milestone-based funding and the RARI Ecosystem support to excel at their work. The program operates in sprints, which are focused on various types of applications, use cases and can be funded from different treasuries within the RARI ecosystem.
RARI Foundation is accepting and reviewing applications year-round.
If you’re a builder passionate about innovative NFT use cases – apply to the Grants program now to join the next Sprint.