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      • ✨Getting Started with KodaDot
      • ⭐Beginning of Story
      • 🏆Achievements
    • 🗝️Why are NFTs valuable?
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  • GENERATIVE
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    • ✅Code Checker
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      • 🟢Auto Teleport
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    • 🔥Burning
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      • ERC1155
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    • Kusama Network
      • RMRK1.0
      • RMRK2.0
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      • Uniques V2 (Next generation NFTs)
      • Basilisk NFT Pallet
    • Smart Contracts
      • Ink! NFTs
      • GNFT (ERC-721)
      • Dynamic NFTs
  • Legal
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  1. About Us
  2. Who are we?

Beginning of Story

Explore the origins of KodaDot, an open-source NFT marketplace in the Polkadot ecosystem, and learn about the founders' mission to create a collaborative and inclusive platform.

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KodaDot's Co-founder, , discovered the potential of the Polkadot ecosystem while researching developers. He decided to delve deeper and built a web-based Subket. With this tool, users could:

  • Create a Substrate account from a mnemonic and hex seed

  • Load their account

  • Sign data

  • Verify signatures

During his project, yangWao encountered challenges and identified a lack of resources for Vue native developers in the Polkadot ecosystem.

To address this issue, he teamed up with Co-founder and created , featuring Vue.js libraries, utilities, and classes. Their efforts received a grant from the in 2019.

KodaDot's Evolution: From Experimenting to NFT Marketplace

Although successful, yangWao and Viki wanted to make their creation more practical and useful for themselves. They tried different ideas, such as an and visualizing blockchain blocks in AR/VR. However, these projects didn't meet their expectations for continuous innovation and community collaboration.

Their path changed when they found 's work on the for the Kusama Network. They studied the and realized the flexibility of Substrate Data. The duo built an RMRK.app NFT reader, which gained traction within the crypto community. This accomplishment inspired them to develop KodaDot, and, after submitting a to become an NFT explorer, it emerged as the first public good in the Dotsama ecosystem.

To learn more about KodaDot's inspiring journey and growth, read .

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yangWao
Substrate
Viki
https://vue-polkadot.js.org
Web3 Foundation
Automated Registry
Bruno Skvorc
RMRK.app
rmrk-spec repository
proposal
here