Cardano NFT Column: CardanoBits – The Cryptonomist

This week’s guest on Cardano NFT column is a pixel art project that is among the first 10k NFT collections: CardanoBits.

Last week’s guest was a project, then building the book ecosystem of the future.

This initiative is a reference point for NFTs on Cardano and every week or so we will invite someone to answer some questions and give us an update directly from the Cardano community.

Considering that many of our readers are new to the crypto space, we want one mix of simple and technical questions.

Cardano NFT Project: CardanoBits

Hi, glad to have you here. Introduce your team, where are you from, what is your background?

Hey, the joy is mine! We are two systems engineers, specialized in artificial intelligence, entrepreneurs and born in Argentina. We share the tasks, so one of us takes care of it social part and the other by technical part.

What is CardanoBits? It seems to take inspiration from the famous CryptoPunks NFT collection on Ethereum.

Well CardanoBits is a project that was originally born as a marketplace for NFTs in Cardano (hence the name) but since we started putting it together it wasn’t even possible to have NFTs in Cardano, we decided to do a twist and create the first collection of NFTs that existed.

We love pixel art. In fact, part of the impulse to study systems engineering was to make games, so if we were going to make a collection of “art”, it had to be in our favorite style. I personally did all the designs.

CryptoPunks were a big inspirationnot because of the style (although it seemed different), but because it was the one first digital art collection ever created.

CardanoBits gets lower parts to get ready for the metaverse. Will it be possible to use Cbits to go around the various metaverse projects that build on Cardano? Tell us more about this and other things in store for the project.

Yes exactly! Based on the fact that the community, for months, asked us to make one marketplace (like SpaceBudz, for example), we decided to focus on developing it.

Take advantage of the opportunities to smart contractswe add to the new website a functionality to be able to see the #cbits that every person has in their wallet and, after embossing the lower parts, they can see directly on our website what the complete CardanoBit would look like, in addition to be able to download it in the 2D version … and also in the near future the 3D version.

The idea is that people can connect the different metaverses (either 2D or 3D) and use their favorite CardanoBits as avatars.

I think this is the way to build one collaborative futureinstead of creating our own metaverse.

Can you share your thoughts on the current NFT and metaverse space on Cardano? Do you have any projects you’re keeping an eye on? Maybe for future collaborations?

I think we are on one very early stagenot only in Cardano, but in all existing blockchains with respect to the metaverse. I estimate that in two to three years we will have functional metaversesand what is going to give the big push is that big companies and brands are buying land to offer digital and unique experiences, using the characteristics of non-fungible tokens.

NFTs on Cardano are very well designed on an architectural level, as they are created as native tokens on the network, rather than being contracts (as, for example, in Ethereum). I feel this gives a lot flexibility for downstream use.

Well, the metaverse projects I personally follow are: Clay Nation, Beyond Rockets and Virtua. There are more floating around, but I try to base myself on the ones that get good business deals and shows constant development.

Thank you for your contribution. Any last words? Where can people learn more?

I think the work you are doing is very good and I feel it giving the NFTs a place in Cardano more visibilityso thank you very much for that.

To learn moreyou can visit our Twitter and we will soon have the new version of ours website.

See you in the networks, hooray!

Disclaimer: The opinions and views of the people interviewed are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Cardano Foundation or the IOG. Also, this content is for educational purposes, it does not constitute financial advice.