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NFTMozaic at Consensus, 2025!

NFTMozaic has landed in Hong Kong for the annual CoinDesk Consensus conference! NFTMozaic’s presence was kickstarted with the official Consensus Hackathon, driving NFT innovation among developers through challenges, focusing on NFT creation on Polkadot’s Asset Hub.

Quick Introduction: Participation & Key Goals

As a key player in shaping the future of NFTs on Polkadot, NFTMozaic actively participated in the EasyA x Consensus Hackathon, engaging with aspiring developers as a leading Polkadot project.

Polkadot’s Asset Hub is increasingly becoming a major player in the Polkadot ecosystem and a crucial part of infrastructure in the Polkadot Hub and Cloud vision. Asset Hub is emerging as a foundational chain for NFTs and fungible assets—distinct yet complementary to the specialized parachains that expand Polkadot’s feature set.

However, the lack of developer experience and the right people to strengthen development activity to generate ideas and applications is challenging.

One of our core missions as part of NFTMozaic to solve this challenge is to ensure that developers are equipped with the best, easy-to-use tools, such as the NFT SDK, a universal indexer, and clearly defined use cases to make development easy.

For the Consensus Hackathon, our goals were simple:

  • Open developers’ minds about NFT tech on Polkadot
  • Build an NFT functionality on Polkadot’s Asset Hub
  • Lower the barriers to entry to NFT dApp development

NFTMozaic’s Presence at the EasyA x Consensus Hackathon

The primary challenge was to develop a functional in-browser dApp on Polkadot’s Asset Hub that enables:

  • Defining an NFT collection
  • Minting one or more tokens within that collection
  • Displaying the minted tokens on a webpage

Participants developed projects utilizing the Unique SDK, Polkadot.js, and Polkadot API, aligning with NFTMozaic’s mission to drive adoption and technical advancement in NFT infrastructure on Polkadot.

Optional Challenges

For teams looking to go beyond the basics, two additional challenges were introduced:

  • Enhanced NFT Metadata: Supporting OpenSea metadata, including audio and descriptions.
  • Marketplace Features: Implementing buy/sell functionality using a Polkadot wallet.

Projects were evaluated on functionality and code quality—ensuring practicality for future developers looking to build on Polkadot Asset Hub. Clean, well-documented implementations were prioritized to use the best submissions as tutorial references for future builders.

The NFT SDK was recommended due to its streamlined integration with Asset Hub, but developers could also leverage PolkadotJS or PAPI.

For more information, check out the challenge Github page here.

NFTMozaic Hackathon Winners!

Congratulations to our winner and runner-ups:

  • Winner: MozaicDot by Sushmit Sarmah interacts with Polkadot's AssetHub to enable comprehensive NFT functionality. The platform facilitates the creation, deployment, viewing, buying, and selling of NFTs within the Polkadot ecosystem.
  • Runner-up: Nemwork by Tokyo and his team is a blockchain-based AI Pet platform to help crypto enthusiasts manage assets and connect socially with unique NFT pets powered by Polkadot and Aptos.
  • Runner-up: FrameUs by Sylvie creates a solution that gives all the fans the possibility to donate to the charities of their idols.

We want to extend a big thank you to all of our participants and everyone who submitted for the NFTMozaic challenge. Lastly, congratulations to our winner and runner-ups!

Consensus Hong Kong

Feedback from Hackathon Winners

We asked the hackathon winners to share their thoughts on the challenge experience, specifically focusing on:

  • Ease of adoption
  • Perceived benefits in contrast to Polkadot.js and PAPI
  • Documentation experience and improvement suggestions: Would you continue using it if you decided to work on an asset hub NFT project?

MozaicDOT – Sushmit Sarmah

  • “Going through the code and typescript did make things easier and it was an easy process after that.”
  • “Benefits are immense. Instantly connected to Asset Hub with NFT deployment and views”.
  • “Yes, will continue the project and keep pushing code. The docs need improvement and more details when it comes to Asset Hub”.

FrameUs – Rahul Kumar

  • “I found the SDK to be very easy to adopt. Creating NFTs on the Asset Hub was straightforward and intuitive”.
  • “The main benefit I see is simplicity. The SDK significantly reduces the amount of code needed to create NFTs compared to Polkadot.js and PAPI. This efficiency is a major advantage.”
  • “The documentation was clear and helpful. I was able to find the information I needed to get started and work effectively with the SDK”.

Beyond the Hackathon

NFTMozaic engaged in insightful discussions, including:

Power Panel: Re-cap for an exclusive talk with Charu, Filip, and Seraya from the Web3 Foundation.

Charu’s talk: Tools to Enhance Developer Experience & UI for NFT Development on Polkadot.

Consensus x EasyA X Spaces: A look into the hackathon and NFTMozaic’s challenge.

Consensus Hong Kong

Get Involved & Build with Us

NFTMozaic is committed to making Polkadot the leading ecosystem for NFT innovation. Whether you're a developer or an NFT enthusiast, there are plenty of ways to engage:

Closing Thoughts

Key Takeaways:

  • Helped developers explore all the possibilities of Polkadot NFTs
  • Led the way for future collaborations and projects to build on Polkadot
  • Onboarded developers to the ecosystem
  • Collaboration with other projects and EasyA is key to Polkadot's overall success

The EasyA x Consensus Hong Kong Hackathon showcased the incredible potential of NFTs on Polkadot and, most importantly, on Asset Hub. By lowering the barriers to entry and providing developer-friendly tools, such as the Unique NFT SDK, indexers, and NFT pallets, Polkadot Asset Hub is making NFT creation and adoption more accessible than ever.

Our core focus is to continue bridging the gap for NFT development.

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