The RMRK team has been at the forefront of NFT innovation for the past year, inspiring both collaborators and clones in and outside of the Dotsama (Polkadot and Kusama) ecosystem.

Based on our growing social media followership and community engagement as well as the number of projects being launched on the current version of RMRK and planned on the new iterations, there is a clear demand for the technology that we are building. Since we started in April 2021:

- 6700 collections live
- Total volume of over 500’000 KSM including secondary sales
- A total of over 30000 unique accounts have listed NFTs on RMRK’s platforms, resulting in current numbers of over 16500 distinct owners of RMRK1 NFTs and over 28500 distinct owners of RMRK2 NFTs: a total of over 35000 currently active collectors

The NFT 2.0 functionality we have pioneered is also seeing heavy use. To date:

- Almost 100’000 multi-resource NFTs have been launched, NFTs that are multiple things at the same time (a song with a visualization, a profile pic with a static output and a composable one, an ebook that has an audio book counterpart).
- Over 50’000 equippable NFTs have been launched, with 50 new equippable collections underway and in active development. These are NFTs that can be placed into other NFTs, but are otherwise stand-alone. They are often cross-collection compatible, ushering in a “global item economy”.

With our EVM and Rust versions in MVP stage, we are on the precipice of being integrated with the majority of the Dotsama ecosystem chains.

Thus far, the technology has been largely independent of [$RMRK token](https://singular.app/tokens) use, allowing free and ungated experimentation, building, and ecosystem expansion for both partners and competitors in any direction they choose - with or without our token, and yet, looking at RMRK token activity, there is a clear community demand for more utility and easier use:

- over 4000 holders on Moonriver, Bifrost, Karura
- over 4300 diverse holders on Statemine alone
- Tens of thousands of holders on Kucoin and Gate.io
- over 11% of all RMRK has been bridged over to Moonriver
- ~35 million USD in weekly volume on Kucoin alone

However, with the soon to be released new utilities of the RMRK token, we are encountering multiple pain points related to the token’s presence on the Statemine common good chain.

Notably, our community are experiencing difficulties with regards to transfers, withdrawals, and trading, and these experiences are not only impacting the use of centralized and decentralized exchanges, but also encumbering the development of our [Skybreach metaverse](https://skybreach.app), the intended crown jewel of our project, and a value add for DotSama.

## The Problem

Statemine is a common good parachain in the Kusama ecosystem intended as a common ledger of basic balances of fungible and non fungible tokens. Minimalism is at its core - it lacks programmability on purpose and serves as a “home” for canonical balances of chain-less tokens like RMRK, or Parity’s company retreat attendance NFTs.

To protect against spam, Statemine uses two methods:

1. It requires a deposit for every new class, a class being a collection of NFTs, or a type of fungible token (e.g. RMRK).
2. It requires an existential deposit of KSM before an account can be “primed” in order to be able to receive any non-KSM tokens on the network.

This means that in order to receive a token on Statemine, an address first needs to have an initial balance of KSM.

With a relatively straightforward implementation of the Teleport function in the default [Polkadot JS UI](https://polkadot.js.org/apps), this is generally not a problem for individual crypto native users. However, it poses an enormous challenge for non-crypto-natives, for multi-signature and hardware-wallet-using investors, and for centralized exchanges. Let’s explore each:

1. Non crypto natives have a hard time navigating the Polkadot JS UI. For these users, the interface is overwhelming and confusing, and no dedicated wallet exists for this particular case of “feeding Statemine accounts with KSM on Kusama'' that would also be usable in other contexts. As such, the only option right now is the admittedly frightening power-user-oriented Polkadot JS UI.
2. Multi-signature accounts and hardware wallets also suffer from a lack of usability in the Dotsama system, and using them for everyday interactions is often quite difficult. n particular, multisigs are only available on Polkadot JS UI and their use often feels like a black box, especially for non-technical users as they need to wrangle terms such as multisig deposit amounts and call data vs call hashes. Ledger has been notoriously slow in implementing timely support for Kusama and Polkadot, and more recently Statemine, which is complicated further by the fact that these applications are, due to the size of the chain metadata, so large that one usually needs to uninstall all but one app on a Ledger Nano S device.
3. Arguably the biggest problem of all which trickles down into all other areas are centralized exchanges. They are used to thinking about token transfers through a different mental (and technical) model, and as such find it odd and surprising that they are unable to programmatically generate an infinite amount of valid deposit addresses for a user. Because of the existential deposit, a user is expected to prime their deposit address from Statemine itself, an operation inaccessible from Kucoin (since sending KSM there means sending it on Kusama) and so users are required to teleport KSM into an address on Statemine. To the average CEX user, this is simply an impossibility. This is admittedly a Kucoin UX problem, but it is not being made easier by the fact that (mostly) throwaway addresses (deposit addresses) need to be continuously topped up, lest their balance go too low to accept new token deposits. Gate.io has the same problem.

All told, the RMRK team has answered over 12’000 support requests from confused users about the RMRK token and its use on Statemine in the past six months. That is only the number of those we as a team replied to - those who figured it out with the help of our ambassadors and community are not counted.

## The Solution

There are two possible solutions to dramatically improve the usability of RMRK tokens.

1. Give RMRK sufficiency.
2. Move the RMRK token off of Statemine.

Despite our token already being bridged to [Karura](https://karura.network), granted sufficiency there, and made usable for paying transaction fees, where possible we would prefer to stay neutral. Thus, our preference is option 1.

### Sufficiency

Sufficiency is the concept of allowing a token on Statemine to exist and be used without accounts needing an existential deposit of KSM to accept the token.

This is achieved through a governance proposal passed through the Kusama council or public referendum, and entails “flipping a switch” on the Statemine end.

RMRK has completed the initial phases of our project, and we will soon be further expanding our scope with the launch of a metaverse and accompanying marketing efforts. Consequently, many of the issues identified will be further compounded by further growth of our project. As such, we strongly believe that it is in everyone’s best interest to make RMRK sufficient on Statemine as this, apart from making use orders of magnitude simpler, will allow us to:

- Move RMRK NFTs to Statemine, preventing Kusama node hard-drive bloat
- Allow trading of NFTs with RMRK tokens as currency
- Focus on supporting Statemine’s native NFTs as well
- Deliver the promised token utility without solely migrating to more programmable chains

Our proposal is to make RMRK sufficient through an external governance call, subject to community vote.

Call data on Statemine: 
```
0x32122000d1bc4259aeb77874ee7ca72a9763d6385763068b56bf47fcabd0d854311ab7c100d1bc4259aeb77874ee7ca72a9763d6385763068b56bf47fcabd0d854311ab7c100d1bc4259aeb77874ee7ca72a9763d6385763068b56bf47fcabd0d854311ab7c100d1bc4259aeb77874ee7ca72a9763d6385763068b56bf47fcabd0d854311ab7c1821a06000100
```

Hash on Statemine: 
```
0xe5183c1d4c58c6c5ab41b37d753eb6798d7e8f8176af5c8561f7ed8805fd7bab
```

Call data on Kusama: 
```
0x630001000100a10f0204060302286bee350232122000d1bc4259aeb77874ee7ca72a9763d6385763068b56bf47fcabd0d854311ab7c100d1bc4259aeb77874ee7ca72a9763d6385763068b56bf47fcabd0d854311ab7c100d1bc4259aeb77874ee7ca72a9763d6385763068b56bf47fcabd0d854311ab7c100d1bc4259aeb77874ee7ca72a9763d6385763068b56bf47fcabd0d854311ab7c1821a06000100
```

Hash on Kusama: 
```
0xb42f79bdb3eb16cb3d8d00bdafa4b41eee6e29813f3e098769b9ff0218c6be99
```

We would like to thank Raul Romanutti for help with this proposal!

Proposal for RMRK token sufficiency on Statemine

This is the work and treasury proposal for milestone 2 of the remaining work described initially here:
https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/234

Original motion is here: 
https://kusama.polkassembly.io/motion/205

**Milestone 2 will cover features such as:**

- custom derivation paths - derive multiple accounts from single master seed (partially covered in milestone 1)
- export accounts as JSON - ability to import to different wallets
- restore account from JSON (https://polkadot.js.org/apps/#/accounts)
- more options to import already existing wallet mnemonic seed (**QR code reader**)
- ability to have partial seed backed up on NFC tags (use 2 or more NFC tags to recover the full seed) --> **Shamir's Secret Sharing**, example: https://iancoleman.io/shamir39/
- finalise PWA website (mostly finished as part of milestone 1)

For milestone 2 we decreased the initial ask from **1000 KSM to 433 KSM** due to the recent price appreciation of Kusama and also the fact we managed to cover some tasks as per milestone 1.

It is our pleasure to work with this community and to build awesome stuff for Kusama.

Thanks for the support of all council members and everyone who helped to get this project from idea to "almost" complete app and website.

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NFC cold wallet for Kusama (milestone 2)

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On chain democracy proposal

Summary: We propose the addition of a new Registrar into Kusama to combat NFT plagiarism. The current registrars are not scalable to this use case and focus on a different aspect of verification. As a funded and NFT-focused team, we have the capacity, expertise, and desire to do this checking properly and for free without relying on or even verifying personal information of applicants.

Full proposal below.

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As on any NFT platform, there is plagiarism on RMRK's protocol, notably on the [Singular](https://singular.rmrk.app) platform which currently supports RMRK-based NFTs and is on the brink of supporting Statemine NFTs.

We have [some measures](https://app.subsocial.network/@rmrkapp/dealing-with-plagiarism-18790) in place to protect against this, and more planned (DAO-like community curation, staked minting), but we think manual verification is by far the most effective long term stamp-of-approval an account can get, and is especially important when onboarding an identity as a whole, not just a person's individual works and collections. It is also a necessary part or attracting new users to Kusama.

We propose adding a new Registrar into Kusama. This registrar would be run by the RMRK 4/6 Multi-sig.

The process consists of three phases:

### 1. Application

A potential minter registers an identity through the Singular platform via a simplified UI just for this purpose. 

> Note: We recommend minters create an identity **specifically** for NFTs in order to be able to quickly and easily later on make small alterations to the profile without losing the verification status and having to wait for a traditional re-verification of all fields.

This UI already exists but will be further improved in terms of UX. As an example, visiting "Your Space" on [Singular.rmrk.app](https://singular.rmrk.app) will allow a user to alter their identity information for the sake of customizing their profile. 

![](https://i.imgur.com/Uhp2P2i.png)

The information required to be verified would be at least one portfolio link, and some contact informaton.

Optionally, the user can provide other information as well, like legal name, social media contact info, etc. and all of this information will be vetted separately via cryptographic signatures.

### 2. Verification

Not-yet-verified minters' work does not show up on landing and SERP pages, but is accessible through direct links until community-curated.

To verify a user account, the vetters will:

- manually inspect the the work of the applicant, performing reverse-image search, reference search, and general web feedback.
- ask the applicant to prove ownership of the linked portfolio by including a cryptographically signed message on the portfolio in question.
- ask the applicant to prove ownership of every social media handle and point of contact using cryptographic signatures. This will be an automatic process similar to that used by Registrars 0 and 1.

Once an applicant has been verified, they are given the KnownGood judgement, essentially earning a "green checkmark" on any compatible UI.

A KnownGood minter's NFTs are automatically shown on the landing pages of standards-compatible UIs, search result pages, and other pages where people might randomly encounter them.

### 3. Upkeep and loss of verification

If a KnownGood minter breaks the T&C of any standards-implementing UI, their status is invalidated and set as Erroneous, and their works are automatically hidden from all standard-compatible platforms.

## Q&A

### Can another registrar already do this? Why is another registrar needed?

The current registrars focus on real-world identity. This registrar would focus on approving ownership over original work in an NFT minter's portfolio, which is something beyond the scope, capacity, and level of expertise of other registrars. The RMRK community - which will be included in these vettings - have a unique perspective on NFT matters and art, and our deep involvement in the NFT space across different blockchains uniquely positions us to reliably identify plagiarism. The accounts we verify **can be pseudonymous** - we only care about originality of work and applicant creativity.

### How much would the service cost?

An applicant would be required to deposit 0.5 KSM. This would be refunded after a successful vetting. Those applicants whose judgement request is denied because of a lack of a body of original work will also be refunded. The applicants whose request is judged as Erroneous due to detected plagiarism will not be refunded.

### What if you judge wrongly? What's the appeal process?

The vetting team will maintain an open channel of communication with every applicant in order to resolve the judging process quickly and fairly. This same channel can be used for appeals.

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## About RMRK

RMRK is a protocol and soon-to-be set of pallets and ink smart contracts that make ["art legos"](https://url.rmrk.app/dawn) possible, producing the most advanced NFT system in the world. The RMRK team is an independent and fully funded entity registered in Switzerland, Zug.

NFT Registrar: an anti-plagiarism registrar

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