In the coming month of July ’22, the Prinseps auction house in Mumbai plans on opening their new season with an NFT exhibition that caters to the works of renowned Bengali modernist Gobardhan Ash and Oscar-winning costume designer Bhanu Athaiya’s fashion sketches — a move that in some sense, summarizes how 2022 has been for NFTs. In a nytshell, the past few months have been about adaptation. In the second half of 2021, the NFT hype reached a peak it has not touched since then — anybody and everybody was talking about NFTs — and everyone had something to say. The market was giving newsworthy s ..read more

The past few months brought a lot of networking opportunities where we as a newly founded NFT Marketplace could go and connect with people in the ecosystem. Naksh was present at events across the world — including ETH Denver and ETH Amsterdam. Naksh’s launch at ETH Denver was a success as we got to showcase our work for over a week at the Satellite space where all major blockchains were present. The founders also gave an interview with Startup grind, Pune as a part of their ‘All about NFTs series’ where they discussed Naksh’s beginnings and its growth. Later in the year, the team w ..read more

In March 2022, Naksh Marketplace received a Launch grant from Harmony which enables us to build on their blockchain and incorporate Harmony into Naksh. Harmony is a Layer-2 open blockchain that is fast and cheap — with the added ease of interoperability with other blockchains. The company, which was founded in 2018 aims to create a large-scale decentralized infrastructure for over 10B people in the future — operating on the same scale as Facebook and Google in a decentralized environment. One thing that differentiates Harmony from most other blockchains is their focus on the number of no ..read more

Hi! This is the inaugural community newsletter of Naksh Marketplace! Our newsletters will be a series of bi-monthly blogs where we update our community about anything and everything that has been up with Naksh. From product developments to event attendances, we talk about it all here. Highlights We are delighted to announce that the Naksh BETA version went live earlier this year at the ETHDenver event. Since the launch, our team has been working constantly to make the platform more refined. We organized a feedback channel for our users, where the team received valuable input from our&nbs ..read more

Kerala Murals — an ongoing legacy Murals are the traditional paintings done by exceptional craftsmen onto the walls . Kerala murals are an ancient form of art where the walls are made using traditional methods and then are painted by artists. These fine mural paintings from Kerala stand out from other mural paintings for their use of a vibrant and bright colour scheme and their finesse. They take utmost dedication and also have been considered as a form of worship to God. Kerala mural paintings have been a part of our culture since a very long time and have been traced back to a ..read more

The artists of Naksh — Kanchan Jha ‘The artists of Naksh’ is a series of interviews which aims at establishing a relationship between the artist and the buyer of the art. All traditional artworks on Naksh are crafted manually by the artists and their teams, and in this series we will try to get a closer look at the lives and stories of the pallbearers of traditional Indian art in modern times. The inaugural interview of this series invites Madhubani artist Kanchan Jha , who speaks to Ankit Sharma from Naksh about her background, practice and her ideas surrounding art in gen ..read more

Traditional Art and NFTs NFTs have been the talk of the town recently. They’re being talked about everywhere and have taken the world by storm. They’ve been especially popular with the youth. With NFTs being sold for millions of dollars , Big Companies like Marvel and Celebrities like Amitabh Bachchan launching their own NFTs into the market , these digital assets have recently exploded in relevance and in value. Anything and everything is being turned into a Non-Fungible-Token these days ranging from something as basic as a selfie to more creative fields such as art and paintin ..read more

2021 ended on the highest possible note for NFTs. Collections were selling out left, right and centre — along with prices shooting up nonchalantly. All the big names across various industries were dipping their hands in the pot of gold that seemed to be ever increasing in size, and their followers followed — a phenomenon which shot up the global market capitalization of NFTs to $40 billion — right next to the global market cap of the Art industry which stands at $50 billion. This was mostly possible because of the marketing influx that NFTs have arrived with — most social media platforms are n ..read more

NFT is a fad. NFTs represent equal opportunity. NFTs will make a lot of people a lot of money, but many people will just lose their shirts over them. NFTs are a confusing scenario right now. If you observe a keen interest in the tech world, or you’re an artist, creator or even just someone who regularly uses Instagram — chances are you’ve already heard a lot about NFTs and their developments. Big names, large amounts of money, new promises, some jargon and much more — NFTs have presented themselves to the world with a bang. But the fact remains simple — whether or not you believ ..read more

NEAR Protocol — towards Web3 NEAR protocol is a proof-of-stake layer-1 blockchain that was founded in 2017. Widely known for being robust, easy to use and scalable — NEAR has established its image as a reliable blockchain to build upon in recent years. The protocol is a constantly updated set of codes upon which the ecosystem is based, and is fuelled by a variety of members from all over the world — and this article will talk about some of the things that are most important to the NEAR ecosystem. One thing that really helped NEAR succeed as a blockchain was their transaction throughput of ..read more