NFTMart Discontinuation
We regret to announce that we will be discontinuing our Hive-Engine based NFT trading platform, NFTMart, effective May 26th, 2025. This decision was not made lightly, and we want to share our reasoning with our valued community.
Why We've Made This Decision
Over the years, our team has deeply invested in the Hive-Engine ecosystem - developing custom tooling, running nodes, and contributing to the codebase. One of our team members even maintained what was for many years the most popular and reliable Hive-Engine node for public use.
However, we've encountered persistent technical limitations that have made it increasingly difficult to deliver the quality service our users deserve:
Technical Constraints: Hive-Engine's architecture has posed significant challenges. For instance, the unchangeable grouping parameter has meant that marketplaces relying on basic functionality would potentially be misrepresenting NFTs to users. While we invested in building custom infrastructure to work around this issue, these types of limitations shouldn't require such extensive workarounds.
Recent Policy Changes: The introduction of transaction limits per block and new fee structures with less than a week's notice and no opt-in process has raised serious concerns about future stability and predictability. Particularly concerning is that with no required changes on the user side, many may end up paying fees without even realizing it. Users who transacted on more than 50 NFTs at once (a major reason that many use NFTMart) would get charged BEED or have their transaction fail. We don't know what other changes might come in the future, and we don't have the capacity to make changes with such short notice.
Underlying Performance Issues: Rather than addressing core optimization problems within the chain itself, these new limitations appear to be workarounds that shift the burden to developers and users.
Limited Upgrade Path: Our team even explored reimplementing aspects of the Hive-Engine blockchain to overcome these limitations, but discovered that the subpar performance and constantly changing contracts make this prohibitively complex for our resources.
Looking Forward
We remain deeply grateful to the witnesses and volunteers who have worked tirelessly on Hive-Engine, often without compensation. Their dedication is commendable.
To our users: we sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this discontinuation may cause. Your support has meant everything to us. Based on recent developments and hints about future changes, we believe it's in everyone's best interest to explore alternative sidechain solutions that can provide the stability and scalability needed for long-term growth.
Thank you for your understanding and continued support.
A real shame that NFTMart is closing its doors. Thank you for all you contributed to blockchain over the years. As a user, I always had an excellent experience with the platform. much success in what's to come!
On the other hand, the new change that requires paying BEED to perform multi-transactions on a block will also impact my platform, where we often handle transactions of up to 300 NFTs. Hopefully they will reconsider that measure.
I hope the best for your platform, it's already surpassed NFTMart in Rising Star support and hope you can do the same for other games in the future! As for engine, it's not just this measure, it's the entirety of how they operate that I feel like isn't worthwhile to keep up with. A lack of developer input before announcing something like this is pretty wild, especially coming out of the blue.
Sad tidings reach us today. My deepest gratitude to the entire NFTMart crew for these years of impeccable service. Your platform was the bridge that made the journey smoother for countless members of the Rising Star community.
Though this chapter closes, your legacy will live on in our collective memory. May fair winds carry you on the voyages ahead. Your contribution will not be forgotten.
A handshake and a heartfelt embrace,
Pp.
Yes, I too use them from Rising Star! It is such a sad day. I will miss them and not forget them either.
Thanks for using the platform! When we built it, we hoped to make dealing with NFTs on Hive easier for many people and it seems to have! We hope others fill the spot(and there's already some alternatives for certain games out there)!
these sorts of posts always make me a bit sad... But the logic here is sound. Sorry to see you guys go.
I am so sad too.
Sadly all good things have to come to an end.
Sad news, I have been using your site for forever, I will miss it so much. Thank you all for all your work for all these years.
Thanks for being a user! We hope it made your life easier!
Thank you for the great service you have provided for our players over the years and the support you have given me in so many ways.
It is sad to hear the the Hive Engine team seem to create more problems than they fix and it is a worrying thing to read about.
Good luck for your future endeavours.
Jux and the Rising Star team.
It was great working with you for the last few years! Hope the best for RS in the future too. We are still around, just working on different things, don't be a stranger!
May nftmart rest in peace.
Things come, things go nothing that is irreplaceable, when one goes another comes and as luck would have it, someone already has a replacement: https://hivenfts.com/
Much nicer, probably even more functional, no room for sentimental attachment.
Yes, the site seems great and has gone above and beyond NFTMart's capabilities! You guys are in good hands there!
pity
niftymart :bacon
A great time to look into @vsc.network
I'm still waiting for contracts to be released out there! @vaultec any update?
First smart contract on mainnet was tested on Sunday.
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Sorry to hear this, I love buying NFts for RisingStar game. I wonder where do we go to get them now? WAX perhaps?
@mateodm03 has created an alternative for Rising Star. I'll let them share more info here!
If you want an NFTMart style marketplace you can use this tool:
https://hivenfts.com/rising-star/buy/
In case you want to buy in bulk, I recommend this one:
https://risingstarutils.xyz/cheap/fans
Thanks @rishi556 for the promotion.
Nothing to apologize for. There is only thanks for the service you provided and for even your current concern with us.
Many successes to all and I hope that the conditions will be favorable and agreeable in the near future to have you back on line.
!PIZZA
$PIZZA slices delivered:
@sirsmokesalot96(7/10) tipped @nftmart
Come get MOONed!
I never heard of NFTMart until just now by reading this post. Was it just the place to buy RisingStar cards? Sorry, but that game looked super cheap and lame when I checked it out a few years ago. Seemed like a pathetic attempt to clone Splinterlands.
Proves the need for external support for the chain and projects on.
Thank you for all the hard work in the past. It was a superb and intuitive user experience, and I'm sad that after all you put into it, it's now time to call it a day. Your reasoning is sound and pragmatic and HE really needs to find better solutions with outside input if it is to continue offering L2 services.
Best wishes and I look forward to supporting your future projects :-)