Overview
DigiFarm is a satellite-data platform that turns smallholder farms in Kenya into digital field passports. Each plot gets recorded as an online token carrying its boundaries, soil quality, crop history, and yields, so farmers can register their land, claim ownership of the record, and use it to seek better terms on credit and insurance1.
The Kenya programme runs on Cardano in partnership with NMKR, the largest NFT minting service on the network — NFTs being one-of-a-kind digital tokens that prove ownership of a specific item2. It grew out of work funded by Project Catalyst, Cardano's community-driven grant pool, and is the agriculture-focused arm of a larger Norwegian satellite-analytics company that sells field data to insurers, paying agencies, and agribusinesses worldwide3. DigiFarm was acquired by Frontera X Technologies in early 2026 and continues to operate the platform under the DigiFarm name.
Key Features
- Field passports for real farmland. Each token is tied to a specific plot mapped at one-meter resolution from satellite imagery, and the metadata updates as new crops are planted, certifications change, or yields are recorded1.
- Tools to qualify for credit. The records were designed so that lenders, microinsurance providers, and supply-chain buyers can verify a farmer's growing history without paperwork, with a follow-on Project Catalyst proposal building an open-source credit-score interface from the same data4.
- Powered by global satellite imagery. The maps come from DigiFarm's own satellite-image software, which traces field edges and identifies what's growing in each plot down to one-meter detail3.
- Built and minted with NMKR. Token creation runs on Cardano through NMKR's minting infrastructure, the same service that has issued more than two million NFTs for projects ranging from celebrity collections to ecosystem partners2.
- Track record of ecosystem grants. The smallholder-farmer programme has been funded across multiple rounds of Project Catalyst, the community-driven proposal pool for Cardano, with the first phase completed and follow-on work in progress5.
What to Expect
The public side of the project lives at nfts.digifarm.io, where you can see a map of farmland in Kenya with each plot rendered as a coloured polygon1. Owned fields, listed fields, and community fields are styled differently, and you can sign in to claim or list a plot.
Farmers and field owners use the platform to digitise their land and turn an agricultural plot into a record they can show to a bank, an insurer, or a buyer. Agribusinesses and certification bodies use the same records to verify farming practices and source from specific fields. Anyone curious about real-world uses of NFTs can browse the map without an account.
The wider DigiFarm site at digifarm.io reflects the parent company's enterprise side, selling satellite-derived field boundaries, crop classification, and productivity analytics to insurers, government paying agencies, and agritech partners3. The Cardano programme draws on the same underlying data but is scoped specifically to smallholder finance and traceability.
