Overview
DigiFarm is a satellite-data platform that turns smallholder farms in Kenya into digital field passports. Each plot is mapped from satellite imagery and saved as an online token that carries the field's boundaries, soil quality, crop history, and yields. Think of it like a digital ID card for a farm: the farmer can use it to claim ownership of the record and bring it to banks, insurers, or buyers when looking for better terms.
The Kenya programme runs on Cardano in partnership with NMKR, the largest service for creating NFTs on the network. NFTs are one-of-a-kind digital tokens that prove ownership of a specific item, like a unique deed for a piece of land1. The work grew out of grants from Project Catalyst, Cardano's community-driven funding pool, and is the agriculture arm of a larger Norwegian satellite-analytics company that sells field data to insurers, government agencies, and agribusinesses worldwide2. DigiFarm was acquired by Frontera X Technologies in early 2026 and continues to operate the platform under the DigiFarm name.
Key Features
- Give farmers a digital ID for their land. Each token is tied to a specific plot mapped at one-meter detail from satellite imagery, and the record updates as new crops are planted, certifications change, or yields are recorded3.
- Open the door to credit and insurance. The records were designed so that lenders and small-scale insurance providers can check a farmer's growing history without paperwork. A follow-on grant proposal is 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 detail2.
- Built and minted with NMKR. Token creation runs on Cardano through NMKR's tools, the same service that has issued more than two million NFTs for projects ranging from celebrity collections to ecosystem partners1.
- Track record of ecosystem grants. The smallholder-farmer programme has been funded across several rounds of Project Catalyst, with an initial 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 drawn as a coloured polygon3. Plots that are already owned, plots that are listed for claim, and plots that belong to the wider community are styled differently. You can sign in to claim or list a plot.
Farmers and field owners use the platform to digitise their land. The end result is a record they can show to a bank, an insurer, or a buyer who wants proof of where the produce came from. 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 partners2. The Cardano programme draws on the same underlying data but is focused specifically on small farms looking for finance and a way to follow their produce from field to buyer.
