Overview
NMKR is a software company that builds tools for turning things into blockchain tokens: art, music, collectibles, or physical assets such as commodities1. Artists, developers and brands use those tools to create and sell tokens without writing code, and an in-house agency team takes the same work on for clients who would rather hand it over.
The company behind the brand is utxo AG, a product studio based in Zug, Switzerland2. NMKR started in mid-2021 under a different name, NFT-MAKER.IO, and is based in central Europe, with a fully remote team working from around the world3.
Most of what it ships runs on Cardano. It also builds for Midnight, a privacy-focused partner chain alongside Cardano, where the team maintains its own minting interfaces and developer libraries4. EMURGO, one of Cardano's founding organizations, has made a strategic investment in the company5.
Key Features
- Minting without code. NMKR Studio is the self-serve product: upload the files, set the terms, and it handles the blockchain steps needed to create and sell a token6.
- A team that will run the project for you. The NMKR agency offers consulting and tokenization work, and gives the client an NMKR Studio account with 24/7 access to manage the project7. Smaller jobs, such as a project review or a launch page, are sold at fixed prices in ADA8.
- Open code. NMKR Studio's source is published on GitHub under an MIT license, so anyone can read how the minting works or run their own copy9.
- A client list you can check. The Cardano Foundation used NMKR to produce personalized NFTs for Cardano Summit attendees, and the published case studies run through book publishers and tokenized-commodity projects.
- Work beyond minting. NMKR co-built Masumi, a network that gives AI agents verified identities and lets them pay one another on Cardano10.
What to Expect
Creators and small projects get the self-serve route. You sign up for NMKR Studio, follow the documentation, and mint from a browser; the product itself sits on its own site, separate from the company pages6.
Organizations that would rather buy the outcome than the software will find the agency section, client case studies, and a contact form that sorts inquiries into minting services, API access (the connection layer other software plugs into), partnerships and investment7.
Developers get documentation for the NMKR Studio API6, plus a GitHub organization holding the Studio source and libraries for Cardano and Midnight4. NMKR has also held a hackathon in Berlin with separate tracks for Cardano, Midnight and Masumi11.
The company sells the pieces around the minting core too, including NMKR Pay, a payment link for taking ADA at checkout, and a stake pool of its own.
