The problem Expecies NFT Market solves

💡 Inspiration

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. We wanted to build something that will spread awareness about endangered animals and help communities supporting endangered animals. So, we decided to build this NFT Marketplace work related to endangered/extinct animal species. This project was made with the aim to create awareness about these vanishing species.
Let’s save them. Let’s respect them. Otherwise what answer will we give to the Creator on the judgment day Who had given the humans the charge of looking after them?

💻 What it does

The project is an NFT Marketplace for works related to endangered/extinct animal species. This project was made with an aim to create awareness about these vanishing species and help protect them. The platform has two main modules, one for buying NFTs and the other is for selling NFTs.
If the user chooses to sell an NFT, their uploaded image is scanned for % similarity with endangered/extinct animal species' images. This % similarity is used to fix a price for the NFT. A certain % of the gas fee of transactions goes as a donation to the cause. NGOs protecting these species would be able to raise funds by directly selling NFTs on the marketplace or by receiving donations.

Challenges we ran into

🧠 Challenges we ran into

Learning Blockchain and applying the learning during the hackathon period.
Debugging Wallet-related bugs.
Deploying and maintaining multiple servers for running for this project.

🏅 Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Able to create something in blockchain for the first time.
• Able to complete the project within the timeline was really challenging.
• We are proud that we were able to work together as a team to accomplish this goal together.
• Made something that will help our nature and these animals survive.
• We have a lot of fun and challenges that we faced.
• Consume less energy because of the Matic network used.

📖 What we learned

• Time management
• Blockchain and NFTs
• Next JS
• Collaborate with people

🚀 What's next

• We know that scaling this won’t be easy. But we will make this website more robust and add more features.
• Connect with different organizations and validate our product.