Cardinal Labs

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More than 30+ collections, guilds and treasuries have been cooperating with Cardinal Rentals

How it works

Simple creation form

Add a new collection
in just a few clicks

Upgrade your NFT collection with a novel utility using our creation form, and unlock conditional ownership with things like time or usage-based expiration rentals.

Top features

Manual Revocation

Specify a manual revocation authority that can revoke the issued NFT at any time.

Time-based Expiry

Specify either a duration or a fixed expiration date after which the issued NFT will be revoked.

Use-based Expiry

Enable ticket-like behavior where after a certain number of usages the issued NFT will be revoked.

Data-based Expiry

Trigger revocation based on data fed in by an oracle to programmatically revoke the issued NFT based on real-world events.

Selective Transferability

Only allow the issued NFT to be selectively transferable via a permissioned transfer method intrinsic to the Cardinal Protocol

Non-Transferability

Lock the issued NFT in the wallet ensuring the token cannot be traded via SPL token transfer or Cardinal's transfer method.

Rental Types

Cardinal offers four different types of rentals for a variety of use cases. Listing one of your NFTs for rent is simple. Connect your wallet, select your token, customize your listing parameters, and list! Let’s take a look at the three main types of listings, all of which can either be made available to the public or reserved for a private counterpart.

Additional type

Manual

With a manual rental, the lister simply specifies a public key that can revoke the NFT out of the renter’s wallet at any point in time. For this reason, there is no price associated with manual rentals. As an example, a lister might list an NFT as a manual private rental, which can only be claimed via a private claim link that they hold. They can then send this claim link to a friend to which they want to lend their NFT. Their friend claims it, and a few days later, they decide to revoke it back into their wallet.

Our Flagship Model

Rate

With a rate rental, the lister specifies a price-per-time at which and a maximum expiration until which their NFT can be rented. For example, let’s suppose I execute a rate-based listing for a given NFT at a price-per-time of 1 SOL/day and a maximum expiration of January 1st. Someone may then rent the NFT for any amount of time up until January 1st at the rate of 1 SOL/day.

Additional type

Duration

With a duration based rental, the lister specifies a fixed amount of time for which their token can be rented and an associated price. For example, an NFT owner might list their token as a duration-based rental at a price of 1 SOL and a duration of 1 week. If someone were to rent this token, they would have to pay the full 1 SOL, and they would hold the NFT for that exact 1 week duration.

Additional type

Expiration

With an expiration rental, the lister specifies an expiration date until which their NFT can be rented and a price that can be paid to rent it until that date. For example, and NFT owner might list their token as an expiration-based rental with an expiration date of January 1st and a price of 5 SOL. This mean that at any point in time, someone could pay 5 SOL to rent the token until January 1st.

Additional type

Manual

With a manual rental, the lister simply specifies a public key that can revoke the NFT out of the renter’s wallet at any point in time. For this reason, there is no price associated with manual rentals. As an example, a lister might list an NFT as a manual private rental, which can only be claimed via a private claim link that they hold. They can then send this claim link to a friend to which they want to lend their NFT. Their friend claims it, and a few days later, they decide to revoke it back into their wallet.

Our Flagship Model

Rate

With a rate rental, the lister specifies a price-per-time at which and a maximum expiration until which their NFT can be rented. For example, let’s suppose I execute a rate-based listing for a given NFT at a price-per-time of 1 SOL/day and a maximum expiration of January 1st. Someone may then rent the NFT for any amount of time up until January 1st at the rate of 1 SOL/day.

Additional type

Duration

With a duration based rental, the lister specifies a fixed amount of time for which their token can be rented and an associated price. For example, an NFT owner might list their token as a duration-based rental at a price of 1 SOL and a duration of 1 week. If someone were to rent this token, they would have to pay the full 1 SOL, and they would hold the NFT for that exact 1 week duration.

Additional type

Expiration

With an expiration rental, the lister specifies an expiration date until which their NFT can be rented and a price that can be paid to rent it until that date. For example, and NFT owner might list their token as an expiration-based rental with an expiration date of January 1st and a price of 5 SOL. This mean that at any point in time, someone could pay 5 SOL to rent the token until January 1st.

Additional type

Manual

With a manual rental, the lister simply specifies a public key that can revoke the NFT out of the renter’s wallet at any point in time. For this reason, there is no price associated with manual rentals. As an example, a lister might list an NFT as a manual private rental, which can only be claimed via a private claim link that they hold. They can then send this claim link to a friend to which they want to lend their NFT. Their friend claims it, and a few days later, they decide to revoke it back into their wallet.

Custom interface

Tailored experience

Ready-to-go marketplace deployed for project-specific P2P rentals or creation of guilds

See available rentals on Cardinal

Developer-centric

Full-featured protocol

Our Cardinal Rental Protocol leverages the Token Manager to facilitate conditionally managed ownership. Using the invalidators and approvers in various ways allows for building NFT rentals, expiring in-game items, subscriptions, permits, tickets, passes and more.

Pricing

Marketplace

Standard Fees

3%

Comission &
Royalties

Cardinal enforces a 3% creator royalty and a 3% marketplace commission on all platform rental transactions. These fees are born by the lister exclusively.

Custom

Subscription Model

Cardinal charges projects a monthly subscription fee to maintain this form of marketplace, which comes with many other benefits including:

Listing rentals in your choice of SPL token

Unlimited NFT listings/claims

Custom subdomain for your marketplace

Configurable colors, images, and description

Featured profile on our marketplace homepage

Automatic tagging on social tweets (”just rented from @treasury on Cardinal”)

24/7 rental support from the Cardinal dev team

Set up your private marketplace*

Cardinal allows treasuries and guilds to launch rental marketplaces on the platform that allow rental listingsto be denominatedin any SPL token. This form of marketplace thus offers a way for projects to give instant utility to their native token and rent NFTs to their community.

* FREE for the first 100 all-time rentals THEN 8 SOL/month, 80 SOL/year, or 200 SOL for life

FAQ

Questions you ask

What are NFT rentals?

Why Would I Rent an NFT?

Why Cardinal Rentals?

Is the service free to use?

How do I add my collection or treasury marketplace to the platform?