Aradia Marketplace Is Ready | | Our Next Phase on Astar
First, we would like to thank the Astar team and community for the opportunity and continued support.
Throughout this period, we have remained actively committed to developing Aradia, improving its infrastructure and working alongside the ecosystem to make Astar stronger.
Today, we are pleased to share that the core Aradia Marketplace is complete and fully functional.
Users can already:
- List NFTs for sale using ASTR.
- Purchase listed NFTs.
- Make and cancel offers.
- Accept offers and complete sales on-chain.
- View listings, offers, ownership information and NFT activity.
- Trade existing ERC-721 collections indexed across Astar not only collections created through Aradia.
We are now completing the final interface details and improving the statistics layer, more details coming this week. These improvements include collection floor prices, marketplace volume, sales data, listings and offer statistics, together with a new global Activity section.
The Activity section will provide a live view of the latest NFT transactions indexed by Aradia across Astar including mints, transfers, sales and other NFT related activity stored by our infrastructure.
More than a marketplace
Aradia is not simply a trading interface.
To our knowledge, we are currently the only team building an end-to-end NFT marketplace and indexing platform fully dedicated to Astar Network.
Our infrastructure continuously indexes NFT collections, tokens, ownership, metadata and transaction history. This makes it possible to provide searchable collections, wallet galleries, activity feeds, marketplace statistics and historical NFT information from one dedicated platform.
We also maintain backups of our indexed data to protect the historical information collected by Aradia and improve the reliability and recoverability of the service.
Opening Aradia’s infrastructure
Our next step is to make this infrastructure useful beyond the Aradia application itself.
We will soon introduce public API endpoints that allow developers and ecosystem projects to access structured NFT data indexed by Aradia, including:
- Collections and NFT metadata.
- Current ownership.
- Mint and transfer history.
- Wallet NFT portfolios.
- Listings, offers and sales.
- Marketplace and collection statistics.
- Recent NFT activity across Astar.
Instead of requiring every new Astar project to build and maintain its own NFT indexer, Aradia aims to provide a shared and reusable data layer for the ecosystem.
We understand that the NFT market is currently going through a difficult cycle. For that reason, Aradia’s long-term contribution cannot be measured only through trading volume. It should also be measured through indexed assets, historical coverage, infrastructure reliability, API usage and integrations with other Astar applications.
Next steps
July : Marketplace and Discovery
- Public launch of the Aradia Marketplace.
- NFT listings, purchases, sales and offers using ASTR.
- Support for existing ERC-721 collections across Astar.
- Creator royalties and complete on-chain sales history.
- Collection floor prices and marketplace volume statistics.
- Listings, offers and sales analytics.
- Global Activity section displaying recent NFT mints, transfers and sales.
- Improvements to navigation, mobile usability and overall UX/UI.
- Public indexer coverage and reliability metrics.
August : Aradia Data Infrastructure
- Public API for NFT and marketplace data.
- Endpoints for collections, metadata, ownership and transfers.
- Wallet NFT portfolio endpoints.
- Listings, offers, sales and recent activity endpoints.
- Interactive API documentation.
- API keys, rate limits and API versioning.
- Public dashboard for indexer coverage, latency and uptime.
- Development of the Aradia Astar MCP.
September : Astar MCP
Public release of the Aradia Astar MCP:
- Structured access to official Astar documentation and code with source attribution.
- Searchable directory of Astar dApps and ecosystem resources.
- NFT collection, metadata, ownership and transfer queries.
- Marketplace listings, offers, sales and statistics.
- Wallet portfolio and recent NFT activity queries.
- Network and dApp information sourced from official Astar resources.
- Integration documentation for AI agents and developer tools.
- First public infrastructure, reliability and adoption report.
Aradia’s goal is to preserve Astar’s NFT history while building infrastructure that creators, users, developers and future applications can rely on.
We also recognize that the industry is rapidly moving toward AI-assisted products, autonomous agents and new ways of interacting with blockchain data. Just as we identified the need for dedicated NFT indexing infrastructure on Astar, we see another important gap: making Astar’s documentation, ecosystem resources and on-chain information accessible to AI tools and agents.
Through the Aradia Astar MCP, we want to help Astar address this gap by providing a reliable bridge between its ecosystem data and the next generation of AI-powered applications.
We remain committed to delivering measurable value through a functional marketplace, reliable indexing, accessible data and useful infrastructure for the broader Astar ecosystem.
Thank you to the Astar team and community for the opportunity, trust and continued support. We look forward to sharing these releases, publishing our progress and building the next phase of Aradia together.
The marketplace is ready. The infrastructure is growing. And this is only the beginning.
See you on chain 
