RMRK
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RMRK is a for-profit Web3 company and the main developer of the open-source Modular NFT standards, building products and dApps on top of that infrastructure for NFT creators and users. Its offerings include the Skybreach metaverse and the Singular NFT marketplace.
Also known as remark · RMRK.app
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026RMRK is a Web3 company that develops a set of composable NFT standards — described as "legos" or building blocks — that let developers assemble NFT systems of arbitrary complexity, and builds consumer and developer products on top of them. The original system used Kusama's "system.remark" call to write structured notes ("graffiti") on-chain, which are interpreted according to defined rules to produce NFTs without smart contracts; RMRK NFTs belong to collections and support actions including SEND, LIST, BUY, CONSUME (burn) and EMOTE.
The company has since published an EVM implementation as a family of ERC standards: ERC-5773 multi-asset NFTs (multiple media outputs in one token, enabling mixed-media works, revealable NFTs, ticketing, cross-game skins and metadata backups), ERC-7401 nestable NFTs (an NFT owning other NFTs, enabling bundles and inventories), ERC-6220 composable/equippable NFTs with fixed and equippable parts, ERC-7409 emotable NFTs (on-chain emoji reactions), ERC-6454 soulbound/non-transferable NFTs, ERC-7508 on-chain attributes for ERC-721 and ERC-1155, and ERC-7590 for holding ERC-20 tokens inside an NFT.
Official products include Singular, the marketplace for RMRK Modular NFTs with no-code creation tools for artists; Kanaria, the demonstration collectible line of birds that equip standalone NFTs and carry multiple assets; Kanaria: Skybreach, a permissionless metaverse; ME avatars; Bitbob, announced as on-chain 3D composable NFTs; and developer dApps Mintaur (mint-on-demand multi-asset projects), Emotes.app, Upgradooor (converting ERC-721s into Modular RMRK NFTs) and RMRK Wizard (deploying custom RMRK contracts).
Founding story
RMRK was founded in 2020 by Bruno Škvorc, then the Web3 Foundation's technical educator and an elected member of the Polkadot and Kusama Council, who began work on the project in August 2020 after being prompted by the growing popularity of NFTs. It started as a hobby project: the team wanted to build products but the infrastructure they needed did not exist, so they built the infrastructure first and later opened it to everyone.
Business model
RMRK is a for-profit company that develops and maintains open-source Modular NFT standards and builds commercial products and dApps on top of that infrastructure, including the Singular marketplace, the Kanaria collectible line, the Skybreach metaverse, and developer tools such as Mintaur, Emotes, Upgradooor and Wizard. The standards themselves are open and free to build on, while the RMRK token functions as the protocol's official token — not required to use the protocol, but usable to augment the experience and required as a deposit for Sybil and spam resistance when creating collections that are auto-added to Singular from supported chains.
Traction
The team grew from a hobby project to about 20 people. Kanaria NFT sales generated $2 million in reported funding, and around 88% of the 10 million RMRK token supply was airdropped to Kanaria collectors. The website showcases community-built projects on Ethereum, Base and Moonbeam, along with multi-asset works from creators including Chaos Collective, EJVII, Grood_ink, nftxtiff, Plazmatick and Yaki.
Latest developments
Recent company posts include an update titled "About the hack" (January 2026), a resource page on $RMRK tokens (January 2025) and a guide on KuCoin's delisting of $RMRK (August 2024). The product line lists Bitbob, described as on-chain 3D composable NFTs with Spice and referral point rewards, as landing soon.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, history, risks & controversies
Market position
RMRK positions itself as the custodian and main developer of the RMRK Modular NFT standards, which have been formalized as multiple ERC specifications for EVM chains, and as the operator of the official marketplace and reference projects for those standards. Community projects built on RMRK span Ethereum, Base and Moonbeam and include games, NFT collections and reputation systems such as Blossom Land, Chicken Fine Art, DeGenerous DAO, Evrloot, Neon Crisis, Non-Playable Coin and the Kusama-based RPG Evrl00t.
RMRK's standards move NFTs beyond single static files: tokens can contain other tokens, carry multiple assets and media outputs, expose fixed and equippable parts for dynamic customization, hold ERC-20 balances, store attributes on-chain, record emoji reactions on-chain, and be made non-transferable. The standards are designed to interoperate with one another and to support cross-collection and cross-chain compatibility, and the original Kusama-based implementation created NFTs without using smart contracts.
Technology
The original RMRK implementation encodes NFT operations as structured on-chain remarks using Kusama's system.remark call, interpreted by defined rules so that NFTs exist without smart contracts; the RMRK token is native to Statemine, a Kusama parachain, and is compatible with Substrate-based chains including Polkadot. The EVM implementation consists of interoperable ERC smart contract standards — ERC-5773 (multi-asset), ERC-7401 (nestable), ERC-6220 (composable/equippable, working with catalogs), ERC-7409 (emotable), ERC-6454 (soulbound), ERC-7508 (on-chain attributes) and ERC-7590 (ERC-20 holder) — supported by developer documentation, deployment tooling and reference dApps.
Go-to-market
RMRK distributes its standards as open-source specifications with public developer documentation and an EVM implementation, and reaches non-technical creators through no-code tools on the Singular marketplace and through official dApps. It maintains a documentation portal, a non-technical knowledgebase, a blog, a newsletter and a YouTube channel with tutorials, and showcases third-party projects built on its standards across Ethereum, Base and Moonbeam.
NFT creators, artists and collectors who use Singular's no-code minting and trading tools; developers and projects building NFT systems, games and metaverse experiences on Kusama/Polkadot and EVM chains such as Ethereum, Base and Moonbeam; and holders of the RMRK token.
History
RMRK (pronounced "remark") was founded in 2020 by Bruno Škvorc, at the time the Web3 Foundation's technical educator, beginning as a hobby project and growing into a professional team of around 20 people spanning multiple disciplines. The founder began work on RMRK in August 2020, the development team started building the product in January 2021, and that work culminated in the launch of Kanaria; Škvorc resigned from the Polkadot and Kusama Council in April 2021 to focus on the project. In June 2021 the project reported $2 million raised from Kanaria NFT sales and $4 million from investors. The RMRK token launched as a native asset on Statemine, a Kusama parachain, with a 10 million supply matching Kusama's, of which roughly 88% was airdropped to Kanaria collectors who held eggs before 1 July 2021. The company subsequently extended its work to EVM chains through a family of published ERC standards and associated dApps.
Risks & controversies
The company published an update titled "About the hack" in January 2026 and a guide on KuCoin's delisting of the $RMRK token in August 2024.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 6
launches, deals, and filingsThe company published a guide covering KuCoin's delisting of the $RMRK token.
Users who collected Kanaria eggs before 1 July 2021 were eligible for the RMRK token airdrop; roughly 88% of the 10 million total token supply was allocated this way, with 2 million allocated to early investors and the remaining 12% held by the team under vesting plus reserves for market making and partnerships.
RMRK announced it had raised $2 million from sales of Kanaria NFTs, its first project, whose collectible digital eggs were purchased with KSM tokens to help fund the launch of RMRK.
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Bruno Škvorc stepped down from the Polkadot and Kusama Council in April to focus on RMRK.
The RMRK development team began building its product in January 2021, work that culminated in the launch of Kanaria, an NFT launchpad framework and the first project built on RMRK.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
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Frequently asked questions
- What does RMRK do?
- RMRK develops open-source Modular NFT standards and builds marketplaces, metaverse and developer dApps on top of them.
- Who founded RMRK?
- RMRK was founded by Bruno Škvorc.
- Who are RMRK's investors?
- RMRK's investors include D1 Ventures, Digital Finance Group, Narcissus Ventures, LD Capital, PAKA, Signum Capital.