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Algonest

Keep your NFTs' images alive.
A little ALGO a year.

An Algorand NFT lives on-chain forever, but its picture usually lives on IPFS, and it disappears when nobody keeps a copy. Algonest keeps the copy. Pay for the years you want, and the NFT's files stay pinned.

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beta · MainNet · pinning, not custody. Algonest never holds your NFT: it pins copies of the NFT's image and data files, and the NFT itself never leaves your wallet. CorvidLabs reviews every collection by hand before it can be pinned. During the beta a payment is at most 50 ALGO and at most 1,000 NFTs are pinned at once. Algonest runs at algonest.corvidlabs.xyz with its own wallet connect.

Why pictures go missing

Most Algorand NFTs point to their image by an IPFS address. The address is permanent, but the file is only reachable while someone pins it, and pinning costs money every month. When a creator stops paying, or the only copy sits on a single node, the NFT still exists and shows a broken image. Anyone can pin anyone's file, so Algonest needs no permission from the creator.

The wallet health check on Algonest shows which of your NFTs load today, which load from only one place, and which are already broken.

How it works

  1. Look up the NFT

    Paste an asset id or an explorer link. Algonest finds every file the NFT needs (its metadata and its image, even inside folders), measures them, and tells you the price for a year. Only reviewed collections can be pinned; if yours isn't approved yet, ask for a review right there.

  2. Pay from your wallet

    A plain ALGO payment with a short note that names the NFT. There is no contract to approve and nothing to opt into: the payment is the whole agreement, and your wallet shows it before you sign.

  3. Algonest keeps the files pinned

    The files are pinned on IPFS for the time you paid for, and a receipt goes on-chain listing every file. The last payer gets a reminder 30 and 7 days before the time runs out.

After the paid time ends, the files stay pinned 30 more days, so a lapsed NFT can be renewed before anything goes dark.

Reviewed, collection by collection

Pinning a file is hosting it, so CorvidLabs reads what Algonest hosts. Every collection is approved by hand before its NFTs can be pinned. On an NFT that isn't approved yet, ask for a review: the request is a 0-ALGO note from your wallet, and the answer, an approval or a decline with its reason, is posted on-chain like every other decision.

A payment for an NFT whose collection isn't approved is refunded automatically, minus the network fee.

What it costs

A year of pinning
5 ALGO for up to 250 MB of files; bigger NFTs pay by size
Shared files
paid once a file many NFTs use is pinned once, and never paid for twice
Nevermore holders
5 NFTs free every wallet holding a Nevermore keeps 5 NFTs pinned free
Beta limits
50 ALGO per payment, and 1,000 NFTs pinned at once

Algonest is run at cost, as a public good. Every wallet holding a Nevermore keeps five NFTs pinned free, for as long as Algonest runs and the wallet holds one. Anything a payment can't buy (over the beta limit, past 10 years ahead, not on IPFS) is refunded on-chain, minus the network fee.

Every decision is on-chain

There is no database to trust. A payment goes to Algonest's receiving account, and the worker answers it with a public note from its own account: a credit stating exactly what the payment bought, a refund, a pin receipt listing every file it keeps, a reminder. Replay those notes and you get the same list of pinned NFTs Algonest has, which is how the explorer on Algonest is built.

If Algonest ever stopped, the pin receipts already name every file, so anyone can pin them somewhere else. Support and takedown requests go through tickets in the CorvidLabs Discord. We never DM you first, and never ask for a seed phrase.

Where it is

  1. betanow

    MainNet, real payments, with limits: 50 ALGO per payment and 1,000 NFTs pinned at once. Prices change only by a published on-chain note, at most 25% at a time.

  2. out of beta

    The limits lift, and the price follows the cost of storage automatically, still published on-chain and still capped per change.