What Your Card Is
Kickchain NFT cards are built on Metaplex Core, the latest Solana NFT standard. Unlike older Solana NFTs, Metaplex Core uses a simpler account model with lower minting fees and less on-chain overhead. Once minted, your card is a standard Solana NFT owned by your wallet — you hold it, you control it.On-chain ownership
The NFT lives in your wallet as a Solana account. Ownership is enforced by the Solana runtime — no one can take it from you.
Metaplex Core standard
Built on Metaplex Core (not legacy Token Metadata) for lower fees and a cleaner account structure.
IPFS art & metadata
Your card’s image and metadata JSON are stored permanently on IPFS via Pinata — not on any server Kickchain controls.
Transferable
Kickchain cards can be transferred or traded like any other Solana NFT — send them to friends or move them between wallets.
Card Art
Each card is a 1024 × 1280 PNG, rendered from your prediction data at the time of minting. The artwork and frame style are determined by your card’s rarity tier:
The card displays the match, your pick, and your locked-in odds — so the art itself is a snapshot of your prediction at the moment you made it.
NFT Metadata
Every Kickchain card has a metadata JSON file hosted on IPFS. This JSON is what wallets and NFT viewers read to display your card’s name, image, and attributes. Here’s an example of what that metadata looks like:name field follows the format Kickchain · [Team] ([Market label]) #[Edition]. The symbol is always KICK. The attributes encode every fact about your prediction that’s also stored in your on-chain Prediction account — they are consistent with your verifiable on-chain data.
IPFS Storage
Both the card image and the metadata JSON are uploaded to IPFS via Pinata before minting. The NFT’s URI points to the IPFS metadata JSON, which in turn links to the card PNG — so the full chain of data is decentralised and content-addressed. This means your card’s art and metadata are not hosted on any Kickchain server. Even if Kickchain were to shut down, your NFT’s content remains accessible via IPFS as long as it is pinned. Content-addressing on IPFS ensures the image linked in your metadata is always exactly the image that was uploaded — it cannot be silently swapped.Ownership and Transfer
Your Kickchain card is owned by your wallet’s public key on Solana. Because it is a standard Metaplex Core NFT, you can:- Transfer it to any other Solana wallet
- View it in any wallet or NFT explorer that supports Metaplex Core
- Hold it as a collectible record of your prediction
Viewing Your NFTs
- In the Kickchain app
- In your wallet
- On an NFT explorer
Open the Collection tab in the app to see all Kickchain cards minted to your connected wallet. Tap any card to view its artwork, attributes, and on-chain details.
NFT minting happens after your prediction is recorded on-chain. There may be a short delay before your card appears in the Collection tab — this is normal. The on-chain prediction account is created first; the NFT follows once the card art has been rendered and uploaded to IPFS.