The Magi Market is live!

The Magi Market is live at altera.magi.eco. Sign in with Hive, open Magi Market in the sidebar, and you're trading.

Most marketplaces are a buy button with a fee attached. Magi Market is a toolkit, auctions, rentals, collection-wide offers, peer-to-peer swaps, and mint spots that sell the right to mint before the artwork exists. One contract, and the Hive account you already have.

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The thing that actually matters: your NFT never leaves your wallet

Every marketplace has to answer one question, who holds the asset while it's for sale? The usual answer is "we do." That single design choice is where the horror stories come from: contracts that get paused with your art inside, upgrade keys that turn a listing into a permanent deposit, hacks that drain an escrow you never thought of as a place your NFT was stored.

Magi answers differently.

	Escrow model (most marketplaces)	Magi Market
Where your NFT sits while listed	In the marketplace contract	In your wallet
What listing actually does	Transfers the token away	Grants an approval for just that token
If the market is paused or compromised	Your asset is inside it	Nothing to take — it was never there
Cancelling a listing	A withdrawal you have to be allowed to make	Revoking a permission you granted
During a live auction	Custodied	Still yours

The market can't strand your asset, because it never holds it. That isn't a policy, a promise, or a roadmap item it's the structure of the contract.

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Seven primitives, and what each one unlocks

Feature lists are boring. Here's what each one actually changes:

Primitive	What it means in practice
Fixed-price listings & bundles	Sell one piece or a curated set as a single unit, so a collection stays a collection instead of being picked apart
Timed auctions	Real price discovery with on-chain bidding, minimum increments, and anti-snipe extension. Settlement is the contract's job, not a promise
Offers — per token and per collection	"I'll pay 25 for any piece in this series" becomes a first-class on-chain action instead of a Discord DM someone might honour
Rentals	Utility NFTs earn while you keep ownership. Fixed term, early termination, and the asset comes back enforced, not trusted
Mint spots	Sell the right to mint before the artwork exists. Fund the drop first, deliver second no pre-sale spreadsheet, no trust me bro
Direct swaps	Trade piece for piece, peer to peer, with nobody holding both sides mid-trade
Batch operations & sweep	List forty items or sweep a floor without signing forty times

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Creators actually get paid

Across the wider NFT market, royalties drifted from guaranteed → optional → widely ignored, and creators absorbed the loss. The reason is simple: on most platforms royalties are marketplace policy, so a competing marketplace can simply decline to honor them.

On Magi, royalties are settled by the contract, on every secondary sale, as part of the trade itself. With multi-recipient splits the artist, the collaborator, and the community fund each take their cut automatically, in the same transaction. There is no "royalty-optional" mode to opt into, because there's no policy layer to opt out of.

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It's Hive, so it feels like Hive

You sign with your Hive account: Keychain, HiveAuth, PeakVault. No seed phrase to write down, no extra browser extension, no bridging anything anywhere.

Pricing isn't locked to one coin either any registered payment token can price a listing, on top of HBD and HIVE. Want your token accepted as payment? Tell us and we'll whitelist it.

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The hard part, made invisible

Because Magi never escrows, selling is structurally two contracts talking: approve on the NFT contract, then list on the market. Done naively that's two signatures and a window where things are half-done approved but unlisted, or worse.

The Magi Market SDK composes those into one batch you sign once. And the approval it grants is the narrow one: scoped to the exact token and amount you're listing, not a blanket permission over your whole collection.

Action	What's really happening under the hood	What you do
Sell	approve(market, tokenId, amount) on the NFT contract → list on the market	1 signature
Auction	approve → createAuction	1 signature
Rent out	approve → listRental	1 signature
Mint spots	operator or per-token approval → listMintSpots	1 signature
Buy	token approve → buy (or a native transfer.allow intent)	1 signature

The cross-contract dance is real. It's just not your problem any more.

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Builders: take one layer or all three

The whole thing is open source at github.com/vsc-eco/market-sdk — three layers, pull only what you need.

Package	What it gives you	Use it when
@vsc.eco/market-core	Operation builders for every market entrypoint — listings, offers, auctions, royalties, bundles, swaps, rentals, mint spots, governance — plus the cross-contract composites. Zero runtime dependencies	You own your signing pipeline and want nothing else in the way
@vsc.eco/market-sdk	Read providers (node state + indexer), the chunked-batch broadcast orchestrator, the cross-contract flows, deployer client	You want market.sell(...) to just work
@vsc.eco/market-widget	Drop-in React and web components — full marketplace panel, or just the action modals (in progress)	You want a marketplace in your app this afternoon

Embed the market in your own frontend, keep your own listing grid and adopt only the modals, or build an entirely different marketplace on the same contract. That last option is the point: the contract is the market, not the website in front of it.

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Credit where it's due

The Magi Market SDK all three layers, the cross-contract orchestration, and the embeddable panels was built by @tibfox. The one-signature sell flow that makes non-custodial listing feel effortless is his design work, and it's the difference between a marketplace people can use and one they want to.

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altera.magi.eco → Magi NFT Market. Hive login, and you're in.

Your keys. Your NFT. Your market.