Ventory

Ventory was a multi-chain NFT marketplace and trading hub built primarily on the Venom Network, with planned expansion to Starknet, Solana, and Mint Blockchain. The project launched on the Venom testnet in 2023, won recognition in the Venom ecosystem's hackathon program, and ceased operations sometime in 2024 before reaching a full multi-chain mainnet deployment.

Core Mechanism

Ventory positioned itself as a one-stop shop for NFT traders and gaming communities. Its central design was self-custody trading: users could mint, buy, sell, and manage NFTs directly from their wallets without registering an account or transferring custody to the platform. The Venom Network — a TVM-based Layer-1 developed with Abu Dhabi institutional backing — served as the primary chain during Ventory's operational period, with its low transaction costs cited as a key advantage for NFT activity.

The platform aggregated multiple functions under one interface:

• NFT marketplace: Buy-sell-transfer functionality with permanent on-chain transaction records.
• INO and IDO launchpad: A launch venue for new NFT collections and token sales, with a vetting requirement: launch partners were required to be doxxed before going live on the platform.
• NFT lending, renting, and staking: Yield-generating utilities for existing NFT holders.
• Raffles and YOLO buys: Speculative participation mechanisms for community engagement and collection discovery.
• DEX aggregator and yield optimization: DeFi tooling layered on top of the NFT-first platform.
• GameHub: A dedicated section for gaming project launches and INOs.

In early 2024, the team announced Ventory.Fun, an AI-assisted meme NFT and coin launching tool intended to operate simultaneously across Starknet, Solana, Venom Network, and Mint Blockchain. This product represented the project's Solana-facing ambitions.

Tokens and Assets

Ventory's documentation referenced a VEN token with dedicated tokenomics, a Vent DAO governance layer, and Ventorians NFTs as the project's own genesis collection. A multi-season airdrop program was planned for community distribution. Full VEN token mechanics, total supply, and distribution schedules were not published before the project went inactive, and no evidence of a live token launch on any chain has been found.

The Ventorians NFTs were described as the project's genesis collection, intended to confer early-contributor status on holders.

Solana Connection

Ventory's relationship with Solana was aspirational rather than deployed. The Gitbook documentation and search-indexed marketing material list Solana alongside Starknet, Venom, and Mint Blockchain as target chains for the Ventory.Fun meme-launch product announced in early 2024. No publicly accessible Solana mainnet deployment — contracts, marketplace interface, or active collection activity — has been found. The Solana integration appears to have been in a planned or early-development stage when the project ceased operations.

Security and Audits

No public security audits of Ventory's smart contracts have been identified in available sources. The platform's observable activity took place on the Venom testnet, meaning production-grade mainnet contracts were never formally reviewed in a publicly disclosed audit.

Team

Ventory's founding team was not publicly identified. Despite requiring launch partners to be doxxed before listing on the platform, the team itself did not publish equivalent transparency in materials available during the project's active period.

Project Status

Ventory is no longer active. The primary domain (ventory.gg) has been abandoned; as of mid-2025 it redirects to an unrelated Indian logistics business, indicating the domain expired and was acquired by a third party. The venom.ventory.gg subdomain is unresolvable (NXDOMAIN). The project's Medium account published no articles during its operational period. The last identifiable post from the official @Ventory_gg account on X dates to March 2024.

Ventory was part of a cohort of projects that targeted the Venom Network testnet ecosystem in 2023 during a period of optimism around alternative Layer-1 chains. As Venom Network's mainnet timeline extended and NFT market volumes contracted sharply across the industry, many testnet-era projects did not sustain operations into 2025.