DareNFT is an NFT 2.0 protocol designed to model relationships between digital assets and their owners, supporting derivative, co-ownership, rental, and leasing structures. DareNFT's Twitter Score is 3.0 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #227,196 among 483,944 tracked accounts.
DareNFT was co-founded by Duke Nguyen as CEO and Teddy Nguyen as COO. The protocol reported raising a $2.4M seed round and is built on BNB Chain, where its DNFT token is deployed via a TransparentUpgradeableProxy contract. DNFT holders can receive system fees, DAO revenue, staking and liquidity-provider rewards, end-user discounts, and participation in burning and reserve mechanisms.
DareNFT launched two applications on its protocol. DarePlay is a GameFi platform featuring a launchpad for non-NFT games, an IGO service, and rent-to-earn and lease-to-earn marketplaces for in-game NFTs. DareWork is built for derivative and co-owned NFTs representing internet content including books, songs, music, and video. The DareNFT Labs GitHub organization has continued updating NFT 2.0 protocol repositories and also hosts documentation for DERA Chain, though available sources do not confirm a formal rebrand.
DareNFT is backed by Kyber Network, Cosmos Gaming Hub, OneSoft, Momentum 6, Kardia Ventures, MoonWhale Ventures, Magnus Ventures, X21 Digital, AU21 Capital, Basics Capital, Lua Ventures, and IceTea Labs. DareNFT's portfolio includes Hydraverse. DareNFT has published 1,219 posts and has been mentioned by 46 accounts a total of 279 times.
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The accounts that follow DareNFT include 11 founders, 2 angel investors, 12 influencers and 7 VCs. Among them are Cab, Bitget Wallet, CryptoDiffer Analytics, Snibby, BlockBeatsWe're hiring and Ric Arsenault.