RMRK.app is a part of Kusama's broader NFT strategy and a way to abuse Kusama's system.remark extrinsic to write custom notes onto the chain in a standardized and structured way. The protocol runs on the Kusama blockchain.

$RMRK is the native utility token that is used for:

• currency in the RMRK metaverse(s).
• preventing fungible token spam
• curation in galleries *governance of platform-wide parameters *curation in RMRK-launched but not necessarily NFT-related products *collateral in DeFi protocols like Karura and others. *abstraction of the multi-chain architecture: using RMRK tokens to mint, trade, and generally interact with the NFTs in our ecosystem. *whitelabel of RMRK products and apps *use of $RMRK tokens to fund your account for use with applications like BadCall

RMRK tools include:

• RMRK tools to interact with NFTs on the command line and in web apps
• RMRK spec to write your own implementation
• RMRK pinning tools to pin for IPFS and regularly clean outdated pins from services like Pinata
• A standalone, embeddable renderer for RMRK2 composable NFTs