Foton is a Radix-native Non-Fungible Token (NFT) marketplace designed to facilitate a user-friendly experience for creators and traders in the NFT ecosystem. Co-founders Rares and Vlad developed Foton with the aim of combining effective features from various market-leading websites, such as OpenSea, Discord, Shopify, and Amazon, to create a comprehensive NFT marketplace.
Overview
Foton is a modular NFT marketplace that focuses on the creation, management, and trading of tokenized digital assets for users. The platform supports creators from various backgrounds, including artists, designers, entrepreneurs, influencers, and brands of different sizes. Foton enables these creators to monetize their creations as NFTs and establish connections with their audience or customers.
Key Features
Supporting a wide range of creators
Offering an end-to-end solution for launching NFT collections
Functioning as an individual store aggregator
Providing various NFT types
Enhancing the experience for creators and traders
Founders
Rares
Rares, the co-founder and CTO of Foton, has a background in web development, programming, and blockchain technology. His passion for technology and learning contributed to the development of Foton, an NFT marketplace on the Radix Network.
Vlad
Vlad, the co-founder and CEO of Foton, has a strong background in mathematics, physics, and design. His diverse experiences and problem-solving skills have been instrumental in shaping Foton into a comprehensive platform in the NFT marketplace.
Project History
Foton traces its origins to Ideomaker, an end-to-end supply chain platform. The decision to create a separate platform specifically for digital assets emerged towards the end of 2021. Identifying pain points in the NFT industry and recognizing the opportunity to address these issues, Vlad and his team decided to develop Foton.
The choice to build Foton on Radix was influenced by the Radix team's vision, determination, and ability to address the Trilemma and create a scalable, modern, decentralized form of money. Building Foton on Radix allows for a more efficient development cycle without the complexities often associated with the crypto industry, enabling Foton to focus on providing utility to its users through a comprehensive set of tools and an improved experience.
Status check (20 August 2026)
foton.is still answered HTTP 200 with 18,330 bytes on 20 August 2026, and the Discord the site advertises still reported 358 members with 18 online. Three further checks made the same day are why this page now reads 🟠 Dormant rather than active.
- The site has not been rebuilt since April 2023. foton.is is a Webflow export, and Webflow writes a build stamp into the top of every page it publishes. Foton's reads
Last Published: Tue Apr 25 2023 12:00:02 GMT+0000— three years and four months before this check. - It declares no Radix dApp. A dApp on Radix identifies itself to wallets by serving a dApp definition at
/.well-known/radix.json. foton.is returns its Webflow 404 page for that path, so there is no marketplace application behind the brochure for a wallet to connect to. - The Telegram handle on the site is no longer Foton's — the section below.
None of this is a shutdown, and Foton has announced none: the entity is reachable, the Discord is populated, and the contracts it deployed are still on ledger. What is missing is anyone answering for it. That is the wiki's definition of dormant rather than closed; the full status vocabulary, and where every project sits in it, is on Radix Ecosystem Operational Status.
The Telegram handle on foton.is is no longer Foton's
foton.is links a Telegram channel at the handle @FotonMarketplace. That handle no longer belongs to the project. The channel standing behind it on 20 August 2026 was created on 18 August 2026 at 07:11:55 UTC, holds one subscriber, and posted its only message ten seconds later, at 07:12:05: a token gate styled as Collab.Land, reading "This community is now protected by Collab.Land … Click below to verify your wallet and gain access". The button beneath it leads to a bot named @Collabslands_bot, which is not @collablandbot — the one handle Collab.Land's documentation names as genuinely theirs.
This wiki has catalogued the pattern before: nine Radix project handles were found re-registered the same way on 1 August 2026, at Recycled Telegram Handles. Foton is the first case where the project was still listed here as operating, and the first where the project's own live website still points at the handle — a visitor who follows the Telegram link from foton.is today arrives at the gate rather than at Foton. It is written above as text rather than as a link for that reason. Nothing legitimate asks you to connect or "verify" a wallet in an empty channel, whoever it appears to be.