Auction

Auction is a feature on Dagora that helps NFT’s owner sell their items at the highest price. It’s a process of offering bids, taking bids, and then selling NFT to the highest bidder.

Currently, selling NFTs to the lowest bidders is not supported yet.

How to Create an Auction

🛠️ Connect Coin98 wallet | 💵 Cost gas fee | 👜 Have NFT

Step 1: On Dagora, access your Profile by clicking on the profile logo;

Below is the user profile space:

Step 2: Select a specific NFT item -> On its details screen, click the Auction button;

Step 3: Fill in the information on the Auction screen:

1. Input a Starting bid price (Price must be greater than 0.0001)

2. Choose token that you want to pay with

3. Input a Maximum bid price

4. Choose Duration (Note: You need to check the auction's duration carefully before creating an auction, canceling the auction at any time is not allowed. )

5. A valid completion of the auction form will enable the Listing button

Step 4: After clicking Listing button, you will see a Review Auction Listing page. Click Confirm to create auction and move NFT to blockchain's contract.

Step 5: If create auction completed, you will see a notification.

• Click Continue Listing → You will be directed to your Profile page to continue listing

• Click View NFT button → Click to view NFT details

• Click View Transaction button to open a new tab to see the transaction history on blockchain

How to Place a Bid

🛠️ Connect Coin98 wallet | 💵 Cost gas fee | 👜 NFT is being auctioned

Step 1: On Dagora, go to Explore space to find active auctions.

You will see a NFT list on Explorer space:

Step 2: Select a specific NFT item is on auction and in details screen click Place Bid button;

Step 3: Enter a bid price then click Place Bid button (The input price must be less than or equal to the current balance. Otherwise, it will display a message “Insufficient funds“)

Note: The price must be greater than or equal to the starting price and higher than the current bid price

Step 4: Click Confirm button on Review Bid page to complete auction.

Step 5: View your Auction

In NFT details page -> Auction tab -> Display the item’s auction list

Notes:

• User can bid more than once, but the next time must be higher than the previous time

• The auction will be ended when duration is over, or someone has bid equal or greater than “Maximum bid”

When auction ended, there are some cases that happen as below:

Case	Non-EVM (Sei, Injective)	EVM
The user bids successfully	Dagora automatically transfers NFT item to the winner's wallet	Dagora automatically transfers NFT item to the winner's wallet
The user bids unsuccessfully	The user will receive the token back to the wallet.	The bid is auto cancelled
User wins but not enough token to pay owner	User's funds will be kept in the contract while bidding, so this case will not happen	System will auto find the next bidder who has enough balance to auto process the Auction.
After the Auction ended and there is no winner	The owner need to click "Cancel Auction" to claim NFT	The owner automatically get the NFT back

How to Cancel The Auction when the auction ends

Note: Canceling the auction at any time is not allowed. Therefore, you need to check the auction's duration carefully before creating an auction.

In case there are no bids, after 6 hours since the auction starts, you can cancel the auction.

Step 1: On Dagora, access Profile by clicking on profile logo at the top right corner of the screen;

Step 2: In profile space -> Open Auctions tab;

Step 3: Click End Bid button in the list NFT to open the NFT details page and click Cancel Auction button;

Step 4: Adjust Gwei/Gas fee by scrolling the yellow button;

Step 5: Click Confirm button to cancel auction -> You will receive a "Success" notification.

• Click Confirm button to close pop-up

• Click View Transaction to open a new tab to see the transaction history on blockchain

After that, the NFT item will be moved from the Auctions tab to the Items tab and it will be displayed as a detail page as shown below: