2021 at Mintbase: a year in review (and a look ahead)
2021 was a breakthrough yr for Mintbase, NEAR, and the NFT area. Let’s assessment a few of the highlights of the final twelve months.
January was a month for brand new beginnings. Mintbase just lately moved to Portugal and we’d simply began rising our crew, after deciding to rewrite all of our code in Rust and NEAR Protocol. Luis Freitas, our product lead, was one of many first hires.
For the subsequent few months, the crew was in full programming mode. By Could, we have been lastly dwell on NEAR mainnet.
The summer season was all about persevering with to develop our know-how. Mintbase is now a real market manufacturing unit, permitting anybody to deploy their very own good contract in simply three clicks.
By the tip of June, Mintbase’s collectables are displayed within the NEAR pockets. In July, we had over 300 deployed shops. In August, over 500. And we upgraded all of them to adjust to the NEP-171 standard.
We additionally launched the mixing with 3XR — this implies every retailer on Mintbase additionally will get its personal digital gallery. How cool is that?
And since there may be life past the keyboard, the summer season was additionally about bringing NFTs into the actual world. On the Wilde Möhre competition, we constructed an NFT home referred to as Wildeverse1 the place we airdropped NEAR to competition visitors, who may then alternate NFTs for beer and different experiences.
By October, we’d grown to a full crew of 10! We welcomed frontend developer João Loureiro; UI designer Marcelo Kunze, Neighborhood Extraordinaires Maria Neu, Luis Infante and Regina Nogueira.
And thank god we did! October was a busy month at Mintbase land. We have been at LisCon, the place we had the pleasure to satisfy fellow blockchain builders and alternate data and concepts. We additionally did NFT ticketing in Lisbon for NEARcon and examined our redeemable NFTs. The spotlight was our public sale occasion: individuals have been in a position to place real-time, on-chain bids on works *collectively* painted at Wilde Möhre (sure, you guessed it — and all artists have been added in our cut up income & royalties characteristic).
To have fun Lisbon Blockchain Week and go even additional in exhibiting the usability of our know-how, we onboarded a number of eating places in Lisbon to simply accept NFTs as fee, each single one with their very own NEAR pockets and being paid on-chain by our income and royalties options. Fancy a burrito NFT?
November introduced extra huge information tech-wise. Mintbase created a system that permits customers to mint, record and purchase hundreds of NFTs without delay, opening the door to much more potentialities. Moreover, NEAR applied sharding, which is able to allow the satisfaction of the demand for transactions as an increasing number of customers begin to use it. We grew to become one of many first NFT markets on a sharded chain.
And we ended the yr with a bang 💥. In December, we travelled to Miami for the launch of DeadMau5 and Portugal. The Man’s new single “That is Effective”. The track was launched solely as a million NFTs on Mintbase! As soon as all of them are bought, they’ll be the primary artists to go platinum with NFTs. In any case, the sheer scale of this launch is unprecedented and a large leap in direction of mass adoption.
Moreover, we efficiently pushed for a brand new eventing commonplace and now all 855 Mintbase NFT contracts work flawlessly with the net pockets. This opens the door for secondary markets like we all know on Ethereum with OpenSea to flourish on NEAR.
We additionally discovered time to rebrand Createbase to Mintbase DAO. Createbase was one of many first guilds on NEAR and its title not mirrored its true function: to assist tasks constructing on Mintbase Protocol. Interested in Mintbase DAO and the historical past of guilds on NEAR? Learn extra beneath.
What’s subsequent?
We couldn’t be extra excited for what’s to return in 2022. After a (very) busy yr striving to construct a robust basis for tech, we will lastly concentrate on all the opposite options we wish to implement just like the UX/UI of Mintbase.io.
However the huge factor we’re all fairly enthusiastic about is interoperability. That is what makes NFTs so particular: they are often traded and exchanged on totally different marketplaces ✨
2022 would be the yr of NFTs as we lastly have the know-how to convey to the plenty. We did the laborious floor work, now it’s time to present what we will do in actual life- in spite of everything we wish to reform damaged financial techniques and allow true peer-to-peer transactions with out middlemen.
