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🔮 NFT101 : NFT Creator & Collector Resource Guide
Compiled by @nnnnicholas with contributions from @r_ross_campbell, @0xElle.
First Published 2021-03-12. Last updated date above.
This document is made with love and distributed for free forever 💖
🤝Introduction
Welcome to the NFT syllabus 🎉🎉 This document collects essential references and resources in the NFT space. Learning from the links below will give you a strong core knowledge of what NFTs are and where they come from. With this, you'll be able to build specific knowledge in whichever direction you're most interested.
Please don't be intimidated by this list. This is not homework, it's a bookstore and all the books are free. You are encouraged to jump straight to the links that catch your eye first. I encourage you to explore by ctrl+f search. Go wild! 📚🆓
Finally, this is a living document that may change over time. We are all learning and discovering each day. I'll update with new and improved references over time. If you have suggestions or comments, please get in touch with me on twitter @nnnnicholas.
NFT Galaxy Brain 🌌🧠 is a Twitter list of core people in the NFT scene.
🧮Quantitative NFT resources
Ethereum Protocol
- Ethereum unit conversion converts between Eth, Gwei, and Wei.
- Ethereum Gas Table documents the gas cost for each operation on the EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine). Use this site to figure out how much gas a given operation costs, then multiply that figure by the current gas price (Gwei) to simulate the transaction fee today.
- Etherscan Average Block Time shows the time interval between blocks
Ethereum Market
- CoinLib Coin Compare tool compares coin and token growth since a given date.
- CryptoFees shows the blockchains and dapps ranked by most transaction fees spent. The logic is that if people are spending so much to use these chains and dapps, then they must be interesting.
NFT Trackers
Gas Trackers
- Etherscan Gas Tracker estimates the gas price required to process a transaction in 30 seconds, 2 minutes, and ~10 minutes, based on the gas prices of transactions in the past 1000 blocks. If the average block time is 15 seconds, then this is a period 250 minutes or just over 4 hours.
- Blocknative Gas Estimator good tool. The max fee is 2x the current fee so your tx will definitely make it to the chain with these numbers.
- Ethereum Gas Heatmap shows the average gas price for each hour of the day based on the past 7 days data. This can be helpful for choosing what time of day to execute a transaction.
Ethereum Analysis
Ethereum Utilities
- Approval revokers: Contracts can request allowances to manage your ERC tokens (think Uniswap or OpenSea). These sites helps you revoke those allowances.
🤑Wallet Inspectors
- To lookup a wallet, add an Ethereum or ENS address after the slash of these websites. For example
https://eth.af/nnnnicholas
- Blockscan lets you inspect a wallet address across EVM blockchains.
🔗Blockchains
Background information on blockchains. If you're already familiar, skip to the next section.
Blockchain Basics
Writing Solidity
- OpenZeppelin Wizard helps you create a standard ERC-20, 721, or 1155 fast.
- CryptoZombies is the go-to learn-by-example interactive course for picking up Solidity.
- EatTheBlocks is an excellent Solidity by example YouTube channel.
- RemixIDE is a browser-based IDE that is ready to go immediately and includes several helpful features out such as Etherscan contract verification with extensions.
- Solidity By Example demonstrates basic techniques Solidity by example.
- Hardhat tutorial by wighawag is an alternative fork of the Hardhat docs tutorial
- dapptools is a collection of ethereum CLI tools and smart contract libraries (an alternative to OpenZeppelin).
- Ethereum Signature Directory allows you to lookup a funciton or event signature by its 4 or 32 byte hash digest.
- ETH Build: a video course visual node-based editor for simulating the EVM
- ETHover: Hover over a contract address in VSCode and get quick links to the live contract deployment on Ethereum. Mainnet only at present.
- Solidity Visual Developer:
- replace etherscan url's
io
with deth.net
to open in vscode
- replace etherscan url's
etherscan
with contractreader
to quickly inspect a contract on https://www.contractreader.io/
- Token Checklist: How to get your token listed in token lists and wallets such as Metamask, Uniswap, and Coingecko.
Data Storage
IPFS
- CID Inspector shows information about a given IPFS content ID
- Anatomy of a CID walks through how IPFS CIDs work and differences between each revision/
Advanced Blockchain
MEV
Zero Knowlege Proofs
🟢NFT Overviews
These documents survey the NFT landscape at a moment in time. Good places to start for people wanting perspectives on the big picture.
🏇NFT Use cases
🚧Technical Standards
💎Collectors
Without collectors, NFTs have no value. The following are influential collectors and collector-DAOs.
🎨NFT Minters and Marketplaces
- Nameless by NFT42 is behind Joy Toys, Veefriends, and NFT Boxes
- Manifold by @richerd Chan, Eric Diep, and Wilkins Chung is behind Pak, Fvckrender, Mad Dog Jones
Marketplaces
OpenSea
Rarible
- Rarible: Open access NFT minting and marketplace. Sometimes OpenSea competitor with a Facebook UI feel. Allows you to deploy your own contract (but very gas inefficient at present).
Objkt
- Objkt: Tezos NFT marketplace that includes hic et nunc and other Tezos NFT contracts.
Zora
Hic et Nunc
- hic et nunc (aka H+N, HEN) is a Tezos-based NFT platform. It achieved initial traction with it's PoS gas fees and ecological profile.
Cent
- Valuables by Cent: NFT tweets from a group that aspires to launch more NFT marketplace platforms.
- Cent's Vision. From the creator of tweet tokenizer Valuables.
Galleries
SuperRare
Foundation
- Foundation: Invite-only NFT minting platform with designerly aesthetic. Found initial traction with 3d artists on instagram and has grown to become a premiere minter and market to drop high profile NFTs if you're willing to set up your own wallet.
JPG
- JPG is an NFT museum and gallery sales platform.
NiftyGateway
- NiftyGateway: Gemini owned marketplace offering exclusive drops from crypto artists (Fewocious, Pak) and non-crypto artists (Grimes and Justin Roiland).
⌛Frontends and Secondary Markets
🤼Social Tokens
- Friends with Benefits is amongst the most successful social tokens to date.
- Seed Club is a social token project incubator led by Jess Sloss
- $WHALE
🧩Fractional NFTs
💰Fundraising for content (aka NFT kickstarting)
⛽NFTs and the Environment
🏆Notable NFT projects
MySoul
First NFT-type project ever. Actually a fungible token. Created by
Rare Pepes
One of the earliest memorable NFT-type projects, Pepes were fungible tokens but in the spirit of NFTs. Created on Bitcoin Coutnerparty. Artists would submit images to the Pepe Scientists (Joe Looney and 1 other person), who would review them before they hit the website, because Joe owned all the infrastructure and was thus personally liable for content on the site under the eyes of the law. Pepes were minted in editions. There were 36 seasons of Pepes before the minting was retired.
Cryptopunks
- CryptoPunks are the most well-known Ethereun NFT to date
- The origins story of Cryptopunks with Matt Hall - YouTube
0xMons
- OxMons is a solidity programmer artist making a universe of connected projects.
Etheria
- Etheria was the first Ethereum NFT launched at DevCon 1, 77 days after Ethereum's launch.
Curio Cards
Early Ethereum NFT Launched May 2017.