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metamarbles

Making a metamarble

Since my previous posts I have been busy refining metamarbles into something of a NFT project. I was not satisfied with the way the last post ended with the frontend layout and design. So, I started tinkering with it and eventually scrapped it completely. I also found the Thirdweb'

Deploying a frontend for your NFT project

After the previous articles we have uploaded our images and metadata, and also deployed a smart contract on a live blockchain testnet. For our next trick we will be building and deploying a frontend UI so that others can mint NFTs and show them to their friends. The minter-dapp repo

Launching your NFT project on a Blockchain Testnet

The Config In the file /backend/src/config.js we will setup how the smart contract will work before deploying it to the Blockchain. The file itself is very well documented and codeSTACKr covers it in his video linked here: The Deployment Hopefully you've saved your work and

IPFS hosting your NFT art and metadata in the MetaVerse

I've covered IPFS a few times on the blog before, you can read those articles here: https://bits.jeremyschroeder.net/blockfrost-io-script-example/ https://bits.jeremyschroeder.net/mr-pinners-pinning-lab/ https://bits.jeremyschroeder.net/building-a-nft-minting-bot-with-cardano-telegram-and-python-part-3/ This time we will use NFTport's API via the repo we cloned in the last

Generative MetaMarble art with an NFT generator

This is the fun part. How many NFT images do you want to make? We are using the HashLips Art Engine, but a fork of it by CodeSTACKr. The reason for that is the inclusion of commands to use NFTport's API to deploy NFTs and the contracts that

The Art Part, Creating a 2D MetaMarble with Inkscape

When I was coming up with ideas for NFT projects I was trying to think of different cool pictures of items I could layer together and get a generative image. Most NFT projects are a set of layers built together to make one image. They take things like the hair

The NFT Idea of MetaMarbles.xyz

During this blog series we will be putting together a simple NFT project called MetaMarbles. I chose marbles as the theme as I wanted something with a few attributes to make the art and code easy. With the things learned in this series we should be able to expand the