Minsta

Inspiration

This idea originated at a Mintbase internal team hackathon in early June 2022. When spending a week at a house as a whole team, so we wanted to come up with a way for us to share NFT pictures of the team.

What it does

A user takes a picture, it gets minted, and transferred to the person who took the previous picture. This creates a chain of NFTs that connect users based on a shared event.

How we built it

A frontend based off of a Mintbase boilerplate React template connected via a Rust contract.

The contract works as a proxy relaying transactions from the minter to its deployment on Mintbase.

Challenges we ran into

• Multiple calls to different contracts from a single user action.
• A proxy needed to be employed to allow non-contract owners and non-minters to post the minted NFTs
• The project was ambitious in scope given the time and manpower constraints.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

A cool app everyone loves.

What we learned

• The importance of networking for motivation.

What's next for Minsta

• Getting more people to create Minsta feeds by finding communities that could use the product.

Code

• Frontend: https://github.com/microchipgnu/minsta-nearcon-ii
• Rust contract: https://gist.github.com/microchipgnu/1ca74404d5ea700869d1d1eebce16b64

Deck

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zFHzeuWtmTmFGc9w3XPnfWMS_aLNMaVPj-fvH9KXmpw/edit?usp=sharing

Built With

• near
• next.js
• react
• rust