We encourage you to add a like or purchase a cheer sticker for any of the projects listed. Among these projects, one was built by us, and four were built by members within our developer community.

Our Submission

Genesis We submitted our initial work on Genesis, a new music and curator discovery platform. How did we come to this problem?

While releasing our own music over time, we realized there aren’t enough ways to discover new music. With evolving technology, solutions are meant to become easier to implement and less expensive for resourceful individuals like us. I developed a passion for creating playlists during my time building Creative (I’m listening to one of my playlists now on Apple Music: Hustler of the Year).

Building an app that helps people find new artists and musical talent felt like the right move. Currently, we use Audius as an integration, but plan to add additional sources. We're also updating the curator section of the app, allowing users to discover playlists based on their mood.

Other Cool Community Projects:

1. Good Morning Summer 2024 offers stories for summer, aiming to educate and entertain through lore and narrative while promoting the value of crypto. It provides NFT artists another monetization avenue by combining story and scarcity.

2. 🍪 Cookie Jar is an on-chain petty cash jar for high-trust groups and organizations. It simplifies minor expenditures and strengthens team trust by allowing whitelisted individuals to take “cookies” for expenses without the need for complex processes.

3. Speedball is a fair token presale tool that democratizes the token presale process in the DeFi ecosystem. It ensures fair participation, redistributes liquidity provider fees to a DAO controlled by token holders, and leverages market volatility for collective benefit.

4. FramePay is a Farcaster Frame that allows users to mint an NFT and redeem physical goods all in one smooth check-out flow through Shopify.

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Meta's new NFT-related feature on Instagram is a step in the right direction for artists who want to sell their work directly to collectors. The end-to-end toolkit will make it easy for creators to mint, showcase and sell their NFTs, which is a big win for the creative community. With Polygon as the first supported blockchain, we can only imagine that other blockchains will be added down the road. This partnership could very well be a game-changer for how creatives monetize their art online. What are your thoughts of this news?

For more information on Polygon and MATIC, please visit https://polygon.network/.

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What are Reddit NFTs?

Reddit NFTs are avatars that have been created using the Polygon blockchain. These avatars, which are based on the social network's logo, Snoo, can be used as profile pictures on the Reddit platform. So far, there have been 2.5 million wallets created within the marketplace since its launch in July.

Why Are People Buying Reddit NFTs?

There are a few reasons why people might be interested in buying Reddit NFTs. For one, they are relatively accessible and can be purchased without a large investment. Additionally, they are highly collectible and have a wide appeal. And finally, they offer buyers a way to show their support for the Reddit platform.

Will Reddit NFTs Be Successful?

It's still too early to tell whether Reddit NFTs will be successful in the long run. However, given the current hype around NFTs and the popularity of the Reddit platform, it's certainly possible that these digital assets will continue to gain in popularity. Only time will tell!

If you're looking for a new way to show your support for Reddit, then you may want to consider purchasing a Reddit NFT. These digital assets are relatively affordable, highly collectible, and offer a unique way to show your love for all things Snoo. Who knows? You may even make a profit if they continue to surge in popularity!

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Like with all NFTs, you are the sole custodian of your POAPs. They are not owned by any government, corporation, or other entity. They are yours and nobody can take them (well, unless your wallet gets compromised—DYOR on good crypto SecOps before diving in!) Hold them forever as a keepsake, like you might that ticket stub from the time you saw Jordan in the NBA Finals. Or, if you want, you can even sell them if there is a market… like you might for that ticket stub from the time you saw Jordan.

Creative dropped its first public POAP at the 24-hour POAPathon Holiday Spectacular livestream event in December 2021. During Creative’s one-hour segment, rapper B.M.E. Mel and Shaddow performed while the Creative Marketing team got on and hyped the project. The music was popping, the audience was engaged, and fire emojis were flying by in the chat. After the segment, a co-branded exclusive POAP was distributed to those who watched.

More than 130 POAPs were minted just for attendees/viewers of Creative’s segment. Issuing a POAP increased engagement and interest in Creative, bringing in new members to Discord and more followers on Twitter, because people just can't help themselves; they love to collect shit, especially cool shit. The POAP looked, as is preferred, super-duper-dope.

POAPathon’s LIVEstream and Creative’s POAP drop was such a success that the collective intends to release POAPs for future events. Creative intends to distribute POAPs to every participant of each brand campaign hosted on the Creative platform to incentivize the community. And, unlike that ticket to a Jordan game, those POAPs might have more utility than just sentimental value or something to hang on your wall. With blockchain, there’s a permanent record of everyone who minted a Creative POAP. Those who hold it might just be rewarded in the future. Look no further than the Adidas POAP drop in December 2021, which ended up providing early access to Adidas NFTs and other merch for its collectors. 👀

“This is a story, all about how… Some artists and developers figured out how… to take creatives in the market making NFTs, and turn a profit with collabs on multi-chains with ETH…” (written to the tune of Will Smith's theme for “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.”)

Now, if you're unfamiliar with the popular American sitcom of the '90s, I feel for you. However, if you were able to deduce what the previous jingle was remixed from, then continue reading!

What’s the Use?

Creative is a platform where creators, fans, and brands come together and use their God-given talents to work for them--for good. Simply put, artists, singers, designers, painters, etc., should get paid a fair, competitive, and consistent living wage, with comparable benefits to more traditional careers in our society. From small projects, to large, complex, and influential organizations, Creative will provide services such as artist-direct streaming royalties, artist-brand collabs and sponsorships (which can be voted on by fans and members of integrated blockchain platforms), and interactive fan engagement, with perks such as rewards in our native CRTV token, special/exclusive NFT drops, or even access to public and private events within the Creative community.

A Developer’s Solution

For many developers looking for a career in the blockchain space, they may stumble upon the growing behemoth of the Ethereum blockchain. Ethereum has steadily become the safe haven to bringing feasible utility and use cases to the ideas within decentralized finance (DeFi), decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), and the world of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). All of these different protocols, technologies, and users jam the circuits of Ethereum, often resulting in high transaction fees. So Polygon (formerly known as MATIC), sought to solve this issue for us all… Let's check in with how well they're doing on that quest!

The Move to Bel-Air

Polygon combines the best of Ethereum and sovereign blockchains into a full-fledged multichain system. When considering pain points associated with blockchains, like high gas fees and slow speeds, Polygon solves these issues without sacrificing security by using a multichain system, comparable to others like Polkadot, Cosmos, Avalanche, etc. Creative took the opportunity to partner with POLY for at least these three major upsides:

SUITE OF BENEFITS

1) It fully benefits from Ethereum’s network effect; meaning our native DeFi smart contracts (developed in-house), which will be attached to the DAO of Creative, shall benefit greatly from transactions that occur within our community on the Polygon blockchain. As Creative integrates other ETH-compatible protocols via Polygon, it gives creators the opportunity to benefit from a robust level of indie-ready services, brings fans the opportunity to participate in voting and promotional opportunities, and brands the ground-level insight and direct connection with a community around their project, product, or service.

2) It is inherently secure; which is paramount to the success of any tech platform and organization-- network security. Hosting LIVE events, supporting with multiple servers in the blockchain ecosystem, and even just handling bugs and errors, can all be integrated as an “à la carte” function for developers on Ethereum. For Creative, it means we get to design an extra tight project with enhanced protection features as we scale. Polygon also offers the ability to select 'Security as a Service,' as an organic response to understanding the landscape of blockchain and DeFi. Scaling for any business or platform is always difficult, but working with Polygon gives Creative a decided advantage for accessing the best developers, while leveraging a great project with clear upside.

3) It is powerful and open to all; eventually. Creative plans to publish NFTs on the behalf of Creative members and fans to larger marketplaces such as OpenSea, Rarible, Mintable, and more in the future. Rather than Creative taking ownership of utility licenses for each creator, a decentralized network of blockchains will independently service our platform. By distributing metadata through secure peer-to-peer networks, developers can unite with Creative to design partner/sponsor agreements, which can be written into smart contracts, that turn into alliances with other DAOs through crowdfunding, direct payment, portfolio lending, member rewards staking, and transferring data with great efficiency.

“We pulled data since the beginning of 2021, looking for ways to alleviate network transaction fees (gas fees) in order to develop projects and scale the Creative network. Not only has Polygon worked tirelessly as partners to support our integration, but they have the exact infrastructure that will make Creative a platform where devs understand and value our mission, as well as give our users a unique and seamless experience.” -- Creative Marketing Team

The Workout Plan: Wallet Integration

As Creative gets closer to the beta launch, Polygon will play an instrumental role with our wallet partner Venly, an app with a built-in on-ramp to NFT marketplaces. This will be a benefit not only the for NFTs that are designed and minted within our Creative community, but off-chain users have the opportunity to learn and seek the power of the Ethereum network, and what blockchain technology can do for them.

You can find more about Polygon here…https://polygon.technology/

You can learn more about Venly here… https://venly.io/

You can learn more about what Creative is doing here… https://docs.creativeplatform.xyz/

Stay tuned in our Discord [https://discord.gg/xuVVDDHbzV] for more opportunities to join us LIVE for Q&As related to this partnership on #CRTV Conversations hosted by KELZ from Marketing.

Cheers! 🍻

Creative Platform is a gamified blockchain-based crowdfunding platform that connects brands, content creators, and fans to enable content creators to overcome financial hurdles. Here’s how it works.

Brands that desire campaign content, such as video advertisements, can create a submission pool where content creators can submit metadata directly to the campaign pool. After the deadline for campaign submission, a fan vote determines the top ten creators for the campaign. From these top ten creators, the brand will select one creator that fits their requirements and mint a final collaborative NFT, which the brand will give away to one fan from a pool of those who chose the winner from the shortlisted creators.

To give all fans an equal chance of winning collaborative NFTs, we needed access to a secure random number generator (RNG) that any user could independently audit. However, RNG solutions for smart contracts require several security considerations to prevent manipulation and ensure system integrity. For instance, RNG solutions derived from blockchain data like block hashes can be exploited by miners/validators. At the same time, off-chain APIs are opaque and don’t provide users with definitive proof about the integrity of the process.

After reviewing various solutions, we selected Chainlink VRF because of cutting-edge academic research. Furthermore, it is supported by time-tested oracle infrastructure and secured through the generation and on-chain verification of cryptographic proofs that prove the integrity of each random number supplied to smart contracts.

Chainlink VRF works by combining block data that is unknown when the request is made with the oracle node’s pre-committed private key; to generate a random number and cryptographic proof. The Creative smart contract will only accept the random number input if it has valid cryptographic proof, and the cryptographic proof can only be generated if the VRF process is tamper-proof. This provides our users with automated and verifiable assurances directly on-chain that the fan eligibility process for collaborative NFTs is provably fair and not tampered with by the oracle, outside entities, or the Creative team.

In addition to Chainlink VRF, Creative plans to use Chainlink oracles to access off-chain Twitter data that will help to verify platform users and brands on-chain, linking on-chain wallet addresses to off-chain Twitter accounts.

Chainlink offers a wide range of time-tested off-chain data and computations that are helping us build a complicated crowdfunding system that is secure and reliable. Chainlink gives us a seamless way to integrate critical infrastructure that we would have otherwise had to build from scratch. - the Creative Team

About Chainlink

Chainlink is the industry standard for building, accessing, and selling oracle services needed to power hybrid smart contracts on any blockchain. Chainlink oracle networks provide smart contracts with a way to reliably connect to any external API and leverage secure off-chain computations for enabling feature-rich applications. Chainlink currently secures tens of billions of dollars across DeFi, insurance, gaming, and other major industries, and offers global enterprises and leading data providers a universal gateway to all blockchains.

Learn more about Chainlink by visiting chain.link or read the documentation at docs.chain.link. To discuss an integration, reach out to an expert.

About Creative

Creative Platform is a gamified blockchain platform for independent creators, fans, and brands to collaborate directly and earn rewards using P2E DeFi incentives. To join the community and learn more, visit CreativePlatform.io.

As well as for crypto-collectibles like CryptoKitties, non-fungible tokens can be used for digital assets that need to be differentiated from each other in order to prove their value, or scarcity. They can represent everything from virtual land parcels to artworks, to ownership licenses.

Non-fungible tokens are not traded on standard cryptocurrency exchanges, instead they are bought or sold on digital marketplaces like Openbazaar or Decentraland’s LAND marketplace.

How do NFTs work?

Tokens like Bitcoin and Ethereum-based ERC-20 tokens are fungible. Ethereum’s non-fungible token standard, as used by platforms such as CryptoKitties and Decentraland, is ERC-721. Non-fungible tokens can also be created on other smart-contract-enabled blockchains with non-fungible token tools and support. Though Ethereum was the first to be widely used, NEO, EOS and TRON now have NFT standards.

Non-fungible tokens and their smart contracts allow for detailed attributes to be added, like the identity of the owner, rich metadata, or secure file links. The content of non-fungible tokens to immutably proof digital ownership is an important progression for an increasingly digital world. They could see blockchain’s promise of trust-less security applied to the ownership or exchange of almost any asset.

As is the challenge of blockchain to date, non-fungible tokens, their protocols and smart contract technology is still being developed. Creating decentralized applications and platforms for the management and creation of non-fungible tokens is still relatively complicated. There is also the challenge of creating a standard. Blockchain development is fragmented, many developers are working on their own projects. To be successful, there may need to be unified protocols and interoperability.

Recent developments

The NFT space grew steadily in 2020, with a January 2021 report from DappRadar revealing that daily activity across blockchain games grew 35% during 2020 to around 28,000 daily active unique wallets. In February 2020, NFT marketplace Rarible locked in $1.75 million in seed funding from prominent industry names, including Coinbase Ventures.

Meanwhile, NFTs began to trade hands for eye-watering sums. Teen artist FEWOCiOUS sold NFT artwork for tens of thousands of dollars; a Sorare trading card representing soccer player Kylian Mbappé sold for nearly $65,000; a Nifty Gateway auction of digital artist Beeple's work saw one bidder pay $777,777 for a collection of pieces at the last second; a 24x24 pixel image sold for $176,000. NFT mania hit new heights in February 2020, when an Ethereum project called Hashmasks saw 16,000 pieces of NFT art sell for $9 million.

Big money was accompanied by ever-bigger names, as artists and celebrities seized the opportunity to cash in. Rapper Lil Yachty; Rick & Morty creator Justin Roiland; DJ deadmau5; and YouTuber Logan Paul were among those who launched NFTs.

The future of NFTs

For the time being, much of the attention around non-fungible tokens is focused on artwork, gaming and crypto collectibles. Increasingly, recognizable brands are licensing their content for NFTs; fantasy soccer game Sorare has signed up 100 football clubs to its platform, while the likes of the Smurfs, Minecraft and the BBC's Doctor Who have all been rendered as NFTs.

For gaming, non-fungible tokens could be used to represent in-game items like skins, potentially allowing them to be ported to new games or traded with other players.

Their potential however is much wider with possible application to copyright and intellectual property rights, ticketing, and the sale and trading of video games.

Non-fungible tokens add potential to the creation of security tokens, the tokenization of both digital and real-world assets. Physical assets like property could be tokenized for fractional, or shared, ownership. If these security tokens are non-fungible, the asset's ownership is completely traceable and clear, even if only tokens representing part ownership are sold.

Further application of non-fungible tokens could be certification such as for qualifications, software licensing, warranties, and even birth and death certificates. The smart contract of a non-fungible token immutably proves the identity of the recipient or owner and could be stored in a digital wallet for ease of access and representation. One day, our digital wallets could contain proof of every certificate, license, and asset, we own.

• Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are digital assets that are provably unique, creating digital scarcity. They can't be duplicated or divided.
• They have many use cases, including for digital collectibles, music, artwork, and in-game tokens.

Cryptocurrencies, utility tokens, security tokens, privacy tokens… digital assets and their classifications are multiplying and evolving right alongside cryptographic and blockchain technology.

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are another example of the fast-paced change in the industry. In this guide we explore what they are, how they work, and how they're being used.

What are non-fungible tokens?

Non-fungible tokens are digital assets that contain identifying information recorded in smart contracts.

It’s this information that makes each NFT unique, and as such, they cannot be directly replaced by another token. They cannot be swapped like for like, as no two NFTs are alike. Banknotes, in contrast, can be simply exchanged one for another; if they hold the same value, there is no difference to the holder between, say, one dollar bill and another.

Bitcoin is a fungible token. You can send someone one Bitcoin and they can send one back, and you still have one Bitcoin. (Of course, the value of Bitcoin might change during the time of exchange.) You can also send or receive smaller amounts of one Bitcoin, measured in satoshis (think of satoshis as cents of a Bitcoin), since fungible tokens are divisible.

Non-fungible tokens are not divisible, in the same way that you cannot send someone part of a concert ticket. Part of a concert ticket wouldn’t be worth anything on its own and would not be redeemable.

CryptoKitties collectibles were some of the first non-fungible tokens. Each blockchain-based digital kitten is unique; if you send someone a CryptoKitty and receive a CryptoKitty from someone else, the one you receive will be a completely different CryptoKitty from the one you sent. Collecting different digital kittens is the point of the game.

The unique information of a non-fungible token, like a CryptoKitty, is stored in its smart contract and immutably recorded on that token’s blockchain. CryptoKitties were originally launched as ERC-721 tokens on the Ethereum blockchain, but have since migrated to their own blockchain, Flow, to be easier for crypto newcomers to access. Did you know?

In late 2018, one player was so desperate to move to a "better location" in the virtual game Decentraland that they were ready to say goodbye to 2,800,000 MANA in order to purchase a land piece in-game. At the time of the deal, that was equivalent to over $215,200.

What makes NFTs so special?

Non-fungible tokens have unique attributes; they are usually linked to a specific asset. They can be used to prove the ownership of digital items like game skins right through to the ownership of physical assets.

Other tokens are fungible, in the same way as coins or banknotes. Fungible tokens are identical, they have the same attributes and value when exchanged.