Incorporating NFTs into your private blogging community — Gated content is not a new concept. Every paywall you interact with is a gate. Substack subscriptions? That’s a gate. Medium membership? That’s a gate. Newspaper subscription walls? Another gate. But what if you could build your own gated solution with the flexibility to incorporate modern technology like NFTs? In…

Why it’s important for leaders to brainstorm and discuss ideas in a way that allows the rest of the company to interact and gain insights into decisions — Remote work has pushed us to messaging apps. Conversations that used to happen in the hallways of your office happen on Slack and Microsoft Teams and Discord now. However, the serendipitous communication that arose from in-person work is not gone with remote work. It just requires more intentionality.

With Pinata Submarine — In 2021, NFTs took flight. It was a long time coming, with CryptoKitties and CryptoPunks both launching way back in 2017. But when NFTs finally gained traction, they did not let up. This boom has led to creative uses of NFTs beyond their investment and artistic value. One of the…

Remember back to the early 2000s. Remember back to Napster and Limewire and Kazaa. Remember waiting three hours for a song to download and a whole day for a video. Forget about the piracy of it all for a second. This was the dawn of a new way to consume…

Using Next.js and Pinata — If you’ve ever connected your Ethereum wallet to a website or web app, then you’ve surely felt the frustration of session management—or lack thereof. When connecting to a site, you are generally prompted to sign a message proving you control the wallet in question. However, as soon as you reload…

Using Pinata and Hardhat — NFT collections, specifically PFP (profile picture) collections, continue to be white-hot. They are attracting interest from the crypto-native crowd as well as from the crypto-newbie crowd. However, Ethereum gas prices have made purchasing NFTs cost-prohibitive for many. …

Using Pinata and Metaplex — In case you slept through all of 2021, NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are hot. They have evolved from “random jpegs” to self-contained applications, access tokens, communities, and more. With increased creativity and expanding support across multiple blockchains, NFTs don’t look to be going away any time soon. While Ethereum might be…

The lessons learned from a PFP drop on Ethereum — There are two types of content that prevail across social media when it comes to NFT projects—tutorials and success stories. This is not unique to NFTs or Web3. In fact, it’s natural for humans to talk about success and teach people how to repeat that success (even if the teachers…

Content Identifiers, Portability, and Community — Last week, the NFT world was shaken by the sudden announcement from HicEtNunc (HEN)’s founder that the platform would be shut down. HEN is/was an NFT marketplace built on top of the Tezos blockchain, but it was also so much more. It spawned a whole new level of creativity in…