Astronofty

Inspiration

The inspiration for this project came from my passion for decentralized technology.
One particular niche of decentralization I am particularly fond of is NFT's and how they can become a great income stream for artists. With the theme of the hackathon being exploration and showing a picture of a rocket ship, it is no surprise that the idea of space came to mind. Looking into space photography, I found the r/astrophotography subreddit that has a community of 2.6 million members. There, beautiful shots of space can be found, but they also require expensive equipment and precise editing. My idea for Astronofty is to turn these photographs into NFT's for the users to be able to sell as unique tokens on the platform while using Estuary as decentralized storage platform for the photos.

What It Does

You can mint/create NFT's of your astrophotography to sell to other users.

How I Built It

Frontend: React
Transaction Pipeline: Solidity/MetaMask
Photo Storage: Estuary

Challenges I Ran Into

I wanted to be able to upload as many images as you want to a single NFT so figuring that out logistically, structurally and synchronously in React was a challenge.

Accomplishments That We're Proud Of

Deploying a fully functional all-in-one NFT marketplace.

What I Learned

I learned about using Solidity mappings and structs to store data on the blockchain and all the frontend/contract integrations needed to make an NFT marketplace work.