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Kevin chats with the founders of Objkt about its path to becoming the dominant platform of the Tezos-based NFT marketplace.
LINKS
- Connect with Objkt: Website | Twitter | Medium | Discord
- The Largest NFT Marketplace on Tezos | objkt.com
- Hic Et Nunc (HEN)
- A Blockchain Designed to Evolve | Tezos
- Guide to Buying NFTs on Hic et Nunc (Early 2021) | Electric Artefacts
- Objkt: An NFT Platform That Aims to Connect All Tezos-Based NFTS in One Single Platform | XTZ News
- Tezos Token Standards Overview: FA1.2 and FA2 | Apriorit
- Collection: Hic et Nunc | Objkt
- Collection: Tezzardz | Objkt
- Collection: NEONZ | Objkt
- Collection: Monsters | Objkt
- Collection: ZIGGURATS | Objkt
- Hicdex: the Hic Et Nunc Indexer by Leon Nicholls | Medium
- Hic et Nunc Stopped Operations, Website Offline | DAP Radar
- An Introduction to IPFS (Interplanetary File System) | Infura Blog
- What is Web3? The Decentralized Internet of the Future Explained | Free Code Camp
- What Hic et Nunc’s Resurrection Says About Decentralized Infrastructure | CoinDesk
- An Open Platform to Create and Collect Generative NFTs on Tezos | fx(hash)
- Art Blocks – Generative NFT Art with Erick Snowfro | Modern Finance
- BrainDrops: A Platform for AI-Generated Art | PROOF
- Discover Random Objkts | Mark Knol
- Had a Weird Dream I Dropped a Piece On @hicetnunc2000 | XCOPY, Twitter
- Objkt Public API | Objkt
- Stats & Facts | Tezos
- Scaling Tezos | HackerNoon
- Tezos: Approaches to Scalability. | Arthur Breitman
- 3D Experiences for Your NFTs | On Cyber Galleries
- Show Your Collection to the World | Gallery.so
- Les Éléfants Terribles | Guillaume Cornet
NOTES
- What is Objkt, and what community does it serve? [00:39]
- The founders introduce themselves. [02:14]
- Objkt began in an effort to improve upon HEN's offer system. How was this accomplished? [03:13]
- Why Objkt groups the entire HEN ecosystem as a single collection. [07:26]
- How is the impressive image load speed on Objkt handled? [08:41]
- Why did HEN fail to scale? [10:31]
- Artists can now mint tokens and spawn their own contracts on Objkt. What are the advantages of this feature? [11:44]
- How could Objkt's notification system be improved? [13:44]
- All of Objkt's NFT data is stored on IPFS. [15:36]
- Does Objkt plan to support generative art minting? [18:52]
- Compared to Ethereum, the barrier to publishing NFT smart contracts is lower on Tezos. What are the pros and cons to this? [20:20]
- How Objkt plans to build out its following feature to aid in art discovery and the challenges to making it optimally useful. [22:07]
- Are comments sections too Web2? Can we expect to see them added to Objkt at any point in the near future? [25:49]
- Kevin is impressed with Objkt's clean UI. [28:21]
- What's the best way to discover up-and-coming artists on Objkt? [28:55]
- How many Objkt engineers does it take to screw in an API? [31:06]
- Objkt's product development philosophy: ship fast and experiment. [33:04]
- Where launching a token is prioritized on Objkt's roadmap (and why this diverges from its overall "fast and experimental" philosophy). [35:24]
- For all of its benefits to NFT artists and collectors just getting started, are Tezos scalability issues a cause for concern? How can these issues be remedied? [37:45]
- It's possible to display Tezos NFTs in real life using OnCyber. [45:51]
- On the future of cross-chain functionality and what the next few months look like for Objkt. [47:34]
- NFT artists the Objkt founders are collecting and keeping an eye on. [50:30]
- Parting thoughts. [52:17]