February 17, 2022

Objkt and Its Path to Becoming the Largest NFT Marketplace on Tezos

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 |...

Kevin chats with the founders of Objkt about its path to becoming the dominant platform of the Tezos-based NFT marketplace.

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  • 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]

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