Unlock Launches Support For Email Recipients on Airdrops and Checkout — We’re excited to announce support for email recipients on airdrops and checkout! With this new feature, you no longer need a wallet address to airdrop or buy NFTs for someone else. Instead, you can just use their email address to airdrop or send them an NFT. (If they want, they…

Using the public lock contract for fun and profit! — 🐰 Happy Year of the Rabbit! You can now open your Hongbao ! Last week, we launched a really fun experiment inspired by the traditional Chinese gift-giving practice to show appreciation or gratitude. Today, I want to tell you more about how we built it! The code is full open-source…

The exchanging of hongbao (also referred to as “red packet” or “red envelope”) is a traditional Chinese gift-giving practice that dates back centuries and is typically associated with holidays such as Chinese New Year and other special occasions. It is also commonly used in business and professional settings to show…

Today, we’re unveiling a cool new page on our static site: it’s called “State of Unlock” and it shows some important metrics for Unlock Protocol adoption! Since we firmly believe in a world where creators will deploy their locks on multiple networks, we show both the aggregate data, as well…

Apply promo codes and coupons to your memberships — We’re starting this year like we finished the previous one: 🚀 by shipping cool features. Today, we’re introducing a new type of purchase hook : the discount hook ! Whether you are organizing events, selling subscriptions to your content, or running a knitting club, sometimes, you want to provide discounts…

2022 was year filled with new resources, new code, new partners, and massive uptake — 2022 was an incredible year for the Unlock Protocol community! The number of smart contracts deployed using Unlock Protocol skyrocketed from where we were in 2021; there were incredible enhancements made to the underlying protocol itself; tools, docs, guides, and community were completely redesigned; and new projects were popping off…

Edit metadata for individual NFT tokens and create custom presets for ticketing and creator content. — We’re excited to announce another update to our no-code metadata configurator for NFT creators. Previously, you were only able to customize and manage metadata for a collection of NFTs at a time. But now, you can edit the metadata for individual NFTs in a collection as well. This update makes…

How to back up your Twitter followers and create portable memberships for fans and followers that will work almost anywhere — One of the core tenets of web3 is that users should “own” their data. The concept of “ownership” of data is itself something that’s pretty hard to grasp — or even define. That said, I’m going to give it a shot. Join our Flock! I like to frame ownership as…