NFT Projects from the ground up

the basics

NFT = Non Fungible Tokens
Unique digital assets that exist on a blockchain and cannot be replicated.

Unlike cryptocurrencies, where each coin is the same, each NFT is unique and can be sold as a way to prove ownership over some sort of digital file.

Typically, the digital files aren’t stored on the blockchain themselves. Rather, a link to the file is stored, along with the token that acts as proof of ownership over whatever that link points to.

There are instances, however, where two or more NFTs exist for the same file, i.e. art airdrops can be the same for thousands of people. Each token on the blockchain is still unique, but they all point to the same piece of digital asset.

In any case though, there is an overall scarcity of the digital assets themselves.

first choices

Before we can get technical about our NFT project, there are a few choices that need to be made on the artistic / operational side of things.

• 1:1 tokens or generative art — depending on what we want to achieve with your project and what our roadmap looks like, this is a decision that needs to be made early on;
• pick the right blockchain for the project — the most popular one is the Ethereum blockchain, which is also the one ao on the block typically works with;
• pick the right team for the project — NFT projects have been around for a little while now and it’s now widely established how much work it is. Art creation and direction, roadmap creation, marketing, community building, development. One-person bands might have a tough time doing it all.

the development side of things

This is where ao on the block comes in. We can help with anything development related, whether your project has its own dev but you need that little extra help to kickstart it or you need it all handled by a 3rd party.

image generation

The artist / creator has all the art ready. Layers and traits carefully crafted, metadata mapped out, rarity hierarchy in place. And now?

You can hand it all over to us (we have NDAs ready to use if that makes you feel more comfortable) and we use our tools to set it all up for you. Once it’s all ready to go, we generate a ‘dry run’ for you to revisit and make all the changes necessary to get your vision to life down to the last T. Images and metadata, once ready, will be hosted on IPFS.

Taking the stress of the mechanics behind image generation metadata and rarity makes the whole creative process more fun!

smart contracts

Yes, you can use standard contracts and save yourself some time and budget money. With this choice however, what you are effectively doing is offset the smart contract cost to your minters, as they will end up having to pay silly gas whether GWEI is low or not.

An optimized contract where each individual line of code is thought out to cater for your particular project has several benefits:

• gas optimization
• increased security / less to no exploitable securities
• custom solutions that fit your specific roadmap

In general terms, the more you have already planned for the project, the better the smart contract will be.

We use an incredibly thorough scoping document and ask you a whole lot of questions to help you establish what’s important to your project’s success and write the best smart contract possible. This can include things like:

• collection size and price variables — including the ability to change either or both in the contract can save a lot of time, effort, and money down the line;
• token per transaction limits — limiting how many mints per wallet is something a lot of projects will want to consider, and typically doesn’t come with standard contracts;
• whitelist options — there are vastly different approaches to consider that will affect gas price for minters, upfront vs maintenance costs, flexibility;

website

Whether you already have your existing project website and need to add a ‘mint button’ functionality, or need everything from scratch, we got you:

• web3-ready website — out of the box, built and hosted by us. You choose: branding colour, header image, logo, and content for homepage, roadmap, team page, T&Cs.
• mint button on existing website — coming with all necessary features: connect wallet, minting functionality, minted NFTs count, integration with your website.

premint access

We can provide you access to premint.xyz so you don’t have to worry about setting yet another platform up — and we can save you money there.

a little extra help

There are other things crucial to any successful NFT project that we can also help with:

• existing smart contract audits;
• discord bots;
• discord server audits or full setup;
• consulting, where you’d rather just have someone available to advise you;
• retainer options, available post project launch.

Have a look at our pricing page to see the breakdown of all of our services and packages.

To have a stress free chat with us, you can either join our Discord and open a ticket, fill our contact form on our website, or email us directly at ontheblock@aocollab.tech

We are out here building cool stuff.