When I sent my non-existent cat live on chain
I just put her up for sale and here is the story…
This blog is about what I have done to send my digital cat live on the blockchain. Follow me!
1. The cat from StyleGAN2
StyleGAN2 is the state-of-the-art model I used to generate non-existent cat image. The algorithm itself was implemented on TensorFlow and I can easily try it on Google Colab. Here is the result.
2. Paint her with style transfer
I then used neural style transfer, an optimization technique used to blend 2 images together, to transfer The Great Wave off Kanagawa’s style to my cat.
Here is what happened when she faced Nami san.
BTW, let’s see the finish look. 👇
Now I can sell her, can’t I! Hehehe~ First, let me be on chain.
3. MetaMask | wallet
Install MetaMask for Chrome and create an account.
I chose create a new wallet and seed phrase and find the way to keep my seed phrase safe… all done, start swapping! Oh, not yet…
4. Mintable | Marketplace
Mintable is where I can trade digital items (yeah, my cat) and earn crypto.
Go to Mintable and create account, then connect to MetaMask wallet.
That’s it!
5. Start selling!
I came up with gasless package (no transaction needed, no money in wallet anyway…) so my cat won’t be on chain until someone purchase her.
For pricing, I chose an auction option starting at $100 (or 0.04089 ETH) with 7 days length, just for fun.
DONE. So l’ve gotta wait and see what happens after next 7 days. Bye!
PS : You can buy this NFT picture here 👆 (Pretty Please 🙏🥺 )