Reef NFT Contest: Be The First To Get Minted on Reef

Derek E. Silva
Reef
Published in
4 min readMar 4, 2022

While non-fungible tokens (NFTs) appear to be taking the world by storm, there are still many artists who are unaware of how the technology works, have read information about harmful environmental impacts due to Proof of Work mining, believe an NFT is too expensive and too difficult to create, or have other misgivings that have prevented them from journeying into blockchains. NFTs have many uses, including being displayed as digital art!

Reef’s extremely efficient blockchain has a very low impact on the environment thanks to its Nominated Proof of Stake consensus mechanism, and offers minting NFTs at a minimal cost of only $1 to $2 worth of REEF.

We’ve heard from many in the NFT community the challenges they’ve faced with other NFT marketplaces and platforms, and we want to change this. We began our education campaign with a workshop at ETHDenver, and worked with local artists on a special mural for ETHDenver along with a special treatment for Reef’s brand. Our team knows the struggles artists encounter, and we share their values of openness and inclusivity. Reef is going to be easy and affordable. With multiple permissionless NFT marketplaces launching on Reef in the near future, we want to find some talented artists to highlight at launch, putting a spotlight on your work and introducing our 250,000+ Reefians to you, your art, and these new marketplaces.

Photos showcasing the Reef Metawall by TukeOne, Mike Graves and Emit; brand graffiti treatment by TukeOne

Throughout the submission period, we will highlight some of the submissions to our community ahead of the marketplace launches. If you have a social media account you want to point people to and grow your following, this is a great opportunity to do that!

Artists and the pieces chosen will also receive an exclusive experience, assisting you throughout your NFT minting process and working with the creators to ensure your NFT gets the spotlight at or shortly after launch. Other goodies and assistance will also be available.

To submit your work of art, music or multimedia, please use this form. The team will be in touch if your submission is chosen for a social media spotlight, and again prior to a marketplace launch!

Submission deadline is 31 March 2022 at 17:00 Eastern Time (UTC-5).

Reefscan v2 was recently released and now supports NFTs, making it possible for all kinds of developers and wallets to support and display NFTs. We’re also working with a variety of wallet app developers to add Reef support in the very near future.

Benefits of Working with Reef

  • Promote your art to over 250K people in the Reef community
  • Opportunity to test and learn about the NFT marketplace before launch
  • Learn how to mint on Reef chain
  • Provide feedback on your experience to improve the product
  • Whiteglove experience during the minting process
  • REEF in your wallet for a free NFT mint
  • An allowance of 5 free NFT mints for marketplace submission
  • Mediums allowed include still images, GIF/MP4/MOV, audio, etc.

We look forward to seeing your masterpieces!

About Reef

Reef Chain is a layer 1, Substrate based blockchain that is the most advanced Ethereum VM-compatible blockchain available. It’s self-upgradable and has on-chain governance. Its infrastructure also allows for EVM extensions which allows for native token bridge, scheduled calls (ie. recurring payments), and smart contract in-place code upgrades. In the near future, it will support an additional VM which will allow developers to write code in multiple programming languages. The network runs on a Nominated Proof-of-Stake (NPoS) consensus mechanism, which offers scalability and low fees.

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Derek E. Silva
Reef
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