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Inspiration

If artists want a platform that is sharp, respectful, and represents their passion.

and the generative art and 1:1 NFT landscape is growing exponentially

where in the Cosmos ecosystem would these artists be proud to call home?

The Problem

A generative or 1:1 artist doesn’t want their masterpiece displayed beside a 10k PFP collection.

Artists deserve to have their work secured by a decentralized storage layer.

There is no bespoke platform in Cosmos to capture value from this market.

The Solution

Slate: A beautiful platform for artists to call home.

What it does

Slate is the pioneering platform empowering artists and collectors to unleash their passion for generative masterpieces and one-of-a-kind NFTs. It has an NFT studio to create and will soon have a marketplace to list, buy, and sell masterpieces on the Neutron blockchain.

How we built it

1. Deployed NFT contract on Neutron.

2. Built a Golang backend that would accept file uploads and put them onto Jackal.

3. Built a front-end that deploys new NFT smart contracts for the user and mints the first token with the Jackal image data.

Challenges we ran into

1. Little Neutron documentation, needed to use 3rd party docs.
2. Cosmwasm was tricky.
3. Getting Neutron's testnet set up was a pain.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

1. It worked!
2. UX feels pretty good.

What we learned

1. How to set up Neutron's testnet.

What's next for Slate

1. Build the marketplace.
2. Use interchain accounts to hook directly into the Jackal Protocol for artwork data storage in perpetuity.
3. Launch Slate on Neutron mainnet.

Phase Two Development Update

1. Launched a bare-bones NFT marketplace contract.
2. Started integrating the marketplace contract with the existing NFT contract.

Phase Two Next Steps

1. Create a contract to deploy new NFTs instead of the user for full integration with the Jackal Protocol.
2. Interchain accounts to enable fully on-chain storage instead of middleware.
3. Fully integrate the launchpad into the interface with the ability to buy newly launched NFTs.

Built With

• jackal
• neutron
• nextjs