✨ abracadabrahacks-2021 🔮

May 7-9 2021

Team Members

Alex Damis
Peter Dorsaneo
Adam Fernandes
Dylan Ochoa
Marco Spilimbergo

Inspiration

In March, Jack Dorsi sold his first Tweet as an NFT for almost 3 million dollars. As NFTs are a particular favorite of artists, and a lot of artists upload regularly to instagram, we though it was only natural to bring NFT minting to Instagram.

Our Goal

Mintsta: the world's first Instagram NFT minter. We wanted to create an avenue for Insta users to mint their posts into NFTs.

How We Minted Instagram Posts

Instagram's API allowed us to obtain a user authorization's to access their information, which we traded in for short & long term tokens to access posts.
We utilized Postman to send an HTTP GET request to obtain a user's Instagram posts.
We leveraged Minty to mint the post's image, and collected the remaining metadata in a .json file which pointed to the minted picture.
We pinned the NFT and its metadata on Pinata, which could then be accessed from anywhere where the IPFS protocol worked. (Brave browser natively handles IPFS.)