Welcome to the first dev update for SkyHarbor! We’re amazed by the community’s response to our marketplace so far, and we have a bunch of upcoming improvements and features that we’re really excited to share with you all…
Index
- Leaving beta
- NFT Mass-Minter/Vending Machine Sales Processor: How it works
- Networking and Onboarding Artists into the Ergo NFT space
- Open sourcing our contracts — update
- Networking and Onboarding New Artists
- Future Features Video posted on Ergo Channel
SkyHarbor is Leaving Beta!
For the last couple of months, the SkyHarbor team has been hard at work trying to deliver the best experience a marketplace can offer. We believe we have made great progress in our vision of bringing Ergo NFTs to the limelight. Now, after thousands of transactions and over $500,000 in facilitated NFT sales, we think it’s time to exit beta.
NFT Mass-Minter
With all of our functionality fully tested, we are now working on new features that will help our fellow artists, collectors, and traders. The first is our NFT mass minter; with our minter, anyone will be able to mint up to thousands of NFTs for much cheaper than other chains- and it will be as simple as uploading two files! We hope this will remove the blockchain knowledge barrier for artists and bring in a new wave of unique projects!
SkyHarbor Mass-Minting Perks:
- Easy-to-use. By supplying all of the images in a folder and a CSV file for the metadata, we will combine the image with its corresponding metadata and create the NFTs for you.
- Trustless Minting. Our minting smart contracts prevent any cheating of your funds. The smart contract will be verifiably only able to mint the NFTs you have requested into the wallet you have specified on our minting page.
- Improved hosting. Currently, many of the NFTs on Ergo are hosted cheaply, causing most of their load times to skyrocket and reduce an NFT project’s user experience. Using our mass-minter, we will host the images using our own dedicated IPFS gateway and storage. This means images will load much quicker, even if they haven’t been recently cached. We believe this is a requirement for most professional NFT projects and will improve Ergo’s standing in the NFT space. This comes at an increased cost, but will reflect heavily on the quality of the project.
Vending Machine Sales
A mass minter is very useful but would be pointless for many projects if there is no way to distribute them. This is why we have a sales processor planned to work with the mass minter. While minting, you will have the option to send the NFTs to a smart contract where someone could send X amount of ERG and receive a random NFT from the collection.
Offers
Another quick feature to mention is offering whatever amount you like, for any NFT you like (regardless of if it is currently listed on SkyHarbor). We have the smart contracts ready to implement this feature but need more time to integrate it into our backend for speed. If there’s anything we like, it’s working concurrently on new features.
Open Sourcing our contracts — update
We have contacted the creator of Ergo, Alex Chepurnoy (aka Kushti), and he has now audited our smart contracts. This means we will be open sourcing very soon! Once the smart contracts are open-source, we will be working on documentation for people to implement our marketplace contracts into their own UI. This opens the possibility for projects to integrate SkyHarbor and create a great user experience on their own platform. Some examples would be placing a marketplace on their own NFT project’s website, videogame, or even a rarity tracker.
Networking and Onboarding New Artists
With more people finding out about Ergo and its capabilities, we have been contacted by projects planning on moving over to Ergo. It seems the only thing that is missing for them is a launchpad, which would be our minter/sales machine! We are working hard to get this out as soon as possible so we can open up the floodgates for any artists waiting to dive in.
Our Flexible Roadmap — Future Features
We’ve recently had a video uploaded onto the Ergo channel that explains our vision with SkyHarbor. Check it out here!
Conclusion
During this bear market, we are still working hard to expand the space and improve the experience of creating, owning, and trading Ergo NFTs.
NFTs are a great way to onboard new users to Ergo, create communities, and easily grant utility to many people at once. We’ve personally witnessed the exponential growth of other blockchains because of the power of NFTs and once that user influx comes in, Ergo will be ready for it. Thank you for reading! We can’t wait to see where this space will be in the next couple of months.
