The Best NFT Resources - TokenSmart NFT Humpday Report #37

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Welcome to the 37th issue of the NFT Humpday Report, a weekly column covering and providing embedded analysis on the NFT economy’s biggest topics du jour. Brought to you by WIP meetup collaborators and nft42 community hub TokenSmart.

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There are a lot of great NFT resources out there. In many cases these resources are spread out far and wide, though, or they’re missing new info. In the interest of offering something of an updated NFT starter hub, here’s our curated NFT Resources 2021 Edition list. There’s no way to cover everything in a single list, of course, but these selected resources will certainly point you in the right directions. 

101 primers

• “A beginner’s guide to NFTs” - Linda Xie

• “Non-fungible tokens (NFT)” - ethereum.org guide

• “The Non-Fungible Token Bible” - OpenSea

Annotate

• NFT Scribe - Tool for appending on-chain messages to ERC-721 NFTs

Appraising

• NFT Value Estimator - Experimental NFT appraisal tool from DappRadar

• rarity.studio - Generative art rarity rankings

• rarity.tools - NFT rarity rankings website

• Upshot - Web3 platform for crowd-sourced NFT appraisals

Art

• Art Blocks - Generative art platform 

• Known Origin - Art marketplace  

• MakersPlace - Art marketplace 

• SuperRare - Art marketplace 

Building NFT projects

• BuidlGuidl - Curated NFT prototypes/tutorials

• “Building an NFT Merkle-Drop” - OpenZeppelin

• “Constructing an ERC721 Token Contract” - OpenZeppelin

• “Create an ERC1155” - OpenZeppelin Forum

• “CryptoZombies Lesson 5: ERC721 and Crypto-Collectibles” - Loom Network

Collectibles

• Avastars (“The Collector’s Guide to Avastars” - Cliff Hall)

• Bored Ape Yacht Club (“The Bored Ape Boom” - TokenSmart)

• CryptoKitties (KittyHelper - CryptoKitties statistics dashboard)

• CryptoPunks (“CryptoPunks explained” - Christie’s)

• Meebits (“What are Meebits and why the hype?” - DappRadar)

DAOs

• Decentraland DAO - Community governance body of the Decentraland VR world

• Flamingo - For-profit DAO focused on collecting NFTs

• JennyDAO - DAO that fractionalizes NFTs on Unicly 

• PleasrDAO - DAO centered around collecting culturally significant NFTs

• Rarible DAO - DAO for governing the Rarible NFT marketplace

• Yield Guild Games - Play-to-earn NFT gaming guild. 

Data

• Cryptoart.io - Cryptoart market analytics

• CryptoArtPulse - Cryptoart sales data

• CryptoSlam - NFT market analytics 

• DeGenData - NFT data lab

• NFTExp.io - NFT market analytics

• NonFungible - NFT market analytics 

• OpenSea Rankings - Volume and price stats of top NFT projects

• Top 100 NFT Coins by Market Capitalization - CoinGecko data dashboard

DeFi x NFTs

• DODO NFT - NFT liquidity protocol 

• Fractional - NFT fractionalization protocol

• NFT20 - NFT liquidity protocol

• NFTfi - P2P NFT-collateralized lending protocol

• NFTX - NFT index token protocol

• NIFTEX - NFT fractionalization protocol

• Reality Cards - NFT-powered predictions marketplace

• Unicly - NFT fractionalization protocol

• Uniswap V3 - Decentralized exchange whose liquidity provider (LP) positions are represented as NFTs

• Universe.xyz - DeFi-centric NFT tools suite

Displaying NFTs

• Flawnt - NFT gallery app

• Infinite Objects - physical art displays

• Lazy - NFT gallery app

• Meural - digital frame

• Showtime - NFT social media platform

Dynamic/interactive NFTs

• Async Art - Programmable art

• BeyondNFT - Interactive NFT sandbox

• “Chainlink and Truly Random NFTs” - TokenSmart

• “Create Dynamic NFTs Using Chainlink Oracles” - Chainlink

Environment

• “Don’t Feel Guilty About NFTs” - TokenSmart

• “NFTs and Crypto Art: The Sky Is Not Falling In” - Sterling Crispin

• “No, CryptoArtists Aren’t Harming the Planet” - SuperRare

Future of NFTs

• “The Next 10 Years of NFTs?” - TokenSmart

Games

• Axie Infinity (“Axie Community Alpha: Getting Started” - The Lunacian)

• Aavegotchi (Aavegotchi Wiki)

• Neon District (“About the Game” - Blockade Games)

• Sorare (Sorare Scout - Sorare resources website)

History

• “Colored Coins” - 2012 whitepaper for proto-NFTs

• “History of Crypto Art” - Martin Lukas Ostachowski

• “The History of Non-Fungible Tokens” - Zima Red

L2s + sidechains

• Immutable X - Efficient NFT minting and trading via the StarkEx scalability engine

• NFT Minter - NFT minting service on Polygon’s PoS sidechain

• “Polygon Minting Tutorial” - NiftyKit

Metadata

• Check My NFT - A tool to check how well ERC-721 NFTs secure their metadata

• “NFTs and the On-Chain Spectrum” - Metaversal

• “Permanent NFT Storage on the Arweave Network” - Arweave

Metaverse

• Cryptovoxels (The WIP Meetup - weekly Cryptovoxels meetup)

• Decentraland (Decentraland Districts - NFT Plazas)

• Somnium Space (Somnium Space economy whitepaper)

• The Sandbox (The Sandbox’s docs)

• Webaverse (Webaverse’s docs)

Minting

• Cargo - NFT marketplace and minting platform

• Mintbase - NFT minting platform on Ethereum + NEAR

• Nameless - On-chain NFT minting suite (coming soon)

• OpenSea - NFT marketplace and minting platform

• Rarible - NFT marketplace and minting platform

Music

• 0xDEAFBEEF - On-chain generative audiovisual art 

• Async Music - Music composed out of layers of programmable NFTs

• Audius Collectibles - Showcase NFTs on Ethereum music dapp Audius 

• EulerBeats - On-chain generative music

New tech

• Mirror’s Splits - Tool for routing NFT proceeds to multiple ETH addresses, e.g. the addresses of supporters 

• Nerd Swap - Swap NFTs for ETH/ERC20s. (experimental)

• Sudoswap - P2P swaps of any basket of ERC20/721/1155 tokens for any basket of ERC20/721/1155 tokens

Zooming out

• “NFT Canon” - Wide-ranging list of NFT readings compiled by a16z

• “NFT Value Capture Equation” - Cooper Turley

• “The fractionalization of NFTs will lead to better social tokens” - Brian Flynn

• “Using Mirror to Fund Public Goods” - How NFT sales and Mirror’s Splits can be used to fund public goods and social causes 

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Thanks for reading the 37th NFT Humpday Report! Check back this time next week for more excellent NFT ecosystem coverage! Cheers 🌠