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PRJ · 2022

Creative Social NFT Marketplace

A now-closed NFT marketplace for creators' art, music and digital assets, built so buyers never had to understand wallets.

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Creative Social NFT Marketplace

The product

Creative Social was a marketplace for creators to sell NFTs — digital art, music and other digital assets — through a decentralized application (DApp) on the Polygon blockchain. The venture has since closed, and I am no longer involved with it.

Architecture decisions

  • Wallets for everyone. Social-login users got a custodial wallet automatically; crypto-native users could connect their own; card buyers used a custodial wallet. The trade-offs are in the wallets write-up.
  • Cards alongside crypto. Stripe and an on-ramp (OnRamper) let buyers pay without holding crypto first.
  • Managed services over custom infrastructure. Next.js front end; Supabase and PostgreSQL for data; Sanity for content; Pinata for IPFS storage; thirdweb, Moralis and Alchemy for blockchain access; OpenZeppelin Defender for smart-contract operations; Magic.Link for passwordless sign-in.

A demo NFT drop I built for the platform is under NFT Challenge.