Building for Mainstream Adoption

Ethereum supporters the world over are discussing, building, and investing in infrastructure designed to make mass adoption an inevitability. Detractors, meanwhile, often say that Ethereum’s moment came and went with the 2017 wave of ICOs. As for myself and a growing number of ETH-heads, its become clear that another three-letter acronym is more likely to deliver household name status, and no, I don’t mean STO. I’m talking, of course, about the NFT or non-fungible token.

Going mainstream: NFTs can deliver enhancements to all our lives

Non-Fungible Gaming Leads the Way

Yes, the term is already relatively well known thanks to the breakout success of Crypto Kitties in December of 2017. The digital collectibles game established the ERC-721 standard and introduced an alternative use-case to the widely adopted utility tokens model.

Your master sword may well outlive the game you earned it on

Since then, a vibrant game development market has sprung up using NFTs to provide innovative new benefits to gamers. Remember that master sword you earned after pouring hours upon hours into your favorite game? Now, you can sleep better knowing your sword is immutable. Even if the game you achieved the sword in eventually declines in popularity, there is now an incentive for developers to build new games around those existing game pieces. And why not? Thanks to the power of ERC-721 tokens, these digital assets’ values can be unlocked and transferred not just from wallet to wallet, but even from game to game; forever.

That’s one example of many and if gaming alone was the reason for NFTs to lead Ethereum’s adoption, there would already be a strong case. But its 2019 and the singularity is where we’re headed. While on the way, there’s going to be a lot more applications for NFT tech such as avatars, access badges, and digital files to name a few.

A Home for YOUR Digital Items

That’s where our project Mintable.app comes in. We are building the infrastructure necessary to open source the next wave of NFT innovation. By open source, I mean opening the NFT space to everyone with barriers to entry pushed to the lowest degrees possible. Just make sure you have Metamask or Trust Wallet if you’re on your mobile. Even from your phone — now you can deploy a smart contract and tokenize anything you wish. Add your metadata and create a set of collectibles, tokenize your artwork, or even some official documents like your marriage certificate. As it’s namesake suggests, this platform allows anyone to easily mint an ERC-721 with a few quick clicks.

Participate directly in the NFT revolution

After you create your first NFT, you’re going to want to interact with it. So we’ve made sure the platform is all inclusive, building not only a creator but NFT management, browsing, and an exchange to trade them on (the exchange will be available on the main release this summer).

Mintable’s alpha is live now and free to try. The only language you need to know is English, no Solidity required.

Mintable makes browsing the NFT universe easy

Mintable’s beta is scheduled for an April 1st launch, but our team has already been overwhelmed with the creativity we are seeing on a daily basis. We have users integrating Mintable into their business models, hobbyists developing their own games, and even scientists creating NFTs for their micro-satellites.

It’s this Cambrian explosion of applications that further convinces me Ethereum’s mainstream adoption is well on the way and NFTs have a major role to play.

Try the alpha! (👏🎉beta coming soon!!!!! 🎉👏)

Website — https://mintable.app

Discord — https://discord.gg/fUEmc8d

Email — jesse@mintable.app

Events — We will be at many events in the next coming weeks in Asia. If you are also attending,do reach out to us and lets meet up!