Hello friend,
I just finished recording an episode of cryptonatives today with yet another legend of the space. We're approaching release soon, I'm so excited !
Anyway enough about me, let's talk about securing your NFTs for ethernity š
Based on my experience, there are 3 types of NFTs:
The Ethereum Evergreen ā minted via code and stored onchain
The Manifold Goodie ā minted on manifold and stored on arweave
The IPFS Freebie ā minted on a platform (think Opensea, KnownOrigin, etc.) and stored on IPFS
Today I show you how to fix your IPFS Freebies (read this to learn why).
Here is a little drawing that depicts the process of minting an NFT on KnownOrigin:
That's crazy convoluted wtf !? (was my reaction)
So what's stored on the blockchain when minting on KO is a link pointing to another link ? Yes.
How fucking mad is that?
Like what the fuck is wrong with platforms? How is any of this "permanent" ?
They didn't even use the standard ipfs://fileID at the time ! (but rather a gateway link: https://ipfs.infura.io/ipfs/fileID)
So if Infura decides to take this link down, my NFT is gone. Poof...
Okay, so our aim is to replace every instance of https://ipfs.infura.io/ipfs/fileID with ar://fileID
You would typically need to follow this very long guide (but don't do it):
Bridge ETH to AR (Arweave) to this new wallet
Get the private key for the wallet
Set it as the key to use for arkb
use the "arkb deploy" command to deploy our image on arweave
replace the infura link with our new arweave link inside the metadata
use the "arkb deploy" command to deploy the metadata on arweave
Call the setURI function with the new metadata (in my case it's here)
Remember you need to be the creator of the NFT in order to do this
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You didn't read all that right ? Yeah I figured.
The truth is, this is an issue thousands of artists face each year. There needs to be an easier way, and there is.
Next week I show you how to fix your IPFS NFTs... in 90 seconds.
You thought I'd leave you without my precious bookmarks ?
Remember,
Making sure your art survives longer than [insert funny joke] is key. I've seen countless collectors lose precious assets because of this.
See you next week ā
Nahiko
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