StickerChain

Demo

About

The problem it solves The problem StickerChain solves is finding economic rules that create efficient markets for placing NFTs at real world locations. I had seen NFT-based metaverse projects be dragged down by the problem of speculators buying up the most prime virtual real estate and then not building anything, making the areas uninteresting. I also talked with techno dj Richie Hawtin about challenges he faced doing attendance based mints live at his shows. StickerChain is the result of a year of building and iterating on this problem. The solution StickerChain offers is the metaphor of stickers: it costs the same amount to slap a sticker anywhere in the world, but slaps in more popular areas are likely to be slapped over sooner effectively making those places more expensive per time visible.

How it's made

Challenges we ran into When working on BlockPlaces, the geographic primitives that StickerChain is built on I had issues with multi-place regions that went over the date line. I worked through these over time by adding test cases. I wanted new Slaps and Stickers to appear on users' browsers in realtime but i also did not want to have lots of servers running to support that. I solved this by researching the options available in the market and ultimately found a way to handle it with serverless AWS resources.