NFTs & Token Standards

Explore the world of NFTs and token standards like ERC-20, ERC-721, and ERC-1155. Understand ownership rights, metadata, and royalties

Storage (IPFS, Arweave, Filecoin)

Decentralized Storage: IPFS, Arweave, and Filecoin Content addressing, permanence versus leases, gateways, pinning, proofs, and production patterns for NFTs, dapps, analytics, and archives. TL;DR: IPFS is a content-addressed peer-to-peer layer that gives you CIDs and global retrieval; availability depends on pinning and gateways. Arweave offers “permanent” storage by funding long-term replication up front; content is […]

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Utility NFTs

Utility NFTs: Gaming Assets, Identity and Access Passes Move beyond collectibles: NFTs as items you can use  in games, for sign in, or to unlock content and communities. This lesson goes from contract choices to storage, lifecycle, economics, and security hardening so your utility actually works in production. TL;DR: Utility NFTs encode rights (access, in

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NFT Royalties and Marketplaces

NFT Royalties & Marketplaces: What Actually Happens EIP-2981, on-chain vs off-chain enforcement, operator allowlists/filters, and what creators should expect in practice. This version dives into the mechanics, edge cases, and design trade-offs you will encounter when launching a collection. TL;DR: EIP-2981 is a signaling standard: contracts expose how much royalty a sale requests for a

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