Marcel has been an engineer for 7 years and is the creator web3pad.xyz, where he explains the unique aspects of NFT contracts such as Loot, Chain Runners, AlphaGirl Club, the Adidas Originals Drop, and ConstitutionDAO. We discuss contract constructs, special attributes, respected builders, contract evolution and how Marcel launched two NFT’s: Mycoverse.xyz’s mushroom NFT’s and his own Retro1990 NFT’s.

Learn more about Marcel:

• Marcel’s Twitter: @marcelc63
• Marcel’s Smart Contract Twitter Thread Breadowns: https://web3pad.xyz
• Marcel’s Retro1990 NFT’s: https://retro1990.xyz
• Retro1990’s Instagram: @retro_vintage1990

Smart Contracts Discussed:

• Cool Cats
• Alpha Girls Club
• Loot
• AltNoun
• Constitution DAO
• Wolf Game
• SuperSea
• Chain Runners
• AdidasOriginal
• WAGMIGOTCHI

In this episode, we cover:

• Marcel’s history
• How BuildSpace helped Marcel learn Web3
• Building in Web3
  • How much simpler it was to set up an ETH tip jar tipeth.xyz in Web3 than in Web2
  • Web3’s inherent benefits to developers: ownership, being permissionless, and economy
  • Marcel explains how Rareblocks encourages and enables developers to build upon their platform
  • How active participation and growing a platform, results in NFT holders gaining value
  • How web3 empowers developers and rewards them for building
• How Marcel finds and reads the code for NFT contracts
• Why Marcel started to do contract breakdowns
• Breaking down the Cool Cats contract and how most pfps work
• Breaking down the AlphaGirls contract and how they reduced minting fees
• The difference between reading and writing on the blockchain
  • Read: Reading data off the blockchain is free
  • Write: Writing to the smart contract requires paying tokens
• The difference between on-chain vs off-chain NFTs
• Breaking down how Loot’s on-chain NFT doesn’t need external links to host images
• What NounDAO’s on-chain SVGs allows other developers to do
• How code is part of the NFT art for on-chain
• Breaking down AdventureGold’s contract and how airdrops work
• How someone went around AdidasOriginal’s 2 NFT minting limit to mint 300 NFTs
• How ConstitutionDAO was structured to collect and manage millions of dollars

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