NFT marketplace is a blockchain-based platform that allows users to sell and buy the NFTs. The popularity of the NFT marketplace is growing consistently worldwide. The most popular NFTs around the US is OpenSea, and Nuqtah in Saudi Arabia, and NFT stars in Australlia. This list goes on consistently.
Looking into this demand, developing NFTs is the high-demanding one. The steps to create an NFT marketplace are listed as follows:
Contract and token minting are the flows in NFT marketplace development. The major steps are creating the contract, minting a token and the building app to view the overall NFTs. Lets dive into one by one.
Tools Setup
Installation of flow CLI on the system is the initial step. There are different commands used for installation. The second step is to create a dictionary via the commands. Then, intitilization of the new flow project takes place and this change is added to the dictionary.
Creating Contracts
The next process is to create the contracts for minting NFTs. With the association of meta data to the NFT and the ensure of meta data points, a resource interface is created to define what capabilities are made.
The initializer function performs the three things:
Creation of an empty collection for the deployer.
NFT minter resource is stored in the account storage for the contract creator
Collection resource is published in the public location with respect to the NFTReceiver.
NFT Minting
Via the app and the user interface , NFT minting is started. Once the file is uploaded, you will be given a hash code. Copy the hash code in the minting process.
Display NFT collectibles
Building the React app to interact with flow smart contracts to validate the NFTs which are owned by the users Furthermore, if you want to know more about how to create NFT marketplace, you can definitely contact InnBlockchain, a leading NFT marketplace development company.