Mintbase

Created by Nate Geier and Caroline Wend in 2018, Mintbase allows users to create and sell NEAR NFTs. These NFTs could be anything ranging from crypto art to digital assets and everything in between. Anyone with access to the internet can create an NFT on Mintbase and sell it on the NEAR NFT marketplace or sell it on other marketplaces such as OpenSea or other marketplaces. Mintbase allows creators to smart contracts, limiting the transferability of tokens minted. This helps to reduce fraud or the illegal transfer of NFTs significantly. Mintbase made the switch from Ethereum to NEAR thanks to the high gas fees on the former. Gas fees became so high that Mintbase had to ask users to wait for gas prices to drop before deploying a store. With significantly lower gas fees, NEAR was and continues to be the perfect platform for Mintbase. The protocol is able to achieve lower gas fees due to an efficient contract execution model. NEAR also uses a dynamic approach to sharding called Nightshade, giving it a considerable advantage over other platforms such as Ethereum.

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