Curators or Gatekeepers?
One of the downfalls of all these NFT services is that the artist is entrusting the process and a lot of their control over to a third party. What if there was an easy way to deploy your NFT while maintaining full control of the contract and not needing to learn a coding language to accomplish it?
t all started while I was reading the crypto news that was in my feed. Actually, this started months ago, and this specific article reignited something that has bothered me for a long time. The article in question is about the NFT space. And despite if you like NFT's or not, despite if you 'get it' or don't, clearly they aren't going anywhere.
What bothered me is the word 'Curator'. It was used a total of 19 times in the article. By the time I got to the end of the article and read the word for the 19th time I said out loud to myself: "You say curators, I say gatekeepers".
(Did I remember to mention that they used the word 19 times?)
Art is subjective and we like the art we like because we relate to it on some level or simply just appreciate it. Personally, I don't need a curator telling me what I should like. You can call me a hipster if you want, but I'm more interested in finding art that hasn't become so main stream popular. Think about it like this; you walk into someone's house and see "The Starry Night" by Vincent van Gogh. That's nice, but wouldn't you rather be exposed to something you've never seen before - a van Gogh before he was van Gogh?
Curators are great for galleries, don't get me wrong, but shouldn't great art speak for itself? Isn't that what make great art... great? Diamond Oddities is an NFT project that is still flying under the radar. There aren't a thousand clones of this project and to me, that's what makes it special. Additionally, the art was not generative and you can clearly see the amount of time and work the artist put into each piece.
There are amazing artists with tons of artwork but without the know-how to create them as an NFT. There are tons of platforms that will help artists get their NFT's minted and Blockchain as a Service websites that will even help you through the entire process. One of the downfalls of all these services however, is that the artist is entrusting the process and a lot of their control over to a third party. What if there was an easy way to deploy your NFT while maintaining full control of the contract and not needing to learn a coding language to accomplish it?
This is where GraphLinq can step in and allow more control for artists as well as the ability to create custom triggers to mint an NFT. If you're still reading this article, thank you, and I'm excited to quietly announce my intention to create an NFT marketplace for all NFT's that are deployed through the GraphLinq platform. After all, NFT's should be valuable because someone took the time and paid the gas to mint the NFT on the Ethereum blockchain. This the main reason why I don't like services like OpenSea that allow users to post their NFT's without actually minting the NFT. In my opinion, this just floods the marketplace with creators basically throwing anything against the wall to see what sticks.
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