Marcel Christianis: Breaking Down Smart Contracts in Twitter Threads | Will, Lee, & Andrew Learn Web3: #45

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: @marcelc63Marcel’s Smart Contract Twitter Thread Breadowns: https://web3pad.xyzMarcel’s Retro1990 NFT’s: https://retro1990.xyzRetro1990’s Instagram: @retro_vintage1990

Smart Contracts Discussed:

Cool CatsAlpha Girls ClubLootAltNounConstitution DAOWolf GameSuperSeaChain RunnersAdidasOriginalWAGMIGOTCHI

In this episode, we cover:

Marcel’s historyHow BuildSpace helped Marcel learn Web3Building in Web3How much simpler it was to set up an ETH tip jar tipeth.xyz in Web3 than in Web2Web3’s inherent benefits to developers: ownership, being permissionless, and economyMarcel explains how Rareblocks encourages and enables developers to build upon their platformHow active participation and growing a platform, results in NFT holders gaining valueHow web3 empowers developers and rewards them for buildingHow Marcel finds and reads the code for NFT contractsWhy Marcel started to do contract breakdownsBreaking down the Cool Cats contract and how most pfps workBreaking down the AlphaGirls contract and how they reduced minting feesThe difference between reading and writing on the blockchainRead: Reading data off the blockchain is freeWrite: Writing to the smart contract requires paying tokensThe difference between on-chain vs off-chain NFTsBreaking down how Loot’s on-chain NFT doesn’t need external links to host imagesWhat NounDAO’s on-chain SVGs allows other developers to doHow code is part of the NFT art for on-chainBreaking down AdventureGold’s contract and how airdrops workHow someone went around AdidasOriginal’s 2 NFT minting limit to mint 300 NFTsHow ConstitutionDAO was structured to collect and manage millions of dollars

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