Slimesunday's Replace and Repeat
An NFT that's more than a JPEG
One of the key pieces in Slimesunday’s upcoming “What the Fork?” collection is the “Replace and Repeat” NFT. By providing a Blockchain-hosted website designed specifically for the NFT owner, it’s the first NFT that doubles as a gallery!
How does it work?
Like Slimesunday’s other NFTs, “Replace and Repeat” was minted off his own Manifold Creator contract, ensuring authenticity and provenance of the piece. The app extension framework allowed us to create a Gallery app for this NFT that provided the following features:
Storage of metadata on chain
Slimesunday can add more images to the gallery for the owner to enjoy and select
The NFT owner can change the image/video of the NFT
Two components comprise The Gallery:
a smart contract, which controls all the on-chain actions related to the NFT (asset locations, selected image/video, etc.). This smart contract is a registered app on Slimesunday’s main contract, which is how we are able to add business logic to his main contract.
a web3 app living on the Arweave blockchain
Combining a blockchain smart contract with enhanced functionality and a blockchain stored web3 app, “Replace and Repeat” gives the NFT owner an experience beyond the general display layers provided by OpenSea and other aggregators.
At Manifold, we strive to bring NFT content to the next level, beyond “jpeg’s”. No longer can someone say, “Why would you pay $$$$ for a jpeg that I can right click & save?”. This is no longer true. NFTs will continue to expand the experience for their creators, collectors, and their community.
A little bit on Arweave
Arweave is the storage blockchain we chose to permanently store all the pieces in this collection. Arweave is an entirely decentralized file storage network, and each node that stores content has its own content policy.
As fans of Slimesunday may already know, his artwork pushes the boundary of social media content filtering policies. And as we were working on his collection, we found that censorship also impacted the Arweave blockchain to some extent!
As we were working on the collection, we found that Slimesunday’s content was actually being filtered out by some nodes, which were surprisingly using similar content strategies as the large social networks. Fortunately, because of the decentralized nature of Arweave, no single node can dictate the filtering policy be for the entire network, so Arweave really does present a way to share content without a single censorship entity.
Slimesunday has now officially been “banned from the Blockchain” (or at least by some nodes on the Arweave network) but not censored by it.