About

This web app is a fully functioning service for creating and publishing AI image NFTs to the zkSync Era blockchain. If you're new to zkSync Era, which you can learn more here. The basic steps for getting started with zkSync Era are:
1. Install Metamask wallet.
2. Add the zkSync Era blockchain to Metamask using Chainlist. Scroll down and tap the "Add to MetaMask" button.
3. Bridge ETH from Ethereum to the zkSync Era blockchain using the zkSync Era Bridge.
Transaction costs are much, much lower on zkSync era, so you won't need much! At the time of this writing each mint costs about $0.20 USD.

Tech

This dApp was built using the following tech:

1. Vercel for hosting.
2. Next.js and React for the web app and frontend.
3. DALL-E 2 by OpenAI for generating AI images.
4. Thirdweb for blockchain components and interaction.
5. IPFS for decentralized file storage.

Smart contract details

The verified smart contract for this solution is published to Ethereum's Goerli testnet. You can view it on the zkSync block explorer.

Who made this?

This project was built by Richard Rauser at raaza. Feel free to get in touch! 😁