MusicalNFT

A decentralised music NFT marketplace where in one can generate a music as an nft , put it for sale on the marketplace or can buy the same

Features

• Implementation of NFT on a Musical Platform. Users can create their own decentralized music nfts.
• Built on ERC721 token using OpenZeppelin
• Using Metamask users can connect their wallet to the platform.
• To showcase different music styles via NFT creation
• Used ipfs for metadata storage of nfts.

Technology Stack & Tools

• Solidity (Writing Smart Contract)
• Javascript (React & Testing)
• Ethers (Blockchain Interaction)
• Hardhat (Development Framework)
• Ipfs (Metadata storage)
• React routers (Navigational components)

Requirements For Initial Setup

• Install NodeJS, should work with any node version below 16.5.0
• Install Hardhat

Setting Up

1. Clone/Download the Repository

2. Install Dependencies:

$ cd nft_marketplace
$ npm install

3. Boot up local development blockchain

$ cd nft_marketplace
$ npx hardhat node

4. Connect development blockchain accounts to Metamask

• Copy private key of the addresses and import to Metamask
• Connect your metamask to hardhat blockchain, network 127.0.0.1:8545.
• If you have not added hardhat to the list of networks on your metamask, open up a browser, click the fox icon, then click the top center dropdown button that lists all the available networks then click add networks. A form should pop up. For the "Network Name" field enter "Hardhat". For the "New RPC URL" field enter "http://127.0.0.1:8545". For the chain ID enter "31337". Then click save.

5. Migrate Smart Contracts

npx hardhat run src/backend/scripts/deploy.js --network localhost

6. Run Tests

$ npx hardhat test

7. Launch Frontend

$ npm run start

Local Demo

Challenges Faced

• Setting up a new environment to work with blockchain concepts included installation of several dependencies.
• OpenZeppelin was something new for us and it required reading its documentation for getting what we needed out of it.
• Source code of some open source projects that worked on a similar framework were needed to be reffered.
• Integration of Next.js (used for frontend) and Solidity contract (used in backend) posed a major challenge as we needed to go back and forth between learning and applying it to our project.
• Some hard to catch bugs were needed to be resolved during testing the project by connecting to a wallet via metamask.
• Finally, referring and learning helped us overcome the above difficulties.

License

MIT