In minutes, you’ll be all set up to mint your music, poems, photos, and more as professional-looking NFTs on WAX, the #1 Blockchain for NFTs and Game-fi
Artists 🧑🎤🧑🎨 Do more with your art
If you’re like me, you love creating art, but selling it can be a hassle, promotion can be a drag, and practically nobody enjoys spending the time to nail the highly-technical metadata needed to launch a professional-looking NFT collection.
Enter: the WAX NFT Metadata Standards 🖼🧑💻
📖 Find the standards anytime at standards.cxc.world 🔗
In this article, you’ll learn how our standards jump-start your on-chain art career. I’ll link you to complete information on how to implement the standards, set up your collection, and mint your first NFT.
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The WAX Media NFT Standards provides a schema for creating Music NFTs on the WAX blockchain with Atomic Assets. This open source standard works seamlessly with platforms like Atomichub and Neftyblocks to make minting NFTs easy for any individual, collection, or application.
The key benefits of using the WAX NFT Metadata Standards include:
- Forward compatibility with Space + Time data — Built to integrate smoothly with cXc, Tetra and any future Time- and Geographic-aware application.
Marketplace builders: Implement these standards in your frontend today to start building next-generation experiences.
Full credits + License — there’s a license field so you can give explicit permission for people to use your media.
Links for Days — Why let your connection with your fans stop at the NFT purchase? In addition to all the amazing things you can do on WAX Blockchain, such as incentivizing your collection holders through WAXdao.io, you can link to other places online to buy, like your print on demand of your art or just your social media to get more followers.
By following this schema, Music NFT creators can maximize their compatibility with existing platforms while retaining forward-compatibility.
This blog post will provide a full overview of the WAX NFT Metadata Standards, including technical details, instructions for use, and examples of how to modify the schema for custom projects.
About the Standard
Compatible with Atomic Assets, it’s as a defined as a schema (now called category) within the Atomic Assets NFT standard on the Atomic Assets contract.
By utilizing this schema, any individual, collection, or application can create their own music NFT projects on platforms like Atomichub and Neftyblocks.
The standard allows creators to make the needed schema (called category on the new Atomichub website) for music NFTs quickly and efficiently. Creators are encouraged to use and modify the standard for any purpose in line with the open source MIT license.
Technical Summary
- Media fields like images, audio, and video are stored using IPFS hashes. Images can also be uploaded directly through Atomichub.
- Get free IPFS hosting from services like Piñata.
- Information fields like title, artist, album, etc. are stored as strings (except for the track number which is an integer).
- Geographic fields for country, locale, and geotag follow standard formats:
- ISO 3166–1 alpha-3 3-letter codes for country
- Locale as “City, State, County”
- Geotag as TopoJSON point string or coordinate array
- The rarity field allows setting a rarity attribute (Common, Uncommon, Rare etc) that is filterable on marketplaces like Atomichub.
- The license field allows declaring a license like Creative Commons or specifying privileges granted with the NFT.
- This structure provides maximum compatibility with existing platforms while allowing for additional customization as needed.
The full list of fields in the current standard is visible in the GitHub repository here.
Welcome to the community
Join the cXc discord to chat with Douglas + the growing cXc community of artists and world-shakers, as well as the official wax community discord to connect with all kinds of NFT projects on the #1 blockchain for NFTs, WAX
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WAX Media NFT Standards, by cXc.world
To request changes or make contributions, creators can open GitHub issues and pull requests in the official repo.
Some ways community members can help evolve the standard:
- Request new fields to add
- Suggest changes to existing fields
- Contribute translations for other blockchains/standards
- Report any bugs or problems with marketplaces
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About the Author
My name is Douglas, I am the rapper Gudasol and the graphic artist Sir Douglas Fresh. I’ve written about my view of the future of blockchain in the Web 4 Manifesto. When I entered onto WAX Blockchain, my mission was clear I wanted to empower artist to create more, and fans to interact more. I built cXc.world to do just that, and after writing our hugely successful Music NFT standard, I’ve been sponsored by WAX to write more standards for different types of media.
