At your next conference, don’t give away a business card — give away an ERC-721 business card! Send it to the acquaintance’s ethereum address and they will receive it in ~15 seconds.
My business card …. lets turn it into an ERC-721 Here is how you make your Ethereum ERC-721 Business card Step 1: Get an Image for your CardEither make an image, or write some text up in paint, and upload it as an image somewhere. Lets use https://imgur.com for this example.
Cool — its uploaded. Right click the image and press “Copy Image Address”Copy your link for the image, the direct link by right clicking your image and pressing “Copy Image address”
Not: https://imgur.com/a/YcMkxLe, but instead this: https://i.imgur.com/IYTUBgt.jpg
(make sure it ends in a file extension like .jpg or .png)
Step 2: Open the Mintable CreatorYou need Metamask for this step — You are creating a smart contract on the blockchain here (Don’t worry you don’t need to know any code, just need a wallet with maybe 0.40 cents USD to pay for the fee)
https://mintable.app/create and then “Guided Create” Enter the name of your Business Card This is displayed as the title of the token in your recipients address. So a name like “Zach @ Mintable.app — Business Card” is perfect. Set the Symbol — Important Step!Since we can’t display our business card’s details across every wallet or interface like etherscan automatically, we have to do a little trick in this step.
For the symbol put the following text — “See my details @ https://mintable.app/manager/ + this token’s address” This way, whenever people see this token, they have instructions on how to vi...
