Mintbase Grant Aaplication for SNS #161
Description
Mintbase Grant Application
- Project Name
SNS: Signed & Sealed — The Story Layer & Community Tools for Emotional Digital Keepsakes
- Project Overview
SNS (Signed & Sealed) is a creative gifting platform where users design greeting cards, preserve messages, and mint them as permanent NEAR NFTs. The NEAR layer funds the Story + Permanence + Community system: on-chain metadata, template provenance, comments/ratings, creator profiles, and decentralized storage via IPFS/Arweave.
The result is a social NFT experience centered around emotional meaning, creator attribution, and digital permanence.
- Problem Statement
Most NFT use-cases are speculative and fail to deliver emotional or social value. Creators lack tools to publish meaningful, interactive NFT-based experiences. Users have no way to preserve personal messages, stories, or sentiments permanently on-chain.
SNS uses NEAR to solve this by turning everyday creativity (cards, notes, stories, templates) into meaningful, permanent digital keepsakes backed by social interaction and creator attribution.
- Why NEAR / Why Mintbase
NEAR offers simple onboarding, low fees, and fast transactions suitable for social NFT interactions.
Mintbase provides the ideal infrastructure for minting, metadata schema, and indexing.
SNS will use Mintbase’s SDK, API, and Indexer to power:
On-chain story metadata
Template provenance
Creator profile data
NFT-based comments & ratings system
Social interactions around digital keepsakes
SNS strengthens NEAR by onboarding non-crypto users through an emotional, creator-driven experience.
- Detailed Project Description
The NEAR-funded module of SNS focuses on:
A. Permanent Story Layer
Store greeting card front + inside message metadata
IPFS/Arweave integration for permanent media
NFT-bound “story container” metadata
B. Creator Template Provenance
Every template minted as a NEAR NFT
Metadata includes creator info, usage count, and attribution
Enables creators to prove authorship with on-chain records
C. Community Interaction Layer
Comments anchored to NFT objects
Template ratings + feedback system
Social activity feed based on on-chain events
Creator profiles displaying templates, uses, and engagement
D. Mintbase SDK Integration
Minting templates and cards
Pulling on-chain metadata
Indexer-driven activity feeds
Schema-driven metadata for stories, comments, and ratings
- Milestones & Deliverables (8 weeks)
Milestone 1 — Story Metadata Schema (2 weeks)
Define JSON schema for story/messages
Implement on-chain metadata storage
Mintbase SDK + Arweave/IPFS integration
Deliverable: Schema + Test NFTs demonstrating permanent storage
Milestone 2 — Template Minting + Provenance System (2 weeks)
Mint templates as NEAR NFTs
Creator attribution fields
Usage counter mechanism
Deliverable: Working template mint flow + indexer queries
Milestone 3 — Comments & Ratings System (2 weeks)
Comment objects tied to NFTs
Rating events stored on-chain
Indexer-powered comment feed
Deliverable: Demo UI showing comment + rating activity from Mintbase indexer
Milestone 4 — Social Activity Feed + Creator Profiles (2 weeks)
Profile metadata structure
Template portfolio section
Activity feed pulled from indexer
Deliverable: Working prototype of creator profiles + activity feed
- Budget Request — $12,000 USD
Breakdown:
$6,500 — Smart contract development + Mintbase SDK integration
$2,500 — Arweave/IPFS storage + indexing architecture
$2,000 — UI/UX for story layer + creator profiles
$1,000 — Testing, documentation, and demo builds
Total: $12,000
- Team
Dante Hill — Founder & Product Designer
10+ years in visual art, design, storytelling
UX/UI design experience
NFT creator and community builder
Manages product direction, creative vision, and UX flows
Additional contract contributors will be added for specialized smart contract + SDK integration.
- Links (optional but helpful)
Social (IG): @fatcrimson
Early UI mockups: (you can add once available)
Website: (your site if ready)
- License
Open-source components (metadata schema + interaction contracts) will be released under MIT.