Source: Mint Blockchain
Remember the huge NFT craze in 2021? At that time, a digital artwork might cost you several ETH in gas fees. This discouraged many people, and NFT seemed to be a game for the rich. But now, the situation is changing.
Mint Blockchain was born to change this situation. As a core component of the Optimism Superchain ecosystem, this innovative L2 network makes the creation and trading of NFTs easier and cheaper than ever before. It not only inherits the low cost and high efficiency of L2, but also achieves seamless connection with other OP chains. This article will comprehensively analyze the core advantages and development blueprint of Mint Blockchain.
Mint Blockchain: Building a global NFT ecosystem
Mint Blockchain, as Ethereum's native Layer2 network, is developed based on the OP Stack technology stack. Construction started in October 2023, the test network was released in February 2024, and the main network was officially launched in May 2024. To date, the Mint Blockchain ecosystem has more than 100 applications, more than 5 million wallet addresses, and more than 25 million transactions on the chain.
After the development of the past six months, the Mint ecosystem has completed the infrastructure construction of the blockchain network, and the ecosystem has complete developer tools and data service support. Currently, Web3 developers can simply and efficiently issue new assets on the Mint mainnet, including NFT asset issuance, trading, smart contract deployment and new application development, which significantly lowers the technical threshold for Web3 developers and promotes the popularization of NFT technology. .
Built on OP Superchain
In April 2024, Mint Blockchain joined the OP Superchain ecosystem and became a formal member of Superchain. It has also participated in OP governance through the Optimism Superchain governance plan, becoming the first superchain to officially participate in OP governance through the Chain Delegation Program, and obtained the Optimism Foundation's 1 million OP delegation voting rights.
As one of the core members of OP Superchain, Mint also received a strategic investment of US$2 million from the Optimism Foundation in October this year. Based on the technical framework of Optimism and relying on the strong governance and expansion capabilities of Optimism Superchain, it ensures that it can achieve a high degree of decentralization while providing high throughput and low transaction fees. Mint Blockchain not only supports a wide range of DeFi, NFT and other Web3 applications, but also provides a flexible and efficient blockchain platform for developers, users and brands.
About OP Superchain and OP Interop
OP Superchain is a unified multi-chain network structure that integrates multiple Layer 2 networks built on OP Stack. OP Superchain provides stronger scalability, low latency and higher transaction throughput. Each chain can share the same security model and governance mechanism, and realize low-cost cross-chain communication, asset exchange and other core interactive functions.
OP Interop is an on-chain interoperability function based on the OP Stack technology framework, providing the ability to read messages and transfer assets across chains in Superchain through low-latency, secure messaging. Superchain Interop includes protocol layer messaging and the Superchain ERC20 token standard. SuperchainERC20 is a cross-chain token interface that makes ERC20 tokens interchangeable on Superchain. With the native Interop protocol, assets can be moved quickly and seamlessly between chains, promoting real-time cross-chain DeFi and seamless chain-to-chain exchanges, and completely changing the traditional cross-chain operation mode. Once Superchain Interop is online, it will achieve 2-second cross-chain settlement, minimize fragmentation, unify liquidity, and maximize capital efficiency and utility.
Mint Ecosystem Applications
The Mint Blockchain ecosystem not only includes the construction of infrastructure, but also actively promotes the development of native applications, covering social, DeFi, Staking, RWA, Meme and other fields. The three key directions of the Mint ecosystem include:
1. NFT + Application:
Mint Blockchain combines NFT with application scenarios such as games, DeFi, and social networking, promoting the expansion of NFT applications to consumer areas beyond digital collectibles, aiming to provide users with an immersive consumer experience.
2. NFT on-chain liquidity aggregation:
Mint Blockchain will aggregate NFT order data from multiple chains and platforms to build the largest NFT liquidity network on the chain and improve the transaction efficiency of NFT.
3. NFT Developer Platform:
In order to attract more creators and developers to enter the NFT field, Mint Blockchain launched the NIPs Platform, which provides one-stop development tools to help creators easily deploy NFT assets, lower the threshold for creation, enrich market content, and promote diversified creation.
Some core features of Mint ecosystem:
MintSwap Finance
Decentralized financial protocol that supports DEX and NFT Marketplace functions, facilitating the flow of assets on the Mint chain.
Mint Forest
A green-themed on-chain interactive points game based on blockchain. By obtaining energy and participating in ecological activities, users are rewarded with Mint airdrops.
RareShop
The world's first RWA NFT product sales platform combines the transactions of real assets and digital assets, and cooperates with imKey and Bearbrick to issue RWA NFT products to promote the development of Web3 e-commerce.
MintRich
The decentralized Meme asset launch platform supports multiple asset standards, simplifies the issuance process of Meme assets, and has launched thousands of Meme assets.
CreditOnchain
The decentralized on-chain reputation network assigns reputation values to wallet addresses through multi-dimensional data analysis, providing developers with richer user information and ecological reward mechanisms.
ERC7765
The innovative asset protocol launched by Mint Blockchain allows users to combine NFT-related rights with actual products or services, promoting the application of NFT in the real world.
NIPs Platform
NIPs Platform is an NFT development platform launched by Mint Blockchain, which provides a variety of protocol support and infrastructure tools to help developers deploy and issue NFT assets with low barriers.
In addition, Mint Blockchain actively promotes cooperation and strategic cooperation with multiple partners, further promoting the diversified development of NFT and crypto ecosystems. For example, Mint Blockchain cooperated with NFTScan to host the global NFT industry summit NFTCON, and the first NFTCON2024 was successfully held during Devcon; Mint Blockchain reached a strategic cooperation with Hong Kong compliant crypto payment company RedotPay to jointly promote the establishment of a PayFi ecological network, and so on.
Looking ahead to the Mint ecosystem
Mint Blockchain is committed to expanding the diversified application scenarios of NFT, building an ecosystem covering all aspects of digital life, building a diversified ecosystem with NFT as the core, and deeply integrating NFT into various fields of life and digital innovation. The application scenarios of NFT will no longer be limited to digital collections, but will be widely penetrated into payment, identity, social, games, asset management and other fields, showing its unlimited possibilities.
NFT+Community
NFT+RWA
NFT+Meme
NFT+Game
NFT+Social
NFT+AI Agent
NFT+Creator
NFT+PayFi
NFT+IP Brand
NFT+Everything
(If your project is consistent with Mint Blockchain mission, please submit your project information on the official website)
Aggregate on-chain NFT liquidity
Mint Blockchain focuses on solving the problem of decentralized liquidity in the NFT market, unifying all multi-chain NFT orders on the chain, and creating the largest NFT order routing network in the entire network. Through Superchain interop, multi-chain asset interoperability and seamless cross-chain are realized. The Mint network aggregates NFT orders from different chains and different trading markets on the Mint chain to form an on-chain order pool.
The system will handle NFT order registration, broadcasting and sharing, and enable seamless integration with multiple markets. By providing a powerful framework for data APIs and smart contract calls, Mint Blockchain aims to improve NFT liquidity, optimize NFT transaction efficiency, and promote the development of a more interconnected and efficient cross-chain NFT ecosystem.
Mint Ecosystem Development Roadmap
Mint Blockchain’s future development roadmap shows its plans to continuously expand the ecosystem and increase the decentralization of the network. Key milestones include:
2025 Q1：
The $MINT token economic model was announced and the community airdrop event was launched. At the same time, based on Superchain's cross-chain interoperability and liquidity sharing mechanism, Mint will take the lead in aggregating EVM ecosystem chain liquidity and build the largest NFT and FT asset chain liquidity products in the entire network.
2025 Q2：
Mint will launch the Staking and Restaking mechanisms, build a Staking Node group, and start the MINT token mining and sorter income distribution mechanism. The early Staking Nodes are mainly composed of crypto organizations and communities such as Optimism, NFTScan, ZAN, SNZ, Antalpha, TTT Lab, HC Capital, and MintFans. Mint will work with all participants to expand the global community and consensus and become a community of interests.
2025 Q3：
Launch the "Innovate to Earn" ecological incentive mechanism to encourage and guide developers to carry out asset protocol standard innovation and application innovation on the Mint chain.
2025 Q4：
Launched Mint App, the Mint ecosystem super application, to further promote Web3 application scenarios for global consumers.
The value and significance of Mint Blockchain
Mint Blockchain is not only a decentralized blockchain, but also an open co-creation ecosystem that is committed to promoting innovation in NFT asset protocol standards and applications, and promoting the development of the global NFT ecosystem.
As the world's leading NFT blockchain platform, Mint Blockchain is working hard to achieve its mission in various ways: to connect global consumers with NFT and make NFT a new digital lifestyle for all mankind.
