Mint Blockchain is an Ethereum L2 network jointly initiated by NFTScan Labs and MintCore developer teams, and construction began in October 2023.

Mint Blockchain is a native Ethereum L2 network, developed based on the OP Stack technical solution, and the DA is placed on the Ethereum mainnet. Therefore, the underlying ledger security of Mint Blockchain is completely built based on the Ethereum network security consensus. At the same time, as an L2 network, Mint Blockchain is a public blockchain network that is fully compatible with EVM. Developers in the Ethereum ecosystem can seamlessly expand their projects to the Mint Blockchain network. As an L2 network, Mint Blockchain greatly reduces the gas fee cost of on-chain interactions, provides effective scalability for the Ethereum ecosystem, and can well promote the prosperity and sustainable development of the Ethereum ecosystem.

Mint Blockchain is backed by NFTScan Labs, with its core focus on the development of the NFT ecosystem. NFTScan Labs is a Web3 developer organization founded in 2021, which owns the NFTScan browser and Web3 developer platform. NFTScan currently has the world's largest NFT asset database, supports 24 blockchain networks, and has parsed more than 10 billion on-chain NFT records. NFTScan's Web3 developer platform serves thousands of Web3 projects including Binance Web3, Bybit Web3, imToken, Enjin, Stepn, Coin98, CoinMarketCap, TokenPocket, HashKey Group, OneKey, Cobo, SlowMist, Mask Network, etc. NFTScan Labs has rich developer resources and NFT development experience in the NFT field, which has laid a solid foundation for Mint Blockchain to prioritize the development of the NFT ecosystem.

In addition, Mint Blockchain joined the OP Superchain ecosystem in April 2024 and is one of the official members of Superchain. At the same time, Mint Blockchain is also the strategic partner of the Optimism Foundation in the Asian market. The Mint ecological growth team will work with the Optimism Foundation to expand the Asian market and build a Superchain developer ecosystem. As the core strategic business of the Optimism Foundation, Superchain has a sound developer ecosystem and significant brand influence in the Ethereum L2 field. After Mint Blockchain joins Superchain, Mint Blockchain can efficiently carry out infrastructure construction and introduce excellent ecology. The project enters the Mint ecosystem. It is worth mentioning that developers and project teams who join the Mint ecosystem can also receive Retro Funding support from the Optimism Foundation!

As the native L2 network of Ethereum, Mint Blockchain will give priority to the development of NFT ecology, develop and build around NFT assets, and provide Web3 developers with one-stop underlying infrastructure services including NFT asset issuance, trading, indexing, storage, etc. According to NFTScan data statistics, there are now 4,000 to 6,000 NFT projects issued on the blockchain every day, with an average of 5 million new NFT assets added every day. As the most active crypto asset on the blockchain, NFT is booming. In this process, the MintCore team also saw the problems in the NFT field, such as the low degree of standardization of NFT asset protocols, NFT asset data security issues, NFT Metadata storage non-standard issues, and low NFT data indexing efficiency. These problems will have a major impact on the NFT industry and ecology at present or in the future. Therefore, the MintCore team will solve the above problems by building Mint Blockchain to provide a safe and stable decentralized network and interactive environment for NFT throughout its life cycle.

Currently, the MintCore developer team is building a one-stop open source underlying infrastructure around NFT on the Mint Blockchain, including a series of NFT infrastructures including NFT asset protocol standard library, NFT Launchpad, NFT Marketplace, NFTFi, NFTScan, NFT Indexer, NFT Metadata distributed storage layer, etc. These NFT infrastructures can be used to solve some key problems in the development of the NFT industry and ecology, while also directly lowering the development threshold for developers on the Mint network, guiding and promoting more developer teams to innovate asset protocol standards and develop applications around NFT, and better promote the prosperity and development of the NFT industry.

In essence, NFT has better scalability and programmability than FT assets. The Metadata of NFT assets can carry more information and data on the chain, which greatly enriches the decentralized data in the blockchain ledger, makes the block more usable, and can create more effective value on the chain. At the same time, NFT assets have a rich variety of application scenarios: RWA, AIGC, music, tickets, membership, reputation network, digital identity, encrypted art, blockchain games, entertainment industry, social networking, copyright traceability, digital brand marketing, etc. NFT can bring a new round of industrial changes to many Web2 fields, greatly improving their operational efficiency and value capture capabilities. In the near future, we will see the Web3 digital industrial revolution led by NFT. Mint Blockchain will participate in it and is committed to promoting the arrival of this day!

On another level, NFT, as a type of crypto asset that is easier for the general public to understand and accept, can effectively spread crypto technology and blockchain spirit to all parts of the world, which will greatly promote the popularization of blockchain technology and its application worldwide. As a new type of crypto asset, NFT shoulders this responsibility, which is also the vision and mission of Mint blockchain: to let everyone in the world own NFT assets, and to make NFT a new digital lifestyle for all mankind!

According to the latest development roadmap and official blog published on the Mint Blockchain official website (https://www.mintchain.io/), the Mint Blockchain development schedule and major milestones are as follows:

In October 2023, Mint Blockchain began development and construction;

In February 2024, Mint Testnet will be released;

In April 2024, Mint Blockchain became a formal member of OP Superchain and a strategic partner of the Optimism Foundation in the Asian market;

In May 2024, the number of Mint Forest player users exceeded 360,000, and the monthly user visits to the Mint Blockchain official website reached 3.2 million.

In Q2 2024, Mint Mainnet is planned to be released;

In Q3 2024, we plan to release the mainnet activities and ecological development strategy, as well as the NIP asset protocol standard library;

In Q2 2025, we plan to release decentralized staking mining for the sorter to achieve decentralized distribution of Mint Blockchain sorter revenue;

In Q4 of 2025, we plan to release the NFT decentralized indexer and Metadata distributed storage layer to provide developers with one-stop NFT underlying development services.

The MintCore team is committed to building Mint Blockchain into a decentralized network centered around serving NFT assets. From the innovative guidance of the underlying protocol standards of NFT assets, to NFT issuance, trading, and settlement, to the construction of the NFT asset Metadata distributed storage layer, and finally to the decentralized indexing of NFT asset data, Mint Blockchain will develop into the L2 network with the most distinctive positioning and ecological characteristics in the Ethereum ecosystem, providing Web3 developers with sound NFT development tools and infrastructure!