POV You Moved to Texas

This is my first independent NFT project I created using my own photography. At the end of 2020 I moved to Texas and these photos capture the essence of my journey. I decided to turn them into an NFT "drop" for the experience of creating this type of project.

Originally I deployed this on the Rinkeby testnet. Since that has been depricated, I recently redeployed on mainnet Sepolia.

Network: sepolia (id: 11155111) Migrations: 0xD3F98dc44164e30FF5eb94BE4ad3bf2f51388BbC POVTexas: 0x6CA79A7e3d60582E36AE6C04bFd0fe1a26FE0399

Technology Stack & Tools

• Solidity (Writing Smart Contract)
• Javascript (React & Testing)
• Web3 (Blockchain Interaction)
• Truffle (Development Framework)
• Ganache (For Local Blockchain)
• Infura.io (For copying the Ethereum mainnet)
• MetaMask (Ethereum Wallet)
• Git/GitHub (Commit our code)
• Fleek (Website Deployment)

Requirements For Initial Setup

• Install NodeJS, Recommended version is 14.16.0
• Install Truffle, In your terminal, you can check to see if you have truffle by running truffle --version. To install truffle run npm i -g truffle.
• Install Ganache.
• Install MetaMask in your browser.

Setting Up

1. Clone/Download the Repository

2. Install Dependencies:

$ npm install

3. Setup .env File

Create a .env file or rename the .env.example file, and update the values. The API & IPFS keys are technically optional for local testing, if you plan to deploy to the testnet or mainnet, you'll need to update those values.

4. Start Ganache

5. Migrate Smart Contracts

$ truffle migrate --reset

6. Run Frontend Application

In a separate CMD prompt/terminal run: $ npm start

7. (Optional) Test Smart Contracts

$ truffle test

1. Setup your .env file

Create a .env file in the root directory of your project, and fill in the following:

• DEPLOYER_PRIVATE_KEY="YOUR_PRIVATE_KEY"

• INFURA_API_KEY="PROJECT_ID"

• ETHERSCAN_API_KEY="API_TOKEN"

• PROJECT_NAME="YOUR_PROJECT_NAME"

• PROJECT_SYMBOL="YOUR_PROJECT_SYMBOL"

• MINT_COST=0

• MAX_SUPPLY=16

• IPFS_IMAGE_METADATA_CID="IPFS_CID"

• IPFS_HIDDEN_IMAGE_METADATA_CID="IPFS_CID"

• NFT_MINT_DATE="Oct 27, 2024 20:00:00"

2. Run your migrations

• For Rinkeby testnet: truffle migrate --reset --network rinkeby
• For Sepolia testnet: truffle migrate --reset --network sepolia
• For Polygon Mainnet: truffle migrate --reset --network matic

3. Verify your contracts

• For Rinkeby testnet: truffle run verify POVTexas --network rinkeby
• For Sepolia testnet: truffle run verify POVTexas --network sepolia
• For Polygon Mainnet: truffle run verify POVTexas --network matic