metaplex VS anchor

To upload the pngs to Solana we are going to use Metaplex, the protocol that is defining the NFT standard for the network. Go to Github and clone https://github.com/metaplex-foundation/metaplex

$ git clone https://github.com/metaplex-foundation/metaplex.git $ cd metaplex/js $ yarn install && yarn bootstrap && yarn build

It runs a DEX with $80M daily volume (FTX). A music platform with 5M daily users (https://audius.co/) https://metaplex.com/ - popular nft marketplace

Open Visual Studio Code and click Terminal->New Terminal. Here is the link to their github page: Metaplex In your terminal type the following a click enter:

Just googled it again and found the token-metadata program that looks promising: https://github.com/metaplex-foundation/metaplex https://docs.phantom.app/integrating/tokens/on-chain-metadata

$git clone https://github.com/metaplex-foundation/metaplex.git

MetaPlex Website

Well, it's just stored in the centralized platforms like opensea, rarible, etc.

You’re right that this is the way many have been created so far, but that will not be the case for long. Already people have pointed NFTs to IPFS/Filecoin which will give them much more staying power. And this can be done without using a centralized platform like opensea, check out nft.storage and metaplex (1) as starting points.

1. https://github.com/metaplex-foundation/metaplex

cargo install --git https://github.com/coral-xyz/anchor avm --locked --force

To code in Rust and deploy contracts on solana, I would recommend the anchor framework https://github.com/coral-xyz/anchor

cargo install --git https://github.com/project-serum/anchor anchor-cli --locked

The key that unlocked everything was a custom implementation of the anchor/node-wallet.

However, developing using the solana sdk directly is very low-level and prone to bugs, so I think most people tend to use anchor nowadays. We have a couple of projects we're working on that are built in anchor which we will release to public soon. In the meantime, there are tons of OSS solana projects built in anchor such as marinade, which is another stake pool, saber, which is an AMM for stablecoins.

cargo install --git https://github.com/project-serum/anchor --tag v0.19.0 anchor-cli --locked

I suggest using anchor for writing smart contracts: project-serum.github.io/anchor/

Learned more about PDA implementations from (https://github.com/cqfd/quidproquo) and (https://github.com/project-serum/anchor/tree/master/tests/escrow)